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Jackie Keating is the Chief Development Officer of the Kentucky/Indiana foodbank Dare to Care. Jackie tells Tim Peck what we can do once SNAP benefits run out on Saturday, November 1.

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Sarah explains why her and Tim decided to pull ‘Hoosleft this Week’ from Project Next. This was a hard decision and was made to fit the needs of the mission of Project Next: to stop the fear, hate, and division destroying our country.

Republican Christopher and Democrat Sarah discuss who is really to blame for this horrific government shutdown. Why is it so important we talk with those who vote differently than us? Well, for one, it could help prevent government shutdowns which hurt everyone. When both sides won’t admit wrong, it makes it hard to fix the issues. What is the actual truth behind our country’s pain?

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The Pitt is a hit HBO series that covers one 15 hour shift at a fictional Pittsburgh hospital. Sarah just finished season 1 and is obsessed. How is this show like real life in a busy ER? Well…Sarah asks Tim all about his different experiences in ERs across the country.

Also, Tim had his first day of being the Chief Medical Resident at a Harvard Hospital the day of the horrific Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013. Hear Tim’s story of his day and how he recovered from that trauma. This episode is dedicated to all first responders. You are heroes.

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Indiana News

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* Around the Corn

* Randy Novak, former chief of the Michigan City Fire Department and president of the LaPorte County Council, was sworn in on Wednesday as the state representative for Indiana House District 9, filling the seat previously held by retiring Representative Pat Boy.

* The state submitted a request to the U.S. Department of Education for a waiver to combine multiple federal K-12 funding streams into a block grant.

* Indiana‑Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission convened for the first time (in Terre Haute) to entertain proposals for Indiana absorbing Illinois counties that have voted to secede from their state.

* Meanwhile, in Indianapolis, 23 of 25 city-county councilors sent a letter to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission criticizing a proposed settlement with AES Indiana (policy/regulation story): the deal could raise residential electric bills by about $10-$21/month, and the council called it “far too generous to the company”.

* Redistricting

* Indiana Black Legislative Caucus (IBLC) publicly condemned a push by state Republicans to undertake mid-decade redistricting

* Former Governor Mitch Daniels urges Hoosier GOP not cave to Trump.

* State Senate Republicans “don’t have the votes”

* A new report from the Indianapolis Business Journal indicates Governor Mike Braun could call a special session of the state legislature as soon as Monday.

* AOC introduces Bernie at Terre Haute Debs Dinner

* The largest crowd to gather for a sit-down banquet in Terre Haute Convention Center history crowded into its ballroom to hear U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, speak respectfully about labor visionary Eugene V. Debs on Saturday night. Sanders was honored with the Debs Foundation Award for his lifelong contribution to the struggle for social justice.

* The senator was introduced by a surprise guest — Democratic New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who observed, “Bernie carried that light of Debs and class struggle” to Vermont and the rest of the country.

* In his 45-minute remarks, Sanders quoted Debs frequently and noted how “relevant” and “right and perceptive” his words are more than a century after he spoke them, adding, “he not only educated people on the nature of American capitalism, but presented an alternative vision to greed and exploitation,” and concluded with, “our job is to take his message forward.”

* Monday, Indianapolis Star: How much time has secretary of state candidate Beau Bayh spent in Indiana?

* Beau Bayh says he didn’t mean to convey anything in particular with his choice of inviting IndyStar’s James Briggs to his empty condo in Indianapolis for his secretary of state campaign announcement.

* “I just sort of took the interview from where I was in my life: I’m moving,” he said in a phone interview more than a week after he announced he was running. “I wasn’t really thinking what could be drawn from that, I guess.”

* Much was drawn from it, in fact: Republican critics hopped on the detail as illustrative of the perception that Bayh, a Democrat, has barely lived in Indiana, even while he touts as a part of his campaign pitch that he is a seventh generation Hoosier.

* Political science associate professor Greg Shufeldt at the University of Indianapolis is skeptical that lines of attack about residency in particular really matter. It wasn’t, in his view, the deciding factor in Evan Bayh’s loss to U.S. Sen. Todd Young in 2016, the year President Donald Trump first won.

* “The fact that Evan Bayh had a D in front of his name mattered a whole lot more than what his address might have said,” Shufeldt said.

* In Beau Bayh’s case, based on the numbers he faces in Indiana, if he is the Democratic nominee, he would need to win over Republicans whose partisanship would otherwise lend themselves to vote for Morales. So while announcing from an empty apartment might have been an “unforced error,” there probably is not a large bucket of fence-sitters who would consider voting for Bayh but for whom this would be a deal-breaker, Shufeldt said.

* On Tuesday, right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson headlined a Turning Point USA rally at IU’s Bloomington campus, covering for the late Charlie Kirk.

* Governor Mike Braun played fluffer for the conspiracy theorist and misinformation superspreader after earlier that day signing a proclamation declaring October 21 Turning Point USA Civic Engagement Day across the state. Wearing his trademark all-blue workingman cosplay outfit, Braun warmed up the Temu Hitler Youth rally “by urging young people to embrace values of faith, family and community — values he said Kirk was never afraid to champion”.

