By Tim Bakamjian

Former State Senator Mike Mazzei finished a close second to Attorney General Gentner Drummond in the Oklahoma Republican gubernatorial primary on June 16, 2026. Drummond won 26.3% of the vote to Mazzei’s 26%, which translated to a less than 1,200 vote difference between the two. As the top two finishers, they advance to the runoff primary election scheduled for August 25th, 2026. ...

By Jason Murphey

As Oklahomans brace for a return of establishment power in the State Senate, there’s one wildcard factor that could change everything. Those who have given in to the doom and gloom surrounding the potential return of establishment Senator Lonnie Paxton to preside over the State Senate are overlooking one very important factor – a wildcard that simply isn’t being properly analyzed. ...

By Allan Wall

July 4th, 2026 was the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, 250 years ago. I hope that all the readers of the Oklahoma Constitution had a good Independence Day. Two hundred and fifty years is a quarter-millennium, making the USA the 23rd oldest nation-state in the world. Oklahoma was not one of the 13 English Colonies that became the USA, so we don’t have Revolutionary War battlefields in Oklahoma. However, as State #46 in the United States of America, ...

By Bob Linn

The appearance of Gentner Drummond as a public figure reminds me of the anti-Christian shift in thought Machiavelli (1469-1527) brought to the political world in 1513. In his brief commentary of Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, author and professor W. B. Allen wrote an article in a 1997 Yale University Press publication that explains Drummond’s stand against historic Western thought. He wrote: “It is remarkable that so many of the architects of modern politics find Machiavelli’s Pri...

By John Michener

I recently received an article from a pro-life apologist who tried to make a positive case for continuing to protect women who choose to kill their offspring by abortion. Here are the author’s key claims in her own words: “[T]he vast, vast, vast majority of women who have abortions…don’t have the level of culpability or knowledge necessary to make it just to prosecute them for having abortions.” “Given the cultural knowledge in the U.S. as it is today, I don’t believe it would b...