Look what Indiana’s State Republicans are trying to do now:
Curb early voting.
If you are a Hoosier, call your state senator and tell them to stop trying to suppress votes!
Especially as we are being informed that the most controversial bill, which public showed up to protest, is being tabled. Perhaps if we had started on time and held the retirement good wishes for before/after the public session?????
Sitting in Indiana House session, which started 30 minutes late and is now further held up by a House Resolution honoring someone’s retirement.
Meanwhile citizens who showed up at 1:30 for the session have been sitting here for almost an hour waiting for session to begin.
Pretty unreal.
Let’s continuing paying teachers a pittance and shovel money and energy into a Constitutionally questionable partnership with TurningPoint USA. That’s what Indiana’s gov/lt.gov plan to do, starting 3/12/26: Check out this article from IndyStar:
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“”This content was rightfully removed, should have never been posted to begin with, and is not who we are as a nation,” wrote Sen. Katie Britt, an Alabama Republican.”
Hate to tell you Senator Britt but this is EXACTLY who many Americans are, including Trump.”
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The White House is ratcheting up its propaganda machine in pushing out deep fake AI imagery that it is passing off as real. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
Check out my new series on immigration in America - specifically legal immigrants who arrive in America as refugees. My first post sets the stage: voices4democracyindiana.substack.com/p/meet-the-i...
ICE isn’t just murdering people. They are also seriously injuring or disabling people and then lying medical personnel about how the immigrant sustained the injuries. #ICEOut #DefundICE: apnews.com/article/immi...
No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.
And now Trump is spewing lies about our major cities: Washington D.C., and LA, specifically. How does he get away with all the lies he tells? He damages and harms so many people with his lies about crime, terrorism…God help us all.
Russia invaded Ukraine and it was a crime. Now America invades Venezuela and Trump wants us to believe we are heroes as he announces “we will run the country.”
This is wrong. Period. Congress has completely rolled over.
Hoosiers deserve far better. This report on the state of Indiana’s political system - and how very, very broken it is - is an indictment of BOTH political parties in Indiana. I sat up late last night reading it. I *thought* I knew current state. I did not: drive.google.com/file/d/1d7QB...
Indiana is in the news but not for a good reason. Our lack of civics knowledge and involvement got us here: open.substack.com/pub/voices4d...
My submission to testify before Indiana’s Senate committee re: the proposed redistricting bill was not recorded. Here’s the testimony I’d hoped to offer: #Indiana #Democracy open.substack.com/pub/shaboller/…
Excited for this to come to Carmel, IN - a civics literacy worksop! substack.com/@voices4demo...
Love this post. Happy Veterans Day to all those who have served in our wars: shttps://open.substack.com/pub/voices4democracyindiana/p/a-white-veterans-reflections-on-veterans?r=28e7a9&utm_medium=ios
Very intriguing combo! I want to attend.
ICYMI - these are all big, big signs - particularly the results in Texas, Mississippi, and Maine: red states: open.substack.com/pub/populari...
I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “Mass Call: Showed up? Keep it up! What's next after No Kings Day” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
Trump proposes limiting total number of refugees accepted by U.S. in 2026 to 7500. This is a travesty. Worse, 7K of those slots will be designated for one group: white South Africans who don’t meet definition of refugee.
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Despite Republicans efforts to cast No Kings protests as “hate America” protests when the reality is that they were “We love America” rallies and calls to protect democracy.
Sanders: In my state, people received notices from insurance companies that their health care premiums in some cases would triple or quadruple. That is going on all over the country, at a time when we already pay by far the highest prices in the world for health care…
Boston. Wow.
Thousands gathered in Indianapolis at No Kings singing National Anthem together. We love our country. We protest because we want to protect and defend a democracy Trump and Project 2025 are destroying.
At the Indiana Statehouse where protestors are demanding that legislators JUST SAY No to illegal attempts to suppress votes by redistricting to ensure 2026 election victory. #NoKings #NoCheating
This original poem by Sierra Rainey, an Indianapolis-based poet, needs sharing far and wide. It is an incredible statement re: the state of America’s democracy and the state of the human, in general She debuted the poem at Voices4Democracy’s Constitution Day Festival. youtu.be/ccLk1_Nq_R8
I’ve said it repeatedly these past months since the inauguration. “We the people” are the only ones with the will to save democracy because those in power are more interested in saving themselves. Turns out, at least one journalist agrees: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Came across this feature from NPR today. It’s a timely reminder that kindness happens every day all around us. It just doesn’t get reported much. Read and let your spirit be fortified. We all need stories that inspire hope in the goodness of others.
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