The Anti-Establishment Establishment

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.

I want to believe that Trump would, if elected again, “drain the swamp,” as he said he’d do the last time.  Yes, I wish he had kept some other promises as well, but his previous unconstitutional and destructive spending, debt, and global military violence, like sanctions, assassinations and coup attempts, were mere symptoms of a much, much greater disease.  And that disease spans all factions within both of the crony network parties.

Political corruption and abuse of unconstitutional power are the only issues worth discussing now.  Pick any major economic, social, military or political problem – endless war, inflation, social division, injustice…at the root of each, is corruption.  It’s easy to see corruption in the structure and function of the unconstitutional, self-appointed, inherently divisive and corrupt “Two-Party System” our founders warned against.  Campaign donations, and the multi-billion-dollar influence-peddling industry, tell much of how this puppet show works according to three political maxims: “Follow The Money,” “People are Policy,” and the one I was told often when I won a US House of Representatives primary in the GOP, “Ya dance with the one that brung ya.”

So, consider the AIPAC (for example) and other special interest-funded and foreign government-favored swamp creatures Trump has endorsed, as well as the “shadow government,” “deep state,” Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Ag and otherwise mighty people and corporations now endorsing, surrounding and funding the Trump/Vance ticket:  Palmer Luckey, Peter Thiel, Jaime Dimon and Eric Prince are the luminaries of Anduril, Palantir, JP Morgan and Blackwater, for example.  What policies are they buying?  Recall Trump’s support of “Pre-Crime” powers (now privatized under Palantir), and the privatized versions of CBDCs, including Bitcoin and stablecoins as promoted by JP Morgan.  Even DEI-promoting Larry Fink of Blackrock now has the ear of Donald Trump in matters of global finance.

So, Trump is funded, surrounded and staffed by authoritarian, warhawk neocon, global panopticon entities and promoters.  In other words, Trump isn’t tied to only rich financiers, and what Eisenhower called “the Military-Industrial Complex,” as he was in his first term (and as are Democrats), he’s also, like Democrats, attached to the other phrase we should remember from that same Eisenhower speech: “a Scientific-Technological Elite.”  It’s an elite that promotes what Thiel himself described as, “communist totalitarian technology.”

Yes, there are partisan differences.  Democrat puppet masters hate the formerly-loved, formerly-Democrat Trump, and Trump now hates them back.  If Trump wins, there would certainly be some shakeups, as puppet strings shift from puppets to other puppets.  And I do expect that Trump’s cronies would, quite opposite Democratic Party cronies, do something about the destruction of our energy industries, and the taxpayer-funded transportation and subsidy of aliens across our borders.  But…

Here’s the blunt truth:

1. However you describe, hate or favor any of our wealthy ruling caste, none of them particularly care whether any Democrat or Republican wins, as long as their puppet show continues with the same divide-and-conquer Two Party Scam.  Trump, his sycophants and coat-tails, aren’t challenging that at all.  If they win, the corruption and global madness continues.

2. Any vote for ANY D or R candidate…even the best ones like Thomas Massie, John Hostettler or Justin Amash, is not merely wasted hope and a wasted vote.  It’s self-immolation.  No D or R politician can fix this mess.  They’ve voluntarily chosen to represent this corrupt crony network.  Like it or not, they’re puppets – even if, like Massie, they point to the strings and puppet masters.  Voting for any part of this says exactly and only, “Attaboy!  Keep doing what you’re doing to us!”  And why would they not keep doing it to us?  All they need is your vote; they’ve already got everything else.

3. Voting for ANYTHING/ANYBODY ELSE demonstrates, at the very least, that we’ve had a change of heart, mind and choice; that we’re done with those tearing us apart, and that we aren’t willing participants anymore.  It says we finally, after many generations of casting our votes like poker chips, instead used our votes as weapons of revolution against the small number of psychopaths running us to ruin.

I’m putting #3 on the ballot.  I’m the only one doing that in Indiana’s 2024 US Senate race.  I can’t make you vote for me, of course.  But please consider what the other guys are already making you do, and let’s talk.  We’ve wasted too much, time, money, hope, peace, prosperity, justice …and votes, to let this go on any longer.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

Indiana to expand program for expectant, new mothers with substance-use disorders

Federal grant to support more Hoosiers in the next three years

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana will expand its Pregnancy Promise Program to support more expectant and new mothers with substance use disorders. The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) received a three-year, up to $2.7 million federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which will allow it to support an additional 300 pregnant Hoosiers over the next three years, with a focus on those living in rural and under-resourced communities.

“The program’s multigeneration approach supports pregnant women and infants from the prenatal period through 12 months postpartum,” FSSA Secretary Dr. Dan Rusyniak said. “Not only are we helping mothers find treatment and sustain recovery, but we also ensure infants have an established pediatrician, appropriate referrals to pediatric specialists as needed, and developmental support services.”

The Pregnancy Promise Program has supported more than 900 mothers since it launched in 2021. While maternal and infant mortality rates are decreasing slightly across Indiana, data from the most recent Indiana Maternal Morality Review Committee’s annual report shows substance use disorder and overdose continues to be a leading cause of maternal death in the state.

The program has resulted in high rates of sustained recovery for mothers, continuity of medications prescribed to treat opioid use disorder, prevention of preterm births, healthy infant birth weights, and access to resources to address unmet health related and social needs including stable housing, transportation, food security and child care, leading to family preservation and reunification.

The Pregnancy Promise Program partners with Indiana Medicaid managed care health plans to provide case management and care coordination services to participants who receive highly skilled support from an experienced nurse or social worker through the Medicaid health plan, ensuring pregnant individuals are receiving treatment and health care in their local community.

“We are excited about this grant, which will bolster and expand FSSA’s existing program for pregnant individuals suffering from substance-use,” Pregnancy Promise program manager Elizabeth Wahl said. “The program’s goals are clear — to save infant and maternal lives, preserve family units by securing needed resources, ensure reliable access to appropriate care and put an end to generational cycles of substance use and trauma. This program has witnessed families persevere, transform their lives and find hope for the future.”

The grant will expand services for pregnant and postpartum individuals with a primary diagnosis of a substance use disorder; remove barriers and expand outpatient treatment and recovery support services for pregnant and postpartum individuals with a substance use disorder; and promote a coordinated system of care across health care and family support providers.

The FSSA will partner with Centerstone, a community mental health center, and VOA Fresh Start, a residential treatment program, to enhance services. This funding will allow uninsured and under-insured pregnant individuals access to additional support.

Anyone can make a confidential referral to the Pregnancy Promise Program here.

The program has been funded with a five-year award from the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Innovation, which ends Dec. 31. This grant is scheduled to begin Sept. 30.