Last night, President Trump sent a warning to RINOs across the country: If you are against the party, you are out. Trump went to war with the Indiana Senate after it refused to pass an all‑red map last December. Six of the seven candidates Trump endorsed against incumbent state senators won by a landslide. “Indiana is Trump country, and it showed again last night,” Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., who won his primary for re-election to the U.S. House, told The Daily Signal Wednesday morning. “We tried to tell these state senators that were opposing redistricting, that this was not a fight they should be fighting,” Stutzman continued. “It’s not a biblical issue, it’s not a moral issue, it’s a partisan issue, and they paid the price last night, and it wouldn’t have needed to happen.” Since redistricting didn't pass, the senators who voted against it didn't win! Now the people have spoken!RINOs are being removed from the state senate! https://t.co/quyEVqDqa8— Marlin Stutzman for Congress (@GoMarlin) May 6, 2026 Newly elected Trump‑endorsed candidates who defeated their anti‑redistricting opponents include James “Jay” Starkey, Dr. Brian Schmutzler, Michelle Davis, Tracey Powell, Trevor De Vries, and Blake Fiechter. Paula Copenhaver, another Trump‑endorsed candidate, is still waiting to see if she defeated her anti‑redistricting opponent. Incumbent Greg Goode was the only candidate to beat his Trump‑endorsed opponent. This election received millions in campaign funding, something a state Senate race rarely, if ever, has seen. Sen. Jim Banks, R‑Ind.; Turning Point Action; Scott Presler; and even Trump’s political arm, MAGA Inc., and its director, James Blair; were involved in the get‑out‑the‑vote effort in the state. Banks went as far as to pour in $3 million from his 501(c)(4) organization, Hoosier Leadership for America, to support Trump‑endorsed primary challengers. Big night for MAGA in Indiana. Proud to have helped elect more conservative Republicans to the Indiana State Senate — Jim Banks (@Jim_Banks) May 6, 2026 While another redistricting push in Indiana is unlikely for 2026, Stutzman told The Daily Signal that with the results of this primary, “it’ll definitely happen for 2028.” “President Trump showed us how to fight back, and that’s what needs to happen,” Stutzman said. “We need to be utilizing every opportunity that we have to be sure that Republicans are at least competing. We’re too nice sometimes to the Democrats, and they just take advantage of us every time,” he continued. “Every Republican state that has this opportunity, we need to do it so we have a balanced opportunity in the fall elections.” Redistricting has been a fight for both parties for years; neither can agree on when it started or which side is responsible. The one thing they can now agree on is that they are going to pounce at the opportunity. Virginia is currently facing a massive redistricting battle, currently being won by Democrats yet challenged in the state’s highest court. Because of Indiana and the Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, more states are planning to maximize their redistricting efforts. Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Texas, and Alabama are all considering or moving forward with new maps. Total MAGA Landslide Victory in Indiana, Trump Delivers Bloodbath to RINO Republicans: 'You're Next' https://t.co/v0KqK3RkNL— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 6, 2026 Stutzman told The Daily Signal he was getting “lots of messages” from members in states like South Carolina and Florida saying the MAGA win in Indiana “was definitely making news across the country.” “It takes a lot of effort, but it just shows you again—when President Trump is endorsing candidates, the voters are paying attention to that,” Stutzman concluded. “And that was loud and clear last night in Indiana. So, I think other state legislatures and governors should all sit up and take notice.”

