‘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 “...”
POLITICAL SCHOOL BOARDS: Law allowing partisan races promises new election dynamics
By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen August 18, 2025 Indiana school board candidates will be allowed to declare party affiliations on the ballot starting in 2026 — a controversial change that ends decades of officially nonpartisan elections and sets the stage for ideological cl “...”
DEMOCRACY ON DISPLAY: Smithsonian’s ‘Voices and Votes’ exhibit coming to 7 Hoosier towns and cities
By Dwight Adams The Indiana Citizen August 15, 2025 Have you ever considered why some of Indiana’s earliest settlers were abolitionist Quakers, or wondered how a voting machine looked a century ago, or were curious what famous Hoosier presidential candidate Wendell Willkie was “...”
GERRYMANDERING MESS: U.S. Supreme Court sidestepping partisan question in 2019 opens door to mid-decade redistricting
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen August 14, 2025 To explain why Indiana, a deep red state, is seriously considering redrawing its congressional districts this year in the hopes of sending, at most, two more Hoosier Republicans to Capitol Hill in 2026, attorney Jay Yeag “...”