American politics through the lens of the Constitution and the long memory.https://article1.news/en-ushttps://article1.news/posts/trump-purges-indianas-senate-to-discipline-the-whole-gop/https://article1.news/posts/trump-purges-indianas-senate-to-discipline-the-whole-gop/Trump-backed challengers ousted multiple Republican incumbent state senators in Indiana's Tuesday primaries, NBC News reports — a coordinated effort to punish lawmakers who resisted his preferred redistricting plan. Said NBC News Chief Data Analyst Steve Kornacki: the results send "a very clear message to defecting Republicans." The play is not about Indiana. It's about every Republican legislator in every statehouse watching what happens to members who don't fall in line.Wed, 06 May 2026 20:36:42 GMT2026 MidtermsGOPhttps://article1.news/posts/trumps-indiana-win-reveals-the-shrinking-geography-of-his-power/https://article1.news/posts/trumps-indiana-win-reveals-the-shrinking-geography-of-his-power/Trump secured his preferred outcome in the Indiana primary, Bloomberg Politics reports — but the win exposed a narrowing base of leverage. The strategic read: intra-party clout and broad public approval are diverging. He can still clear a primary field. He can no longer carry the general electorate weight that made that threat credible. A vise that only closes in one direction is still a vise — until the door it's guarding stops mattering.Wed, 06 May 2026 20:31:40 GMT2026 MidtermsGOPhttps://article1.news/posts/bosses-of-the-senate-1889/https://article1.news/posts/bosses-of-the-senate-1889/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:45:00 GMTCitizens UnitedMoney in PoliticsLong MemoryConstitutionSupreme Courthttps://article1.news/posts/obama-on-political-justice/https://article1.news/posts/obama-on-political-justice/Wed, 06 May 2026 19:30:00 GMTRule of LawDOJExecutivehttps://article1.news/posts/vance-2028-tied-to-trump/https://article1.news/posts/vance-2028-tied-to-trump/JD Vance got a warm reception in Iowa over the weekend, the standard early-state pilgrimage, *Politico reports.* But internal Republican polling reportedly shows what the public numbers already do: Vance's brand is downstream of Trump's, and Trump's approval is in historic-low territory amid the Iran conflict and $4.50 gas. There is no version of the 2028 GOP primary where the heir apparent isn't carrying the principal's baggage. Wed, 06 May 2026 18:20:00 GMT2028GOPPollinghttps://article1.news/posts/six-billionaires-100m-each/https://article1.news/posts/six-billionaires-100m-each/Wed, 06 May 2026 17:30:00 GMTCitizens UnitedMoney in PoliticsConstitutionSupreme Courthttps://article1.news/posts/gas-454-voters-blame/https://article1.news/posts/gas-454-voters-blame/National average is $4.54 — closing in on the June 2022 record of $5.01 and an all-time seasonal high. New Marist polling: an overwhelming majority of Americans blame Trump directly, and 80% report the price is straining household budgets. Presidents don't actually control gas prices, but voters always blame the one in office. That's the deal he took. Wed, 06 May 2026 17:05:00 GMTEconomyPollinghttps://article1.news/posts/antisemitic-assaults-46-year-high/https://article1.news/posts/antisemitic-assaults-46-year-high/Physical assaults against American Jews reached their highest level since 1979 last year, according to the latest data. Antisemitism is rising on the right and the left — from a president who dined with Holocaust deniers to progressive lawmakers who downplay the targeting of Jews on college campuses. Same standard for both. Name it. Cite it. Don't let either side off the hook. Wed, 06 May 2026 16:40:00 GMTAntisemitismhttps://article1.news/posts/six-donors-bought-2024-the-ruling-that-made-it-legal/https://article1.news/posts/six-donors-bought-2024-the-ruling-that-made-it-legal/Six billionaires spent more than $100 million each to elect Trump in 2024. That's more than every Trump candidate committee combined. This isn't an accident. It's the system working exactly as the Supreme Court redesigned it.Wed, 06 May 2026 15:13:00 GMTConstitutionCitizens UnitedLong MemorySupreme Courthttps://article1.news/posts/the-gerry-mander-1812/https://article1.news/posts/the-gerry-mander-1812/Wed, 06 May 2026 15:00:00 GMTRedistrictingArticleILong MemoryConstitutionhttps://article1.news/posts/trump-buries-indiana-republicans/https://article1.news/posts/trump-buries-indiana-republicans/Indiana