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The fight over Indiana’s proposed 2025 mid-decade redistricting plan is more than a technical debate about district lines. It is an encapsulation of our era's intense struggle over democracy itself.

By voting for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 3, GOP Rep. Spartz proved who she really cares about back home. On the policy, the federal budget reconciliation bill (entitled in naked Orwellian doublespeak as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act) shows that the only thing the Republican Congress took seriously was how to make wealthy people like Spartz herself richer.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services thinks the "answer" to neurodivergence starts with an involuntary national registry for those diagnosed with autism. Americans beat him back.

Per statute, Indiana legislators have until April 29 to pass a state budget for the next two years. Prior to President Trump's inauguration for his second term in office, Indiana was projecting a budget surplus for the 2025 fiscal year. However, the most recent revenue projections have swung drastically downward, and lawmakers are now facing an estimated shortfall of $2 billion. 

Here it is: The modern Republican Party has abandoned the basic principle of responsibility in virtually every area of policymaking. Democrats have not.

I got my Real ID when they first came out in 2010, and boy was it a pain. I had to prove that I had been married for 18 years. I got married in southern Indiana but I had just moved to Wisconsin with my then finance. I changed my last name to my husband’s while living in Wisconsin.