It's difficult enough during ordinary times for rank-and-file Oklahomans to keep up with state government. It became even trickier when lawmakers, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, abandoned nearly all in-person policymaking in favor of online and ...

Observercast Episode 6 – ‘Look Around For Your Partners’ – expands on our discussion of Gov. Kevin Stitt’s standoff with Oklahoma’s sovereign tribal nations over gaming compacts. Our special guests this week are Cherokee Nation Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr.

Two-thirds of the Oklahoma House this week took steps to neuter the People’s Power. Sixty-six reps – all Republicans – rammed through a proposal that could make it all but impossible for a grassroots initiative petition to ever again succeed in forcing...

 Why did Gov. Kevin Stitt pick a fight with the Oklahoma’s sovereign tribal nations over gaming compacts that generated $1.28 billion for the state treasury over the last 15 years? We peel back the layers with High Country News Contributing Editor and...

 The week of February 24th was the first deadline week of the legislative session, which is high time for parliamentary shenanigans and sleights of hand. This week was no different. When the Oklahoma Senate Health and Human Services Committee passed l...

In Episode 1 – “This Is Not Normal” – House Democratic Leader Emily Virgin, former Gov. David Walters and former Senate President Pro Tem Cal Hobson discuss Gov. Kevin Stitt’s efforts to create a CEO governor and what it portends for a state that histo...