state senators who blocked Trump's mid-cycle congressional redistricting effort lost their primaries Tuesday. The message to every elected Republican is unsubtle: the party is now an instrument of one man's will, and Article I autonomy — the legislature making its own choices — is grounds for removal. Redistricting was supposed to be the GOP's structural advantage. It's becoming a loyalty test instead. Wed, 06 May 2026 14:30:00 GMTRedistrictingArticleIhttps://article1.news/posts/democrats-michigan-sd35/https://article1.news/posts/democrats-michigan-sd35/Chedrick Greene won the Michigan 35th Senate District special election, handing Democrats a 20-18 majority in the state senate. Special elections are imperfect signals, but Democrats are running ahead of the 2024 baseline in the overwhelming majority of them this cycle. The pattern is consistent enough to take seriously six months out from November. Wed, 06 May 2026 13:15:00 GMT2026 MidtermsMichiganhttps://article1.news/posts/doj-drops-ogles-evidence-destroyed/https://article1.news/posts/doj-drops-ogles-evidence-destroyed/Wed, 06 May 2026 12:50:00 GMTDOJRule of Lawhttps://article1.news/posts/doj-drops-ogles-probe/https://article1.news/posts/doj-drops-ogles-probe/The Justice Department is closing its nearly two-year criminal investigation of Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles. Per WTVF, the evidence will be returned or destroyed without FBI review. Whatever you think of Ogles, the precedent matters: investigations into members of Congress now resolve based on whose team you're on, not on what the evidence shows. That is not how an independent justice system works. Wed, 06 May 2026 12:45:00 GMTRule of LawDOJhttps://article1.news/posts/indiana-republican-2026/https://article1.news/posts/indiana-republican-2026/On Tuesday, Indiana Republican primary voters defeated state senators whose only offense was refusing to redistrict the state's congressional map mid-cycle to add Trump-friendly seats. The senators wanted to follow normal procedure. That is now a primary-able offense.Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTConstitutionRedistrictingArticleIhttps://article1.news/posts/join-or-die-1754/https://article1.news/posts/join-or-die-1754/Wed, 06 May 2026 11:30:00 GMTConstitutionLong MemoryArticleIhttps://article1.news/posts/white-house-fires-fda/https://article1.news/posts/white-house-fires-fda/Per Rachel Bade, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is the next senior official on the way out as Trump finishes his pre-midterm housecleaning. Makary is a Trump appointee. The criterion isn't competence or even ideology — it's personal loyalty under stress. Cabinet-level government has been replaced with a permanent audition for the principal's approval, and the agencies that protect public health are not exempt. Tue, 05 May 2026 21:20:00 GMTFDAExecutivehttps://article1.news/posts/87-percent-reject-jesus-post/https://article1.news/posts/87-percent-reject-jesus-post/New Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos polling: 87% of Americans view negatively Trump's recent social media post depicting himself as Jesus. The number isn't surprising. The fact that it had to be measured is. We are eight years into a presidency where the single most consistent rule is that nothing is too far. That is the rule worth tracking. Tue, 05 May 2026 20:00:00 GMTPollinghttps://article1.news/posts/billion-east-wing-immigration/https://article1.news/posts/billion-east-wing-immigration/The latest GOP immigration package contains $1 billion for Trump's East Wing renovation project. Republicans on the Hill are openly worried this turns the bill into an internal-party fight rather than a border-policy win. This is what Article I looks like when Congress treats the appropriations power as a personal favor budget instead of a constitutional duty. Tue, 05 May 2026 18:30:00 GMTArticleIAppropriationshttps://article1.news/posts/iran-memo-48-hours/https://article1.news/posts/iran-memo-48-hours/The White House expects a response from Tehran within 48 hours on the agreement points to end the current war. This is the closest the parties have come to resolving the conflict since hostilities began. The off-ramp matters more than the framing it gets. We will judge this deal on what it does to the actual security architecture, not on whose side wins the press conference. Tue, 05 May 2026 15:00:00 GMTForeign PolicyIran