The protest was organized by Indiana Conservation Voters. Executive director Megan Robertson said redistricting efforts are a power grab.

INDIANAPOLIS — At least a hundred people gathered on Friday at the Indiana Statehouse, opposing redistricting talks between Vice President JD Vance and Governor Mike Braun.

Friday’s protest resembled the one that happened last time Vance was in town in August — also to discuss redistricting in Indiana.

“We want fair elections, and we don’t want them trying to steal our votes,” said Beverly Matthews, who came to the rally from New Castle. “That is against everything America stands for.”

Matthews said Indiana should make its own decisions, instead of being strong-armed by the vice president.

Angela Cox, who came from Wayne County, said Hoosiers worked hard during the last redistricting process in 2021 to make the congressional district lines fair.


“We’re a very red state the way the way it is, and groupthink is not something that I’m a big fan of,” Cox said. “And we need to have all thought processes at the table.”

The protest was organized by Indiana Conservation Voters. Executive director Megan Robertson said redistricting efforts are a power grab.

“Washington D.C. politicians are worried that their policies aren’t good enough to win elections,” Robertson said. “They want to come here and try to bully our legislature into drawing new maps so that they can cheat to win.”

Sen. Shelli Yoder (D-Bloomington) said if redistricting was coming, it would have already happened — like it did in Texas and Missouri.


“It is because Hoosiers, you are speaking out, you’re standing up, you’re saying no, not in our state,” Yoder said.

Rep. Phil GiaQuinta (D-Fort Wayne) said this is about D.C. Republicans being nervous about the 2026 election.

“Because of their failed policies, and they know it,” GiaQuinta said. “You talk about polls, they can read the polls, and the polls tell them they’re losing and that’s why they’re going around the country trying to gain any advantage that they can.”

Robertson added Vance should be in D.C. dealing with the government shutdown, not coming here to push for redistricting.