Natasha Baker for Indiana Senate District 22

09/02/2026

🎉Let me introduce myself!

▪️My name is Natasha Baker. I am a public educator in District 22, mom, foreign exchange mom, book lover, coffee drinker, and wife. I spent 11 years teaching in Carroll County and I am starting a new journey at a school on the opposite side of District 22 this year!

🏠 I grew up in District 22. I graduated from Harrison High school, got my Bachelor’s in Family and Consumer Sciences Education from Purdue University, and then went back for my Master’s in Human Services during COVID. My family currently lives in Battle Ground.

📍 District 22 is the Eastern half of Tippecanoe County and all of Carroll County.

▪️I am running because our supermajority is out of touch with the problems facing Hoosier families and workers. We deserve neighbors to represent us, not career politicians.

➡️I have been open and honest about a few things that have impacted my life and reasons for running. The first is that I came from a very Conservative family and have not always been vocal in the political community, especially not liberal spaces, but I think the fact that I grew up in a house with a sign by the front door that said “Republican born and Republican bred, and when I die I’ll be Republican dead” gives me a very unique perspective running as a progressive candidate.

🏥My husband was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022, had two traumatic surgeries, spent a month in the ICU, went through chemo and radiation, and is in remission now…an experience that made me realize that the things I once thought were hard and intimidating can’t compare to the challenges I’ve already faced - like running for senate (because, like it’s hard?? 🤪)*

✏️I love my job as a public educator, but we need to change the trajectory of education in our state.

🚨I have been working hard to earn your vote since October of 2025 and will continue to do so until November 3rd, 2026.

✔️Make sure to check your registration indianavoters.com

🔻Registration Deadline: October 5th and it only takes a few minutes!
🔻Early Voting: October 6-Nov 2
🔻Election Day: Nov 3

💰 To donate to my campaign and help break the supermajority you can use this link. Every single dollar counts! https://secure.actblue.com/donate/natasha-baker-1

*P.S. It is in fact, very hard.

08/31/2026

💰 INDIANA IS #1 DATA CENTER SUBSIDIES

➡️Indiana is home to the largest known data-center subsidy package in the country. Indiana has given an estimated $8.2 BILLION in incentives tied to Amazon Data Services.

💵$655 MILLION in Revenue Lost…Just so Far!

➡️Between 2019 and 2025, Indiana gave up more than $655 million in sales-tax revenue through data-center exemptions for just six companies. More than $611 million went to Amazon.

⚡ BIG BUILDINGS. Big utility and water demands!

➡️Data centers can consume enormous amounts of electricity and water while creating concerns about grid capacity, utility costs, noise, land use, and environmental impacts. We shouldn’t rush into decades-long commitments without understanding what they mean for Hoosier communities.

🏫 HOOSIERS PAY TAXES. BILLION-DOLLAR CORPORATIONS SHOULD TOO.

➡️Indiana allows qualifying data centers to avoid sales and use taxes on equipment and energy for up to 25 years, or up to 50 years for investments over $750 million. That’s revenue that could otherwise support Indiana’s schools, infrastructure, public safety, and other priorities.

🛑WE NEED TO HIT PAUSE!

➡️I support a moratorium on new data-center construction until Indiana fully understands the long-term economic and environmental impacts. We need protections for our water, farmland, energy grid, utility customers, and local communities before we approve more projects, instead of waiting until the damage is done.

💵This money is needed elsewhere!

➡️The amount lost to data center tax breaks in the past four years could have almost entirely canceled out the damage done to our public school system by SB1. It could have prevented the cuts being done to our police and fire services due to SB1. Roads could be improved across the state. A $350 rebate could have been given to every single Hoosier home owner to put towards property taxes.

08/30/2026

🎉This weekend on the campaign trail!

➡️Lafayette Farmers Market and my fave Rise & Grind Donuts 🍩

➡️CANVASSING for Nate for 38, Drew Cox for Congress, Brenna Geswein for Indiana House District 13, and Heartland Democracy Project!

