VOTING DATA: Election analysis bolsters SOS Morales’ meeting on voting centers, municipal elections
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen September 1, 2025 Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales this week will host the second of three public meetings focused on presenting data and gathering comments about where and when elections are held. Although the election study, which “...”
‘SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST’: Lt. Gov. Beckwith links teaching evolution to teen suicide; critics push back
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen August 29, 2025 Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith, in a recent podcast appearance, linked the teaching of evolution in schools to despair, rising suicide rates among youth, and what he calls a collapse of moral order. His most pointed remarks ca “...”
‘ALL A DISTRACTION’: Protesters decry cost of redistricting amid more pressing needs
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen August 29, 2025 Gathered at the Indiana Statehouse on an unseasonably mild August evening this week, a sizable and energetic crowd let lawmakers know that of all things the legislature needs to do for Hoosiers, redistricting is not even on “...”
‘TIME TO FIGHT’: AG Rokita accused of ‘overheated rhetoric’ in support of redistricting
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen August 27, 2025 Comparing the growing dispute over mid-decade redistricting to a gunfight, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita released a statement Tuesday in support of redrawing the state’s congressional districts this year. “I’m d “...”
ANTI-’WOKE’ AGENDA: Lt. Gov. Beckwith, allies planned strategies to push conservative ideology in schools in April meeting
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen August 27, 2025 At a closed-door meeting in April, Micah Beckwith and members of what the Indiana lieutenant governor called his Anti-Woke Advisory Committee laid out an aggressive strategy to expand conservative influence in public schools an “...”
‘RILED UP’: Dems, advocates organize against redistricting amid GOP visit to D.C.
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen August 26, 2025 Indiana state Democratic lawmakers and voter-rights advocacy groups turned up the heat in the political kitchen Tuesday to remind Republican legislators of the potential firestorm that a mid-decade redistricting may bring. T “...”
‘WE’RE REVIEWING IT’: SOS Morales says DOJ letter seeks access to Indiana voter rolls
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen August 22, 2025 Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales confirmed on Friday that his office has received a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking access to voter rolls but indicated his team has not yet turned over any informat “...”
‘CLEARLY POLITICAL’: Advocacy groups mount grassroots effort to oppose redistricting
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen August 22, 2025 The Indiana Friends Committee on Legislation is not planning to flash any daggers. Joining the other nonprofits and advocacy groups trying to derail the push for a mid-decade redistricting at the Indiana Statehouse, IFCL is “...”
‘BOLD STORYTELLERS’: Meet the Fort Wayne couple behind the conservative Christian documentaries screened at Lt. Gov. Beckwith’s church
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen August 21, 2025 Fort Wayne filmmakers Mark and Amber Archer have built a platform telling stories they frame as biblical truth — and one of their most consistent champions is now Indiana’s lieutenant governor. Through their production comp “...”
ROKITA RESPONDS: AG denies misconduct in fiery answer to second disciplinary complaint
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen August 19, 2025 In his answer to the second disciplinary complaint lodged against him, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is denying he contradicted sworn statements to the Indiana Supreme Court and is distancing himself from the press re “...”