Andrew Horning is announcing his candidacy for the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s nomination for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024:

I admire loyalty.  But partisan divisions and contempt are tearing us apart. They make us believe we must double down and reinforce this tribal warfare.

It’s time to face the truth. Any vote for any major party candidate is a vote for a global puppet show of lobbyists, permanent partisan DC staffers, bureaucrats, bundlers, kingmakers, military industrialists and, increasingly, a relative few wealthy authoritarians scheming global domination and oppression behind the curtain of an unconstitutional, inherently divisive and destructive “Two Party System.” We should be enraged enough by the rising debts, inflation and cost of living, along with loss of rights, wealth, security, health, opportunity, and of course, freedom, that we’d vote it all away. Yet we embolden the status quo’s crony crime ring with our predictable votes of overwhelming approval.

The very best GOP officeholders, like Thomas Massie and Rand Paul, are well-intentioned, but voluntary cogs in a machine bigger than any candidate, bigger than the major parties, and, sadly, bigger than the USA.  The best Republicans (and there are many well-intentioned fine people in both major parties) can only waste our best efforts, money and time. They give us only false hope. They misappropriate our power of peaceful revolution. They waste our votes. We’ve been warned for generations, and not just by Eisenhower or our nation’s Founding Fathers.

Yet there’s no need to detail our culture’s many, vast, fundamental, and catastrophic problems or their surprisingly simple solutions. I wrote a whole book about it, and am offering a free Kindle Edition copy of “Relighting the Torch” from June 5 through June 9.

We have an opportunity to resurrect the best ideas in human history and to vote away the worst.  We can have peace, prosperity, security, liberty, and justice for all, at long last.  But we have to stop voting against ourselves…and for a better way.

The constitutional purpose of U.S. Senators is to be the voice of our sovereign states against the violation of constitutional restraints, concomitant encroachment and abuse of power, and loss of individual human rights.  For that fundamental, constitutional, legal purpose, Indiana has not had a U.S. Senator for generations.  But there will be one such candidate for Indiana US Senate in 2024 — me.

STATEHOUSE (May 31, 2023) – Gov. Eric Holcomb recently ceremonially signed into law legislation authored by State Rep. Tim O’Brien (R-Evansville) to shield firefighters’ home addresses from public view after a local incident sparked the idea.

In 2021, Evansville firefighter Jonathan Wright was attacked and stabbed while on a medic run, and feared the person would retaliate against him and his family. That’s when Wright tried to have his name and home address shielded from appearing on public records, but his request was denied due to state law. After hearing about Wright’s situation, O’Brien crafted legislation to ensure that protection was extended to paid and volunteer firefighters, just like other public safety officers.

“Just as law enforcement and judges already have their addresses shielded from public view, it was clear that those same protections needed to be extended to our firefighters who also serve on the frontlines,” O’Brien said. “I’m incredibly proud to have worked with Jonathan, the Evansville Fire Department and other leaders in the fire service to ensure the law was changed this session to support our firefighters.”

Wright, members of the Evansville Fire Department and other stakeholders recently joined O’Brien at the Statehouse where Gov. Eric Holcomb formally signed House Enrolled Act 1578 into law during a special ceremony. The Indiana Fire Chiefs Association and the Professional Firefighters Union of Indiana supported the bill, and O’Brien thanked Wright for also providing his testimony during the legislative session.