* Braun encouraged the student-heavy crowd to go “into the lion’s den” of campus and “be the foot soldiers” for Kirk’s Christian nationalist values and “grow it into the place where this is more common on [sic] universities than the other stuff you often see in universities.” You know, woke liberal values like diversity, curiosity, and empathy - all of which Braun is using state power to stifle at our once-great state institutions of higher learning.

* Carlson, at the top of the bill, covered a broad range of topics including abortion, Israel, and illegal aliens - both earthly and extra-terrestrial - and made claims sounding an awful lot like the white nationalist “Great Replacement” theory.

* In typical, contrarian Carlson fashion, the mound of b******t was accompanied by glimmers of truth and moments of almost getting it.

* In response to a question about what “woke” means, Carlson agreed on the importance of having a definition, before describing “wokeness” as “an attempt by the powerful to make the less powerful shut up.”

* The attendee then moved to the topic of how billionaires can influence elections, which Carlson also agreed with. He didn’t align himself with a specific political party, either.

* “I kind of hate the Republican Party,” he said, adding that Democrats, however, are “evil.”

* The final question posed to Carlson was about how media operate, which the attendee described as chasing each new “outrage.”

* “Do you ever feel trapped in this system?” the attendee asked.

* Carlson replied that he did sometimes feel “captive” by the channels he worked at.

* “It’s totally possible that I’m working toward evil and don’t know it,” Carlson said. “But I don’t believe that. I actually think I’m doing the right thing.”

* On Wednesday, we learned the organizers of the Irvington Halloween Festival had voted the previous evening to conjure their best Kamala Harris impression and tell Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett, “don’t come.”

* The Irvington Community Council voted at an Oct. 21 meeting to send a letter to Hogsett asking him not to come to the highly attended festival in light of recent critical media coverage of his administration.

* “In response to a formal request from neighbors — and out of respect for survivors of sexual assault and others affected — the Historic Irvington Community Council has voted to formally ask that you refrain from attending any event associated with the 79th Historic Irvington Halloween Festival,” the letter reads in part.

* This comes as the steady drip of reporting on the toxic culture of sexual harassment, abuse of power, and self-dealing in the Hogsett administration continues unrelentingly. Recall…

* Last year, several women came forward to describe accusations of sexual harassment and abuse of power against Thomas Cook, who was Mayor Joe Hogsett’s Chief of Staff from his first term in office to around 2015, until the end of 2020 when he left city government. That was the first time that those allegations were out in the public.

* And in the course of that reporting, we learned about Thomas Cook’s actions after he left city government and began working for this law firm in the private sector, and that’s when we began to hear from sources about this relationship Cook had had that had led to him being asked to resign from city governm…

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The Helpful Hippie quit her job to focus on the resistance after the 2024 election. She has had to keep her identity private for her own protection since becoming an Indiana leader. The other side has relentlessly bullied and harassed her as well. But at this past No Kings rally, Hippie and some friends took time to talk to the Maga protestors and listen to their views. They realized they had a lot more in common than they thought. These women gave them get snacks and water. Hear what happens next...why non-violence, love, and the hippie lifestyle is the way we need to lead right now when Hippie tells Sarah this shocking true story.

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Today on Project Next, we’re sitting down with Indianapolis City Councilor Jesse Brown — a bold, independent Democrat who’s made waves by challenging the establishment and standing up for accountability.

Jesse was elected in 2023 to represent Indy’s East Side, running a grassroots campaign that rejected corporate and developer money. He’s quickly become known for his willingness to speak truth to power — even when that means confronting people inside his own party.

In this episode, we’re digging into his recent altercation with State Senator Greg Taylor, who’s facing serious accusations from six women — allegations of unwanted touching, harassment, and abuse of power that have shaken the Indiana Democratic Party. Despite those claims, party leadership has been slow to act — and Jesse Brown says enough is enough.

Together, we’re asking some tough questions:

How do we fight bullies in our own party, our workplaces, or even our personal lives?

How do we hold people accountable —

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Every Monday from 5-7pm at the Salem Presbyterian Church the Washington County Warming Station provides a delicious meal and offers supplies to our unhoused community. Also, this church basement is open on days that are 35 degrees F or colder. This group also provides transportation to a white flag shelter. Here at Project Next we would like to thank every single individual and group that helps The Warming Station. Find them on FaceBook at Washington County Warming Station to learn more. Here are the ways you can support them as well:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2KUBIVHP80OUX?ref_=wl_share

Venmo: @wcWarmingStation

Meal Train: ( to sign up to bring a meal or donate money): https://mealtrain.com/51q50z

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Ethan Sweetland-May might have been your garbage man. Now he is running for Indiana State Senate. Why is he doing this? Why would he be better than the other guy in charge? Find out during this beautiful speech at No Kings this past Saturday in Southern Indiana. Follow Ethan for State Senate on all major platforms to learn more about this fantastic human standing up for basic human rights.

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Thanks to all who came out across the country to say No Kings in America. We saw all sorts of diverse people saying we want the people to have the power in this beautiful place. Dr. Tim Peck is a CoFounder of Project Next. Listen to his speech he gave before working the night shift in the ER. Dr. Peck is also running for Congress Indiana’s 9th district.

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