Morning Digest: Oklahoma Democrat pulls off miracle upset in dark red state...
Leading Off:●Special Elections: Blue lightning has struck twice out on the Great Plains: On Tuesday night, Democrat J.J. Dossett won a special election for the state Senate in Oklahoma by a healthy...
View ArticleOklahoma begins the year trying to destroy its children's public education
The job of the legislative branches in our nation is to make laws. Some of these laws are good and some of them are bad. Oklahoma love to make bad laws for education. As Arstechnica points out, 2016 is...
View ArticleOklahoma lawmakers push 26 ways to discriminate against gay and transgender...
Last year, Texas set a record with 23 anti-LGBT bills. But this year Oklahoma is nipping at the Lone Star state’s heels with 26 of its own egregious bills. Troy Stevenson of Freedom Oklahoma walked...
View ArticleBernie Speaks to 6,000 in Oklahoma City Today, Sounding More Confident Than Ever
Since no one else is reporting on this, I guess it’s up to me. I went with my daughter to the Bernie Sanders Rally in Oklahoma City today. Some takeaways: The Cox Convention Center venue was mostly...
View ArticleMeet the Oklahoma state senator who just authored a bill making abortion...
Oklahoma’s state Senator Joseph Silk is known for a few things. He’s the youngest state senator in Oklahoma history—entering the Oklahoma Senate last year at the tender age of 29. He is shiny! He hates...
View ArticleOklahoma lawmakers send bill pulling licenses of doctors who perform...
Abortion remains legal nationwide despite being ever more hampered by forced-birther machinations. It therefore seems impossible that the bill just passed by the Oklahoma House of Representatives to...
View ArticleFacing economic disaster, Oklahoma reverses course on Medicaid expansion
Oklahoma's Republican majority has steadfastly opposed Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, with Gov. Mary Fallin rejecting an estimated $3.6 billion in federal funding between 2012 and 2019. That's all...
View ArticleOklahoma Senate okays most extreme forced-birther law yet: It makes abortion...
Oklahoma lawmakers have been on a tear the past few years to make theirs the state with the craziest forced-birther laws. Thursday they achieved that goal by passing Senate Bill 1552, to make abortion...
View ArticleOklahoma mandates forced-birther propaganda in schools, but omits mention of...
When it comes to forced-birther laws, it’s hard to keep up. The state of Oklahoma is especially prolific, even though several of its laws seeking to curtail abortion have been overturned by the courts....
View ArticleMajority of Oklahomans support ending the death penalty
A majority of Oklahomans would support abolishing the death penalty, according to a new poll.Campaign ActionThe numbers are encouraging for advocates and citizens fighting to end the death penalty, but...
View Article20 Minutes Into The Future: The Great Oklahoma Earthquake
The following is a work of fiction, and this must be stressed. But unlike other disaster movies such as San Andreas, the earthquake depicted here is actually plausible—and worse, avoidable. The damage...
View ArticleOklahoma Supreme Court tosses out yet another of the state's forced-birther laws
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has a long record of blocking or overturning anti-abortion laws in the state. Tuesday, it did it again, unanimously ruling that Senate Bill 642 is unconstitutional. The law...
View ArticleIn Oklahoma, the Worms are Turning.
In deepest Oklahoma, something unusual just happened. When I say “unusual”, what I mean is a shift that is big enough to knock the planets out of alignment, and I am not talking here of just another 5+...
View ArticleLawsuit alleges lax supervision at private prison led to man's death
The family of Kyle Tiffee, an inmate at the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing, Oklahoma, has filed a lawsuit against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) over Tiffee’s death and what it...
View ArticleVoting Early in Oklahoma
I voted by mail yesterday for Hillary Clinton.As you might expect, the great state of Oklahoma does not make it especially easy to vote by mail. It’s true you can request a mail-in ballot online,...
View ArticleYet another earthquake in Oklahoma
Cushing, Oklahoma was rocked by an Mw5-Mw5.3 earthquake last night.The earthquake’s epicenter was located just 2 miles west of the city. Cushing is of note because it is the pipeline crossroads of the...
