The Political Spotlight

Kristopher H. Bilbrey, Kate Thornburg, & Brandon Rudd (The Political Spotlight)
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The Political Spotlight is a politically driven opinion, news, and entertainment program. The Political Spotlight is your comprehensive guide to all things "political" at the local, state, and national levels. Our mission is to identify and eliminate corruption in government and politics while defending the United States Constitution. The message is clear: the old, corrupt way of doing business IS OVER! Our goal is to empower all citizens with the knowledge and motivation to stay informed and get involved. The team includes Kristopher H. Bilbrey, Kate Thornburg, and Brandon Rudd. Join the discussion and help change the world, one conversation at a time! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LIVE episodes of The Political Spotlight air on YouTube, Rumble, X, and Facebook: Sunday - Thursday @ 9 p.m. (ET) YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight . . . Rumble Link: https://rumble.com/c/ThePoliticalSpotlight . . . Audio-only episodes are available at the following Home Link: https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm . . . They are also available on all podcast hosting sites (including, but not limited to): iTunes/Apple Podcasts -- Spotify -- Stitcher -- TuneIn -- RadioPublic -- iHeartRadio -- Amazon Music/Podcasts -- CastBox -- OverCast -- Castro -- Pocket Casts & many more... No matter where or when you choose to watch or listen, please remember to SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, COMMENT, and then "share the show with everyone you know!" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with The Political Spotlight team on social media: Facebook 1: https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 Facebook 2: https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Twitter: https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with The Political Spotlight team via email @ tpsprogram@gmail.com or khbilbrey@gmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, COMMENT, & SHARE THE SHOW! 🚨 🚨 🚨

  1. 2d ago

    #727 | Thursday, September 03, 2026 | The Political Spotlight

    (Part 1 of 2) : Dr. Katherine Callahan, a contributing correspondent from Madison County, Indiana, joins Host Kristopher H. Bilbrey for this 727th episode (part 1 of 2) of The Political Spotlight to discuss the past couple of weeks of political and governmental developments in and around Madison County! From residency issues involving a Lapel Councilor to the insanity of the recent Madison County Commissioners meeting, and the open-door violations and more involving the Madison County Parks Board... this is going to be an informative show, as always! (This is part 1 of a 2-part series) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VIDEO version of Ep 727: https://youtube.com/live/ZulXq0fwr-w ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Subscribe: https://bit.ly/subTPS Become a Member: https://bit.ly/MembershipTPS Merch: https://bit.ly/Spotlight_Merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Political Spotlight Airs LIVE (Sunday — Thursday at 9 p.m. ET) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Audio Podcast: https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm & All Other Podcast Hosting Sites ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with The Political Spotlight team on social media: Facebook 1: https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 Facebook 2: https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Twitter: https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨🚨🚨 'The Political Spotlight' LIVE Sunday - Thursday @ 9 p.m. (ET) Hosted by: Kristopher H. Bilbrey Produced by: Kate Thornburg & Brandon Rudd https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://rumble.com/c/ThePoliticalSpotlight https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com © 2026 Mud Creek Studio. — Special Guest: Dr. Katherine Callahan.

  2. 3d ago

    #726 | Wednesday, September 02, 2026 | The Political Spotlight

    The Political Spotlight examines Grant County Commissioner Chuck Poling and the investigation his local government requested into his WILD behavior over the past couple of years, both before and during his tenure as Commissioner. The investigation ran for roughly five weeks, from late July 2026 through September 2, 2026, but it examined allegations and incidents dating back at least to 2025 — and, in some witness accounts, even earlier. Host Kristopher H. Bilbrey outlines serious allegations against Grant County Commissioner Chuck Poling and details his conduct in county government. According to the investigation, former Grant County Treasurer Tiffany Griffith described an atmosphere of fear, intimidation, political pressure, and concerns about possible retaliation—concerns she says were significant enough to prompt her to leave county government after years of public service. Grant County Recorder Kathy Foy has described alleged aggressive behavior, political pressure, retaliation after disagreements, workplace incidents, employee concerns, and attempts to influence decisions within county government. In this episode, Bilbrey lays out the timeline, examines the accounts, and begins connecting the events, personalities, political relationships, and government actions surrounding this developing story in Grant County. What happened? Who knew what — and when? Were county employees intimidated or pressured? Were political relationships influencing county government operations? What records, security footage, public meeting minutes, written statements, and other documentation could help establish exactly what happened? And perhaps most importantly: Is Grant County government operating in a way that citizens should accept from those entrusted with public power? These are serious allegations, but as Bilbrey often says, "allegations are not automatically facts." When multiple current and former elected officials describe troubling experiences in the same county government, those claims deserve scrutiny — and the public deserves answers. Grant County and Commissioner Poling are under the white-hot spotlight in this episode. As Bilbrey said in April and May 2025, "something is up with Commissioner Poling; it's just a matter of time until it hits the fan!" Well, surprise, surprise... Bilbrey was right again, and he discusses it all tonight! Also, Bilbrey begins with a brief word about Henry and Madison Counties! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VIDEO version of Ep 726: https://youtube.com/live/Z09tLy-LEVU ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Subscribe: https://bit.ly/subTPS Become a Member: https://bit.ly/MembershipTPS Merch: https://bit.ly/Spotlight_Merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Political Spotlight Airs LIVE (Sunday — Thursday at 9 p.m. ET) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Audio Podcast: https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm & All Other Podcast Hosting Sites ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with The Political Spotlight team on social media: Facebook 1: https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 Facebook 2: https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Twitter: https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨🚨🚨 'The Political Spotlight' LIVE Sunday - Thursday @ 9 p.m. (ET) Hosted by: Kristopher H. Bilbrey Produced by: Kate Thornburg & Brandon Rudd https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://rumble.com/c/ThePoliticalSpotlight https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com © 2026 Mud Creek Studio. —

