By Ron McWhirter

It is with reluctance that I must announce that the subscription price for the Oklahoma Constitution newspaper will be increasing to $20 per year for our four quarterly editions. Our last subscription price increase – from $12 to $15 – occurred in 2013. Over the past 12 years we have experience many increased costs, especially during the high inflationary period during the Biden administration the last four years. ...

By Steve Byas

Soon after Ryan Walters settled into his position as Superintendent of the Public Schools in Oklahoma, I penned a column, entitled, “Clone Ryan Walters.” ...

By Linda Murphy

Oklahomans are rightly concerned about being labeled as 50th in education. The “bottom of the barrel,” so to speak, among all of the states is not what how we want to be known. There is a solution to this serious problem, and we have educators in our state who know how to fix it. The obstacle in the past 30 plus years has been the federal education laboratory solutions imposed on our schools. Top - down control through processes and testing requirements created by sociologists, not educators...

By Jason Murphey

Most Oklahomans see the lieutenant governor’s race as a contest for a job whose only real function is waiting for the governor to get out of the way. And that’s for good reason: almost as if by intelligent design, the lieutenant governor of Oklahoma does nothing to risk controversy. He “promotes the state,” travels around, attends various functions, shakes hands, kisses babies, and moves on to the next venue. Hardly someone that one can be mad at. Occasionally, when the governor le...

By Charlie Meadows

I first met Ryan Walters several years ago when he was speaking at an event in Edmond. This history teacher from McAllester, Oklahoma had just moved to the Oklahoma City area and was working for, or soon would be working for, the State Chamber of Commerce. While working there, Governor Stitt appointed him to be Secretary of Education. ...

By Shane Smith

Phony Republicans Are Selling out Oklahoma to the Green Agenda Without reliable elected leaders to oppose these disastrous boondoggles, this industry will run wild here. Oklahoma Republicans have held a legislative majority for 16 years, and have occupied the Governor’s mansion since 2011. You’d think that this level of red control of a state would mean the absence of the type of green agenda boondoggles pushed by President Joe Biden and his Green New Deal cronies in our state. But anyon...

By Allan Wall

A decision of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) can have a life of its own. It may take years to develop, moving into various nooks and crannies of the law, in ways the Justices never foresaw nor intended. McGirt v. Oklahoma, a 2020 ruling by SCOTUS continues to spread its wings and is now moving into hunting and game law. McGirt and the companion case Sharp v. Murphy, were decided in 2020, both based on 1990s criminal cases. Jimcy McGirt was a child molester and Patrick Murph...

By Johnathan Small

A recent decision by the Oklahoma Supreme Court provided the green light for an initiative petition that would completely upend Oklahoma elections, replacing our system with the one used in the states of California and Washington. ...

By Tim Bakamjian

I recently have had the privilege of hearing speeches from various candidates for statewide office. What follows is a summary and analysis of two such presentations. JAKE MERRICK Gubernatorial candidate Jake Merrick served in the Oklahoma State Senate, representing the 22nd District, from 2021 to 2022. He won the special election to finish the term of Stephanie Bice, who resigned to launch her successful run for the U.S. House of Representative’s seat from Oklahoma’s 5th District....

By Ron McWhirter

We believe the most important product of this publication is our annual Oklahoma Conservative Index which rates members of the Oklahoma Legislature. We published our first scorecard in the summer of 1979, and with this summer issue we present the 47th edition of the ratings. ...

By Steve Byas

We are now seeing a push for the “jungle primary,” a type of open primary used in California and some other states. Under a closed primary, only those voters who identify with a particular party are allowed to legally vote in that party’s primary. The reasoning is simple. Why should Democrats and Independents be choosing Republican nominees, any more than Baptists should be picking the Catholic Pope? ...

By Charlie Meadows

In the summer of 1945, leaders from 50 countries gathered in San Francisco which resulted in the creation of the founding document – the United Nations Charter. Its purpose was sold to the nations of the world as “mankind’s last best hope for peace.” Of course we have had many wars since that time, therefore one would have to say the UN has failed miserably since that time – if that were the real purpose for its creation. It was never the real purpose, but rather, over time the UN was...

By Linda Murphy

Some parents have a false sense of security that the issue of data collection and sharing was solved when Senate Bill 224 was defeated in the last legislative session. The fact is that student information was already and is still being collected and stored in Oklahoma’s State Longitudinal Data System (SLDS), which has been operating for several years. ...

By Jason Murphey

From time to time, there’s a vote in the Oklahoma House of Representatives that most clearly differentiates those legislators with core principles from those whose constant playing of the political game leaves them unable to recognize down from up – even when, to anyone not on that House floor at the time and place, the latter is extremely obvious. ...

By Tim Bakamjian

Oklahoma’s 2025 legislative session was one of the best in recent memory. Gov. Kevin Stitt called it “amazing... one of the best in my seven years as governor.” Speaker of the House Kyle Hilbert said the legislation passed “wasn’t just a checklist of campaign promises, but a roadmap for a better, stronger Oklahoma.” Senate Pro Tempore Lonnie Paxton mentioned how proud he was of what a unified GOP-dominated House and Senate accomplished during the session. “We worked hard with the...

By Mike Mazzei

The radical leftists want to take over Oklahoma and turn us into the state of California. And shockingly, some blind Republicans want to help the woke army of darkness and assist the takeover. If approved by a vote of the people, State Question 836 will make Oklahoma an open primary state so that every candidate, regardless of party, gets placed on the ballot for the primary election. The top two primary vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, will proceed to the general election. Thi...

By Allan Wall

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 McGirt Decision resulted in most of eastern Oklahoma being declared Indian reservation land. According to the McGirt doctrine, Tulsa is all reservation land. Most of it is supposedly on the Muscogee (Creek) tribal reservation with part of it on the Cherokee reservation. ...

By Shane Smith

On May 20th, Gov. Kevin Stitt signed into law Senate Bill 269, authored by Rep. Ken Luttrell (R-Ponca City) and Sen. Dave Rader (R-Tulsa). The bill places regulatory control of carbon dioxide sequestration wells into the hands of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, and it sets the stage for a carbon capture nightmare in this state. ...

By John Michener

In my last article, I demonstrated that Students for Life Action had undermined the fundamental right to life by promoting legislation that specifically protects abortion pill traffic. Now that most state legislatures have adjourned for the year, let us look at three more examples from Texas, Georgia, and Oklahoma in which the pro-life establishment exerted tremendous influence over pro-life legislators, with deadly consequences. ...

By David Deming

Recent comments on social media have characterized the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities as unjustified, unprovoked, and illegal. On the contrary, the US action was a carefully measured and restrained response to decades of Iranian hostility and aggression. ...