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The First...And Last Word In Indiana Politics |
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The SnydeReport scours hundreds of local and national media sources so you don't have to. Politics, sports, pop-culture, business, and more - all in a 5-minute read and presented in a way only we can do. Make sure to visit SnydeReport.com to catch all the stories that didn't make our newsletter.
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Indiana Republicans swear this mid-decade redistricting is about “fair representation,” but somehow their definition of fair always looks suspiciously like fewer Black voters having a voice. It’s a masterclass in gaslighting — smiling through press conferences about “transparency” while quietly slicing up Fort Wayne, Gary, and Indianapolis like a cold pizza no one else is allowed to eat. Black Hoosiers aren’t being represented; they’re being erased — one district line at a time. The same party that screams “voter integrity” every election cycle is now openly redrawing maps mid-decade to dilute minority power, all while pretending it’s just good governance. The Indiana Black Legislative Caucus is rightly calling it what it is: a calculated power grab dressed up as paperwork. But hey, why empower voters when you can just redraw them out of existence? Gary Snyder, The SnydeReport |
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Trump, Braun and twisted ties Indiana Gov. Mike Braun often seems to want to outsource both his job and his thinking. When he was in the U.S. Senate, he made clear from the beginning of his six-year term that he wasn’t there to serve the people of Indiana. |
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Indiana lawmaker has proposal to fund SNAP during shutdown State Rep. Greg Porter (D-District 96) is proposing that the state step in with some money so Hoosiers' SNAP benefits can continue. Porter, who sits on the State Budget Committee, asked for bipartisan support for his proposal at Wednesday's State Budget Committee meeting, explaining he wants to give $122 million in state dollars to fund SNAP and give another $10 million to local food banks to help support clients who have lost their benefits during the shutdown. |
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Our Diverse History There’s a reason the Trump administration and its White Christian nationalist base are so intent upon replacing education–especially classes in history–with a wildly inaccurate, “White-washed” version. The substitution of their fanciful and phony nostalgia for the inconvenient facts of America’s history supports their fond belief that only White Christians are real Americans. |
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We'll show up... Eventually
Looks like the folks at the legislature asked folks to circle Nov. 3, then quietly cleared the day and said, “Nah, we’ll get to it later.” If urgency means “maybe next week,” I guess the mid-cycle redistricting train is running on Indiana Time. |
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The Sky’s the Limit — As Long As It’s a Drone Factory The folks running the show just signed an executive order to create the Indiana Initiative for Drone Dominance Task Force — because when you’ve got shutdowns, benefit cuts, and real-people problems, nothing says “we’ve got priorities” like coordinating unmanned aircraft. |
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Hoosier Food Crisis? Just a Scheduling Problem
Turns out when about 571,000 Hoosiers were staring down an empty dinner plate, the state’s GOP-led budget committee declared, “Thanks, but no thanks — we’re too busy for compassion today.” |
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Wimping the vote in Indiana “Is former Indiana Governor Mike Pence trying to get revenge on the MAGA movement that he backstabbed on J6 and telling Rodric Bray (n)ot to redistrict? Hmmm. That’s what we’re hearing!” wrote Rogan O’Handley, a 40-year-old former lawyer turned Trump social media influencer, last Wednesday on X.com.
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TRUMP ORDERS NUKE TESTS U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. |
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Trump's Search for Eternity: Heaven? Maybe Not. Monuments? Absolutely... A few weeks ago, President Trump momentarily dropped the bombast and the playground insults and the self-congratulation to muse about his eternal soul. “I want to try and get to heaven, if possible,” he said. “I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole.”
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Feds Scanning Faces on Street To Verify Citizenship... “You don’t got no ID?” a Border Patrol agent in a baseball cap, sunglasses, and neck gaiter asks a kid on a bike. The officer and three others had just stopped the two young men on their bikes during the day in what a video documenting the incident says is Chicago. One of the boys is filming the encounter on his phone. He says in the video he was born here, meaning he would be an American citizen. |
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New health insurance plan rates show BIG increases... The rates, pricing and other data for 2026 Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance plans were publicly posted on the federal Healthcare.gov marketplace on Wednesday, just three days ahead of the start of open enrollment.
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Patel shuts down Kirk foreign intelligence probe in explosive feud... FBI Director Kash Patel crushed efforts by Tulsi Gabbard's closest advisor to see if a foreign power was involved in Charlie Kirk's assassination. The head of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, analyzed FBI files to determine whether Kirk's alleged killer received assistance from a foreign power. |
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Why Young MAGA Men Are Turning on Trump: Top Pollster “It’s basically two promises that this young man remembered, right? One is, you’re gonna give me a fighting chance to live my best life. And, are you gonna release the Epstein files? Literally, that is what he said—those two things,” he told host Joanna Coles. |
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Dems demand probe as Trump's favorite Biden attack gets turned on him After House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) dropped a new report that claims President Joe Biden’s end-of-term pardons should be deemed “void” because they were signed by an autopen, Democrats questioned the get out of jail free cards President Donald Trump doled out to some 1,500 Jan. 6, 2021 rioters after his inauguration this year.
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LSU fires coach Brian Kelly midway through fourth season LSU will not win a national title under coach Brian Kelly. The school kicked the 2025 coaching carousel into a higher gear as sources told Yahoo Sports' Ross Dellenger that Kelly was fired Sunday after the team’s disastrous second-half performance in a 49-25 loss to Texas A&M. |
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