The Daily Signal - Indiana Redistricting Fails, BLM Leader Indicted, Hoax-filled House Committee | Dec. 12, 2025
Episode Date: December 12, 2025On today’s Top News in 10: The Trump-favored redistricting measure is now dead in Indiana despite Republicans’ supermajority. Another Black Lives Matter leader caught and federally indicte...d for stealing millions. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem brought before a house committee that quickly turned into a hoax-ridden circus. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7AFk8xjiOOBEynVg3JiN6g The Signal Sitdown: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376 Problematic Women: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL7765680741 Victor Davis Hanson: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9809784327 Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/intent/user?screen_name=DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Trump favored redistricting measure is now dead in Indiana, despite Republican supermajority.
Another Black Lives Matter leader caught and federally indicted for stealing millions,
and Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Noem is brought before a House committee that quickly
turned into a hoax-ridden circus. I'm Tony Kinnett, host of the Daily Signals,
Tony Kinnett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Friday, December 12,
2025. This is the Daily Signals. Top News in 10.
The redistricting measure supported by President Donald Trump, which had been brought before
and passed the Indiana House and then out of a Senate electoral committee, failed finally in the
Indiana Senate despite Republicans' 40 to 10 supermajority. The final vote count was 19 Republicans
in favor versus 31 Republicans and Democrats against. As a result, the president has promised
primary challenges for the Republicans who voted against the redistricting measure, which
would have more likely made the Indiana map from seven Republicans to Democrats to something
more closely possible to 9-0.
It's a great place.
I love the people there.
They love me.
We won in a landslide all three times.
We got tremendous votes.
Record.
I got record votes.
And then you, there's no reason for doing that.
And the Democrats do it to us.
So I can't imagine that they do it.
But I wasn't very much involved.
But there's a man named Bray as a, I guess, head of the Senate.
Was that Bray?
Is that the name? Bray?
And I mean, I'm sure that whenever his primary is,
it's, I think, in two years,
but I'm sure he'll go down.
He'll go down.
I'll certainly support anybody that wants to go against him.
If I could ask you briefly, you better.
While the arguments against redistricting varied from Senator Jean Lysing of Eastern Indiana,
suggesting that she wasn't a fan of her grandson receiving a mass text,
to state Senator Bohekech saying that he didn't like President's Trump use of the word
retarded in criticizing Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, and that's why he wouldn't be voting
in favor of the measure. Many of the Republicans in favor of redistricting gathered around the
message of Senate Majority Leader Chris Garton, who gave an impassioned speech moments before
the vote in favor of redistricting. Some will say these maps are political. Let me be clear. You're
right they are political policy is political safe streets are political look at indianapolis
affordable electricity is political a drug-free indiana is political peace in the middle east
is political i dealt with it firsthand if drawing a map that secures two more seats for the
party means that we continue to see overdose deaths drop by 20% then I'll draw that map every
single day of the week and twice on Sunday if draw on a map means that we'll continue to
see a 93% drop in illegal immigration and I'll sign it with a smile on my face we're
not here to be neutral arbiters of decline we're here to be active agents of American
greatness. Democrats wasted little time in order to gloat about the redistricting fail, like former
Hoosier and former Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg.
Hey, everyone, something amazing just happened in Indiana. This is a very Republican state,
but the Indiana State Senate just voted overwhelmingly to reject Donald Trump and the redistricting
plan that he and J.D. Vance were pressuring them to pass for months now. This is a demonstration
that political pressure works, that we're not powerless, even in a year like this, where many
states like Indiana didn't have an election going on. Meanwhile, Oklahoma City Black Lives Matter
leader, Tashel at Dickerson, has been federally indicted on 25 counts after prosecutors say she
stole more than $3.15 million in donor and bail fund money intended to free George Floyd
protesters that she instead bought six houses with.
A federal grand jury indictment has been unsealed, charging to Shella Sherry Amor Dickerson, 52 of Oklahoma City with wire fraud and money laundering, according to a post by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Perhaps ironically, her previous Instagram and Threads profile stated that she is an unpaid protester.