  3. 5d ago

    #725 | Monday, August 31, 2026 | The Political Spotlight

    Host Kristopher H. Bilbrey is broadcasting from Southern Command for Episode 725 of The Political Spotlight. Bilbrey shares additional thoughts on the violence and mayhem that rocked Muncie over the weekend — including troubling reports that the victim and witnesses in one of the major incidents are not cooperating with police. What does that mean for the investigation? More importantly, could unresolved tensions lead to further violence in the coming days or weeks? Bilbrey believes that possibility cannot be ignored. What is being done to protect the public? What are police and other public-safety officials preparing for? What are Muncie's elected leaders thinking about the incident? Are they fully aware of the seriousness of the situation — and are they paying attention to what could come next? Bilbrey then shares his take on the latest political gossip circulating in Henry County. We might be close to another #SprolesWatch! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VIDEO version of Ep 725: https://youtube.com/live/Wg-6c9fjwWk ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Subscribe: https://bit.ly/subTPS Become a Member: https://bit.ly/MembershipTPS Merch: https://bit.ly/Spotlight_Merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Political Spotlight Airs LIVE (Sunday — Thursday at 9 p.m. ET) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Audio Podcast: https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm & All Other Podcast Hosting Sites ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with The Political Spotlight team on social media: Facebook 1: https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 Facebook 2: https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Twitter: https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨🚨🚨 'The Political Spotlight' LIVE Sunday - Thursday @ 9 p.m. (ET) Hosted by: Kristopher H. Bilbrey Produced by: Kate Thornburg & Brandon Rudd https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://rumble.com/c/ThePoliticalSpotlight https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com © 2026 Mud Creek Studio. —

