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To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Reflections For Pride Month 2024
If the 59th Oklahoma Legislature is remembered for anything, it will be its preoccupation with 2SLGBTQ+ folks, especially transgender Oklahomans. This session, more than...
May’24 Newsmakers
Democratic State Representative Forrest Bennett joins Observer Editor Arnold Hamilton to discuss the 2024 Legislature’s worst impulses: criminalizing homelessness, undermining the People’s Initiative powers and authorizing police to stop suspected illegal immigrants and demand they “show their papers.”
An Old Boogeyman Enters Stage Right
When in doubt, stoke fear. That’s Republican Electoral Politics 101. And it’s on full display in the GOP legislative supermajority’s xenophobic HB 4156 that...
Students Or Sprockets?
The Oklahoma Legislature’s 2024 session has had plenty of headline-grabbing moments: thwarting an attack on judicial independence, undermining The People’s initiative powers, embracing a...
Apr’24 Newsmakers
House Democratic Floor Leader Andy Fugate and Raise the Wage Oklahoma’s Amber England discuss the upcoming minimum wage initiative and ongoing legislative efforts to curtain The People’s petition power at April 11’s Observer Newsmakers at OKC’s Full Circle Books. Click here to view this important conversation. The Observer’s monthly Newsmakers series are presented by the Mary Lou Lemon Foundation. Videography: Dr. Bruce Prescott






