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Indian Country, McGirt vs OK
Moderate Democrats in the U.S. created a pledge that says “We are capitalist, not socialist.” it was launched in June 2026 after democratic socialists won dozens of primaries, including N’Kiyla Jasmine Thomas Oklahoma’s Democratic Senate candidate and after Zohran Mamdani took New York City Hall. It's called Promise to America. These Democrats want the party to be more in the middle: capitalism, not socialism, and distance from the DSA wing. About 60 Democrats have signed it. 67 DSA candidates won primaries, per DSA. Cyndi Munson did not sign. She has not called herself a socialist. She also has not said she rejects it. Her campaign is branded green, not Democratic blue. That is the Green Party’s color. The Green Party’s platform says it “opposes capitalism” and will “build an eco-socialist economy.” The pledge draws a line. Munson skipped it, then wrapped the campaign in the color of a party that wants eco-socialism.
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Democrats ran Oklahoma for most of its history. The kickbacks were part of the system. From statehood in November 1907 to today, a Democrat has held the governor’s office for roughly 83 of 119 years, about 70 percent. A Democrat headed the State Department of Education for nearly 100 of those years. For most of the state’s life, these offices were not competitive. They were Democratic by default. The courthouse record matches the one-party rule. In the early 1980s, federal prosecutors broke a decades-old kickback ring on county road supplies. About 230 officials and suppliers were convicted or pleaded guilty, in 60 of 77 counties, including 110 sitting commissioners. At the time it was the largest public-corruption case in America. Democrats held about 200 of 231 commissioner seats, so the majority charged were Democrats. A century running the schools, Oklahoma shows in poor student achievement. That is the record. The party that owned Oklahoma for 100 years is further left than ever. November is whether we hand it back.
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A Biden-appointed federal judge just threw out 91 pounds of meth because a deputy searched Flock without a warrant. President Biden appointed Sara Hill in 2023 in Tulsa. She is the first Native American woman to serve as a federal judge in the state, and she said this case was mass surveillance. The deputy was no rookie. Freddie Alaniz works highway drug interdiction around Tulsa, has served as a DEA task force officer, and is a certified narcotics K-9 handler. On May 10, 2026, his sharp eye landed on an out-of-state car on eastbound I-44 in Catoosa. He ran Melisa Kyle’s California plate, pulled a month of travel history, became very suspicious then searched the car. Hill called the license-plate network “indiscriminate mass surveillance” and suppressed the drugs as fruit of a poisonous tree. No statute says police must get a warrant before searching Flock. Most courts say a plate on a public road is not a search. Hill went rogue and added a warrant requirement the law DOES NOT impose. Her order binds only this case. Kyle is still charged. The evidence the government needs is gone. Flock expects an appeal. Will the alleged drug runner's charges be dropped?
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Other judges did not rule the way Hill did. The deputy's K9 alerted for drugs and Kyle refused a request to search car.
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🚨New: Oklahoma Democrat Candidate for Governor Cyndi Munson voted against House Bill 3130 authored by Rep. Kevin West that sought to expand Oklahoma’s existing restrictions on gender-transition procedures involving minors. She said: “I want to know what the obsession is with targeting these children, with targeting these families?” Additionally, Munson who isn’t married and doesn’t have any children was seen dancing with children at a drag party last month. Is Munson really in touch with Oklahoma Voters?
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Tulsa’s “new” oversight office is Bynum's 2019 Denver clone, just with more departments added. Denver Auditor Tim O’Brien, Sept. 2025: the Office of the Independent Monitor has not publicly reported its recommendations on police and sheriff misconduct or discipline since 2018. “No visible proof of accountability.” “Oversight should not be done in secret.” About $2.7 million, 91–94% personnel, 16-plus staff. Departments don’t have to follow it. The auditor couldn’t even get the records. That is the bill Tulsa already tried to pass. In 2019: Office of the Independent Monitor was modeled after Denver. Review internal investigations, recommend policy, citizen board to watch the office, no discipline, no subpoena. RINO Bynum pulled it before a vote. Today’s ordinance is virtually the same bill. New name — Office of Independent Review and Oversight of Public Safety — same structure: mayor-appointed director, politically appointed civilian board, advisory findings only, no power to discipline or direct operations, confidentiality written into the ordinance. The only real change is the reach. 2019 was TPD. This one adds fire, 911, emergency management, animal control, city security, and code enforcement. Same secret Denver model. Bigger payroll. Tulsa City Council renamed the bill they already failed to pass, then made it bigger. It's one councilor vote away from copying the far-left city of Denver.
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Oklahoma Democrat leader Cyndi Munson didn’t stumble into the Muskogee Pride event. She headlined it. The clip isn’t “gotcha” — it’s the campaign showing you what it thinks belongs in front of kids.
Cyndi Munson, the Oklahoma Democratic nominee for Governor, was spotted dancing with CHILDREN at a pride event featuring drag queens. THIS is what they want to push on your children. Oklahoma, vote accordingly.
