Republicans don't need to wait until they hold a congressional majority again to wreak havoc on democracy. We needn't look further than state-level legislation tailored specifically to criminalize First Amendment-protected free speech, suppress voting, and stifle...
Republicans are afraid. One term of Donald Trump's naked racism, xenophobia, and general incompetence cost them both houses of Congress and the White House. They know their policies are unpopular with the American majority and the dog-whistle...
This past spring, while COVID-19 ripped through mostly Democratic states like New York, Washington, and New Jersey, the American South had yet to feel its full brunt. Later that season, though, into the summer, everything began...
"This is sick." This is what California Gov. Gavin Newsome tweeted in response to the Trump administration's plan to intern more than a thousand refugee children at Fort Sill, an Oklahoma army base formerly used as an internment camp for...
Ralph Shortey Questioned By Police
On Tuesday, Oklahoma authorities released video of former Trump campaign coordinator and state senator, Ralph Shortey, caught with an underage prostitute. In November, the former Republican senator pled guilty to child sex trafficking. Prior to...
Teachers are not celebrities. They travel to classrooms all over America every day to put their sweat and tears into a mostly thankless job for students, many of whom do not want to be in school,...
Benjamin Petty (mugshot courtesy Oklahoma Department of Corrections via KFOR-TV)
Back in 2016, a Texas girl visiting a Christian youth camp in southern Oklahoma was violently raped and sodomized by one of the cooks. And yet, as it stands now, this monster will not serve...
Benjamin Petty (mugshot courtesy Oklahoma Department of Corrections via KFOR-TV)
Whenever victims of domestic violence and sexual assault come forward years after their ordeals take place, they are often asked why they waited so long to speak up. Speaking as someone who was a victim...
Since it's been firmly established Russia did indeed hack and interfere in the 2016 election, Republicans are now either trying to discredit those who informed us of this fact or saying it's really not a big...
It's safe to say that we've all heard people speaking Spanish or another language at one time or another in our lives, and the vast majority of us went about our business and paid it...
The homepage of ISD Records before its deletion (screenshot courtesy KXII)
A few weeks ago, an Oklahoma town hired its fourth police chief since the start of 2017. Well, now they're be looking for a fifth. On Saturday night, the newly hired chief resigned amid questions...
Senators across America vowed to listen to their constituents before voting on the new healthcare bill, which thankfully didn't pass because House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) pulled it before the scheduled vote Friday. One woman grew...
Seems like lots of Republicans not only claim to know what's best for a woman when it comes to her body and the reproductive choices she makes, but also what God thinks on the matter. Take...
A Steak and Catfish Barn in Oklahoma has made the news. The reason? A sign. A sign that states very clearly that the restaurant does not have a transgender bathroom, it reads as follows: "WE DO...
Even though it has now been established by both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees that Donald Trump was not wiretapped by President Obama, the administration continues to hold tight to the lie, with the...
Be Afraid. Wow. Republicans are hell bent on scaring Americans to pieces. The guy in the White House keeps warning us that dangerous brown people are pouring over the Mexican border to get us. He reminds...
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We are living in very disturbing times it seems -- another day, another hate crime. On Monday 6th March someone in a truck drove past the Dennis R. Neil Equality Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma and fired thirteen shots into...
Imagine that you go to the state capitol to meet with your elected representative, and before he will agree to give you the time of day, a staffer hands you a questionnaire that asks whether...
Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s nominee for head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), might be confirmed Friday, but senators haven’t seen some 3,000 emails that disclose his ties to the fossil fuel industry. Pruitt, Oklahoma’s...
A bill that recently stalled in committee in Oklahoma has reared its ugly head again. On Feb. 8, HB1441, introduced by State Representative Justin Humphrey, received a 4-4 vote in committee, and people who value...