It was a rough week for anyone to the political left of Benito Mussolini. While Joe Biden won the election by a wide margin of the popular vote (a fact will not change no matter how many tweets or temper tantrums hit the news cycle) in a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s recklessly ignorant tenure […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Gun waving heroes?
Just a few days before the election, Oklahoma County Republicans were treated to a visit by some real political heavyweights. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the wealthy St. Louis couple who have been charged with felonies after pointing their firearms at protesters marching down the private drive of their gated community, made an appearance Friday night. […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Bice vs Neese
With less than two months’ time before the November elections, some of the best summer viewing came in the form of utterly absurd campaign ads between state Sen. Stephanie Bice (R-Oklahoma City) and Terry Neese. Neese’s ads, in which she reportedly outspent Bice by more than $1 million, included hilarious red/blue glasses and blouses quick […]
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Serious challenger
Abby Broyles has spent most of her life either wanting to be a journalist or being one. Now, she’s challenging Sen. Jim Inhofe for his senate seat. After working at KFOR as a reporter and anchor covering the state capitol, she went to law school in hopes of advocating for Oklahomans in a way she […]
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Political yearbook
The Nov. 6 election results ushered in a new class of elected officials in Oklahoma scheduled to begin work during the start of a new legislative session in February, or in some cases, before then. Oklahomans showed preference for female candidates like never before and demonstrated a newfound respect for political outsiders. Those outsiders include […]
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In session
Long before an estimated 30,000 teachers marched at the state capitol for 10 days in April, educators met with their state representatives and urged them to enact legislation that would increase school funding. Oklahoma was ranked one of the lowest in the nation for per-pupil spending and teacher pay, and the damning statistics could be […]
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Pleading the 5th
The challenger If Democrats across the nation were searching for candidates who could make a big splash in their blue wave, they got what they were looking for in Kendra Horn, the Democratic candidate for Oklahoma’s 5th congressional district. A fifth-generation Oklahoman and an Oklahoma City-based attorney, Horn decided to run for Congress after serving […]
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Voting lessons
Aaron Baker’s eighth-grade civics class at Del Crest Middle School is a lively bunch. The average student is 13, that special age where the brain begins to grasp complicated issues but has not yet been worn down by society’s cry for political correctness or the need to be overly polite or apologetic. Thirteen-year-olds are, in […]
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Primary issues
An unprecedented number of Oklahomans are running for office, from the U.S. House of Representatives and governor to state Legislature and local district attorney posts. In total, 794 candidates threw their hats into the ring during candidate filing April 11-13 at the state Capitol. This year’s candidate filing came on the heels of a historic […]
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The race for Oklahoma County Commission: District 1 is heating up
One county commission race is heating up with Democratic candidates campaigning two months before filing deadlines.