If 2025 taught us anything, it’s that Hoosiers will click the heck out of culture-war hypocrisy, political scandal, maps, taxes, and anything that even looks like public officials publicly behaving badly.

Your readership rewarded hard accountability reporting (and a little well-earned sarcasm), with a Top 25 list dominated by the Beckwith industrial complex, election-map drama, and the kind of “wait… what?” headlines that makes Indiana politics the gift that keeps on giving.

So with that said here are the Top 25 Indy Politics blog posts of 2025, ranked by Google Analytics page views (homepage and “oops, that page doesn’t exist” chaos excluded, because we’re classy like that).

Spoiler alert: the Beckwith industrial complex dominated the list.

  1. Welcome to The Purge: Circle Centre Edition — 25,708

  2. Beckwith’s Groomer Crusade Collides with a Real Grooming Case — 9,927

  3. Braun underwater in his backyard, new Dubois County poll finds — 7,659

  4. Tax reform fleeces Hoosiers with new taxes — 7,002

  5. Sherfick and Beckwith — Courtside Seats, Criminal Records, and Convenient Amnesia — 4,683

  6. Remembering the Blizzard of ’78 — 4,667

  7. Sheridan Speaks Out — 4,416

  8. Micah’s Mine Field — 4,235

  9. Pastor’s Son Arrested on Child Sex Abuse Charges; Plans to Hire Lawyer Tied to Deepfake Controversy — 4,096

  10. Former Beckwith Adviser Accused of Pressuring Teen to Discuss Sex — 4,058

  11. Tenth Senate Republican Announces Opposition to Redistricting Plan — 4,049

  12. State Representative’s Ex Parte Email Fails to Derail Small Claims Judgment — 3,886

  13. Good Night, and Good Luck—Again: Todd Rokita and the Return of McCarthy-Style Politics — 3,333

  14. We Interrupt Our Coverage of Crime to Bring You… Something That Wishes It Were Just Gossip, Rumor, or Blatant Innuendo — 3,324

  15. Beware the False Prophet (Or Is That Profit?) — 3,141

  16. Carlino Removed from Caucus — 2,983

  17. Jesus, Sex, and Politics — 2,822

  18. Crider a “Hard No” on New Congressional Maps, Says Pressure Tactics Only Harden His Position — 2,770

  19. Act Like an Adult, Get Treated Like One — And Bring Your Parent with You — 2,752

  20. Former Eastern Star Pastor Charged with Domestic Battery; Son Publicly Defends Him — 2,246

  21. Morales Under Federal Investigation — 2,182

  22. Don’t Mess with the Zohran: What NYC’s New Mayor Means for Indy 2027 — 1,950

  23. Courts Award Indy Politics Publisher More Than $3 Million in Defamation Cases — 1,896

  24. FBI Raids Home of John Rust’s Campaign Manager in Child Porn Investigation — 1,751

  25. Carlino Apologizes, Steps Down from Leadership Roles — 1,734

And for the record, Page not found got 2,368 page views.