Michael Bates

Oklahoma Grassroots Conservatives LLC, a Delaware-registered dark-money group, has reported spending $677,828.65 opposing Steve Kunzweiler and supporting Colleen McCarty for Tulsa County District Attorney in the Republican primary . Dustin McIntyre is named as the group's treasurer; the address is a private mailbox facility at 4th and Yale. That astronomical amount does not include any spending in the last two weeks of the campaign.

There's always more to say than time to write, so here are some final loosely organized notes and thoughts on the 2026 Oklahoma Republican primary.

Facebook reminded me that Porter Davis's birthday would have been this week. Porter was a long-time activist in the Oklahoma Republican Party.

Inola and Oklahoma are blessed to have District 8 State Representative Tom Gann back for his sixth and final two-year term before term limits. Gann is one of the handful of legislators who refuses all gifts and meals from lobbyists and all contributions from PACs. As you'll see from the letter below, he's intelligent, well-spoken, thoughtful, and respectful, not a grandstander. All this explains why the

It's strange to think how rapidly the number of Americans who remember the Bicentennial celebrations is diminishing. Today my wife and I and our daughter went to see Young Washington , Angel Studios' cinematic account of George Washington's role in the French and Indian War. Afterwords we were talking to a woman in her 40s who loved the movie, but felt the there wasn't enough attention being paid to today's 250th anniversary.

Truth in Focus Media in Tulsa has launched a podcast covering a variety of issues, including state and local politics. Truth in Focus is headed by and the podcast is hosted by David McLain, pastor of Heartland Church. McLain has also served as chairman of the Tulsa County Republican Party and the Oklahoma Republican Party. McLain took up the work begun by the late Bruce DeLay, who hosted the weekly Heartland Nation broadcast on KFAQ 1170.

Oklahoma has a relatively strong voter ID law, which was approved as SQ 746 at the November 2, 2010, general election, with 74% of the vote . SQ

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When a statutory matter gets written into the State Constitution, amending it is a pain in the ballot.

Have you ever thought about how utility companies get the right to run pipes and cables over or under your back fence or under city streets?