Make Oklahoma Grassroots Again, based in Sheridan, Wyoming, is testing out an unusual political sweepstakes to garner support for its preferred candidates. Legal and political experts are skeptical. https://ow.ly/2VBu50Z68T1

Before you head to the primary polls, tune in to OETA on June 9th from 7–8 PM for a live candidate forum co-hosted by Oklahoma Watch. Hosts Rich Lenz and JC Hallman will press all four GOP candidates on the issues that impact your coverage and your wallet. https://www.oeta.tv/

An 8-year-old girl was thrown from a vehicle in a crash. The scene had been cleaned up for hours before anyone thought to look for her. This story shows a lack of accountability in local and state law enforcement, and even in the AG‘s office responsible for enforcing Oklahoma‘s public records laws.

Before you head to the primary polls, tune in to OETA on June 9th from 7–8 PM for a live candidate forum co-hosted by Oklahoma Watch. Hosts Rich Lenz and JC Hallman will press all four GOP candidates on the issues that impact your coverage and your wallet. https://www.oeta.tv/

“Covered Up Quick”: How a Fatal Panhandle Crash Involving a Drug Task Force Officer Was Investigated  oklahomawatch.org/2026/05/31/c... (via @oklahomawatch.bsky.social and The Oklahoman)

Not The Onion. 🫠

Paul Monies follows a campaign contribution tied to Treasurer Todd Russ, while J.C. Hallman uncovers a mysterious State Farm whistleblower with Okla. roots. Jake Ramsey breaks down the latest eviction reform bills. Catch these stories on Long Story Short with Shaun Witt. https://ow.ly/YrgG50Z4mq9

Before Todd Blanche helped Trump use a settlement to launder a $1.8 billion slush fund, Brendan Carr helped him use a BS lawsuit to extract a $16 million bribe from Paramount. The D.C. Bar could have put a stop to it back then by disbarring Carr. It failed.

I don't now why people aspire to be very rich when social media now shows them how terribly angry and insatiably dissatisfied all the very rich people are. Everyone I know is happier than, say, Elon Musk. Plus yachts are overrated.

"It’ll put people who are educated and overqualified back into positions that need to be filled." See how Oklahoma's new automatic expungement and prison reform laws aim to help hundreds of thousands of people get a true fresh start. https://ow.ly/J8ws50Z2jes

SCOOP: Markwayne Mullin met with airline and travel executives at DHS last week and told them he's serious about plan to pressure sanctuary cities by cutting CBP screening at intl airports after World Cup. Execs have warned economic impact would be "devastating" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Modern day slavery in Southlake, Texas. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Former Swadley's executive VP Curtis Breuklander told an Oklahoma County jury Wednesday that his employer directed him to mark up invoices submitted to the state for reimbursement. nondoc.com/2026/05/21/t...

Weddle recalled that DeLong was convinced that State Farm was never going to stop cheating their insureds. “She said, ‘Charles, look, I acquired these documents…someone like you might find them useful.’” #StateFarm https://ow.ly/Asoa50Z2iGr

BREAKING: We just won a preliminary injunction in our case with @freedom.press requiring the Trump administration to follow the Presidential Records Act and preserve records for posterity. This is a huge win against their absurd stance that the law is unconstitutional.

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

Bills addressing Oklahoma’s eviction rates and the weak tenant protections in the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act failed or stalled during the 2026 legislative session. https://ow.ly/tFh950Z1Nu6

BREAKING from me: A free glacier cruise for state treasurers preceded more than $80M in public contracts to firms tied to a data infrastructure investor building the most ambitious natural gas plant in the world, in the Arctic... thealaskacurrent.com/2026/05/12/t...

and now, your moment of zen. 🎥 (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYhEwUvv67q/)

'Biblical finance' is shaping investment decisions made with taxpayer money in red states. Read my latest in Oklahoma Watch...

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Q: Trump's financial disclosures show a lot of stock trades in companies he has promoted-- JD VANCE: This is a hell of a question Q: How can you argue you are cleaning up corruption when the president is doing this? VANCE: C'mon man. Have a little bit of objectivity in how you ask these questions

An settlement "agreement" that keeps expanding in all sorts of Lovecraftian ways transparently is NOT an agreement between contesting parties. It's just what it appears like on its face: Trump using his office to grab everything he can get away with. Which, of course, SCOTUS has said is just fine.

