CRITICAL CROWD: Some at Indianapolis election meeting skeptical of data, proposals
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen September 4, 2025 At a public meeting held in Indianapolis on Wednesday to discuss the timing of elections and the locations of polling places, the presentation of the data was much the same as it had been at a similar gathering held in Mun “...”
LAWSUIT FILED: The Indiana Citizen seeks list of nearly 600K Hoosier voters sent to USCIS
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen September 3, 2025 The Indiana Citizen Education Foundation, parent of The Indiana Citizen, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Office of the Indiana Secretary of State and the Office of the Indiana Attorney General, seeking access to the “...”
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 “...”