  4. 6d ago

    #724 | Sunday, August 30, 2026 | The Political Spotlight

    In this 724th episode of The Political Spotlight, Host Kristopher H. Bilbrey first updates listeners on the status of the tech issues. From there, Bilbrey shares his thoughts on the wild weekend in the City of Muncie. Both Friday, August 28, and Saturday, August 29, 2026, saw heavy police activity across the city—particularly downtown and on the Southside—with Saturday night by far the worst. The night began with violence at a boxing event at the Cornerstone Center for the Arts, where five people reportedly jumped on and brutally attacked one man. From there, attention shifted to a large gathering at Southway Plaza on Madison Street, which quickly got out of control. The response expanded beyond the Muncie Police Department to include Delaware County sheriff's deputies, Indiana State Police, officers from several smaller Delaware County departments, and even the Henry County Sheriff's Department. And it didn't stop there. Police spent much of the early morning hours responding to calls involving armed individuals, vehicles moving around Muncie, reports of people displaying high-powered firearms from car windows, disturbances at gas stations, and multiple shots-fired calls. Bilbrey shares his thoughts on what happened, what it indicates about the public-safety situation in Muncie, and what city officials need to focus on going forward. Then we head north to Fort Wayne, where the fight over Flock surveillance cameras took another major turn. Last week, Fort Wayne officials voted to end the city's Flock contract. Questions then arose about whether police might try to preserve the system. However, Mayor Sharon Tucker ultimately made it clear: the contract is ending, and the Flock cameras are coming down. That matters for Muncie. As Muncie continues to grapple with serious crime and public-safety concerns, there will inevitably be pressure to adopt more technology, more surveillance, and more government tools to fight crime. Yet public safety and constitutional liberty are not mutually exclusive. Muncie officials should closely watch what happened in Fort Wayne before expanding surveillance systems here. Bilbrey also turns his attention to Henry County, including the county's budget situation and last week's Henry County Commissioners meeting. Finally, Bilbrey looks ahead to the upcoming Muncie City Council meeting on Monday, September 14, 2026 — what's coming before the council, what citizens should watch, and why local government deserves just as much scrutiny as anything happening in Washington. Crime. Public safety. Government surveillance. County budgets. City government. Accountability. Because what happens in your community matters! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VIDEO version of Ep 724: https://youtube.com/live/A5Keu_fUvIM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Subscribe: https://bit.ly/subTPS Become a Member: https://bit.ly/MembershipTPS Merch: https://bit.ly/Spotlight_Merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Political Spotlight Airs LIVE (Sunday — Thursday at 9 p.m. ET) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Audio Podcast: https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm & All Other Podcast Hosting Sites ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with The Political Spotlight team on social media: Facebook 1: https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 Facebook 2: https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Twitter: https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨🚨🚨 'The Political Spotlight' LIVE Sunday - Thursday @ 9 p.m. (ET) Hosted by: Kristopher H. Bilbrey Produced by: Kate Thornburg & Brandon Rudd https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://rumble.com/c/ThePoliticalSpotlight https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com © 2026 Mud Creek Studio. —

  5. Aug 28

    #723 | Thursday, August 27, 2026 | The Political Spotlight

    Host Kristopher H. Bilbrey ends the week (Sunday, August 23, 2026, through Thursday, August 27, 2026) with optimism that he'll be back in the studio sometime next week! Bilbrey is feeling better than he did on Wednesday, August 26, 2026 (episode 722), and things are going to get back to normal SOON! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VIDEO version of Ep 723: https://youtube.com/live/iHZXnY5-WBc ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Subscribe: https://bit.ly/subTPS Become a Member: https://bit.ly/MembershipTPS Merch: https://bit.ly/Spotlight_Merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Political Spotlight Airs LIVE (Sunday — Thursday at 9 p.m. ET) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Audio Podcast: https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm & All Other Podcast Hosting Sites ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with The Political Spotlight team on social media: Facebook 1: https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 Facebook 2: https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Twitter: https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨🚨🚨 'The Political Spotlight' LIVE Sunday - Thursday @ 9 p.m. (ET) Hosted by: Kristopher H. Bilbrey Produced by: Kate Thornburg & Brandon Rudd https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://rumble.com/c/ThePoliticalSpotlight https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com © 2026 Mud Creek Studio. —

