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My INsnyde Take...Braun & Vance Peek from the Shadows as Hoosiers Fight for Fair Maps
Mike Braun, JD Vance, Donald Trump, and the rest of the MAGA cartographers are back at it — trying to take a 7–2 Republican chokehold on Indiana’s congressional seats and squeeze it into an 8–1 strangle. This isn’t about “fair maps” or “the voice of the people” — it’s about making sure the only voices heard in Washington have a Trump loyalty card in their wallet. The fact they’re even considering a mid-decade redistricting — without new census data — shows they’re not just moving the goalposts, they’re bulldozing the entire field. And Braun, ever the obedient understudy in Trump’s traveling authoritarian roadshow, is “listening” very hard… probably for the sound of his own national ambitions inflating.
Vance’s little Indiana visit was nothing more than a sales pitch for a power grab, dressed up in flag-waving rhetoric and empty “freedom” talk. Meanwhile, Beckwith is on social media swooning like a teenager at a boy band concert, and the rest of the GOP leadership is hiding behind canned press releases instead of answering real questions. Democrats, protesters, and anyone with a shred of civic decency can see this for what it is — a naked attempt to rig the map before the voters can rig it back. And for a crew that loves to lecture about “Hoosier values,” nothing says values quite like torching democracy for a couple of extra safe seats.
Join us Tuesday, August 12, for a no-holds-barred interview as Beau Bayh—son of Evan and grandson of Birch—sits down with Gary Snyder and The SnydeReport for his first-ever media appearance amid growing speculation that he’s eyeing a run for Indiana Secretary of State.
Nothing is off limits. No question goes unanswered.
You don’t want to miss this one.
Beau Bayh takes the oath becoming a member of the Indiana Bar Association. September 2024. Birch Bayh Federal Building,Indianapolis. The Honorable David Hamilton, judge United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit presiding. The rule of law is one of the things that makes America exceptional. We must defend it.
Former Gov. Mitch Daniels said he didn’t “see the point” of redistricting in Indiana, just as Vice President JD Vance was in the state pressing Republicans for an edge in the contest for control of the House. “It would just be wrong,” Daniels told POLITICO. “People there have a right to pick the person they want.”
“The idea of calling a special session to rig our electoral maps and suppress Hoosier voters is a disgrace. Our nation was founded on the principle that voters choose who is in power, not the other way around. This move will only serve the interest of power-hungry politicians, not Hoosier communities.
If this is allowed in our public schools then I’m calling on teachers who identify as, or are an ally to the Christian Community to hang Christian flags and crucifixes on their classroom doors and classroom walls in our public schools as well. If one community group can do this, others should be able to do it as well. Fair is fair.
Braun told reporters the Statehouse meeting went “pretty good” and that “we covered a wide array of topics.” He confirmed that at least part of the discussion was about redistricting, specifically.
New evidence reviewed by The Herald-Times shows that 85 consecutive words in Indiana University President Pamela Whitten’s 1996 dissertation appear to be copied word-for-word, without quotation, from another academic article.
Jerome Adams, the U.S. Surgeon General under President Trump's first term, criticized the Department of Health and Human Services' move this week to cut funding for mRNA vaccine development.
Indiana’s state agencies are slowly earning approval for their plans to save money after being hit with effective 10% spending cuts amid a tough budget cycle.
“It caught a lot of people off guard. Definitely caught me off guard,” O’Ward said. “I was just a little bit shocked at the coincidences of that and, you know, of what it means. ... I don’t think it made a lot of people proud, to say the least.”
The communications director for Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith quit Thursday morning, as the Indianapolis prosecutor continues its investigation of a topless deepfake viewed in their statehouse office, according to multiple people familiar with the departure.
Indiana’s “justice gap” isn’t just a crack in the sidewalk—it’s a gaping sinkhole swallowing up anyone without a platinum AmEx. With 43rd place in the nation for lawyer availability and vast swaths of the state where you’d be lucky to find one attorney per thousand residents, Hoosiers are discovering that “equal justice under law” is more like “good luck, you’re on your own.
