Indiana's political circus is back in full swing, and Gary Snyder and Abdul-Hakim Shabazz are here to make sure you don't miss a single clown. In this episode, the duo breaks down the state's simmering primary battles, unpacks what voters are actually thinking (hint: it's complicated), and explains why national political chaos keeps landing in Indiana's lap whether Hoosiers asked for it or not. If you thought local politics were boring, buckle up — these two will disabuse you of that notion in under sixty seconds.
The only thing standing between President Donald Trump and his revenge on Indiana state senators are people like Julie Wise. She’s 48 years old, works at a hospital, describes herself as a conservative and voted for Trump in the last election. But that doesn’t mean she’s going to vote out her Republican state senator just because he defied the president’s demand to redraw Indiana’s congressional map.
A federal judge has ruled in favor of an Indiana man who sued the Trump administration for pushing Apple to remove an app he created that allows users to post and monitor the activities of Immigration Customs and Enforcement.
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Indiana has experienced astonishing growth in renewable energy production, which now accounts for almost 16% of the state’s electricity. That expansion has been met with mixed local reactions. Some communities embrace the new technologies while others place significant restrictions on them.
Diego Morales, Indiana's self-appointed ambassador of authoritarian chic, must be inconsolable now that his beloved Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party has suffered its first real electoral setback in decades. One can only imagine him refreshing Hungarian news sites in the dark, a half-eaten goulash growing cold beside him, wondering how democracy had the nerve to work. Someone should check on him — or at the very least, confiscate his passport so he doesn't try to move there and rebuild.
The state of Indiana has agreed to let the Indiana Toll Road’s private operator increase tolls on all vehicles twice a year, in exchange for payments totaling $700 million, according to agency documents.
Beau Bayh announced today that he raised an additional $620,000 in the first quarter of 2026, ending the reporting period with $1.97 million cash on hand. Incumbent Secretary of State Diego Morales ended all of 2025 with just under $1.2 million cash on hand.
Indiana state senators were warned by MAGA forces last year that opposing a Trump-backed mid-decade gerrymander for unified GOP control would come at a steep political cost. Now the time has come for Trump-aligned forces to prove they still have the influence to make good on their threats.
For the third time since I’ve been covering Indiana state government, lawmakers are going to the tax amnesty well. Most of you tax delinquents have your chance from July 15 to Sept. 9 to pay what you owe without penalties, interest or fines.
Greg Ballard’s campaign is blaming Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales for a missed deadline that forced the campaign to publicly announce its fundraising totals in a press release, rather than filing a first-quarter finance report through the online portal at the Indiana Election Division.
How many times have we seen efforts at censorship justified as “protecting the children”? This solicitous concern for children never seems to extend to feeding hungry children or clothing freezing children…instead, it is almost always focused on protecting them from what the concerned folks consider smut–which is pretty much anything of which they disapprove.
When Pete Hinnefeld and his wife started looking for a preschool for their daughter, they hoped to send her to the same school her brother attended, which was just down the road from their house and offered Spanish-language immersion. To do this for Lydia, then age 3, they were prepared to pay the $600 monthly cost.
It was Good Friday afternoon in a nearly empty West Wing soon after the president learned that an American jet had been shot down in Iran, with two airmen missing. Trump screamed at aides for hours. The Europeans aren’t helping, he said repeatedly. Gas prices averaged $4.09. Images of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis—one of the biggest international policy failures of a presidency in recent times—had been looming large in his mind, people who have spoken to him said.
New images of Donald Trump have sparked fresh speculation about his health as he's accused of wearing a hidden leg brace or struggling with his balance after adopting a strange stance
The bill was approved by the Senate on Friday in a last-minute scramble to prevent the authority from expiring within a matter of days. Trump and Republican leaders have pushed for its renewal, calling it a matter of national security. Critics are concerned about its impact on civil liberties.
Shipping in the Strait of Hormuz was at a near standstill early Sunday after Iran reversed its decision to reopen the waterway and fired on vessels attempting to pass, warning it would block transits as long as the US blockade of Iranian ports remained.
It was, after all, a tax proposal that is not going anywhere while President Trump remains in office, the type of idea that is often only greeted by self-congratulatory news releases. But Mr. Van Hollen’s legislation went viral, at least by the perhaps modest standards of Washington tax developments.
Former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has joined the chorus of critics demanding answers from President Donald Trump over the 2024 assassination attempt made against him in Butler, PA.
Iranian gunboats fired on an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump announced the Strait was open and would never be closed again.
I might have to go back to church. My mother always told me that the Catholic Church was greater than the men running it. But I grew so disillusioned with the men running it while I was covering the sex abuse scandals that I could no longer stomach going to Mass.
A White House pool report captured a small but telling moment as Donald Trump traveled to his Virginia golf club Saturday afternoon. Along Fairfax County Parkway, some onlookers recorded the motorcade while one woman leaned out of her SUV window and made what White House correspondent John T. Bennett described as a WWE wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin’s “double gun salute,” a nod to his signature double middle-finger gesture.
In just over a week, Donald Trump has threatened to wipe out Iranian civilisation, picked a fight with the Pope and posted an image of himself healing the sick as Jesus Christ.
On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a “freak-out.”
"Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government," Thomas stated. "[Progressivism] holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government.
Boston is reportedly signing a four-year, $6.3 million contract extension with the Fever. That would be the highest total salary in WNBA history, according to ESPN’s Sham Charania. Four-time WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces previously signed a three-year, $5 million deal.
The Indiana Fever are paying the price to stay competitive as the battle to attract top talent now includes the allure of million-dollar deals. As they work to maintain their position as a playoff-caliber team, Indiana is leading a new era of WNBA compensation.
Obi Toppin had 26 points and nine rebounds and seven Indiana players scored in double figures as the Pacers snapped a three-game skid with a 123-94 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night.