➡️Funny door mats.

➡️Good protest signs.

🚨38 Days until Early Voting Begins!

🚨66 Days until Election Day!

08/29/2026

🚨 Radical Liberal Socialist 🚨

▪️Campaign season is in full swing, and I’ve officially made it into the big leagues!

▪️The first push poll went out… and it was exactly what you’d expect.

❓So you may be asking… what exactly is a push poll?

➡️It’s a poll sent to you via text, mail, or email. They can be expensive or inexpensive. They gather information about a candidate and give a loose prediction for the outcome of the race.

➡️Candidates, a candidate’s team, a political party, a PAC, or another organization can create them.

▪️They also serve another purpose… to paint the worst possible picture of your opponent and the rosiest picture of you without ever actually getting your hands dirty with the negative messaging.

…and the messaging about me, a Democratic woman, was exactly what you’d expect!

🚨 Radical liberal socialist supporting criminal illegal aliens.

➡️ They couldn’t even get creative with their buzzwords. 😅

▪️ And Ron Alting’s was also as you’d expect — taxes, healthcare, education.

These firms write these polls on purpose… and they are good at it! But to be honest, it’s not that hard.

Mine could have said:

▪️ Natasha Baker has been a public educator in this district for over a decade. Does that make you more or less likely to support her?

▪️ Natasha Baker wants to protect our communities from data centers and Flock cameras and she played a role in establishing a community task force to investigate Flock cameras. Does that make you more or less likely to support her?

▪️ Natasha Baker supports Housing First initiatives, especially for our veterans. Does that make you more or less likely to support her?

And Senator Alting’s could have said…

▪️ Ron Alting is a big-government fascist, Trump bootlicker who voted for redistricting even after he promised his constituents he would never do it. Does that make you more or less likely to support him?

▪️ Ron Alting voted to criminalize homelessness despite a large portion of our homeless population in Indiana being veterans. Does that make you more or less likely to support him?

❓ Do you see how easy that is?

🚨 It’s so easy to use buzzwords, stereotypes, and fear to suppress votes or gain votes instead of just running on what you have to offer.

…and as a voter, I am tired.

▪️ I am so tired of this type of politics and campaigning. The buzzwords… the fear…

▪️ Ron Alting and I ran into each other while getting our sodas at the gas station. Just two people. There is no need for this type of sensationalism when it comes to campaigns.

➡️ It reminds me of Representative Matt Commons’s recent post about Ben Davis for Indiana, complete with a laughably dramatic graphic calling Ben a “radical socialist threat to democracy” or something along those lines.

🚨Matt Commons is a teacher. And I can’t help but picture this completely normal guy walking the halls at school all day, talking to students and coworkers, driving home, opening Canva, and thinking, “Yep. This is it. This is the graphic that’s going to save democracy.”

➡️ The mental image alone makes me smirk. Because underneath all the dramatic graphics, scary buzzwords, and political theater, these are just regular people running against other regular people.

Maybe we’d all be better off if our campaigns remembered that a little more often.

🚨 I have done my best to stay positive and focus on myself throughout the primary and now into the general election. Opponent? What opponent?

🇺🇸I’m running to be the next Senator for District 22.

➡️ That doesn’t mean my opponent’s voting record is off-limits or that his actions surrounding those votes cannot be discussed. The same goes for me. There are very real questions people can ask about my qualifications, my positions, or even some of my more controversial social media posts and comments. My twelve months of political posting serves as a voting record of sorts and I’m willing to own every bit of it.

➡️ But coming at this campaign with words like radical, fascist, communist, and bootlicker is not the path I am willing to take.

▪️We can disagree. We can challenge each other’s records. We can ask hard questions and point out bad votes. We can even get a little heated from time to time.

▪️But at the end of the day, the people running for office are still people and the people voting deserve something better than a contest to see who can make the other person sound the scariest.

