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Every time I hear someone say that voters think Republicans do a better job with the economy, I hear irony taking her last breath....

If nothing else, the Oklahoma Legislature’s Republican supermajority has proven itself world-class at one thing: virtue signaling. Any piece of legislation they can remotely link...

The day after Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, Oklahoma trumpeted near-record revenues last fiscal year...

As the new school year begins, the Oklahoma Faith Network’s Jena Nelson joins Observer Editor Arnold Hamilton at Aug. 8’s Newsmakers for a deep-dive into state leaders’ efforts to impose their Christian nationalist agenda on Oklahoma’s K-12 student and educators, in defiance of the state Constitution’s unambiguous separation of church and state. Newsmakers, presented by the Mary Lou Lemon Foundation, convenes the second Thursday of each month at OKC’s Full Circle Books. Our next Newsmakers […]

When you go to your polling place for the primary, and you are turned away because your party doesn’t have a primary candidate in...