Author: Jace Slone

During summer 2025, Gerrymandering felt like it was at the center of the universe; at least it did to me, an intern in D.C. for my congressman who had just been offered a job to stay on as his campaign director. It all started when Texas proposed legislation to redraw its congressional districts for the […]

On my grandfather’s farm, a rock sits aloneWith an Indian’s face carved into the stone.From around this tomb, grandpa dug up the bones,Of some old, old people that once called our land home. Maybe they were Shawnee, maybe KaskaskiaFrom a time before they shrank into Indiana.When we settled this land, we bred them out of […]