@the-downballot.com y’all see this? Indiana won’t redistrict!

When we were in the middle of the recording, after I had established that Bray had recently held two meetings with Vice President JD Vance and one with President Trump, the people pushing redistricting in Indiana, I asked two questions related to the subject. They were not tough questions, and they were asked in a civil tone. Me: “Do you have a position on redistricting?” Bray: “We have heard the ask, and we are considering it.” Me: “Do you know when a decision will be made?” Bray: “We have heard the ask, and we are considering it.” His body language was more telling. He recoiled like he wanted to curl up in a ball. It was clear that he would repeat his canned answer to any follow-up question, so I moved on.

Journalist Jim Shella guest-hosted a podcast interview with Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Rod Bray.

Shella's questions about redistricting were cut from the final interview, which he called "spineless." But he shared them anyway. Bray squirmed mightily. www.ibj.com/articles/jim...

Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia?

Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie.

(Seriously, that’s the answer)

Join Michiana Alliance for Democracy as we support unions and safe working conditions. As this administration tries to roll back OSHA and undermine child safety laws, we must stand together against these attacks. 5:00 pm TODAY in Howard Park, South Bend. #WorkersMemorialDay

I am incredibly proud of my former intern, Jalen Travis, for being drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the NFL Draft. Jalen is a DeLaSalle graduate who did a great job working in my DC office. A true force on the field and just as impressive off it. Congratulations, Jalen!

We Mapped DOGE’s Silicon Valley and Corporate Connections If Elon Musk is America's CEO, DOGE is the Silicon Valley executive branch.

Many on the DOGE team are from Elon Musk’s world in Silicon Valley.

We’ve mapped out a list of people affiliated with DOGE, including creating a searchable table with each member, their corporate history, and the agencies they’ve been connected to.

People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group...

Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

Trump Bid to Take Over Postal Service Could Threaten Mail Voting Read more here.

The order could allow the Trump administration to make mail voting — which was used by tens of millions of voters last year — more difficult. Trump has repeatedly said he’d like to end the practice, falsely claiming it allows for widespread fraud. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...

Where do federal funding cuts leave Indiana? • Indiana Capital Chronicle Federal funding cuts coming from Washington could threaten Indiana's finances, especially for Medicaid and education.

Terrific piece by @wdownard.bsky.social for @indianacapitalchronicle.com on effects proposed federal cuts would have on Indiana

They are huge- 44% of Indiana's budget is federal dollars (the 3rd most in the US)

In Indiana we undertax and underspend

indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/02/28/w...

The Republican House Budget Resolution's Potential $880 Billion in Medicaid Cuts by Congressional District The Republican House budget resolution would cost congressional districts an average of $2 billion each and could eliminate coverage for 15.9 million people.

The Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid are potentially catastrophic. In Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District 160,764 people (64%) receive Medicaid/CHIP. The loss of $2.01B to the district over the course of 9 years means that 54,000 people will lose health care, food aid, and nursing home care.

Braun signs executive orders to squelch unemployment fraud, help job-seekers • Indiana Capital Chronicle He emphasized that unemployment benefits are temporary while signing orders to combat fraud and personalize work-search requirements.

Indiana already had one of the lowest unemployment benefits in the country. Families can’t live on $400 a week, and Hoosiers who find themselves jobless shouldn’t have an even harder time putting food on the table, paying for rent, and buying medicine.

indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/02/27/b...

If you live in Indiana

the combination of SB2, which will arbitrarily cut 28% of medicaid recipients from its rolls

and the newly passed federal House budget, which will require cuts to medicaid

means many many many more people will now be uninsured

this helps none of us

#HoosierSky
#MedSky

Fired National Park Service employees speak out to ABC57 CHESTERTON, Ind.-- Just miles from Indiana Dunes National Park is nearby Chesterton, where Marty and Beth Shrader opened Dog Days Ice Cream Parlor.

Trump and Musk are taking a chainsaw to the livelihoods of Hoosier workers, including Beth, who worked for the National Park Service and owns a local ice cream shop in Chesterton just blocks from the Indiana Dunes National Park.

abc57.com/news/fired-n...

YASSS!!! Finally! There’s nothing more political than the courts.

From Nappanee to Warsaw to Plymouth, Hoosiers across #IN02 showed up to Representative Rudy Yakym’s office hours! All we ask for is a Town Hall.

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS @democracyforward.org request to allow expedited discovery in lawsuit challenging DOGE access to Department of Labor data. First instance of discovery being permitted in the Trump accountability cases.

Visit Democracy Docket for more info.
www.democracydocket.com

Elon Musk recently posted that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He asks if we suffered childhood trauma and suggests we are suffering from “generational trauma.”

Tomorrow, Democracy Docket will publish my response. Sign up now to receive. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

Here is the ad the Washington Post refused to run about Elon Musk this weekend.

And here is the ad the Post was happy to run by a rightwing group funded by Musk that smeared me in October.

I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and prodemocracy. Check it out. www.democracydocket.com

Dems concede Republicans ‘running circles’ around them online as Trump remakes Washington The Democratic response to Trump, one Texas lawmaker said, is “too slow and too tepid and not meeting the moment.”

To those wringing their hands that I’m on social media too much, this one is for you. Old notions of “decorum” and policing fellow Democrats aren't just ineffective, but in fact a severe miscalculation.