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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: A large majority of likely Republican primary voters in four Indiana Senate districts support the Hoosier State’s redistricting effort, even though the senators representing them reportedly plan to oppose it, a new survey shows. Heritage Action surveyed 1321 likely Republican primary voters in the four districts represented by Sens. Ed Charbonneau, Blake Doriot, Travis Holdman, and Ryan Mishler. The survey ran from Dec. 5 to Dec. 10. When asked, “Do you agree that Indiana should pass new congressional maps to protect our voice in Congress?” more than two-thirds (68.3%) said yes, while 23.5% said no. Researchers only spoke to likely Republican primary voters in Mishler’s district on Monday. In that district, 75% of respondents said they support redistricting, while only 16.7% said they oppose it, for a ratio of 4.5 to 1. While the survey is not scientific, it does suggest firm support for the maps. President Donald Trump has advocated mid-decade redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The Indiana House passed the GOP-backed congressional map, known as Map 90, on Friday, in a 57-41 vote. The proposal advanced out of the Indiana Senate Elections Committee Monday night, and reports suggest the upper chamber may vote on it this week. Republicans represent seven out of the Hoosier State’s nine congressional districts, but analysts suggest the new map would give the two Democrat-held districts to Republicans, leading to a 9-0 congressional delegation from Indiana. Republicans hold a slim 219-213 majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, with three vacancies. Map 90 may bolster that majority. Redistricting, the process of redrawing districts for representation in the U.S. House of Representatives, gained renewed attention after the Texas Legislature restarted the process earlier this year. Trump has encouraged Republicans to seek advantages through redistricting, and Democrats responded by demanding redistricting of their own. The Government Accountability Office found that the 2020 census undercounted Republican-leaning states and overcounted Democratic-leaning states, further leading Trump to call for mid-decade redistricting. Republicans enjoy hefty majorities in the Indiana House (70-30) and Senate (40-10), but the bill’s fate remains uncertain, as some Republican lawmakers have expressed concerns about mid-decade redistricting. State Sens. Eric Bassler, Greg Walker, and Kyle Walker, opponents of the redistricting measure, are not seeking reelection next year, CBS News reported. The Daily Signal reached out to Charbonneau, Doriot, Holdman, and Mishler, but they did not immediately respond to a request for comment. This story will be updated with any response. The post Most Indiana Likely GOP Primary Voters Support Redistricting in Swing Districts: Survey appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Today, the Indiana State Senate will vote on redistricting legislation that could help Republicans hold the House in the midterms and save President Donald Trump from future Democrat impeachments. The bill to change Indiana’s congressional map from a 7-2 Republican advantage to a 9-0 sweep will be voted on by Indiana’s Senate this afternoon. The map has already passed in the Indiana State House, but despite the fact that Republicans hold 40 out of the 50 seats in the upper Chamber and that the map has earned the support of Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., the legislation could potentially fail. Indiana Lieutenant Governor: ‘I Don’t Think We Have the Votes’ The Daily Signal spoke with Indiana Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith about the upcoming vote. “I’ll be honest with you, I don’t think we have the votes,” Beckwith said, adding, “It seems like [President pro tempore of the Indiana Senate Rodric Bray] is putting a lot of pressure on people to not stand with Trump, and so I think there, I think it’s personal for him.” Bray has previously been criticized for slow-playing Indiana’s effort to redistrict. While conservative grassroots organizations have enthusiastically embraced the effort to help Republicans nationally, some Indiana GOP lawmakers are hesitant to support the effort. Trump’s Impeachment Is on the Line, Conservatives Say Beckwith did not hesitate to discuss the consequences of failing to send enough Republicans to Washington. “If we lose the House because Democrats keep stealing Republican seats, then we’re going to see Trump getting impeached. We’re going to see the cabinet being dragged before kangaroo court committees,” he explained. Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., also stressed the importance of today’s vote on X. “Big moment for Indiana today. Democrats have rigged the system over and over again and always get away with it. Indiana State Senators have a chance to finally fight back with a fair and legal map that represents Indiana,” Banks wrote. Big moment for Indiana today. Democrats have rigged the system over and over again and always get away with it. Indiana State Senators have a chance to finally fight back with a fair and legal map that represents Indiana.