➡️ So ask me about my record. Ask me what I believe. Ask me what I’ll do for District 22. Hold me accountable for the things I actually say and do.

🚨Just don’t expect me to spend the next 70 days trying to convince you that the guy I ran into buying a soda at the gas station is some terrifying villain.

➡️ I’m running to give you a reason to vote for me … not solely on relying on giving you reasons
to vote against someone else.

08/28/2026

🎉Catching up and election prep with Carroll County Democrats and Nate for 38 last night!

🚨Can’t believe how much has changed since I began coming to these meetings around this time last year!

➡️Proud to be a part of this organization and community.

❤️After 11 years of teaching in this county, it definitely feels like home.

08/26/2026

🇺🇸70 days until Election Day, and things are ramping up.

➡️AI-generated cartoons of me (too bad she was missing the headband 😂), graphics of my comments being shared into other groups, and something about some kind of biased opinion poll that went out today.

➡️Some people may not take me seriously, but I take myself seriously. And I take this race seriously.

▪️I’ve canvassed over 6,000 doors.

➡️I’ve built a community on social media bigger than any other candidate in the state—Republican, Democrat, Senate, House—it doesn’t matter.

💰I’ve received hundreds of individual donations from people across this district, this state, and this country.

➡️And I’ve done it by showing up as myself.

▪️I’m not polished. I don’t always look, act, or talk like what people have come to expect from a political candidate. I’m a teacher, a mom, and a regular person who decided that complaining about what was happening in our state wasn’t enough anymore.

…And maybe that’s exactly what people are ready for.

➡️Maybe people are tired of politicians who all look the same, talk the same, and give the same carefully rehearsed answers.

➡️Maybe they’re ready for people who are a little different. People who laugh, get frustrated, make mistakes, speak plainly, and still show up every single day to do the work.

…Because you don’t have to look like a politician to serve your community.

🚨You just have to be willing to show up for it.

08/25/2026

🚨I made a really popular video about my thoughts on this a few months ago.

➡️There is no way I can or want to back out of my statement when I said “A public school’s customer is the public, not the parent”.

➡️Quality public schools educate the future of our workforce, raise our property values, support small businesses by creating communities that parents want to stay, work, and spend their money in.

💰That is why we all pay taxes to public schools, whether we have children in them or not.

➡️They benefit the entire community, they don’t exist solely as a place for parents and families to benefit from. This has been the heart of my campaign.

➡️Public education is a necessary public service, just like the police, fire, and other services that keep our community functional and running smoothly.

➡️They don’t exist to just be a benefit for the parents. They exist because we need them as a society.

👀 We don’t really do party politics here.

But this comment from Natasha Baker, the Democratic candidate for Indiana Senate District 22, caught our attention:

“Public schools are a benefit to the community, not to parents.”

That’s a pretty revealing way to frame the issue.

Of course public schools benefit the whole community. But parents and families matter too — and we’d argue schools exist to serve parents and families, not the other way around.

That’s really the heart of the school-choice debate.

If Baker thinks her comment came across differently than she intended, we’re happy to let her clarify it.

And since you all voted for it, our next deep dive is a big one:

💰 Total expenditures per student, 2010–2025, compared with inflation.

We’re doing it district by district across Central Indiana.

If you want to see where your school corporation lands, follow the page so you don’t miss it. 👀

📊 Public Records. Simplified.

08/25/2026

💰In Indiana, we give out “school choice” vouchers. These are funded by our tax dollars, pulled from the same funds that go toward keeping our public schools funded. These same public schools educate 90% of Hoosier students.

🌽In rural counties without private or charter schools, their schools are still missing out on crucial dollars so urban families can use the money to send their students to a private school.

🚨And the biggest kicker?

There isn’t an income cap.

💰Make $200,000 a year? You get a voucher!

💰A million? You get a voucher!

➡️Almost $500 million has been pulled out of our public schools to fund these vouchers. And the data is in! Most families who use a voucher have never sent their children to public school. They would have paid the tuition in full anyway.