The abrupt termination of tax credits for clean energy projects is perhaps the most drastic blow that President Donald Trump has struck in his campaign against wind and solar electricity.
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Israel said Friday it plans to take over Gaza City — an escalation of its 22-month war with Hamas that drew a dismissal from the militant group, renewed international calls to end the conflict, and stirred fears for hostages still held in Gaza.
Donald Trump Jr. raised eyebrows on Thursday after he posted a photoshopped image of his father, President Donald Trump, throwing a dildo off the White House roof.
In the episode, titled “Got a Nut,” school counselor Mr. Mackay loses his job due to President Donald Trump cutting the Department of Education’s budget, so he decides to sign up to join ICE (“I’m proud to work for ICE,” declares one masked ICE recruiter, ironically).
“Failed former Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan, of Georgia, is a total loser,” Trump wrote of Duncan, who called out the president’s lies about the 2020 election and has remained an outspoken critic ever since.
U.S. Rep. Cory Mills, a central Florida Republican, has been accused by a beauty pageant titleholder of threatening to release intimate videos and private images of her after she ended their romantic relationship, according to a report filed with law enforcement last month.
Less than five years after urging rioters to "kill" police at the Capitol, a former Jan. 6 defendant is working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice, which has been dramatically remade under the second Trump administration.
The congresswoman attempted to tout a road construction project as her own accomplishment, despite it being funded by an act signed by Biden that she had voted agains
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show on Thursday after President Donald Trump repeatedly attacked Fallon and said he would be “next” on the late-night chopping block.
HOOSIERS! You keep showing up across our state to protest the actions of the Republican supermajority in cities and towns large and small. On the weekend of June 14, over 30,000 Hoosiers showed up to events in over 50 locations, according to data compiled by volunteers.
There were an estimated 12,000 attendees in Indianapolis, 5,000 in Fort Wayne, 3,000 in Bloomington, 2,000 in South Bend, 1,200 in Madison, 1,000 in Highland, 1,000 in Michigan City.
But those were the larger cities. Small towns showed up too! 450 in Pendleton, 400 in Warsaw, 150 in Spencer, 250 in Nashville, 200 in Bedford, 75 in Kentland, and many more in dozens of other cities across the state.
President Trump is planning to deploy federal law enforcement on the streets of the nation’s capital as early as Friday to crack down on violence committed by gangs of roaming “youths,” the White House confirmed to The Post.
The women whom Jeffrey Epstein abused demand to be heard. And their voices — long suppressed, but now emerging powerfully and with courage — could further fuel the maelstrom around President Donald Trump and aides who dig the scandal deeper each time they try to end it.
Since July 9, Ayman Soliman, who served for years as a Muslim chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, has been held at the Butler County Jail in Ohio. His arrest by Donald Trump’s quota-obsessed ICE, during a routine federal check-in, sparked a local outcry, largely due to his well-established track record of comforting and working with the families of dying and severely ill children during his years at Cincinnati Children’s.
“Dean ain’t worked in a while,” Lathan continued. “Dean needs the 50,000. That’s what got Dean off the couch. Dean ain’t worked in a while. Dean gonna take that money and buy some crypto. Dean need the 50. That’s what Dean is on.”
Shane Steichen has apparently decided to spice up the preseason by handing the keys to the Colts’ offense—once again—to Anthony Richardson, the quarterback equivalent of a human highlight reel with a 50% hit rate. Richardson will start Thursday against the Ravens, because nothing says “quarterback confidence” like showcasing a guy whose completion percentage last year screamed “coin flip.”
Rickea Jackson scored 17 of her 25 points in the second half, Kelsey Plum had 25 points and 11 assists, and the Los Angeles Sparks beat the Indiana Fever 100-91 on Tuesday night for their seventh win in eight games.
A sex toy landed near Indiana’s Sophie Cunningham after it was thrown from the stands in Los Angeles while the Fever played the Sparks on Tuesday night.
