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Several Republican Indiana state senators targeted by President Donald Trump after opposing a mid-decade congressional gerrymander lost their primaries, signaling that resistance to Trump’s agenda inside the GOP still carries some political risk.
The legal cases are primarily concentrated in the South, where America’s legacy of racial discrimination still casts the longest shadow over voting rights.
A federal appeals court reinstated Indiana’s GOP-backed ban on student IDs for voting — abruptly pausing a ruling which allowed students to cast ballots with their college-issued IDs. In an order Monday, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals granted the state’s emergency request to stay the lower court’s ruling, putting the ban back into effect […]
Unlike a lot of media outlets that cover politics, at Democracy Docket we invest in original reporting. This week was a great example of why.
A federal judge blocked Indiana’s ban on using student IDs for voter identification, a victory that will make it easier for students and young voters to cast ballots in the upcoming midterm elections.
This week, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) broke new ground in its dangerous campaign to take control of elections and promote baseless conspiracy theories about voting. And we tracked them every step of the way.
More details about threats to Indiana came to light shortly before the redistricting vote Thursday when Heritage Action, an arm of the powerful conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, posted a warning for Indiana lawmakers on social media.
In a powerful reproach to President Donald Trump, the Indiana Senate voted against a mid-decade redistricting that would have gerrymandered the state’s congressional maps.
President Donald Trump’s hopes for a wave of red-state gerrymanders to help Republicans maintain control of the U.S. House in 2026 took a step closer to reality Monday, as the Indiana Senate Elections Committee voted 6–3 to advance a controversial mid-decade redistricting bill that would all but guarantee the GOP wins all nine of the state’s congressional […]
The Indiana House voted 57-41 Friday to approve a gerrymandered congressional map that could eliminate the state’s two districts currently held by Democrats, after Republican legislators faced months of intensifying pressure from President Donald Trump to redistrict.
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