There are points to interject here.
1) Nearly all my life I’d lived in Indiana. I now live in Peoria, & the First Amendment protects speech in all 50 States. 1/10

2) Only once, until now, has Indiana been more than a footnote in history. In the early 1920s, the KKK was as strong in Indiana as in any other state. [FN1] Klan dominance ended after its leader was convicted of homicide. [FN2] 2/10

3) The (estimated) half-million Hoosier kluxers didn’t dissolve, but they were unable to branch out nationally as some, at the time, feared. [FN3] 3/10

4) Indiana’s laws regarding corporations and the ways in which the Indiana State Republican Committee d/b/a Indiana Republican Party, have been artfully applied by Terre Haute attorney James Bopp, Jr., who signed the 2005 Articles of Incorporation. 4/10

5) Mr. Bopp was lead counsel for Plaintiff Citizens United, at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in Citizens United v. FEC, 588 U.S. 310 (2010). The SCOTUS decision lifted many constraints on campaign spending by corporations. 5/10

Mr Bopp also has been counsel for, or affiliated with, the National Right to Life Committee, the Traditional Values Coalition, the Alliance Defense Fund (anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ rights group), and the Susan B. Anthony List Education Fund (anti-choice). 6/10

Mr. Bopp, as a member of the Republican National Committee “fought for a resolution requiring candidates to pledge support for at least eight of ten policy positions” including being “pro-gun rights [and] pro-Defense of Marriage Act.” [FN4] 7/10

The NFP corporation known as the Indiana Republican Party is being guided by someone who opposes transparency in campaign spending. We can’t let this spread. People need to check if any States’ GOP copies what Bopp signed off on or drafted. More tomorrow! 8/10

Footnotes:
FN1. James H Madison, “The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland,” (2020), p.3.
FN2. Id., pp. 127-37; see also, M Wm Lutholtz, “Grand Dragon: D.C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana,” (1993) pp. 233-301. 9/10

FN3. Irving Leibowitz, “My Indiana,” (1964), pp. 192-194.
FN4. Novak, “Citizen Bopp,” The American Prospect, 01/02/2012. 10/10