Is Kevin Stitt’s “senior advisor” behind the newest and most dastardly attacks on the Legislature’s most conservative members?

And is he attempting to frame Charles McCall?

Read on.

Had I been the amoral brain trust behind this year’s most dastardly of dark-money groups — charged with funneling the big bucks from self-indulgent elites into the dark art of exterminating constitutionalist conservatives from the state Legislature — I might have done it exactly this way.

After all, this is the every-election-cycle trend that keeps the money flowing to an entire industry built around the dark art of reputation-shredding. And since the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which opened the floodgates on dark-money political spending, each new cycle has challenged the practitioners of this art to become ever more inventive, creative, and aggressive — pushing the envelope to the point where, for all intents and purposes, there may no longer be any point in having a state Ethics Commission or any reporting and disclosure laws designed to let the people know who is trying to cash out on big government.

They aren’t even trying to report any more. They don’t think they have to.

And were I that brain trust, and had I decided to be especially dastardly — super mischievous, even — to the extent that I wanted to frame someone else for the dastardly behavior, gubernatorial candidate Charles McCall would have been at the top of the list.

That’s because, of course, it was McCall who, during his imperial speakership, managed to oversee a chamber where conservatives were all but eviscerated, replaced by low-energy drones representing the institutions of power and ready to delegate all meaningful authority to McCall, in complete violation of centuries of learned and practiced parliamentary history in the Western tradition.

I have always believed that McCall had full knowledge of the effort to purge conservatives from his chamber, which took place in 2018 after the courageous elements of the House refused to go along with McCall’s repeated attempts to hike taxes.

It would take five years for the group behind the 2018 purge to finally come into compliance with Oklahoma ethics filing requirements, meaning that by the time the people of Oklahoma could see the specifics of the attack, those who benefited from the scheme had already been in office for two full terms.

So, when one Oklahoma’s leading independent journalists pulled off something that has become all too rare in Oklahoma media — a feat of actual journalism — it looked like, just perhaps, Charles McCall was the evil mastermind behind this year’s dastardly establishment dark-money group: a group spending thousands to keep the Senate in establishment hands, and perhaps, to push back the tenuous beachhead that true conservatives have established in the House, an institution that, unlike the Senate, is still safely dominated by the political class and its monied financiers.

And, much like the 2018 purge, the 2026 edition was also being conducted by a mostly anonymous group, with no evidence that state ethics reports were being submitted — a key characteristic of the various initiatives designed to ensure state government remains firmly in the control of big-government institutional elites.

That independent journalist — and a must-read for anyone who wants to be in the know — was the Substack publisher known as The V1SUT Vantage.

Her journalism?

She refused to accept that the anonymous authors behind the new round of dark money attacks on conservatives simply couldn’t be found, even though there was no attribution at all — not even one of those organizations with a UPS Store mailbox and a never-answered phone number. There was one thing: the postal permit number.

And that’s when she went above and beyond: Reading postal regulations and discovering that any member of the public has the right to know the ownership information of a postal permit.

Using this knowledge, she courageously fought through the postal system gatekeepers, who would likely prefer that this knowledge not be public, and discovered the identity of those behind some of the now-infamous Don Lemon mailers.

Long before the Don Lemon incident, in which he infamously interrupted a St. Paul, Minnesota, church service, an establishment senator had sponsored the law to target the actions of right-to-life advocates. The constitutionalists in the Legislature rightly pointed to the fact that the law wasn’t needed, as existing Oklahoma law already outlawed the interruption of church services. The new law, modeled on a judicial ruling that had been designed to appeal to Planned Parenthood, could have the unintended consequence of prosecuting Christians who were attempting to evangelize by handing out religious tracts.

These Don Lemon attacks were being sent out by an array of anonymity-preserving means: some came from “Citizens for Freedom,” with a Denver, Colorado, bulk permit number. Others simply had a physical stamp, and still others had no attribution, only a Lawton, Oklahoma, permit number.

Making some of this so very dastardly was the fact that some of the pieces, those with a stamp and no permit, appeared to be “thanking” the conservative officeholder for preserving the right to interrupt church services, not disclosing that the mailer was clearly trying to use the issue to generate anger against that officeholder instead of support for them.

Upon reviewing the anonymous hit pieces, V1SUT’s investigative journalism led her to query the identity of one of the postal permit holders — a permit holder operating out of Lawton. Once she fought through the gatekeepers, she discovered a shocking fact: that permit was connected to the Hilliary Communications empire, Oklahoma’s emerging version of the Hearst Corporation of Citizen Kane fame.

And notably, the organization’s co-CEO is a special advisor to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt — specifically, and get this, charged with negotiating with legislators.

And Stitt just appointed that same person, Dustin Hilliary, as a member of the Board of Regents for the University of Oklahoma.

But, of note, the name on that permit?

The Oklahoma Conservative Coalition.

A name identical to that of Charles McCall’s dark money group.

The twist?

The leader of McCall’s group, Ryan Martinez, asserts that he has absolutely nothing to do with the Hilliary Communications version of the group, notwithstanding the fact that the two groups share the same name, a name that had been publicly tied to McCall and Martinez since last summer.

