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In an effort to empower parents to hold woke educators accountable, the Indiana attorney general has launched new portal for reporting socialist indoctrination in classrooms. The Eyes on Education portal will “empower parents” to report and view inappropriate content being fed to their children in school. Indiana AG Todd Rokita announced the portal in a Feb. 6 press release. He included examples of woke, age-inappropriate nonsense already entered in the portal, including a classroom Pride flag with a Black Lives Matter symbol and a Martinsville High School presentation urging children to “become emotionally independent of parents.” Rokita promised to follow...

House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) announced he will not be seeking a fourth term in Congress. This decision follows his prominent role in leading the impeachment efforts against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Green released a powerful retirement statement criticizing the Washington elites and explaining his decision to retire from Congress. “At the start of the 118th Congress, I promised my constituents to pass legislation to secure our borders and to hold Secretary Mayorkas accountable. Today, with the House having passed H.R. 2 and Secretary Mayorkas impeached, it is time for me to return home....

Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis reportedly scrubbed a "workshop" about bondage after parents complained about the controversial course. Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis had reportedly planned to offer an "Introduction to Bondage" free workshop for all students on Feb. 13. However, the university quietly walked back the controversial class after pushback from parents, according to reports. The New York Post reported, "The Hoosier handcuff symposium was slated to be led by a 'national rope presenter' named Fynch, whose bio boasts of PhD level mastery of 'basic negotiation, the anatomy of the arm, as well as the anatomy of...

An Indiana State Police investigation into potential petition fraud by a volunteer for Democrat presidential candidate Dean Phillips’ campaign continues in St. Joseph County, where the local Democratic Party leader was convicted a decade ago on a petition forgery scheme. St. Joseph County Clerk Amy Rolfes told The Federalist that she and her staff late last month discovered hundreds of what appeared to be fraudulent petition signatures and addresses. Rolfes alerted state elections officials and the State Patrol, which last week launched an investigation. “They are making progress,” Rolfes said. “I know it’s not sitting. They’re taking it very seriously.”...

The Attorney General of Indiana has launched an interesting initiative to prevent the progressive indoctrination of children in public schools.In an interview with The Daily Signal, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced the launch of an online portal in which parents can monitor content of potential concern. “This is a tool to empower parents in their dealings with their own school system so they can better raise their kids, which is their job and not the schools,” Rokita told the Signal. Rokita said that he felt the need to take action after parents sent him lesson plans showing how their...

Indiana GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz has decided to reverse her decision to retire from Congress. She will run for reelection, she told Politico. “I will file this week. The country is too much in trouble,” Spartz told POLITICO on Monday morning. Spartz continued in a statement later Monday morning, explaining her decision to run for reelection in Indiana’s 5th Congressional District. “Deciding where your duty lies - family, work, or country, is never an easy task. Earlier last year, I decided to take some time off from running for public office to recharge and spend more time in Indiana with...

....Chinese officials are seizing on opportunities to forge ties with mayors and other local American leaders, the kinds of connections that give Beijing leverage against an increasingly hostile government in Washington.

In a series of events that has garnered attention from multiple communities in the Heartland, an organization of do-gooders has demonstrated an out-of-the-box approach to stopping pedophiles. The group, which is called “Bikers Against Predators,” has been conducting operations to catch sex offenders. The organization, which is comprised of motorcyclists, employs various methods to hunt these individuals down and aid law enforcement in apprehending them. Recently, the group proved instrumental in catching three different suspects. There are open investigations in three Heartland communities after an organization held operations to catch sex offenders in each town. The group “Bikers Against Predators”...

In December, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration case, in which restrictions surrounding mifepristone will be considered. Originally, the state of Texas was the only one in the country included in the lawsuit, but a judge has ruled that three more will be allowed to join in as well. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk granted a motion allowing Idaho, Missouri, and Kansas to join as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The states argued that the case will affect them, particularly as “out-of-state organizations are sending thousands of abortion...

Former Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the Republican Party needed to move on from the leadership of former President Donald Trump, who will be judged by history. When asked about January 6, Pence said, “I would say to every American, as I did during my presidential campaign, that I know I did my duty that day to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. I kept my oath. And they also simply need to look to the facts that the Capitol Hill police endured great hardship and great harm. I...

