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Getting Real About Democratic Politics
March 24, 2025

Across the land, Democrats are engaged in soul-searching. On a national level, it’s the fallout from Donald Trump reclaiming the White House. In Oklahoma, it’s the party’s superminority status in the

Stitt Still Oversteps
March 05, 2025

Gov. Kevin Stitt rode into office in 2019 having rarely voted and with little idea how government worked. Separation of powers? In Stitts mind, that was how the CEO divvied up the work for the minion

Caring For The Sick And Lowly
January 16, 2025

Oklahomas public health infrastructure worked hand in glove with the first Trump presidencys public health response, complete with the botched unemployment software and rollout as well as preemptive

Loving Your Neighbor As Yourself
January 06, 2025

To say Donald Trump is obsessed with immigrants would be an epic understatement. From the moment he rode down the escalator at Trump Tower to announce his 2016 presidential campaign through his 2024 b

An Electoral Silver Bullet?
December 10, 2024

Its official: Oklahoma recorded the nations lowest age-eligible voter turnout in the November general election a Code Red warning that our body politic is on life support, if not in a death spiral

Mansplaining, Oklahoma-Style
November 25, 2024

In a reality where the full spectrum of reproductivehealthcare protections has been rolled back or eliminated nationwide by the disastrous Dobbs U.S. Supreme Court decision, Oklahoma legislators stil

Wreckin’ Ball Lyin’ Ryan’s Latest
August 30, 2024

Its difficult, if not impossible to keep up with state Superintendent Ryan Walters antics these days. But we know this much for certain: Hes doing everything he can to dismantle the State Departmen

‘Here We Are Again’
August 13, 2024

If nothing else, the Oklahoma Legislatures Republican supermajority has proven itself world-class at one thing: virtue signaling. Any piece of legislation they can remotely link to DEI or ESG anyth

The Emperor Has No Clothes
August 07, 2024

It took 13 years, but the chickens finally came home to roost for legislative Republicans, who handed Oklahoma governors absolute power over the State Board of Education in response to push-back from

‘A Six-Gun Or A Fountain Pen’
July 29, 2024

With the new school year just weeks away, state Superintendent Ryan Walters is busy lobbing one Molotov cocktail after another into Oklahomas classrooms in pursuit of his Christian Nationalist agenda