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Your First...And Last Word On Indiana Politics |
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The SnydeReport scours hundreds of local and national media sources so you don't have to. Politics, sports, pop-culture, business, and more - all in a 5-minute read and presented in a way only we can do. Make sure to visit SnydeReport.com to catch all the stories that didn't make our newsletter.
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Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song” is holiday perfection delivered in a velvet voice — warm, elegant, and so timeless it makes modern December feel loud and unnecessary. It’s the track that convinces America, for three minutes, that roasting chestnuts and emotional stability are still achievable goals. Over the next 9 days, we’re rolling out our favorite holiday songs — the ones that wrap nostalgia, denial, and wishful thinking in a string of lights and call it tradition. Got a track we should add? Tell us now before we pretend this list was assembled by a panel of serious people instead of vibes and seasonal delusion. |
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Rep. Haley Stevens Champions Affordable Living For Working Families Rep. Haley Stevens isn’t here for the “thoughts and prayers” approach to the cost-of-living crisis — she’s talking jobs, manufacturing, healthcare, and actually lowering grocery bills. Meanwhile, her opponent is busy auditioning to be a human rubber stamp for the administration, mocking rising coffee prices as a “liberal complaint,” apparently unaware that nurses, firefighters, cops, and working parents rely on that cup just to survive another shift.
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RoQita Discovers “The Science” — When Trump Becomes Too Liberal Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has finally found something he doesn’t like about Donald Trump — and shockingly, it’s not an indictment or a coup attempt. This time, it’s marijuana. After years of treating Trump’s whims like gospel, Rokita is suddenly clutching a lab coat and citing “the science” to argue pot must remain Schedule I — right up there with heroin — because apparently Hoosier teenagers will instantly spiral into chaos the moment federal policy stops pretending reefer madness was a peer-reviewed study. |
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Those Neglected Issues It isn’t simply that our attention is consumed by the daily obscenities of the Trump administration–the increasingly overt and unapologetic racism, the economic damage, the assaults on the rule of law. Reeling from the daily headlines and trying to stem the progress of MAGA’s anti-Americanism takes up most of our policy bandwidth, meaning that we neglect the large number of important issues that we ought to be addressing. |
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Home Rule? Never Heard of Her. With a fresh wave of bills queued up to crack down on immigration, ban ranked-choice voting, police homelessness, and even let legislators impeach locally elected prosecutors, the message is clear: Hoosiers can have local government — just not local solutions. |
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Classroom cellphone policy could become stricter if lawmakers get their way At a meeting held during the special session in which mid-cycle redistricting drew most of the attention, the Senate Committee on Education and Career Development heard testimony from eight people in favor of legislation that would require all Indiana schools to prohibit students from using their personal cellphones during the entire school day
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The long fight for legal weed in Indiana For 110 years, it has been illegal to use marijuana recreationally in the state of Indiana. On Dec. 18, 2025, President Donald Trump ordered marijuana to be reclassified as a less dangerous drug, opening it up to legal use. |
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My INsnyde Take: Jim Banks' first year in the U.S. Senate Because here’s the part Banks forgot to include: under Trump-and-Banks governance, health care costs are soaring, rural Indiana hospitals are closing their doors, and thousands of Hoosiers are losing health insurance as Medicaid and Medicare face cuts dressed up as “fiscal responsibility.” Utility bills now rival mortgage or rent payments — if you can even find housing — groceries cost more every week, and tariffs are quietly jacking up the price of everyday goods while Republicans pretend that’s “economic strength.” |
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Rep. Bob Behning will file bill to exempt IPS from $1 law Indianapolis Public Schools may finally be exempted from Indiana's "Dollar Law." Why it matters: The district has been pushing back against the law that allows charter schools to buy or lease a surplus school building for $1 for the better part of a decade.
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Trump pardons wipe out payments to defrauded victims... By the time a federal judge in 2023 sentenced convicted fraudster Trevor Milton to four years in prison, Salt Lake City businessman Liejo Supoto had long given up hope of recovering the more than $100,000 he had invested in Milton’s hydrogen-powered truck company.
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Trump's $1,776 'Warrior Dividends' funded by housing aid, not tariffs When President Donald Trump announced in his primetime White House address that all military members would receive $1,776 bonuses, he suggested revenue from tariffs would be paying for it. But a Pentagon official confirmed that Defense Department funding is covering the $2.6 billion price tag for the so-called "Warrior Dividends" ‒ not revenue from the president's steep tariffs on imports. |
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MAGA WAR ERUPTS AT TURNING POINT CONFERENCE Members of the MAGA faithful gathered here Thursday to kick off Turning Point USA’s America Fest, the largest meeting for the organization since its founder, Charlie Kirk, was shot to death on a Utah college campus in September. |
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Pam Bondi Gets Jail Time Warning Over Epstein Files Cover-Up The Justice Department faces a Friday deadline to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and wealthy financier known for his connections to some of the world’s most influential people, including Donald Trump, who as president had tried to keep the files sealed. |
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Trump Refused to Bow Head During Fallen Soldier Transfer A video clip from the dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base circulated widely online Wednesday, drawing scrutiny over President Donald Trump’s posture during a brief solemn interval on the ramp to receive the transfer cases for Sergeant Edgar Brian Torres Tovar, Sergeant William Nathaniel Howard, and Ayad Mansoor Sakat, the two soldiers and their interpreter that were recently killed by ISIS in Syria. |
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Erika endorses JD as infighting rages... Erika Kirk told a Turning Point USA conference that she would work to elect JD Vance president in 2028, at an event in which MAGA divisions were on full display
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