  6. Aug 27

    #722 | Wednesday, August 26, 2026 | The Political Spotlight

    This was a different kind of episode of The Political Spotlight. While dealing with ongoing technical issues, Host Kristopher H. Bilbrey broadcasts this 722nd episode from outside Mud Creek Studio. As major internet and studio problems persist, Bilbrey begins with a brief emotional breakdown, discussing several stressful weeks—including a health scare that turned out all right, thank God! Bilbrey then talks candidly about exhaustion, loss, stress, and everything he has been dealing with behind the scenes. From there, Bilbrey gets down to business. MUNCIE & DELAWARE COUNTY'S 2027 BUDGET PICTURE: The State of Indiana has released its estimated 2027 Local Income Tax distributions, providing the city, the county, and The Political Spotlight with one of the first important benchmarks for the upcoming budget meetings for the City of Muncie and Delaware County. FORT WAYNE CITY COUNCIL SAYS NO TO FLOCK — BY A VOTE OF 9 TO 0: The Republican-led Fort Wayne City Council voted UNANIMOUSLY, 9–0, to end funding for the city's Flock Safety license-plate-reader system. Six Republicans... Three Democrats... Nine NO votes... Council members raised concerns about mass surveillance, constitutional rights, privacy, civil liberties, government overreach, data sharing, transparency, and public trust. While this is great for Fort Wayne, Bilbrey mentions it because he believes the Muncie City Council needs to investigate what happened there. He hopes this vote will draw the attention of every member of the Muncie City Council. Muncie already has more than 20 Flock cameras, and Bilbrey makes his position clear: the Muncie City Council should reject further expansion, end funding for the program, and begin removing the existing cameras. Public safety matters! So does liberty! KNIGHTSTOWN'S TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2026, SPECIAL ELECTION — THE NUMBERS CHANGED DRAMATICALLY: Knightstown's unusual 2026 Republican primary saga culminated in a special election on Tuesday, August 25, 2026—and the results looked very different from those of the May primary. The original May primary was marred by a ballot-programming error that allowed some voters outside Knightstown to receive ballots that included Knightstown races. Litigation followed, and a judge ordered a new election. Voters returned to the polls in August. In May, Karla R. Easton Gorman narrowly defeated incumbent Clerk-Treasurer Barton Joe Whitesitt by two votes in the certified results, 238 (Gorman) to 236 (Whitesitt). In the August special election? Incumbent Clerk-Treasurer Barton Joe Whitesitt reversed his two-vote loss, defeating Karla R. Easton Gorman by a vote of 123 (Whitesitt) to 83 (Gorman). A race decided by two votes in May shifted to a 40-vote Whitesitt advantage in August. Turnout also fell sharply. The Town Council results shifted as well, though Guy Louks and David Mattix remained the two winners. What caused the differences? The numbers alone cannot tell us how much was attributable to the May ballot problem versus to dramatically different participation in a standalone August special election—but the contrast still warrants examination. Bilbrey breaks down the timeline, the numbers, the election controversy, the allegations that circulated during the campaign, and why accusations of election-law violations still require actual evidence. This is a heavy episode... but Bilbrey also covers local politics, constitutional liberty, elections, government funding—and a little bit of life behind the microphone. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VIDEO version of Ep 722: https://youtube.com/live/1q3Mr_-XsKU ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Subscribe: https://bit.ly/subTPS Become a Member: https://bit.ly/MembershipTPS Merch: https://bit.ly/Spotlight_Merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Political Spotlight Airs LIVE (Sunday — Thursday at 9 p.m. ET) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Audio Podcast: https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm & All Other Podcast Hosting Sites ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with The Political Spotlight team on social media: Facebook 1: https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 Facebook 2: https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Twitter: https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨🚨🚨 'The Political Spotlight' LIVE Sunday - Thursday @ 9 p.m. (ET) Hosted by: Kristopher H. Bilbrey Produced by: Kate Thornburg & Brandon Rudd https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://rumble.com/c/ThePoliticalSpotlight https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com © 2026 Mud Creek Studio. —

  7. Aug 25

    #721 | Monday, August 24, 2026 | The Political Spotlight

    Host Kristopher H. Bilbrey is starting to feel hopeful that there is a light at the end of this LONG tunnel, which has been filled with nearly a month of HORRIBLE TECHNICAL ISSUES! He's hoping to cover a few odds and ends from across East Central Indiana. He'll cover political and governmental topics from Muncie and Delaware County to New Castle and Henry County, along with some sad news from Indiana's conservative talk radio world. If time allows, Bilbrey even asks what the heck is going on in "the region" (Northwest Indiana). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VIDEO version of Ep 721: https://youtube.com/live/GtF5Zs5KfIo ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Subscribe: https://bit.ly/subTPS Become a Member: https://bit.ly/MembershipTPS Merch: https://bit.ly/Spotlight_Merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Political Spotlight Airs LIVE (Sunday — Thursday at 9 p.m. ET) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Audio Podcast: https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm & All Other Podcast Hosting Sites ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with The Political Spotlight team on social media: Facebook 1: https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 Facebook 2: https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Twitter: https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨🚨🚨 'The Political Spotlight' LIVE Sunday - Thursday @ 9 p.m. (ET) Hosted by: Kristopher H. Bilbrey Produced by: Kate Thornburg & Brandon Rudd https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://rumble.com/c/ThePoliticalSpotlight https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com © 2026 Mud Creek Studio. —