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Cyndi Munson opened the only governor debate with a smear. She called Mike Mazzei a “corrupt establishment politician” before the first question was asked. Mazzei has not held office in a decade. No seat. No gavel. No election. She reached for the oldest attack in the book and aimed it at a man who has been out of office for ten years. That was not a contrast. That was the first false charge of the night. Debate Highlights: AI. Mike Mazzei said America has to win the AI race, and that takes processing power. He would allow centers only with four guardrails: no taxpayer money, the companies supply their own electricity so household rates do not rise, construction only on locally approved industrial sites, and closed-loop cooling so water use stays closer to a mid-size hotel. Cyndi Munson said on day one she would sign an executive order freezing new data-center projects until the state has one set of rules. Big tech wants Oklahoma’s land and loose regulations. Make companies pay for their own infrastructure, electricity, and utilities. Education. Munson said Oklahoma is last because it underpays teachers and has nearly 4,000 emergency-certified teachers. She wants higher pay and more money for mental health and special education. Mazzei backed school choice and a literacy director in week one, copying Mississippi: phonics, coaches, and a third-grade reading standard. He said she would pour more money into a broken system, opposes choice, and voted against bans on boys in girls’ sports and bathrooms. Inola smelter. Mazzei, not in office when it was approved, said Munson voted for the funding bill, SB 1000. He backed the plant for jobs — he cited 10,000 jobs and $940 million a year — and for military aluminum, with outside air and water checks. Munson said she voted against a $255 million package for a foreign corporation. Abortion. Asked why she opposes a ban that includes rape and incest, and what limits she would accept, Munson shifted to maternity care: 52% of counties lack an OB-GYN. She accused Mazzei of wanting to jail women and doctors, and named no gestational limits. Rural hospitals. Of 73 rural hospitals, 45 are financially vulnerable and 18 could close soon. Mazzei pointed to waste in SoonerCare and five years of no state income tax for new doctors. Munson said protect Medicaid expansion, and asked why he did not fix waste as Senate finance chair and budget secretary. OETA and tribes. Munson would keep funding OETA. Mazzei would not commit. Both want to repair state-tribal relations after McGirt. She would make a secretary of Native American affairs permanent. Insurance, housing, taxes. Munson would justify and cap rate hikes, raise the minimum wage, and cited an 80,000-unit housing shortage. Mazzei would copy Florida insurance reforms he said cut premiums about 14%, cut the income tax from 4.5% to 3% in year one by ending about $2 billion in breaks, and move 7,500 people off career-tech wait lists into trades. He also wants no property tax for seniors and veterans. She opposes eliminating the income tax. Beef and immigration. Both opposed Trump’s temporary foreign-beef tariff waiver. On ICE arrests and cattlemen’s warnings that legal workers are afraid to show up, Mazzei backed enforcement, deporting criminal immigrants, and a terrorist designation for the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR. He said Munson has supported CAIR. She called that extremist and did not answer the charge. Energy and closings. Mazzei would speed drilling permits and drop subsidies that compete with oil and gas. Munson wants all-of-the-above energy, including wind and solar, and said companies leave because schools and hospitals are weak. His close was a list: no income tax, no property tax for seniors and veterans, lower insurance, literacy, skilled trades. Hers was a warning that he would cut schools, healthcare, and pensions. Opening statements
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Oklahoma governor debate OETA at 7PM tonight!
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Mt take: Mazzei won the debate because he answered with a plan and a contrast. Munson answered with spending and a biography. On schools, he ignored the $12,500 spending figure and went to results: a literacy director in week one, copying Mississippi’s phonics, coaches, and third-grade standard. She said spend more on pay and mental health. He then pinned her: no school choice, and votes against keeping boys out of girls’ sports and bathrooms. On the Inola plant, he had the vote. She said she opposed the $255 million giveaway. The record shows she voted no on the incentive bill, HB 2781, and YES on final passage of SB 1000, the transfer into the fund that pays it. He was not in office for either vote, then backed the project for jobs and military aluminum, with outside air and water checks. On money, he had a record. The income-tax rate fell from 6.75% to 4.5% while collections roughly doubled. His phase-out is tied to cutting about $2 billion in tax breaks, not a hope the budget holds. He also split with Trump on importing beef, and used the immigration question to put CAIR on the table. She called it extremist and never answered the charge. His close was a list: no income tax, no property tax for seniors and veterans, lower insurance, literacy, skilled trades. Hers was a warning about him. Mazzei won the night.
