This list is not a comprehensive list of endorsements, that will be available closer to the June 16 election date. It will be added to as decisions on endorsements are made. We have had many phone calls and emails asking whether we will be making endorsements and we will be. U.S. Senator for the seat…
2026 Tulsa Public Schools School Bond Election Vote NO This school bond says your taxes will be at the same rate. However in 2021 this rate was supposed to raise $414 million and now this same rate will raise $609 million for a bond issue that lasts the same amount of time – 5 years.. …
Monica Granstaff and her family waited 12 years to get high-speed internet access to their farm near Okemah. In early September, the Oklahoma Broadband Office joined her family to witness their first fiber connection. The Granstaff family represents the hundreds of thousands of Oklahomans that will be connected by our grant programs, improving their lives…
The gap between intentions and outcomes can be vast in politics, as the push to raise Oklahoma’s minimum wage demonstrates. Proponents say they want to help struggling citizens at the bottom of the state’s economic ladder. But in practice, their wage-policy preference yanks that ladder out of the hands of those low-income workers, leaving them…
“There is no reason a child cannot read before they are in third grade,” former State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister said in 2019. “But our teachers have to teach based on the science of reading, and that is not happening across this state. It is happening in pockets.” While I disagreed with Hofmeister on many issues,…
In a press release issued earlier this year, House Democratic Leader Cyndi Munson of Oklahoma City declared that Oklahoma ranks “last in the region for teacher pay.” That claim may align with a longstanding stereotype, but not with reality. By any measure, Oklahoma teacher pay is not the last in the region nor anywhere near…
Opponents of Oklahoma’s school choice program claim it primarily benefits “the rich” because, in effect, the joint income of a working mom and dad with children is greater than the income of a young, single person with no children. Yes, the arguments against school choice really are that stupid. The Oklahoma Parental Choice Tax Credit…
When America adopted the term “Separation of Church and State” it began America’s greatest mistake, although it was a great idea originally. It was meant to keep the federal government from dictating to churches what to do or say. But since then, they have changed what the First Amendment really meant. Now it is used…
“Work” may be a four-letter word, but it’s not an obscenity. You wouldn’t know that based on the reaction of many liberals to the new work requirements for Medicaid. To stay on Medicaid, the new law requires able-bodied adults with no children to spend only 80 hours per month either working, going to school, participating…
Oklahoma made meaningful progress during the 2025 legislative session with reforms that support families, encourage work, and expand opportunity. Together, they represent a steady movement toward a healthier, family-centered state—one where parents keep more of what they earn, education options reflect the needs of families, and the government respects individual initiative. Too often, economic and…