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In December of 2025, 21 Republican Senators in Indiana’s General Assembly did the most patriotic thing they could do: They put country—in this case, State—over political party. Despite forceful pressure from President Trump’s administration to strong-arm them into drawing a new voting map, they joined with 10 Democrats in refusing to commit an unethical, mid-term gerrymandering of districts in order to gain two more Republican seats in the U.S. Congress. With the 2026 elections looming, and the

1Shorer, Mark; Sinclair Lewis, an American Life, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, London: 1961, p. 610. 2Ibid., p. 608. 3Lewis, Sinclair; It Can’t Happen Here (1935), Signet Classics, Penguin Group, New York:1970, Chapter 1, p. 9. 4Ibid.; p. 8. 5Rowling, J.K., Harry Potter, the series, 1997ff. 6Op Cit., Lewis, Chapter 2, p. 18. 7Snyder, Timothy, On Tyranny. Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century, Tim Duggan Books, New York: 2017, pp.18ff. 8Ibid., p. 23. 9Ibid., p. 24. 10O

1Shorer, Mark; Sinclair Lewis, an American Life, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, London: 1961. 2 “Americans and the Holocaust,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/personal- story/dorothy-thompson 3Thompson, Dorothy; I Saw Hitler, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York: 1932; p. 10. 4Ibid., p. 12. 5Ibid., p. 13. 6Ibid., p. 14. 7Ibid., p. 16. 8Ibid., p. 18. 9 Ibid., p. 4. 10Ibid., pp. v-vi. 11Ibid, p. 29-30. 12Ibid.,

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