💰“School choice” is just another way of saying “schools get to choose.” Private and charter schools are not required to educate students with special education needs or behavioral concerns.

➡️There are documented cases of private and charter schools taking the voucher money, expelling the student just months later, keeping the tax dollars, and then the student is forced back into public school, where the taxpayer must pay again.

💰Another big part of the story is that the voucher doesn’t cover all of the tuition. So the few thousand dollars that still must be covered by the parents make this option unattainable for most families.

➡️So parents don’t actually get to choose anything. They are forced to send their children to public schools because it’s the only option in their community or the only option they can afford.

🚨But now their public school is struggling because of the money taken from its budget to allow children two counties over to go to the private school they’ve attended since kindergarten.

💰This is all happening in a state where almost 3,000 children with disabilities were kicked off of Medicaid, and we want to give a work requirement to struggling senior citizens so they can continue to qualify for SNAP.

➡️The tax dollars going toward vouchers are applauded as “school choice,” while I get called a “socialist” for saying those same tax dollars should instead support struggling seniors and children with disabilities…not subsidize wealthy families who would have sent their children to private school regardless.

08/24/2026

🚨 Take five seconds and think about something that is making your life harder right now. Something that is having a real, negative impact on your quality of life.

❓What came to mind?

▪️Your home suffering catastrophic storm or flooding damage?
▪️Bills?
▪️Childcare?
▪️Property taxes?
▪️Not enough hours in the day to get everything done?

🚨Be honest.

➡️Did LGBTQ+ people come to mind?

➡️Muslims?

➡️“Northern invaders?”

❓Did any of those even crack your top ten problems?

Because while Hoosiers are dealing with very real problems, some of our elected officials seem determined to manufacture new ones.

➡️We have a childcare crisis. Schools are cutting bus service and extracurriculars just to make ends meet. Nearly 3,000 disabled children were just cut from Medicaid. Communities in Northwest Indiana have spent almost two weeks without power. Families are recovering from devastating storms and flooding. Indiana is the number one foreclosure state in the country.

🚨And what have some of our lawmakers been focused on?

➡️Jim Lucas attended an anti-Muslim rally organized by Jake Lang, a child s** predator, that turned violent.

➡️Micah Beckwith stood behind a pulpit wearing the Lt. Governor’s seal and preached about Christians needing to “learn how to hate again.” He spoke about violence being justified to protect what God loves while casting liberals, LGBTQ+ people, and Muslims as enemies.

➡️Andrew Ireland traveled to Indiana’s northern border to talk about protecting us from supposed “northern invaders.”

🚨Meanwhile, back in the real world, Hoosiers are trying to figure out how to pay the mortgage, afford childcare, keep the lights on, get their kids to school, and recover from catastrophic storms.

💰And Indiana has billions of taxpayer dollars sitting in reserves.

🚨That contrast should make every Hoosier angry.

➡️Because LGBTQ+ people aren’t raising your property taxes.

➡️Muslims aren’t cutting your child’s bus route.

➡️Liberals aren’t passing policies making it harder to find childcare or cutting children off of Medicaid.

➡️And “northern invaders” aren’t why your electric bill keeps going up.

Those are distractions.

➡️They’re convenient enemies to point at while the problems actually making your life harder remain unsolved.

▪️I don’t want leaders who need to invent someone for Hoosiers to fear.

▪️I want leaders who look at the problems families are actually facing and get to work solving them.

🇺🇸Hoosiers deserve leaders who are serious about kitchen-table issues…not politicians who manufacture enemies, stoke fear, and fight imaginary battles while our very real problems pile up at home.

08/24/2026

🎉Nate for 38 and I had such a great time yesterday with the Carroll County Democrats canvassing in Flora, Camden, and Bringhurst!

☀️We had some great conversations with rural voters and ate some donuts from my favorite Flora Supervalu.