The grandmother was named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by a candidate who was criticized in campaign mailers from one of the groups during the Democratic primary for Tulsa County Commissioner in 2024. Her name surfaced in campaign filings for a shadowy network of political groups.
Oklahoma’s senior U.S. Senator told attendees at the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce Congressional Forum that “hard conversations have to take place” as the U.S. is set to “overspend our budget by $2 trillion.”
Thousands of Oklahomans got payments from a Biden-era program to help address generations of farm lending discrimination. Now the Trump Administration wants to end programs that could be labeled as DEI. Some Oklahoma programs have already seen funding freezes.
Lawmakers have introduced two bills this year to limit or outlaw marriage for minors. Previous efforts to pass laws that would keep young pregnant mothers from marrying have failed.
The two Democrats share similar policy goals and both said they are open to including Republicans in their administration.
After the state banned abortion, it lost federal funding for family planning programs. Oklahoma is now paying for attorneys and to replace lost federal dollars. State health officials say they can’t give women pregnancy counseling that includes information on abortion, or refer them to a hotline
Monroe Nichols and Karen Keith are vying to become Tulsa’s first Democratic mayor in more than a decade.
The attempts to build layers of secrecy around a tangled web of independent political groups span numerous post office boxes, corporate filings and other records across several states.