Assisted suicide bills have currently been introduced in 10 US states including: Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. We expect several more states to introduce an assisted suicide bill in 2024. Some of the assisted suicide bills are being debated in states that are not likely to legalized assisted suicide, while other states are more concerning. All of these bills should be treated seriously No new state has legalized assisted suicide in the past two years but the assisted suicide lobby remains relectless. The assisted suicide lobby has failed to legalize assisted suicide in...

Republican Indiana Rep. Larry Bucshon announced Monday that he will be retiring from Congress, one of many Republican lawmakers planning to leave Congress in 2024. Bucshon, a 14-year congressman, decided over the holiday season that he will not seek reelection to his seat in the 2024 congressional elections, according to a statement posted by the legislator on Monday. Bucshon is one among many Republican lawmakers who have either resigned from their roles early or have decided not to seek reelection to their seats in 2024. “It became clear to me over the Christmas holiday with much discernment and prayer that...

INDIANAPOLIS — As police lights illuminate an apartment complex on the city's northeast side following a fatal shooting, brighter light shines on a bigger issue. Domestic violence. "I just know what he's capable of doing and last night something just told me, 'OK, I just need to protect myself,'" said a woman who was being abused by her boyfriend but did not want to be identified. The woman said she shot and killed her boyfriend while he was attacking her inside the apartment Thursday night. "He was strangling me, and I tried to push him back, but he was getting...

Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, reversed a recent decision to allow biological males to attend the university if they have a history of identifying as a woman. Last month, President Katie Conboy told the faculty about the policy change in an email obtained by Fox News Digital. "Saint Mary’s will consider undergraduate applicants whose sex assigned at birth is female or who consistently live and identify as women," Conboy emailed. The school’s policy change drew harsh criticism from people like Fort Wayne-South Bend Bishop Kevin Rhoades, who reportedly urged the school to reverse course because the policy went...

Amy Hadley watched in horror as her home was raided by police and destroyed in South Bend, Indiana, in June 2022. Over a year later, her family is still traumatized and their home still bears the scars of the raid. And all of this happened because police were searching for a man who was never in their home and who had no connection to Amy’s family.

These Christian parents in Indiana, Jeremy and Mary Cox, are now petitioning the United States Supreme Court to regain custody of their son, who was taken away from them in 2021 because they refused to "affirm" his transgender identity. This is an update to a story we've covered before. You can read about how the family was broken up by the state because Indiana thinks that not allowing your child to live in delusion is abuse. The Supreme Court of Indiana has refused to hear the case brought by the Indiana Family Institute, leaving the Cox family with no option...

INDIANAPOLIS — Two people are in stable condition after a shooting that left a car flipped on the city's northwest side Thursday afternoon. Shortly after 2 p.m. on Dec. 7, IMPD officers were called to the 7300 block of Lafayette Road on a report of a person shot and a flipped vehicle. When officers arrived, they found two victims with gunshot wounds. Both victims' conditions were said to be stable. According to a release from IMPD, an adult woman allegedly attempted to sell a gun to a 16-year-old male. The teen then allegedly stole the gun and drove off in...

Irsay made the comments in an interview with Andrea Kremer on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. “I am prejudiced against because I’m a rich, white billionaire,” Irsay said. “If I’m just the average guy down the block, they’re not pulling me in, of course not.” Kremer pressed Irsay, asking him if he knew how it would sound for a white billionaire to claim that he was being prejudiced against. Irsay, however, was unmoved. “I don’t care what it sounds like. It’s the truth. You know, Andrea, I could give a damn what people think how anything sounds or sounds like....

The House approved a measure late Tuesday that would slash Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's taxpayer-funded government salary to just $1. The bill - which was introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. - was passed via voice vote Tuesday as an amendment to the 2024 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, the standalone funding bill for the General Services Administration, Securities and Exchange Commission and other related agencies. "I’m proud to announce my amendment to FIRE Pete Buttigieg just PASSED the House. Pothole Pete staged fake bike rides to the White House and used private planes funded by taxpayers...

An Indiana woman, whom cops described as a “terrorist,” has been arrested after she allegedly plowed her car into what she thought was a Jewish school. Ruba Almaghtheh, 34, allegedly backed her vehicle into a building associated with Black Hebrew Israelites in Indianapolis late Friday while several adults and children were inside.