Six Republican state senators in Indiana woke up this morning as former Republican state senators. That’s what happens when you block a Supreme Court-ordered redistricting plan and then have the audacity to act surprised when the voters drag you out of office by your lapels.

Six. In one night. We’re not talking about a close race here and a narrow loss there — we’re talking about a full-scale political extinction event in a single state primary. Somebody call the paleontologists, because these RINOs just joined the dinosaurs.

Here’s the backstory for anyone who missed it. The Supreme Court ordered Indiana to redraw its legislative maps. Pretty standard stuff — courts order redistricting, legislators comply, life goes on. But eight Republican state senators decided they were smarter than the Supreme Court. They blocked the redistricting effort, essentially telling SCOTUS to pound sand.

Big mistake.

Trump-aligned groups poured millions into primary challengers against these defiant geniuses. The White House got personally involved — they even coaxed Blake Fiechter, a Bluffton city councilman, back into the race after he’d dropped out in February. That’s how badly they wanted these guys gone.

And gone they are.

Travis Holdman — the ringleader of this little rebellion, the No. 3 leader in the state Senate — got obliterated by Fiechter by more than 20 points. Twenty points! In his own primary! That’s not a loss, that’s a restraining order from the voters. Holdman had been in the state Senate since 2008 and apparently thought his seat was a birthright.

Holdman’s response after getting curb-stomped? He posted that “revenge and retribution is not a Christian value.” Oh, spare us. You defied the Supreme Court, ignored your own voters, and got wiped out in a democratic election — that’s not “retribution,” Travis. That’s called accountability. Maybe look it up.

(Funny how these guys suddenly find religion after the voters find them replaceable.)

Four more of Holdman’s little crew of rebels got the boot right alongside him. And Spencer Deery — another one of the defiant eight — is currently hanging by a thread, possibly ahead by a whopping three votes. Three. The man’s political career is being decided by the equivalent of a family reunion.

This is what happens when you forget who you work for. These senators got comfortable. They thought the (R) next to their name was a lifetime pass. They thought they could defy the Supreme Court AND ignore the leader of their own party AND still waltz back into office because “well, who else are they gonna vote for?”

Turns out? Literally anyone else.

The establishment types are already crying about “outside money” and “White House interference.” Welcome to democracy, fellas. When you refuse to do your job, your boss fires you. In this case, the boss is about 300,000 Republican primary voters in Indiana who showed up specifically to hand you your pink slip.

This was the first major test of Trump’s power in 2026 primary season. And the results weren’t subtle. They weren’t ambiguous. They weren’t open to interpretation. Six incumbents — gone. In a single night. That almost never happens in state-level politics. Incumbents in safe-party primaries almost always survive. These didn’t even come close.

The message to every Republican in America is crystal clear: defy the base and defy Trump, and you will be replaced. Not threatened. Not primaried with some token opponent who raises $50,000 and loses by 30. Actually replaced. By someone who will do the job you refused to do.

So congratulations to Blake Fiechter and the rest of the new class in Indiana. You’ve got your marching orders from the voters. Don’t make us come back in four years and do this again.