“Mass deportations are coming,” border czar Tom Homan declared Tuesday during his keynote speech at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona. “If you think last year’s historic number was good, wait until next year, when we have 10,000 agents,” he told the more than 2,200 attendees. “You ain’t seen (expletive) yet.” Homan specifically put New York on notice after the state refused to enter a 287(g) agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a formal partnership that delegates to state or local law enforcement certain immigration authority functions. “We’re going to flood the zone. You’re going to see more ICE agents than you’ve seen before,” Homan said. “You forced us into this position.” Homan served as acting director of ICE during President Donald Trump’s first term. Trump picked him as border czar after his election victory in 2024. Homan used Tuesday’s speech to respond to several Democrat talking points, including moves to keep ICE agents away from schools, polling places, and churches. “If you’re a significant safety threat or national security threat, you have no sanctuary in this nation,” he said. “The only people that violated the sanctity of a church was Don Lemon and that bunch,” he added, referring to an incident in January in which the former CNN host, along with a swarm of anti-ICE protesters, invaded and disrupted Sunday services at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, terrorizing worshippers. KTAR reports Homan also attacked public figures who accuse ICE agents of being Nazis and racists. “The men and women of ICE … who strap their guns to their hip and wear their Kevlar vest every day to go out there and put their lives on the line for this nation, they don’t deserve that (expletive),” Homan said. “For any member of Congress to compare them to the Nazis or racists is the ultimate insult.” Critics have also tried to ban ICE agents from wearing masks to protect their identity from doxxing. “I wish [they] didn’t have to wear them,” Homan said, “but because of the hateful rhetoric of members of the media and members of Congress and governors and mayors who don’t know what the (expletive) they’re talking about, that’s necessary.” “Threats are up over 8,000%,” he added. In an interview with CBS News on Tuesday, the border czar admitted mistakes were made during large-scale immigration efforts in Minneapolis under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “Things weren’t perfect,” Homan said. “We addressed it. We fixed it.” Homan was sent by Trump to Minnesota in January, where he oversaw a drawing down of immigration enforcement agents from the state. “And I said on the stage my first time, I didn’t go up there looking for photo ops,” Homan further explained. “I didn’t go up there looking for TV cameras. I went up there to fix a problem because President Trump sent me there to fix that problem. And we fixed it. And as I sat up there, we’re going to do smarter enforcement. Smarter enforcement don’t mean less enforcement.”

The FBI raided the office of the Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat, as part of a corruption investigation, Fox 5 D.C. reported. She is the top official in the state Senate. Lucas is a leader in the state Democrats’ redistricting push. BREAKING: @FoxNews is on scene in Portsmouth, VA where the FBI is raiding the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L Louise Lucas, a Democrat and close ally of VA Governor Spanberger. Fed law enforcement sources tell FOX this is in connection to a major corruption… pic.twitter.com/khN5fwt1Le— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 6, 2026 FBI agents are searching a nearby cannabis dispensary as part of the probe. Fox 5 says law enforcement hasn’t disclosed the reason for the investigation. A federal judge approved multiple search warrants for the FBI raid, Fox 5 reported. This story is developing and may be updated.

Ronald Reagan had a saying about how government works: “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” His point was that bureaucrats love to “solve” problems, which inevitably creates new problems that they then “solve” again. There are few better examples of this than how Washington treated Spirit Airlines. The follies began in 2022 when JetBlue announced it would be purchasing Spirit, a budget airline that was experiencing financial difficulties thanks to rising costs and large debt. The merger made sense all around: it would save Spirit, preserve the carrier’s low fares as an option for consumers, and give JetBlue the market power to compete with the “big four”—Delta, Southwest, American, and United. Then the Biden administration got involved. The Justice Department sued to stop the merger, claiming it would “limit choices and drive up ticket prices for passengers across the country” as well as “eliminate Spirit’s unique and disruptive role in the industry.” Got it? The argument was that by saving Spirit Airlines, JetBlue would eliminate it. The Biden administration ultimately convinced a judge to take its side, and the merger was killed. Spirit went on to file for bankruptcy twice, once in 2024 and again in 2025. This was typical of the Biden team’s approach to antitrust, which departed from the traditional focus on the welfare of the consumer in favor of a “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” approach. Let’s look at other examples. Under the command of radical left-wing zealot Lina Khan, Biden’s Federal Trade Commission sued Pepsi for daring to offer discount prices at a time of inflation. It sued John Deere for trying to profit from equipment repairs even though the parties were already in mediation. The Biden administration also sued Hewlett Packard Enterprise for trying to purchase Juniper Networks, even though the deal promised to create an American tech company that can compete with China’s Huawei, which currently overwhelmingly dominates the global marketplace. And the Biden administration seems to have killed Spirit Airlines. In order to save it, of course.  But we may have dodged a different bullet. The federal government reportedly was considering bailing out Spirit to the tune of $500 million in taxpayer money plus a possible massive equity stake in the company. Remember, this problem could have been solved four years ago by a private-sector deal. JetBlue was ready to save Spirit so it could compete with the big four, a win-win-win for consumers: more competition, more choices, and lower prices. Instead that same consumer was being threatened, facing the possibility of being asked to pony up half a billion to cover for a previous government mistake which he also helped fund. That sound you hear is Ronald Reagan laughing from beyond the grave. As the Wall Street Journal points out, there are several other reasons for Spirit Airlines’ woes. Artificially depressed interest rates by the Federal Reserve allowed Spirit to load up on debt, and when those rates along with labor costs inevitably rose after the pandemic, companies like Spirit experienced serious losses. But the biggest flub here was the Biden administration’s topsy-turvy approach to antitrust. And that philosophy lives on even after Biden shuffled out of the White House. Incredibly, the American Economic Liberties Project, an outfit closely associated with Khan’s staff, blamed Spirit Airlines’ woes on … deregulation! Thankfully, the Trump administration has taken a more sensible approach on competition issues, ending many of the Biden antitrust suits (though some remain) while restoring the consumer welfare standard (somewhat). The current administration doesn’t now need to perpetuate another Biden-era blunder by bailing out Spirit. Markets will be fine if Spirit goes under, and the last thing taxpayers need is their own airline. President Donald Trump didn’t cause this problem, but he should repudiate his predecessor one more time and let it go. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.

