EMOTIONAL, ANGRY TESTIMONY: Opponents and supporters of redistricting clash at Senate Elections Committee hearing
By Colleen Steffen TheStatehouseFile.com December 8, 2025 People for and against Indiana’s mid-cycle redistricting bill came to the Senate chamber Monday afternoon torn between two perspectives—one national, one local. In their remarks, proponents looked to other states and n “...”
COMMITTEE CONSENT: Redistricting bill heading to Senate floor
By TheStatehouseFile.com and The Indiana Citizen December 8, 2025 As the Indiana Senate took up the controversial redistricting bill on Monday, Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray, R-Martinsville, was evasive about the level of support among the members of his Republican cau “...”
HEADED FOR COURT? AG Rokita calls redrawn congressional map ‘legally solid,’ but lawmaker disagrees
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen December 8, 2025 After the Indiana House passed a new congressional district map on Friday, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita issued a strong, partisan statement applauding the action and saying the map would withstand a legal challenge “...”
BILL ADVANCES: 12 House Republicans join Democrats to oppose redistricting, but map moves to Senate
By Anna Cecil and Chloe White TheStatehouseFile.com December 5, 2025 Indiana House of Representatives voted Friday afternoon to send its draft of the state’s redrawn congressional map to the Senate. The vote on House Bill 1032 was 57-41, with 12 Republicans crossing party line “...”
‘INDIANA 9-0’: Turning Point rally draws supporters of redistricting to Indiana Statehouse
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen December 5, 2025 As Democratic lawmakers tried unsuccessfully to stop the redistricting bill from advancing in the Indiana House, Hoosiers supporting the new map gathered in the south atrium of the Statehouse to convince state senators to v “...”
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 “...”
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 “...”