My latest for @latimes.com Essential California newsletter: This burnt-out 3-bedroom in Torrance sold for over $1 million. Welcome to California’s housing market www.latimes.com/california/n...

Before you head to the primary polls, tune in to OETA on June 9th from 7–8 PM for a live candidate forum co-hosted by Oklahoma Watch. Hosts Rich Lenz and JC Hallman will press all four GOP candidates on the issues that impact your coverage and your wallet. https://www.oeta.tv/

Oklahoma's treasurer fired an investment firm delivering record returns and hired one whose CEO called BlackRock's Larry Fink an agent of Marxism and Satan. Lauren Windsor has the story. https://ow.ly/Tuqi50Z1wUv

Trump Requests $1.2 Trillion To Have https://bit.ly/3RjdlH1

Official Dept of Justice press release refers to “the unlawful raid of Mar-a-Lago and the Russia-collusion hoax.” Do you know how difficult it is to get DOJ to admit to actual illegalities it commits? And here it just declares itself guilty, to please the boss. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

taking tax dollars to pay insurrectionists. which (by the way) the 14th amendment is supposed to prohibit: "[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States...."

And there it is, folks. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

NEW: Federal “pay-to-play” rules may have complicated Oklahoma’s Invest in Oklahoma contract after a campaign donation tied to 311 Capital Management surfaced. The firm has now withdrawn from consideration. oklahomawatch.org/2026/05/18/c... #okgov #okleg

Defense Department delays 54 wind projects in Texas, citing national security concerns

NEW: Federal “pay-to-play” rules may have complicated Oklahoma’s Invest in Oklahoma contract after a campaign donation tied to 311 Capital Management surfaced. The firm has now withdrawn from consideration. oklahomawatch.org/2026/05/18/c... #okgov #okleg

“Trump administration officials are scrambling to contain the economic and political fallout of the war with Iran, three people familiar with the White House's discussions told Reuters, as hopes ​for a quick resolution fade.” www.reuters.com/business/ene...

🥴 “He then paid his tab and started to walk away. On his way out, he knocked his barstool down and tripped over it.”

“Your generosity would enable us to lure academic job seekers who might otherwise scorn our hidebound institution in favor of innovative civics centers, private think tanks, and parents’ basements.”

Hundreds of school districts will adjust the school calendar as a 2025 law to crackdown on virtual days and a 2026 law lengthening the minimum school year take effect. https://ow.ly/WI8T50YYSQl

WTF?!? Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

16/ Bottom line: the risk to the public remains extremely low. There's no need to cancel trips, this isn't another Covid-19. Right now, the best thing to do is to share accurate information from sources like the WHO and to resist the urge to spread rumors or unverified claims.

1/ Hantavirus update as of May 12, 11am PDT: Currently, ~40 people are being monitored and quarantined in the United States for hantavirus exposure. This includes the 18 Americans who landed safely in Nebraska yesterday by private transport after disembarking from the cruise ship.

Oklahoma is about $1 billion short of the regional average in per-pupil spending. Record budgets haven't closed that distance. https://ow.ly/K9VC50YXTxs

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

The Justice Department has served subpoenas on The Wall Street Journal and other media organizations seeking information about the Iran war. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Brexit Broke Britain.

Two local newsrooms, including @readfrontier.bsky.social, are suing the Oklahoma Department of Corrections after the agency denied requests for records related to its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

This polls puts him at +1 in Oklahoma. Our airwaves are full of ads with GOP hopefuls and their unquestioning alignment with Trump. #okgov #okleg

"It hits farms double." Oklahoma grain farmers face fuel costs up 52%, rising fertilizer prices and negative returns for the third straight year. https://ow.ly/Hv7r50YXi8l

Robert F Kennedy, Jr., who has made millions of dollars working with a law firm suing a vaccine manufacturer, last year called for the Annals of Internal Medicine to retract the 2025 Danish study that found no link between aluminum in vaccines and autism. The journal’s editors refused.

Do you ever think about how Trump's posting was this wild new thing in 2015 and now it's just background noise in politics? I think about this a lot. So I read all his posts this year and analyzed them because THE PRESIDENT IS SAYING A LOT OF STUFF YOU AREN'T READING. www.npr.org/2026/05/08/n...

You can read the grand jury report here: oklahoma.gov/content/dam/...