View ArticleOklahoma hit by another fracking earthquake
Oklahoma’s string of man-made earthquakes continued with an new quake near the town of Cushing.A magnitude 5.0 earthquake centered near one of the world's key oil hubs brought down building facades and...
View ArticleDemocrats get crushed in the Sooner State, but Oklahoma City is trending bluer
Our project to calculate the presidential election results by congressional district makes a stop in Oklahoma, which recently certified its official results. (Ballotpedia has a list of state...
View ArticleOklahoma Republicans mandate new anti-abortion signage in the state's public...
As part of the Republican Party's ongoing efforts to turn America into a society based on The Handmaid's Tale (if it had been written by George Orwell), Oklahoma Republicans have forced through some...
View ArticleThe Last Sane Republican in Oklahoma
(Originally appeared in The Tulsa Voice)Disclosure: Carol Bush and I have been friends for 35 years, ever since she owned Beach Party, a surf shop on Brookside, in the 80s. She arrives at Old School...
View ArticleTrump's SCOTUS pick: Terribly botched lethal injection execution just an...
Campaign ActionNo wonder Republicans love him: Neil Gorsuch really is Baby Scalia. Like his idol, he's a good Catholic—until it gets to the question of the death penalty. There, he's just as ghoulish...
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Activists report that Oklahoma oil and gas injection wells threaten state's...
Clean Water Action, a 45-year-old eco-advocacy group that opposes hydraulic fracturing, has released a 16-page report that argues Oklahoma regulators are ignoring risks to underground sources of...
View ArticleWhoa: Trump carried this Oklahoma district by 50 points. On Tuesday, the GOP...
Wow. On Tuesday night, voters in two counties on the eastern outskirts of Oklahoma City cast ballots in a special election to fill a vacancy for Oklahoma’s 28th State House District, a seat Republicans...
View ArticleAs the state faces financial crisis, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett joins...
On Wednesday, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett announced that he would join the GOP primary to succeed termed-out Oklahoma Republican Gov. Mary Fallin. Cornett’s move was a surprise, though it didn’t...
View ArticleTulsa Sheriff's 'Reserve Deputies' mysteriously amass impressive track record...
The week of March 26 wasn’t an extraordinarily busy one in GunFAIL terms. But it had an interesting mix of problems. Of course, there were all the usuals: 14 people who accidentally shot themselves,...
View ArticleHoly S$%T! Democrats flip two state legislative seats in blood red Oklahoma
Congratulations to Oklahoma Democrats Karen Gaddis and Michael Brooks-Jimenez on their victories in two special elections held tonight. They both prevailed in heavily Republican districts!xWow: there...
View ArticleAnother two victories for Democrats, this time in Oklahoma
Today, Okies went to the polls in a special election to choose the successors to a Republican state senate and state house member. The final returns are now in and with all votes counted, we have...
View ArticleOklahoma teacher panhandles for school supplies—and makes more per hour than...
Oklahoma elementary school teacher Teresa Danks has been standing out in the sun panhandling for money. She has a master’s degree and has been teaching for over ten years. ABC 13 interviewed Ms....
View ArticleJaw-dropping animation shows the size and frequency of fracking-related...
One of the primary directives of the USGS (United States Geological Survey) is to “monitor and report earthquakes, assess earthquake impacts and hazards, and research the causes and effects of...
View ArticleTwo Days In Trumpland
I don’t leave the city much. I love my beautiful, walkable, eatable, drinkable neighborhood in the City of St. Louis and I find almost everything I want very close at hand. Democrats rule the roost...
View ArticleOklahoma City police officer handcuffs woman for riding a bike and handing...
A white Oklahoma City woman got a small lesson in what too many black Americans regularly face at the hands of police last week when she was handcuffed and held in a patrol car just for riding her bike...
View Article24 Year Old Oklahoma State Dem Chair: Not true that if others' have rights,...
Came across a brief reference tonight in Bradcast about the recent flipped seat in Oklahoma. The intriguing part for me is that their Democratic State Party Chair is a woman and only 24 years old...
View ArticleAn inmate strikes back at sheriff whose policies facilitated her sexual assault
Law enforcement authorities’ indifference to conditions of imprisonment is too often deliberate. Even after learning that his policies were facilitating sexually abusive behavior by prison officials...
