Voices4Democracy

08/13/2026

Braun’s gas moratorium hurts Hoosiers - and it’s going to hurt far worse than any GOP Republican is letting on.

What people are saving at the pump? About $7/week. That will get a family of four a pizza. For the lowest income families, it might buy them a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread.

The cost down the road? Enormous.

Read the full Substack by Sharon Boller here.

Hoosier households are paying a high price for Braun’s gas tax moratorium and for the U.S. war with Iran. Most Hoosiers are struggling to make a living wage.

08/02/2026

08/02/2026

07/21/2026

Younger voters are passionate about what they are seeing in our country. Nouhad Melki, a Lebanese-American who was born to an American mom and Lebanese dad, grew up conservative Christian. He voted Republican.

Read his story here on why he stopped voting that way in 2016 and how the immigration policies started in January 2025 gave him chilling perspective on how these policies affected his friends in the international community and how they are torpedoing tiny Anderson, Indiana’s local economy.

Younger voters are passionate about what they are seeing. Nouhad Melki, a Lebanese-American who was born to an American mom and Lebanese dad, grew up conservative Christian. He voted Republican. Read his story here on why he stopped voting that way in 2016 and how the immigration policies started in...

07/14/2026

The real problem is not immigrants.

As Save Heritage Indiana prepares to host an anti-immigration rally in Hamilton County, it’s worth asking a simple question:

Are immigrants really responsible for Indiana’s biggest challenges?

Hoosiers are struggling with rising housing costs, unaffordable childcare, expensive healthcare, stagnant wages, underfunded public schools, and an economy that too often leaves working families behind. Those problems are the result of policy choices, not the people who have chosen to make Indiana their home.

Perhaps most concerning is that some of Indiana’s elected leaders are lending credibility to this movement. Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is scheduled to speak at the rally, while State Representatives Chris Jeter and Zach Payne have publicly aligned themselves with Save Heritage Indiana. Leadership should unite Hoosiers around solutions, not deepen divisions by embracing organizations whose message centers on blaming immigrants for our state’s challenges.

History reminds us that Indiana has traveled this road before. In the 1920s, Indiana became the nation’s largest stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan, which gained power by exploiting fear and blaming immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and other groups for the state’s problems. We know where that path leads, and we should choose a different one.

Indiana’s future won’t be built by turning neighbor against neighbor. It will be built by creating good jobs, investing in education, making housing and healthcare more affordable, supporting small businesses, protecting our farmland and water, and ensuring every child has the opportunity to thrive.

The Indiana we leave our children and grandchildren should be remembered for its courage, compassion, and opportunity, not for repeating the mistakes of its past.

Read the full article on our Substack:

For those who haven’t heard, the K*K is back in Indiana though it is calling itself by a new name. My article showcases facts about the K*K’s emergence in Indiana as a superpower in the early 1920s and its re-emergence under a new name with identical aims as the 1920s group. This group plans to ...

06/30/2026

Local Westfield GenZer speaks out on the priority issues for him in the upcoming election

“Want youth to vote? Then address their needs.

I’ve worked in and around local politics for years. I cannot name a time when I’ve heard a politician talk about the issue of ghost jobs or the lack of incentives for businesses to hire people for entry level positions.

Yet these two issues are huge for young people. They directly impact our ability to afford life’s basics: rent, utilities, and food. They stand directly in the way of our hopes for home ownership and a potential family.”

Read the full article here.

Hoosier GenZ-re shares his thoughts on why youth are disenfranchised with politics. Issues with AI, ghost jobs, and a loss of hope top his list.

06/24/2026

All of us are stressed out and anxious. It’s leading to a lot of disconnection at a time when we desperately need the opposite: a means of understanding each other and the issues causing us so much anxiety.

We’re kicking off a series that will take us up to November. Join us to read the stories of your fellow Hoosiers, what issues matter to them, and what’s happened in their life to make these issues so important to them.

Hoosier voices across demographics and geographies share their personal stories about the political issues that are affecting them or those in their communities.

06/17/2026

Juneteenth is Friday.

Local poet Sierra Rainey composed this beautiful piece in honor of it.

“When we were first declared human enough to be called Citizen, I imagine how our souls exhaled past our heartsick bones through the pores of our unlit skin and how, then, we knew what it was to be embraced by light—forever holding
it inside of us and finally we felt it pouring out onto us.”

In honor of Juneteenth, Sierra Rainey, a young Indiana poet, shares her thoughts.

06/13/2026

A small victory, perhaps, but still a really wonderful one to see.

In the dead of night, behind a screen, the president’s name started to be purged from the facade of the Washington building

06/02/2026

Governor Mike Braun, Lt Gov. Micah Beckwith and a band of Republican legislators are all promoting policies and legislation consistent with the Seven Mountains Mandate.

The question is whether voters will use their vote to support or reject the attempt to replace democracy with Christian Nationalism.

Gov. Mike Braun, Lt Governor Micah Beckwith, along with numerous state House and Senate members, all favor Christian Nationalism and its Seven Mountains Mandate.