Donors to IMPAC, the ISMA’s political action committee, will get an exclusive analysis of the 2026 election outlook at the 176th ISMA Convention on Friday, Sept. 26.

For the third straight year, the IMPAC Social will feature insights from a panel of Indiana political experts assessing the state and national political landscape.

The IMPAC Social runs from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 26 and the panel discussion is scheduled for 7-8 p.m. 

2025 IMPAC Social panelists
ISMA Communications Manager Eric Berman will again moderate the panel discussion. Before joining ISMA, Berman covered Indiana politics and government for more than 30 years for radio stations in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Kokomo, and the Network Indiana statewide radio wire service. He hosts the ISMA podcast “The Clinic.”

					Brian Howey’s weekly column on politics appears in 26 Indiana newspapers. His politics and government newsletter Howey Politics Indiana began in 1994, and since 2022 has been published by State Affairs Indiana, along with the Howey Daily Wire online update. Before launching HPI, Howey was a reporter and editor for the Warsaw Times-Union, the Elkhart Truth, the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, and WKJG-TV in Fort Wayne. He has also served as news editor of NUVO Newsweekly in Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Eye online magazine.
					Adam Wren is a national political correspondent for POLITICO, and since 2018 has published the “Importantville” newsletter on the intersection of Indiana politics, business, and power. At POLITICO, he is a contributor to POLITICO Magazine, Playbook and West Wing Playbook, focusing on Donald Trump’s remaking of the federal government and the Democratic response to his return to power, ahead of what could be a wide-open 2028 presidential contest. Wren previously served as a national politics features correspondent at Business Insider. He has also written for The New York Times and Washington Post.
					James Briggs has been opinion editor and columnist at The Indianapolis Star since January 2024, and writes the newsletter “Between the Motion” on Substack. This is Briggs’ second tour of duty with the Star; he was a columnist from October 2019 to December 2022 before a one-year stint as a reporter for Axios Indianapolis. Prior to his arrival at the Star in 2015, Briggs was a reporter and editor at the Baltimore Business Journal, and a reporter for newspapers in Milwaukee and in Bay City, Ann Arbor, and Oakland, Mich.

The IMPAC Social and IMPAC Lounge are open to IMPAC donors only, so remember to contribute before convention weekend using the button below. If you aren’t sure whether you donated this year or would rather donate at the door, staff will be present to assist you.

Suggested contribution levels are $100 for members and $20 for residents and students.