The Iran conflict has delivered an uncomfortable reminder that energy is not an environmental talking point but a matter of national survival. Nations without reliable, affordable energy do not just struggle economically. They become vulnerable. Yet even as missiles fly and shipping lanes tighten, the green energy chorus is back at the microphone insisting this is finally the moment the world abandons fossil fuels for wind turbines and solar panels. Some lessons, apparently, are harder to learn than others. Today, fossil fuels supply more than 86% of the world’s primary energy. After decades of aggressive renewable investments, green mandates, subsidies, and relentless political pressure, the needle has barely moved. Physics and economics have been delivering a message for years that policymakers keep refusing to read. Wind and solar energy’s core problem is reliability; they produce energy only when conditions cooperate. The wind doesn’t blow on command. The sun often sets before peak demand. Every megawatt of wind or solar added to the grid requires reliable natural gas, coal, or nuclear backup standing ready. We are not replacing one energy system (which would be expensive enough). We are building two. Ratepayers pay for both. That is why electricity bills rise wherever renewable mandates expand aggressively. Just like adding a weather-dependent, part-time car to your home car fleet, your car costs just went up; the more part-time cars you add, the more your car expenses go up. The battery storage solution sounds elegant until you price it out. Backing up even a fraction of America’s grid would cost hundreds of billions annually, for decades. The minerals required like lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, and rare-earth metals do not exist in sufficient domestic or worldwide supply, and roughly 80% of solar panels and the majority of wind components are manufactured in China—in factories powered by Chinese coal. China uses more than half of the nearly nine billion tons of coal used worldwide each year, and is building hundreds of coal plants, which last more than 40 years. We would be trading American energy independence for Chinese energy dependency and calling it a climate victory. That is hardly a transition. It is rather a surrender, just with better branding. We would be surrendering our energy independence to our biggest economic and military rival. Communist China is a proven bully on the international stage, willing to use any leverage it has to accomplish what it wants. We do not have to guess at the outcomes. Europe is running this disastrous experiment for us, and the results are in: Germany, the U.K., and Denmark have electricity rates nearly triple what American families pay. Germany pays roughly 35 to 40 cents per kilowatt-hour, and Denmark tops 40 cents. Meanwhile, Americans average around 15 cents. That gap ripples through every manufactured product, service delivered, and paycheck earned. High energy costs leave less in every household budget for other priorities that cost more because of higher energy costs, carbon taxes, and climate regulations. The human cost is real and mounting. Germany’s legendary industrial base of steel, chemicals, and automobiles is contracting, shedding a quarter million jobs. Manufacturers have relocated or shuttered rather than absorb energy costs that make production economically irrational. The U.K. has watched its steel industry collapse. Across Europe, working families are spending a larger share of their incomes keeping the lights on and the heat running, leaving less for everything else. This is what energy poverty looks like in wealthy nations. It is a policy choice with predictable consequences. Wind turbines also wear out after 20-25 years, and solar panels degrade after 25-30. They are not permanent solutions—they are expensive, requiring perpetual replacement. And it’s billed to ratepayers, all while demanding ten times more land than conventional power plants for unreliable output. America’s energy record is genuinely strong. Air and water quality have improved dramatically over the last 50 years even as energy use has grown. Market-driven efficiency did more for the environment than mandates ever managed. Nuclear power deserves serious reconsideration. Honest energy policy requires honest accounting. The transition being promised to American families is expensive, unnecessary, and degrades national security that the Iran conflict makes impossible to ignore. Reliable, affordable energy is the foundation of every family’s budget, every factory’s survival, and every nation’s ability to defend itself. Europe tried it first and is paying for it now. The question is whether Americans are paying attention. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.