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Joseph Baughman was running for State Senate this year. He abruptly dropped out of the race this week. Will that stop our scheduled HoosLeft Podcast interview? Absolutely not. In fact, the conversation just got more interesting. Tune in Tuesday at 7PM ET.

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Indiana's only progressive Sunday morning news show is live every week at 10:30AM ET. We discuss the week's top stories from next door to across the globe.

Our guests this week: Gen-Z activist/pundit Reece Axel-Adams and State House candidate Sharon Wight

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Team Amy is hitting the streets this weekend and we need YOU to join us!

Come help us knock on doors and tell our neighbors in Monroe County about Amy Huffman Oliver and how she wants to represent us in the Statehouse.

If you've never canvassed before, we can teach you everything you need to know and send you out with a seasoned volunteer. Just bring a charged phone and a big smile.

You can sign up for a shift at https://secure.ngpvan.com/p/9Nb1dBsDfUeuvDKgSOLs8Q2 .

Tonight we learned more about community organizing and campaigning at an event hosted by Ben Davis for House District 13. The training session was led by Brown(wont let me tag you!)

Rember there are progressives and socialists on the ticket in November. We have races to win this year, next year, and the year after that! Want to get involved? Feel free to reach out! 🌹🫏

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🌈Pride Month reminder:

LGBTQ+ teachers exist.

Gay teachers exist.
Trans teachers exist.
Nonbinary teachers exist.
Q***r teachers exist.

And they do not owe anyone silence, shame, invisibility, or some watered-down version of themselves to be “appropriate” around children.

Teachers are allowed to have spouses.
Teachers are allowed to have families.
Teachers are allowed to mention their lives the same way straight teachers do.
Teachers are allowed to exist without being accused of “indoctrination” for refusing to disappear.

Because here is the truth:

The people screaming about “protecting kids” are not protecting kids from harm.
👏🏻They are trying to protect bigotry from consequences.

-A straight teacher can mention her husband and nobody calls it grooming.

-A male teacher can talk about his wife and nobody accuses him of pushing sexuality.

But the second an LGBTQ+ teacher exists out loud, suddenly it is “political.”

NOPE.

✔️What is political is demanding that q***r people hide so other adults can feel comfortable.

✔️What is political is treating one kind of family as normal and another as dangerous.

✔️What is political is telling children that some of the adults who love, teach, protect, and show up for them every day are somehow inappropriate because of who they are.

Public schools belong to LGBTQ+ teachers too.

They belong in classrooms.
They belong in staff meetings.
They belong in unions.
They belong in school photos.
They belong at graduation.
They belong in every space where public education happens.

And no amount of manufactured panic changes that. 🤷‍♀️

🌈 Q***r teachers are not a threat.

Bigotry is.