Thanks for the thoughts and ideas of what may/can happen. As NOLAnwGOLD and others have mentioned, flying an earlier flight is a possibility using the FlyNow program. I noticed on NWA's site, as well as mentioned in another thread that certain flights are no longer coming up. There doesn't seem to be any flights after a certain time on Friday (or maybe my search on NWA isn't specific enough).

So the question is this:
If I hop on an earlier flight from LAS to DTW or MSP (9PM), instead of IND; would I stand a better chance of connecting to DCA from DTW/MSP or just risk going on a possible late/cancelled flight @ 11:50PM to IND, and hope NW Airlink will not be affected by the possible strike when I get to IND. The logic is that NWA would probably home base the planes overnight and have more available the next day (faulty logic?).

I know this is kind of like Chicken Little running around saying the sky is falling, but for those who are interested in entertaining me running around squawking, please enlighten Chicken Little and his first possible strike related flight