Martinez points to a filing for that name with the Oklahoma Secretary of State by Dustin Hilliary. The filing was made in November 2025, well after McCall’s IE group was announced in July 2025.

Thus giving rise to the question: was this a setup? Did Hilliary’s group set about the 2026 purge of conservative thought from the Legislature while purposely choosing that name in an attempt to frame McCall?

It’s an intriguing question.

Perhaps this is all just one grand coincidence. Perhaps Oklahoma has simply reached the point where dark-money groups, having exhausted every possible variation of “freedom,” “liberty,” “family,” and “values,” are now turning to lazy artificial intelligence for help: “Please generate the perfect name for a dark-money group. It should include the words Oklahoma and conservative, plus one additional word that is designed to deceive gullible readers.”

And perhaps, just out of pure coincidence, all of those mailers were being dropped by different dark-money parties, not just Hilliary’s. And though one would have to suspend disbelief, maybe Hilliary only dropped the anonymous mail praising the establishment candidates — not the mail criticizing the conservative candidates.

And here’s hoping, if nothing else, for the sake of scratching the curiosity itch, that we will get an answer.

The odds that we will get that answer are enhanced by the fact that a robust scene of real, independent journalism has started to take hold.

2026 isn’t 2018. While the dark-money forces of 2018 were able to stay in the shadows for five years, the Oklahoma Conservative Coalition effort has already been exposed for what it is, thanks to the inquisitive nature of an independent journalist and the new technologies — the means by which real reporting can finally be distributed to a wider audience.

In the meantime, that group is going to do its thing: more likely than not, sliming those who are working so hard to return our government to the limited-government vision of our Founding Fathers, and promoting those who are playing the big-government game — continuing to enable special interests to cash out, using big government to enrich themselves while weakening and bankrupting the greatest republic in the history of the world.

So, when you make your trip to the mailbox and see the latest missive from Permit No. 892, mailed from Lawton, Oklahoma, you will know that in your hands you hold Exhibit A: the byproduct of a big government that does the bidding of those who exploit it for their own gain.

The solution?

Small government.

Electing those who will simply stop playing the game, stop taking from the lobbyists and special interests, refuse to live the Oklahoma City Capitol lifestyle of wining and dining with the political class, and who will instead take their role as true “citizen legislators” seriously, read the bills, vote according to a clear criterion of smaller government, and not betray our values.

Until the no-lobbyist-money candidates are elected in significant numbers, the big-government problem will only continue to self-perpetuate — the perfect monster — and the practitioners of taking dark money and converting it into special-interest largesse will only get bolder, darker, and more aggressive. It’s only when the government is too small to benefit the special interests that this problem will solve itself.

In essence, the political class must shrink, and the citizen legislator class must grow.

As this endeavor continues, keep an eye on the newest, must-bookmark resource for documenting the influence of lobbyist money and the political consultant class: https://moganetwork.com/research.

And don’t forget: the time to prepare for the 2028 election cycle will be here soon. If you are sensing that you

Framing Charles McCall?
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May 17, 2026 at 09:28AM - J Murphey

Politicians are crafty people. They will do whatever they can to convince voters that they are one of the few good guys in the process, even while admitting that the process itself is corrupt.

And of course, it is. Modern-day politics is very corrupt. It is a game of money, power, pride, and legalized corruption — a sick symptom of a government that has grown far too powerful and far too large.

But almost no politician, with perhaps the rare narcissistic exception, will ever tell you the truth: that he is one of the swamp creatures.

In last week’s article, I laid out a set of rules for fighting through the deception and determining whether your local pandering politician is merely another cog in the machine of legalized corruption.

It is a pretty sound system.

Use the tools now available. There are more of them than ever before, including indexes and public records that expose those who are part of the establishment machine.

Then ask targeted, probing questions. Do not back down. Ask the three or four questions that will tell you exactly where that legislator stands:

Will you take the abstinence pledge from lobbyist money?

Do you support the Gann Plan to permanently dismantle the opaque, concentrated power structure in the Oklahoma House of Representatives?

Do you support the Save Oklahoma Plan, a basic policy platform designed to take power away from the government-managed economy and return it to the people and the free market?

Will you commit to never signing a nondisclosure agreement that conceals public business from the citizens you represent?

But if you need more, here is another clue: Look at the known, for-sure white hats in the Legislature — those who have refused to become cogs in the system — and pay close attention to how they are treated by those who hold power.

It was a sure way to draw a quick bead on the Charles McCall/Jon Echols regime: They tried to put Tom Gann on ice.

The state’s premier conservative legislator — known for actually reading the bills and voting according to principle — was the one they chose to freeze out?

McCall’s successor?

Kyle Hilbert?

He’s doubled down.

He’s done his best to also keep Tom Gann on ice, and he’s tried to send him some good company: Jim Shaw, the business-world success and champion of the grassroots who pulled off one of the greatest political upsets in Oklahoma politics during the 2024 election cycle.

A wise leader would have put both of those representatives at the leadership table.

In a House badly lacking in gravitas, the most thoughtful and business-savvy members of the institution are kept out of the leadership room.