  8. Aug 21

    #720 | Thursday, August 20, 2026 | The Political Spotlight

    The weed eaters must be strung! The trains must have all made it to the stations on time! And it's clearly not February! Because this 720th episode is officially a reunion of The Political Spotlight — 3! Host Kristopher H. Bilbrey... Producer Kate Thornburg... & NONE OTHER THAN THE: PURDUE-ED-U-CATED, ENGINEER-IN', WEED-EATER-STRINGIN', PUN-LOVIN', PROBLEM-SOLVIN', SON OF A GUN, BRANDON RUDD... ARE ALL IN THE HOUSE FOR THIS BIG-TIME EPISODE! And now that all of that is out of the way, shall we? We shall... let's roll! On this 720th episode of The Political Spotlight, Host Kristopher H. Bilbrey, Co-Host Brandon Rudd, and Producer Kate take a hard look at Indiana State Representative J.D. Prescott’s House Bill 1288 — a proposal Prescott has been pushing across Indiana, trying to sell Hoosiers on "HIS PLAN" to fundamentally dismantle Indiana’s property-tax system and move the state toward a sales-tax-driven funding model. This, as you should know, is not a pro-Prescott show, nor is it an endorsement of HB 1288. That said, Bilbrey, Brando, and Producer Kate will attempt to present the pros and cons of the plan! It's just that the team firmly believes there are far more cons than pros! The question the audience needs to consider is whether this plan could create a whole new set of problems for Indiana while trying to solve the very real property tax problems Hoosiers already face. Under the proposal, Indiana would move toward statewide collection and redistribution of sales tax because individual counties—particularly rural counties—might not generate enough sales tax revenue on their own. The proposed distribution formula would rely heavily on population, with a portion tied to roadway miles. That immediately raises serious questions. What happens when local government becomes increasingly dependent on funds collected and redistributed through Indianapolis? Which counties become net contributors, and which become net recipients? What happens during an economic downturn when consumer spending — and therefore sales tax revenue — falls? Does replacing property taxes actually reduce the cost of government, or simply shift where government gets its revenue? What happens to local accountability when the link between local taxpayers, local spending, and local government becomes less direct? How much additional pressure would this place on Indiana’s sales tax — already paid every day by working Hoosiers? There are also serious questions about schools and existing voter-approved referenda. HB 1288 would allow existing referendum obligations to continue through a separate recapture mechanism while prohibiting new referenda. Prescott himself has acknowledged that discussions across the state have uncovered additional problems, gaps, and flaws that still need to be examined. That is exactly what this program is about. Property taxes are a serious problem in Indiana. But eliminating one unpopular tax does not automatically lead to better, smaller government, lower spending, stronger local control, or a fairer system. In this episode, The Political Spotlight examines what HB 1288 proposes, where the plan could go wrong, who could end up paying more, how it could reshape the relationship between state and local government, and why Hoosiers should look very carefully before replacing one deeply flawed tax system with another. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VIDEO version of Ep 720: https://youtube.com/live/pW1tzv9i5hA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Subscribe: https://bit.ly/subTPS Become a Member: https://bit.ly/MembershipTPS Merch: https://bit.ly/Spotlight_Merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Political Spotlight Airs LIVE (Sunday — Thursday at 9 p.m. ET) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Audio Podcast: https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm & All Other Podcast Hosting Sites ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with The Political Spotlight team on social media: Facebook 1: https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 Facebook 2: https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Twitter: https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨🚨🚨 'The Political Spotlight' LIVE Sunday - Thursday @ 9 p.m. (ET) Hosted by: Kristopher H. Bilbrey Produced by: Kate Thornburg & Brandon Rudd https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://rumble.com/c/ThePoliticalSpotlight https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: tpsprogram@gmail.com © 2026 Mud Creek Studio. —

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The Political Spotlight is a politically driven opinion, news, and entertainment program. The Political Spotlight is your comprehensive guide to all things "political" at the local, state, and national levels. Our mission is to identify and eliminate corruption in government and politics while defending the United States Constitution. The message is clear: the old, corrupt way of doing business IS OVER! Our goal is to empower all citizens with the knowledge and motivation to stay informed and get involved. The team includes Kristopher H. Bilbrey, Kate Thornburg, and Brandon Rudd. Join the discussion and help change the world, one conversation at a time! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LIVE episodes of The Political Spotlight air on YouTube, Rumble, X, and Facebook: Sunday - Thursday @ 9 p.m. (ET) YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight . . . Rumble Link: https://rumble.com/c/ThePoliticalSpotlight . . . Audio-only episodes are available at the following Home Link: https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm . . . They are also available on all podcast hosting sites (including, but not limited to): iTunes/Apple Podcasts -- Spotify -- Stitcher -- TuneIn -- RadioPublic -- iHeartRadio -- Amazon Music/Podcasts -- CastBox -- OverCast -- Castro -- Pocket Casts & many more... No matter where or when you choose to watch or listen, please remember to SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, COMMENT, and then "share the show with everyone you know!" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with The Political Spotlight team on social media: Facebook 1: https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 Facebook 2: https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Twitter: https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with The Political Spotlight team via email @ tpsprogram@gmail.com or khbilbrey@gmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, COMMENT, & SHARE THE SHOW! 🚨 🚨 🚨

Information

  • Creator
    Kristopher H. Bilbrey, Kate Thornburg, & Brandon Rudd (The Political Spotlight)
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    228
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Mud Creek Studio
  • Show Website
    The Political Spotlight