— Jim Banks (@Jim_Banks) December 11, 2025 Matt Carpenter, the director of FRC Action, the legislative affiliate of the Family Research Council, which operates a political grassroots network, told The Daily Signal in a statement that “Already, multiple articles of impeachment against President Trump have been filed—and for what reason? No one really knows. Now they’ve filed articles of impeachment against Secretary [Robert] Kennedy as well.” Beckwith also expressed concern that Democrat control in 2026 could lead to unlimited efforts to stymie the Trump agenda. “You know, [Secretary of War Pete Hegseth] will probably never be able to not have a day where he’s not subpoenaed,” Beckwith said. “I mean, they’re going to do everything to stall the American First agenda that the American people voted for last year. So, this is a save our nation moment right now.” Carpenter agreed. “Should the GOP lose control of the House in 2026, their Democrat counterparts will waste no time in doing all they can to tie down the Trump and Republican agenda ahead of 2028, playing Lilliputian to the Trump administration’s Gulliver,” Carpenter said. In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, Trump also said failure risks “los[ing] everything to the Democrats.” “Anybody that votes against Redistricting, and the SUCCESS of the Republican Party in D.C., will be, I am sure, met with a MAGA Primary in the Spring,” Trump wrote. “If Republicans will not do what is necessary to save our Country, they will eventually lose everything to the Democrats.” There Will Be Consequences for Voting Against New Map Republicans control 40 of the 50 state senate seats. Even so, it may come down to the lieutenant governor of Indiana having to break a tie in the chamber in his capacity as the president of the Indiana State Senate. Beckwith believes that Trump’s primary threat is real, and that there will be electoral consequences for opposing the grassroots and the America First agenda. “I’m telling you the base is fired up, and the Trump administration is already saying they’re going to put seven, maybe even eight figures into a super PAC for Indiana,” he said. Beckwith also told The Daily Signal that while the Indiana redistrict effort has been nationalized, failure will harm Indiana residents as well. “I think this is really going to hurt Hoosiers in the long run, because it’s just going to show Washington that we have no respect for them, and we don’t want to partner with them,” the lieutenant governor claimed. “I don’t think [Bray’s] doing this in a way, thinking about, really the outcome for Hoosiers and working with the White House,” Beckwith contended. A Generational Problem Beckwith, who is 43, attributed some of the Republican reluctance to support the bill to a generational divide among the GOP.   “I would say the older generation that I see in the senate right now, they embody the spirit of Neville Chamberlain like we can make peace with evil. We just have to negotiate with evil. It’ll be fun,” Beckwith said.  Beckwith pointed to the issue of transgenderism in particular as a watershed moment for younger Republicans in the state and country. “We’ve seen what wokeism does to lives. People that we love and care about when they go down the transgender path, because they learned it at school through the government, and then it destroys their lives,” Beckwith stated. “These older senators, they didn’t have to go through school when boys were using girls bathrooms. They never experienced that in their classrooms. They never experienced the absolute, egregious assault on constitutional values and Christianity in the public classroom,” he added. Monica Boyer, a Heritage Action Sentinel (grassroots advocate) from Warsaw, Indiana, told The Daily Signal, “The stakes could not be higher. If Democrats win the majority, the Democrat agenda will take over our state. They stand for mutilating our children, infiltrating our classrooms, and working against families, against Hoosiers, and against the mandate voters gave President Trump.” “Today, the Senate needs to decide if they will stand for the people of America– or if they won’t. This decision is truly a decision for the future of Indiana. Right now, us Hoosiers are afraid for our future, for the values we hold dear, and for our great country. Senators, we ask you to stand with Hoosiers!” Boyer continued. This post has been updated. The post Indiana’s GOP Super Majority Senate Could Vote Against Map that Could Save Trump From Impeachment appeared first on The Daily Signal.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is dedicating every possible resource to ensuring American jobs aren’t lost to artificial intelligence, she told The Daily Signal in an exclusive interview. “You’ll see the media talk about, the fear mongering—you’re gonna lose your job—but I can tell you this,” she said, “We are deploying everything we can here at the Department of Labor to make sure that that exactly doesn’t happen.” Geoffrey Hinton, a British computer scientist widely dubbed the “Godfather of AI,” has predicted “massive unemployment caused by AI.” AI expert Stuart Russell said AI can do “everything we currently call work.” Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque predicts by mid-2028, cognitive labor will become “economically worthless” because AI is smarter than humans. But DeRemer expects to see more job creation than losses. “We want Americans to be comfortable to know that our job is to protect their job,” she said. “That’s what the Department of Labor does. So I’m excited about AI.” She said the issue is a priority for President Donald Trump. “It’s top of mind for the president, and I think it’s top of mind for the president specifically, because of how exciting it is. Transformational. Really, we’re going to see a new era, just like we saw in the industrial age, the technology age,” she said. “We’re seeing the age of AI, and it’s transformative in job creation. We will see more job creation because of AI than we’re going to see any possible displacement.” DeRemer aims to work with companies across the country to “make sure they have the skilled workforce that answers the market demands, not to determine what those market demands are.” She sits on the president’s AI task force, which works to make Americans proficient in AI so the U.S. wins the AI race. “Not only is it a matter of national security, it’s a matter of job security here,” she said. “We want to make sure that our employees across this nation and employers understand how great AI can affect their jobs.” The administration has deployed millions of dollars to more than 81 programs to train the workforce in AI. “What we don’t want to do is lose this race to another country, and the president has been clear on that,” she said. “So, I would say to the future workforce of America, the Department of Labor is here to answer those market demands.” Labor is collecting data points from the private sector about what they need and how the Labor Department can train the future workforce in AI. “It’s a net positive for this country, and I’m excited to do it,” she said. “I have a whole team in place, and we’re ready to go.” The post EXCLUSIVE: How Labor Secretary is Saving American Jobs From AI Replacement appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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EPIC City, the Islamic all-inclusive development being planned in Texas by the East Plano Islamic Center, may have rebranded to “the Meadow” in order to hide the agenda — but recent actions taken by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton may be shutting down the compound for good.