That tells you almost everything you need to know about Hilbert and those who surround him.

But it’s not just who they keep on ice.

It’s who they choose to silence.

So, this week, when it came time for a state representative to give what many self-indulgent politicians clearly regard as their crowning moment — the capstone address of their political careers, the farewell speech — Hilbert’s team appears to have censored state representative Justin Humphrey.

Humphrey isn’t just your run-of-the-mill populist, although he certainly carries a powerful populist legacy that’s almost identical to that famous, upstart Oklahoma lieutenant governor of the past, Cowboy Pink Williams, who pulled off one of the most powerful political upsets in state history. Ironically enough, if the Republican lieutenant governor primary were to be held today, there’s reason to think that Humphrey would outpace every other current legislator who is seeking that position, some of whom have pure blue-blood resumes, and would make it to the August runoff.

So when Humphrey took to the podium to give his farewell speech, the House managed to find itself “on recess,” a turn of events, likely without precedent, that also dictated that the House camera wasn’t broadcasting Humphrey’s speech to the wider public.

Humphrey, who boasts one of the most intriguing legislative tenures in the House, had a lot to say. And unlike the boring farewell speeches of most self-indulgent legislators, his might have actually been worth hearing.

As it now appears, Team Hilbert wasn’t about to let the people of Oklahoma hear it.

But I would suggest that they censored the wrong person.

If the House had an ounce of self-awareness, instead of censoring (if they indeed did) the speech of one of the most interesting legislators, they would have instead censored the self-indulgent rabbit trails of leadership shill Scott Fetgatter, or the bitter musings of liberal Mike Osburn, now no longer worried about the conservative electorate back home and happy to show his true colors by injecting his leftist views of the current news cycle, including a seeming defense of the shocking, new violence culture of the TDS crowd, a particular, debilitating disease that’s clearly infected Osburn, much to the delight of the radical Democrats, and the two arrogant Republicans who applauded his comments.

Indeed, for those who possess even the basic skills of observation, coupled with the wisdom of a life of thoughtful human behavior observation, it’s the farewell speeches of the legislators that will really allow one to understand how very broken the Legislature really is.

In fact, it’s one of the most depressing things to observe.

Frequently, it’s a legislator whose brain has been broken by too many compromises, having no moral compass left and unable to come to terms with the bitterness of having to play a game where they pretend to hold one set of beliefs, only to, in actuality, think very differently, likely due to prolong, toxic exposure to the Oklahoma City swamp world.

Now, as they head off to the pasture, for a career as a lobbyist, or perhaps some government job, or maybe as a dark-money PAC figurehead tool, they must come to terms with the fact that they will no longer be important, reminisce about the past years when they were important, and, generally, no longer having to fear the electors, expose their real beliefs for all to see, letting down their guard, finally.

I never enjoyed those speeches. Yes, you would learn about the darkness from the self-indulgent meanderings, destroying too many minutes of the listener’s valuable time, but it was always a dark reminder of how good people become so very broken under the overwhelming pressure of a Capitol environment that, due to the size of government, has an assimilation pressure of darkness, legalized corruption, pride, power, and money in a way too few humans are built to handle.

And it was a reminder that few choose the narrow path. Most go down the broad way, to their own destruction, never availing themselves of the few tools that could have helped save their spirit.

Tools like the abstinence pledge.

They may have dismissed it as unrealistic, but it would have made all the difference.

So, aside from perhaps the limited purpose of training and educating the public, these performances of self-indulgence should generally be avoided by the discerning individual — the person who understands that God has given him only a finite stewardship over the valuable asset of time.

And time spent in the bitter glow of the has-been politician is simply not a wise investment of that limited resource.

So, if I could offer Team Hilbert yet another piece of unsolicited — and just-as-likely-to-be-ignored — advice, it would be this:

Do not censor the second-place Republican candidate in the lieutenant governor’s race, especially one who actually has an audience for what he has to say.

Maybe listeners could learn how this populist firebrand has, against all odds, managed to outpace his colleagues notwithstanding the fact that they have been complete tools of the establishment?

Now, that’s interesting.

No, if Team Hilbert is determined to spare the public from something, spare them from the broken politicians whose unattractive bitterness probably only matters to the “see-I-told-you-so” leftists who thrive on hearing their worldview confirmed by politicians who spent a decade or more pretending to believe one thing in public, only to finally admit that, for much of that time, they were really just grifting all along.

Stay tuned for the next update, as we delve into the hottest question in Oklahoma’s independent journalism world: Is Charles McCall’s dark-money group attempting to repeat the great 2018 purge of conservatives — only this time, not just purging conservatives from the House, but from the state Senate too?

Stay tuned. You won’t want to miss this incredible story of how the state’s leading independent journalist, through an incredible example of journalism, may have just exposed one of the most unbelievable dark-money stories in Oklahoma politics.

Let’s just say, if your local politician is the beneficiary of permit number 852, then he’s clearly a swamp creature.

If he’s the target of 852?

Then he’s doing something right.

Stay tuned.

When the House Fears a Farewell Speech
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May 6, 2026 at 05:11PM - J Murphey