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Tulsa’s Urban & Economic Development Committee, Sept. 30. Councilor Phil Lakin listed the oversight already stacked on public safety: mayor, commissioner, council, auditor, OMD, HR, finance, IT, ISO, FPA, NFPA, collective bargaining, STOC… and it keeps going. His point: an extra hour in the day would not go to more administrative work if they could help it. Animal Services went first and walked through theirs cleanly. Animal Welfare Commission chair Dr. Christine Kunzweiler was in the room. Then, after the fire chief, Councilor Laura Bellis, about 37, who talks fast and piled on the jargon: yeah...yeah...no yeah ..citizens advisory boards broadly...where does some of this data or “quality improvement effort overlay across entities,” yeah...Phil starts talking but you can hear another yeah, the 5th. Her favorite filler, “cadence” was used somewhere in the meeting. Twice sworn in on the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In a 2022 video, she called council runoff challengers “literal fascists,” and one a “Nazi.” Bellis arrived in 2011 through Teach for America, which the George Kaiser Family Foundation funds, and works for another Kaiser-aligned project. Tulsa doesn’t need another layer or more oversight. It needs plain English and an efficiency expert. Lori Decter Wright, Vanessa Hall-Harper, Jackie Dutton, and Bellis only need ONE more vote to turn the word salad into law. Next week Tulsa Police get their turn.
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Two NYC public defenders. One Kaiser-funded Tulsa office. Two Kaiser-world councilors in the room. George Kaiser’s foundation imported them to open and run Still She Rises — a place-based Tulsa law shop for mothers in North Tulsa, built on Bronx Defenders style defense. Robin Steinberg founded it after the George Kaiser Family Foundation recruited her. Then she launched The Bail Project, the national cash-bail disruption machine. She left the day-to-day in Tulsa. She still chairs the board. Jane-Roberte Sampeur spent 14 years at Legal Aid in New York City getting women off Rikers. The Kaiser-backed office hired her to run the Tulsa outfit. On Sept. 23 she was at City Council pushing police oversight. Who was already sitting there? Councilor Phil Lakin (District 8): CEO of Tulsa Community Foundation — Kaiser’s vehicle — and on the George Kaiser Family Foundation board. Councilor Laura Bellis (District 4): executive director of Take Control Initiative, the program GKFF launched in 2010. Bellis came from Philadelphia. That’s not an outside pitch to a neutral council. That’s the privately-funded pipeline briefing its own people.
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The Bail Project is active in Tulsa and OKC paying bail for those charged with a crime but not sure how many they can do this for.
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Debbie Tyler at council, holding a still: “Shot my son nine times… cuffed… last breaths… Broostin poking him with his AR, smiling like he killed his first buck… officer behind him laughing… textbook brutality.” Axon Body 4. 2/8/26, 16:44 where the still came from: It’s the approach *after*. Shield up. Gloves on. Audio: “the gun’s underneath.” “Get the gun, kick the gun away.” Viewport: man down, gun still in the problem set. Then: “I got his hand.” “Roll flat.” “He’s in custody.” This is not a trophy hunt. That is officers treating a downed armed subject as still armed until the revolver is kicked and the hands are controlled. The rifle in the frame is cover, not a pose. Nobody on that tape is laughing. Grief is allowed. Inventing a a false narrative is not. The DA already cleared the shooting. The bodycam destroys the lies about the still.
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Part 2
Debbie Tyler, mother of Michael Glunt — killed in a February Tulsa Police shooting — concluded her time before the City Council on Sept. 23 by leveling strong accusations at Tulsa's new police chief, Jonathan Brooks: “Under Chief Brooks, with blood already on his hands, we watched him placate our councilor, lie, and sidestep during his fireside chat. How fair will this be with his wife working in the mayor’s office?” Michelle Brooks is Mayor Nichols’ press secretary. Both she and the chief report to the mayor. Tyler demanded the officer in her son’s shooting be fired and his CLEET license revoked for life, and said pressure from the FOP, Brooks, and DA Kunzweiler was meant “to keep them untouchable, to keep them hidden and corrupt.” Kristi Williams spoke next. She’s Councilor Vanessa Hall-Harper’s campaign manager — Hall-Harper co-sponsored the proposal — and chair of Bynum’s Beyond Apology Commission. None of this disclosed to the public. The council punted the vote to Oct. 14.
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Debbie Tyler, mother of Michael Glunt — killed in a February Tulsa Police shooting — concluded her time before the City Council on Sept. 23 by leveling strong accusations at Tulsa's new police chief, Jonathan Brooks: “Under Chief Brooks, with blood already on his hands, we watched him placate our councilor, lie, and sidestep during his fireside chat. How fair will this be with his wife working in the mayor’s office?” Michelle Brooks is Mayor Nichols’ press secretary. Both she and the chief report to the mayor. Tyler demanded the officer in her son’s shooting be fired and his CLEET license revoked for life, and said pressure from the FOP, Brooks, and DA Kunzweiler was meant “to keep them untouchable, to keep them hidden and corrupt.” Kristi Williams spoke next. She’s Councilor Vanessa Hall-Harper’s campaign manager — Hall-Harper co-sponsored the proposal — and chair of Bynum’s Beyond Apology Commission. None of this disclosed to the public. The council punted the vote to Oct. 14.
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This has to drive the Liberals crazy 🤪
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