Texas Tribune Story: Supreme Court lets Texas keep new congressional map while legal battle continues
By Eleanor Klibanoff The Texas Tribune December 4, 2025 Texas can use its new, GOP friendly congressional map while a legal challenge plays out, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, temporarily pausing a lower court ruling that had blocked the map from going into effect. With the Dec. 8 “...”
AMENDMENTS REJECTED: Indiana House Democrats fail to alter redistricting bill
By Chloe White TheStatehouseFile.com December 4, 2025 On Thursday, the Indiana House of Representatives dismissed multiple amendments on House Bill 1032. The proposed legislation, written by Rep. Ben Smaltz, R-Auburn, would redraw Indiana’s congressional voting districts mid-de “...”
DHS SETTLEMENT: Morales, Rokita tout win on voter verification, but expert warns of disenfranchisement
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen December 4, 2025 In touting a recent settlement that gives the state access to an enhanced federal system for verifying immigration status, Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales’ office revealed it had turned over nearly 500,000 Hoosie “...”
PNS Story: Few solutions exist for Hoosiers in rural communities who need doctors
This story was originally published by Public News Service. By Terri Dee, producer Public News Service December 1, 2025 Difficulties in finding health care are an ongoing dilemma in Indiana’s rural areas. And shortages are beginning to surface in urban communities as well. Acco “...”
OPENING ARGUMENTS: Republicans tout politics, critics say racial gerrymandering
By Colleen Steffen TheStatehouseFile.com December 2, 2025 Over and over, critics of Indiana House Republicans’ proposed new congressional map were met with the same phrase from Rep. Ben Smaltz, R-Auburn, at Tuesday’s hours-long hearing of the House Elections and Apportionment “...”
ECONOMIC CONCERNS: House Democrats try to revise redistricting bill
By TheStatehouseFile.com and The Indiana Citizen December 2, 2025 After months of pushing their Republican colleagues to abandon redistricting and address cost-of-living issues for Hoosiers, Democratic lawmakers in the Indiana House attempted on Tuesday to change the focus of the “...”
‘WE’RE NOT GONNA STOP’: Protesters hope to stop early-redistricting push
By Chloe White TheStatehouseFile.com December 1, 2025 On Monday, the south atrium of the Indiana Statehouse was filled with protestors who overflowed into the top two floors, phrases like “Leave our maps alone” and “Stop the power grab” echoing across the halls. Hoosiers “...”
NEW MAP UNVEILED: Indiana House pushes early redistricting forward in a raucous special session Monday
By Anna Cecil and Marilyn Odendahl TheStatehouseFile.com The Indiana Citizen December 1, 2025 On Monday afternoon at the Indiana Statehouse, the House voted to move forward House Bill 1032, which would redraw the state’s congressional districts in favor of the Republican Party “...”
‘A PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT’: Voting advocates, protesters bring new energy against redistricting
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen November 28, 2025 After Republican leadership in the Indiana General Assembly announced the House and Senate would be reconvening in December, Indivisible Central Indiana rallied its supporters with an urgent message: “The fight against r “...”
FLEXING ‘POLITICAL MUSCLE’: Special Session on redistricting gives Lt. Gov. Beckwith rare opportunity
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen November 26, 2025 Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith could hold unusual influence as Indiana lawmakers return to the Statehouse starting next week to consider a mid-decade redraw of the state’s congressional districts. Beckwith was one of the earliest “...”