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The Indiana GOP's defiance shows how Trump is losing juice His unpopularity is increasing and his threats are starting to ring hollow. Noah Berlatsky Dec 15 Trump in the Oval Office on Friday. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty) PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one   ⬇️ Donald Trump believes he should rule like a king; he thinks that any vote cast for anyone other than him and his sycophants is illegitimate. This was clear before his attempted coup in 2020, and it’s been even clearer since then. The president has openly plotted to steal the 2026 House elections. He’s urged Republican legislators in red states to rush through unprecedented mid-decade gerrymanders, disenfranchising Black and brown voters in an effort to lock in a permanent Republican majority. The Texas state legislature rushed to give Trump the extra five GOP seats he wanted, and after a setback in the lower courts, the thuggish right-wing hacks on the Supreme Court jumped in to  do Trump’s bidding . Missou...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 269. 12/12/25 Ron Filipkowski Dec 12 ∙ … The fallout and recriminations from the  Indiana Senate   refusing to back down from Trump’s threats on redistricting have been reverberating throughout the Republican Party. As usual, Trump tried to save face after his defeat: Q - “The senate in Indiana voted against the redistricting effort. Trump: I wasn’t working on it very hard. I wasn’t very much involved.” … Trump made 9 very lengthy posts over the past 3 weeks about it. They mostly included threats. He first started posting about it 6 weeks ago. He sent  JD Vance  there to lobby IN Republicans twice. Numerous henchmen did also. He made several public statements about it. But, despite losing thousands of contests over the last 70 years on everything from legal cases to football games, he has never admitted that he lost anything in his life and isn’t about to start now. … CNN’s  Manu Raju  asked  Mike Johnson  if Trump’s i...