View ArticleOK-Gov: Edmondson (D) Stands Up For Teachers, Slams Gov. Fallin's (R) Idiotic...
Received this e-mail today from former Attorney General Drew Edmondson’s (D) gubernatorial campaign:We’ve been at the capitol every day this week – hearing directly from teachers and students about...
View ArticleI Sort of Used to be a Public School Teacher in Oklahoma
Nearly 50 years ago, during my final semester at the University of Tulsa, I completed the student teaching requirement for my B.S.Ed. in a sixth grade classroom in a Tulsa public elementary school....
View ArticleOklahoma Senate passes $20 million in education funding as support for...
As Oklahoma teachers stayed out of classrooms and in the state capitol pressing for increased education funding for a fifth day, the state Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a tax on third party...
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Female Attorneys Tell Oklahoma Legislators "There WILL be change..We will be...
The letter signed by attorney Becky A. Murphy ends with a P.S. that states,“We will be the women in black. You will see us coming.” Dear Oklahoma Legislator:I, along with 100 female attorneys, will be...
View ArticleTeachers file to run for office in Oklahoma as Democrats. They want to raise...
When Cyndi Ralston retired after more than three decades as a public school teacher, she could have never imagined that just a few years later, she would be at the center of national headlines and the...
View ArticleHow the last land rush in Indian territory forced the Kickapoo to surrender...
Nearly 125 years ago, on May 23, 1895, the smallest and last federally-approved land rush in Oklahoma Territory got under way as "surplus lands" of the Kickapoo were thrown open for settlers to...
View ArticleHas Marijuana Become a Boss Issue in Oklahoma Politics?
A generation ago I was up to my neck in Oklahoma politics for the better part of 10 years. Once upon a time I worked in a lovely, oak paneled office on the ground floor of the West wing of the...
View ArticleHorrible: On the first day of school, kids find new low-paid, under-qualified...
Kids around the country head back to school today, which probably doesn’t excite them! In many states, they’ll be greeted by low-paid teachers who are being thrust into leading classrooms before...
View ArticleVote against teacher pay comes back to bite six more Oklahoma Republicans
Six more Oklahoma state House Republicans lost their primary run-offs on Tuesday after having voted against raising taxes to give teachers their first raise in a decade. That’s after two others were...
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Oklahoma Republicans following modern GOP tactics.
Sen. Treat et. al. would never do this if Dems were any threat to them before 2020:Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page.For Immediate Release: January 16, 2018Office of the...
View ArticleNRA adds 2 more notches in campaign lobbying states to abolish permits for...
As House Democrats passed bills last week to expand background checks for would-be gun buyers—bills with no chance in the Senate or for a presidential signature—the National Rifle Association added...
View ArticleOklahoma Democratic Party HQ targeted with hate-filled graffiti
Stories:NonDoc (independent online news)NewOK (local corporate daily) | Update with quote from Republican Gov. StittFox 25KOCO News 5KFOR News 4Statement from Oklahoma County DP:The Oklahoma County...
View ArticleAbby Broyles Is Taking Back the Senate in Oklahoma
Abby Broyles is the new generation and she is taking on Senator Snowball and running for US Senate. At only 30 years old, Abby is working on her second career as an attorney after 10 years as a...
View ArticleResearchers locate what they believe are two mass graves from Tulsa race...
Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, white Americans murdered, destroyed, and terrorized the wealthiest African American community in the United States. The massacre began over a false...
View ArticleOklahoma is going to die!
I thought I, my wife and daughter would be safer here in our rural home far outside the town of Norman Ok. I was wrong. Yesterday I read on facebook that one of my wife’s customers had a death in her...
View ArticleI guess I am a Bleeding Heart Liberal After All
My heart is certainly bleeding for Tulsa, Oklahoma, right now. My heart is rent by an increasingly sure conviction that a conflagration is on its way to a former home that has its own deep and abiding...
View ArticleSCOTUS ruled for tribal authority over Indian County; Oklahoma objects. X40
The SCOTUS’s 2020 McGirt ruling holds that much of eastern Oklahoma is Indian country under the terms of an 1833 treaty between the U.S. government and the Muscogee Creek Nation. What this means...
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