“It’s appearing less and less likely that they’re ever going to break ground, especially since at the end of last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that he is suing just about everyone involved,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says on “Come and Take It.”Paxton is suing the East Plano Islamic Center, Community Capital Partners, and the individual leaders for “securities violations after alleging that they are engaged in an illegal land development scheme.”“He’s suing all of them. He said, ‘You get a lawsuit, and you get a lawsuit, and you get a lawsuit. You’re all getting lawsuits,’” Gonzales says. “Because you guys need to understand very clearly: We’re not doing this here. Not in Texas.”“There are a lot of problems within my state that I want to make sure get fixed, okay, but one thing that it feels a whole hell of a lot like we are all aligned on is, ‘You’re not turning my state into an unrecognizable third-world country,’ and ‘You’re not turning my state into a Muslim-majority area,’” she continues.And one of the many reasons Gonzales feels so strongly about this is because Islam is growing rapidly in other areas — and we have all been able to see the outcome.“I have eyeballs. I see what’s happening in Europe. I see what’s happening in the U.K. I see what's happening. I see the crime statistics. I see the violent sexual crimes only going up and up and up. I see the terrorism. Like, we all have eyeballs,” she explains.“We all see what is happening, and it’s nothing personal,” she continues. “It’s not like every single one of them must be terrible people. It’s just not something we’re going to do here in Texas. We’re not doing that.”Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The top women's tennis player in the world was recently confronted with the idea that she might have a biological advantage over other women.Aryna Sabalenka, the world's No. 1-ranked player in the Women's Tennis Association, is preparing for a "Battle of the Sexes" against Nick Kyrgios, who reached as high as No. 13 in the men's rankings in 2016.To promote the event, the two appeared on "Piers Morgan Uncensored" where they were asked if they think it is fair when men, or transgender athletes, compete in women's sports.'I feel like they still got a huge advantage over the women.'Morgan prefaced his question by citing Martina Navratilova, a former tennis star who has been adamant about keeping men out of women's competitions."[Navratilova] says it's wrong for the Women's Tennis Association to allow trans women to compete in its events; do you agree with her?" Morgan asked."That's a tricky question," Sabalenka initially replied. The Belarusian then stated the obvious biological reality."I have nothing to do against them. But I feel like they still got huge advantage over the woman, and I think it's just not fair to a woman to basically face, like, biologically man," she said.The 27-year-old continued, "You know, it's not fair, like, the woman been working the whole life to reach her limit and then she has to face, like, a man, like, which biologically much stronger. So for me, I don't agree with this kind of stuff in sport."Morgan then posed the question to Kyrgios, who quickly explained that he had "nothing to add" because he feels "the exact same way."Sabalenka was not out of the woods yet because Morgan then brought up criticisms the athlete has faced from her competitors.RELATED: 'XX XY': Tennis star Aryna Sabalenka's coach spotted wearing pro-biological women sports apparel during win over world No. 1 The British host referred to Marta Kostyuk, the No. 26-ranked women's tennis player. In October, the Ukrainian complained that Sabalenka is "bigger," "taller," and "stronger" than she is and that Sabalenka and another Polish player have biological advantages due to their testosterone levels."We all have our own biological structure. Some have a higher level of testosterone, some have lower. I know players who are good players who have higher levels of it," Kostyuk claimed, per Firstpost. While Kostyuk said she's sure that her opponents aren't on drugs, the 23-year-old said it's "just the biology" of their bodies and that "definitely helps.""I'm trying to see how I can beat these players with the tennis skills I have, but I have to work more than they have to win the points," she added.Sabalenka laughed off these comments, telling Morgan that Kostyuk was just making "excuses.""It's actually quite funny because she's a strong girl," she said. "She probably has more muscles than I do, and she looks fit and strong, and I think that's not the case in all of the matches she lost against our players."RELATED: Tennis star stops match to make absurd demand about a baby in the crowd Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images In Britain, the governing Lawn Tennis Association essentially barred "transgender women" from playing in top women's tournaments in December 2024.After conducting a formal review, the organization determined that the "average man" has an advantage when playing against the "average woman."The new rules restrict "transgender women and nonbinary individuals assigned male at birth" from playing in top-tier and competitive women's tournaments.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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