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In It to Win It

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Mon Dec 8, 2025, 09:18 AM Monday

The Indiana House passed a GOP congressional gerrymander that could eliminate two Democratic districts

The Indiana House of Representatives voted 57-41 Friday to approve a gerrymandered congressional map that could eliminate the state’s two districts currently held by Democrats. The Republican-controlled legislature held the vote after facing months of intensifying pressure from President Donald Trump to redistrict and tilt the 2026 midterm elections in the GOP’s favor.

The map now heads to the Indiana Senate, which is expected to take up the bill when it convenes Monday. But Senate Majority Leader Rodric Bray (R) has repeatedly said the map does not have enough Republican support in the upper chamber to pass.

State Rep. Ben Smaltz (R), the redistricting bill’s author, said Friday that Indiana’s gerrymander likely won’t be the end of Trump’s national redistricting arms race.

“I think you’ve got to look at the nation as a whole,” Smaltz said. “And this may be the new normal of what the law allows us to do.”


https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/indiana-house-passes-trump-gerrymander-sending-map-to-uncertain-senate-vote/
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The Indiana House passed a GOP congressional gerrymander that could eliminate two Democratic districts (Original Post) In It to Win It Monday OP
When you can't win; cheat! Chasstev365 Monday #1
Hopefully, the Indiana Senate won't pass it... hlthe2b Monday #2
I like how SCROTUS thinks this all "OK" Kid Berwyn Monday #3

Kid Berwyn

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3. I like how SCROTUS thinks this all "OK"
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 09:45 AM
Monday

Shows the country that the six puke Just-Uses are traitors.

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