Please note: With all the uncertainty surrounding federal interference in the election, Indivisible NWI highly recommends voting early in person if you possibly can.

• VOTE411 ,  Indiana Citizen , and Ballotpedia are great sources to learn what districts you live in, which candidates, and what issues will be on your ballot and where to vote. VOTE411 is from the League of Women Voters and includes information about each office on the ballot, candidate information, stances on issues directly from the candidates themselves.
• You can also go to your voter portal to learn who and what is on your ballot and where to vote:
  www.indianavoters.com
• Find your Indiana vote center, how long the line is and what to bring at https://voteintime.org/ 
• Find early voting locations in Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties here. Early voting in person ends at noon on Mon., Nov. 2.
• Read about the two questions that appear on the ballot.

The deadline has passed to register to vote and to apply to vote absentee by mail. 
BUT you can still vote early, including this coming Sat., Oct. 31. You can vote at any early voting location in your county. Find early voting locations in Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties here.
**If you or someone you know cannot to leave home to vote, you may vote by traveling board. A bipartisan team will bring a voting machine to your home so that you can vote. The Traveling Board Application deadline is noon Nov. 2. Learn more and download the application here.

You have the right to vote without intimidation, coercion, or threats. Immediately report problems to election officials or local law enforcement. Call the Election Protection Hotline to report issues. Save 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683) in your phone so you can call from the polling place if necessary.
More at Election Protection: https://866ourvote.org/

Using force to make voters fearful to participate in our elections is prohibited voter intimidation, whether it is from federal forces, local law enforcement, or private citizens. Specifically: 

• It is illegal to deploy federal “troops or armed men at any place where a[n] … election is held,” unless in the extreme circumstances of war or rebellion. This includes the deployment of federal immigration agents or federalized National Guard in or around election locations. 
• It is illegal to coerce or threaten election observers and mobilizers, threaten voters about their qualifications to vote, spread false voting information or eligibility requirements, and to target non-English speakers and voters of color, among other forms of unlawful voter intimidation. 

The Insurrection Act puts additional meaningful checks on the threat of domestic deployments. The bar for invoking the Insurrection Act is very high. It requires a genuine crisis, and historically, it has been limited to severe instances of civil unrest and to defend the rights of marginalized groups. Courts can review and curtail an invocation of the Insurrection Act. Critically, the Insurrection Act does not suspend the Constitution, impose martial law, or change how we can defend our constitutional rights and civil liberties. (Protect Democracy)

Indivisible NWI had endorsed Frank Mrvan for 1st District Congressman. Indivisible National has given us an easy tool to help him win. Face-to-face conversations with voters are proven to be one of the most powerful tools we have for turning out progressives—and Neighbor2Neighbor makes it easier than ever.This program connects you with like-minded households right in your neighborhood for quick, friendly conversations that make a real impact.Instead of getting dozens of doors in someone else’s community, Neighbor2Neighbor provides you with 10 progressive-leaning neighbors who need to be turned out to vote this year.You’ll get a short list of addresses, a simple script, some best practices, and a printable handout that you can leave behind if no one’s home – it’s that easy!There’s no app to download, and you can have these conversations on your own time.Get started here: https://2026.indivisible.org/n2n/ IMPORTANT: As Indivisibles participating in Neighbor2Neighbor we are not allowed to coordinate with any campaign. We can’t use any campaign literature—only the handout Indivisible provides.You can talk about other candidates—but only those Indivisible NWI has endorsed. A list is below. You cannot give out any candidate’s campaign literature. See a list of endorsed candidates here.

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National

From Alaska to California, Trump is working to subvert the election. Read more at Democracy Docket.

Trump exempted 202 industrial facilities in 39 states and Puerto Rico from new clean-air rules meant to curb cancer-causing pollution, according to a New York Times investigation. The facilities include 71 coal plants, 71 chemical plants, 40 sterilizers, 19 steel-related facilities, and a copper smelter, and about 3.3 million people live within three miles of at least one of them. Trump used an obscure Clean Air Act clause allowing exemptions on national security grounds, a power no president had ever used, even though the required pollution-control equipment was readily available and the industry’s security claims had little detail behind them. Companies could get a waiver simply by sending an email to the EPA. The rules, finalized under Biden in 2024, followed findings that ethylene oxide, a gas used to make plastics and sterilize medical devices, is 30 to 60 times more carcinogenic than previously thought. The Times called the exemptions the biggest presidential intervention in Clean Air Act enforcement since the law was signed more than 50 years ago.

• Former industry lobbyists Trump installed at the EPA then worked from the inside to gut the rules entirely. Aaron Szabo, a former lobbyist for medical device trade group AdvaMed who helped write Project 2025’s EPA chapter, was put in charge of the agency’s air office and helped handle the waiver requests. In one meeting, chemical industry executives set the agenda and a chemistry council lobbyist effectively ran it, as the industry demanded the EPA scrap its cancer findings and drop requirements for monitoring pollution at plant fence lines. On Aug. 13, Szabo killed the fence-line monitoring mandate the same day EPA staff warned him it would be “difficult to justify” in court, and he has since resigned to join a law firm that has represented industry groups challenging the rules. Meanwhile, AdvaMed gave $125,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund and $1 million to MAGA Inc., then bragged to members that its lobbying paid off, writing, “Membership has its privileges.” The White House says the waivers were needed to protect American manufacturing from “crushing Biden-era regulations.”
• Communities living next to these plants are paying the price. In Port Neches, Texas, a chemical plant within sight of a middle school has had more than 500 malfunctions or failures releasing pollution since 2003, and EPA testing found benzene levels nearly 50 times higher than the plant’s own estimates. The EPA concluded that one in 500 people living near the plant for most of their lives was likely to develop cancer from ethylene oxide exposure, 20 times the agency’s usual acceptable risk level, a danger better pollution controls could have cut by 95 percent. Outside Richmond, Virginia, a sterilizer that received a waiver leaked 580 pounds of ethylene oxide into nearby neighborhoods in April, more than its permit allows in an entire year. Near Pittsburgh, U.S. Steel says it won’t invest in new pollution controls at its Clairton plant while the rules are under review, as neighbors like Melanie Meade, whose sister died of cancer, say they can’t afford to move. “Making things great again, I thought that meant making all things great, including our health,” said one Texas man who voted for Trump in 2016. (NYT-free to read)

BP is seeking to strip 800 locked-out workers of the opportunity to receive unemployment benefits, while also demanding that they pay back any benefits they’ve already received. The London-based multinational has locked out its unionized workers since March after they voted to reject a contract proposal. BP asked a judge to deny those workers unemployment benefits at a hearing in Indianapolis last week. (NWI Times)

Indiana

Federal observers are coming to Indiana’s Marion and Lake counties on Election Day as voters in the two heavily Democratic areas cast their votes. (Indiana Capital Chronicle)

Communities push back against data centers in the form of moratoriums, pauses, or other regulations as questions over pollution, jobs, and affordability swirl. A record 82% of Hoosiers say they plan to vote- or already have voted- in the midterm elections, a potential record increase after 2024 saw just 61% turnout. Indiana communities are set to decide on school referendums.   (Indiana Week In Review)

A judge ruled in favor of Union School Corp. in its fight to stay open, striking down part of an Indiana law that ordered the small, rural district to be shuttered in mid-2027.   (WFYI)

Portage Township Schools expect to net about $500,000 in savings over 20 years with a solar project, and will direct the savings to classrooms. (Chicago Tribune)