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Indiana’s redistricting showdown exposes how fragile legislative courage becomes under coordinated pressure campaigns.
The Supreme Court’s Texas ruling signals right-wing justices are comfortable contradicting themselves just to preserve partisan advantage.
Lisa Senecal and David Pepper start out by discussing how volatile the political map really is. Indiana’s rebellion against Trump’s gerrymandering pressure shows how quickly fear can curdle into resolve when elected officials realize they’re being asked to erase their own legitimacy. The pressure campaign has boomeranged, creating a moment where the old machinery of quiet procedural coups suddenly meets public visibility — the one thing it cannot withstand. Their point about threats, swatting, and intimidation lands as an indictment of a political movement that now relies on menace as a final persuasion tactic, and the fact that some lawmakers are rejecting it is the real story. It’s a reminder that democratic muscle memory doesn’t disappear; it reactivates under duress.
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