Here she is in a previous video stating we are watching the systems of white supremacy.
We're going to have to lift our voices and stand for one another, like we're.
never have before because at this juncture in this country, we are watching the systems of white
supremacy, fascism, classism, and all of the hatred and vitriolic tactics used.
And last but not least, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christine Nome was brought
before a House committee that quickly turned into a hoax-ridden circus, by which I mean there were
a number of accusations made, which were objectively false and or misleading. To begin, Democrats
invited George Redis, a veteran of the United States military who claimed to have just been
simply driving by a local field when ICE abducted him, held him without indicating what the
charges were, and burned his skin with chemicals and tear gas. I identified myself as a U.S.
citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas,
and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out.
I was choking on gas, unable to breathe,
while officers shouted conflicting commands even after I complied.
I was taken to a detention center and held for three days without charges.
No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care, even though my skin burned from the chemicals.
My family had no idea where I was.
I was released without explanation and without a single charge.
The detail that George leaves out is that he was one of the security guards for the California
child labor marijuana farm, who was arrested by federal authorities for committing assault
on federal agents. That wasn't the only hoax of the day. Representative Seth Magiziner, a Democrat
representative of Rhode Island, attempted to pull a gotcha on Secretary Nome by bringing
Seijun Park, a U.S. veteran who had been deported to Korea. The problem is that
Representative Seth Magiziner attempts to claim that it is Christy Nome and the Trump administration,
who deported him.
Madam Secretary, how many United States military veterans have you deported?
Sir, we have not deported U.S. citizens or military veterans.
Madam Secretary, we are joined on Zoom by a gentleman named Sejune Park.
He is a United States Army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country in Panama in 1989.
Like many veterans, he struggled with PTSD and substance abuse after his service.
He was arrested in the 1990s for some minor drug offenses, nothing serious.
He never hurt anyone besides himself, and he's been clean and sober for 14 years.
He is a combat veteran, a Purple Heart recipient.
He has sacrificed more for this country than most people ever have.
Earlier this year, you deported him to Korea, a country he hasn't lived in since he was seven years old.
While this was played as a major gotcha along the political ecosystem,
the dude in the particular Zoom call, say June Park was not deported by the Department of Homeland Security.
He self-deported to South Korea.
He had his green card revoked and was given a removal order in 2009 by the Barack Obama administration
after spending three years in jail previously for not just any kind of drug possession,
for felony drug possession and bail jumping.
He also spent five decades in the United States on,
this particular green card and never chose to pursue citizenship despite at one time having served
in the United States military. There were also a couple of particularly disgusting comments made
by representatives in the committee. For example, Democrat Representative Benny G. Thompson of
Mississippi attempted to suggest that the double homicide, the terrorist attack in which an
Afghani migrant shot two West Virginia National Guardsmen, was just an accident.
You and the gentleman from CTCC reference the unfortunate accident that occurred with the National Guardsman being killed.
You think that was an unfortunate accident?
I mean, it was a terrorist attack.
Wait, wait, wait. Look, I'll get it straight.
Meanwhile, Democrat Representative Julie Johnson of Texas attempted to make the claim that the double homicide was justified because people are feeling upset about individuals,
being detained and deported in the United States.
And so what you're seeing is an overwhelming frustration of the American people in this country
that the lack of respect and regard for the rule of law by this administration and in
particular by this secretary is at a level that we have never seen and violates all of
the constitutional norms and all of the principles of legal fairness in this
country. And you're seeing that manifests itself in threats to law enforcement and bubbling over
because people are frustrated. And they are channeling that frustration because the administration
is not listening. And last but certainly not least, Representative Sri Tanedar of Michigan
openly called for Secretary Nome to resign if she wasn't fired, which she took rather well.
I am sick of your lies. The American people are sick of this lies.
American people demand truth.
America is very happy that finally they have a president in the White House
that gets up every day to keep them safe.
Madam Secretary, your incompetence and your inability to truthfully carry out your duties
of Secretary of Homeland Security, if you're not fired, will you resign?
Sir, I will consider you're asking me to resign as an endorsement of my work.
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