Businessman-turned-politician Kevin Stitt might have parlayed some of the same energy that elected businessman-turned-politician Donald Trump to the White House to become Oklahoma’s governor, but he’s not exactly falling in lockstep with the president on every decision. At the urging of Oklahoma faith leaders, Stitt sent a memo to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Okie stooges
Oklahoma’s very own three stooges already forgot Mexico was supposed to pay for president Donald Trump’s border wall. But who can blame them? It’s not like Trump tweets about the southern border all the time or anything. In a press release, Sens. James Lankford and Jim Inhofe, along with congressman Kevin Hern, said it was […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Whiter whites
One of President Donald Trump’s most recent Twitter rants, which media outlets cannot help but call “racially charged” comments, targeted four congresswomen of color. Unfortunately, Trump’s racist battery seems to always be at full charge. Trump told “progressive Democrat congresswomen” to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which […]
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Commentary: Handmaid’s senator
Next week, Hulu’s acclaimed adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale begins its third season on the streaming service. A dystopian nightmare in which fundamentalists seize control of the United States in a violent coup, reduce newly rechristened Gilead’s population of women to forced procreation vessels and banish heretics and the infertile to work in […]
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Commentary: Lankford logic
On Jan. 9, U.S. Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, established that he is willing to say just about anything to divert attention from the multiple investigations into possible Russian collusion with the Donald Trump campaign and that passing campaign data to alleged Russian agents is nothing to worry about. A slipshod redaction job on one of […]
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Speaking up
Michelle Stearnes was unable to attend a rally earlier in the week outside of U.S. Sen. James Lankford’s Oklahoma City office, but she could not let the week go by without being heard. Stearnes, carrying a red sign reading “FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER,” was one of several dozen people who showed up for June 20’s Vigil […]
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The threat to DACA is very real for recipients and their families, but also the greater community
The threat to DACA is very real for recipients and their families, but also the greater community.
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Chicken-Fried News: Slur talker
Several Oklahoma lawmakers voice their disapproval of the president recently calling a senator Pocahontas when speaking to Navajo code talkers.
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Chicken-Fried News: Budding bromance
President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. James Inhoffe are getting along quite well.
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Chicken-Fried News: The eagle has landed!
Trump might be naming U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine from Tulsa as head of NASA, a decision backed by Oklahoma senators.