Oklahoma Political News

Three Oklahoma counties will have an extra set of eyes when voters go to the polls Nov. 3.

The U.S. Department of Justice notified the Oklahoma State Election Board this month that it will be sending monitors to Tulsa, Oklahoma and Muskogee counties.

Read the full story at Oklahoma Voice.

In a debate Thursday night, Democrat Nick Coffey and Republican Jon Echols disagreed on the death penalty and whether Oklahoma’s attorney general should be a nonpartisan position, while finding common ground on high-profile civil litigation and their belief the state needs concurrent criminal jurisdiction across Indian Country reservations.

Read the full story and watch the video at NonDoc.

Whoever wins the governor’s race will arrive at the Capitol with promises to keep. Whether those promises become law will depend heavily on the people voters send to another floor of the building.

That’s worth remembering as this campaign heads into its final days. Early voting begins Wednesday, Oct. 28. Election Day is Nov. 3.

Read the full story at OK Politics Today

Democrat Chaunté Gilmore is campaigning against Republican Rep. Marilyn Stark for a third time, now with a billboard looming over Northwest Expressway that urges voters to oust their incumbent.

Stark (R-Bethany) addressed the billboard, which says she voted against police and firefighters.

Read the full story at NonDoc.

Oklahoma County voters are being asked Nov. 3 to approve a 0.40% sales tax lasting 25 years to complete and operate a new detention center and support diversion and mental health programs.

The tax would add 4 cents to a $10 taxable purchase. Collections would begin April 1, 2027, and end March 31, 2052.

In what would be his first official visit to Oklahoma in six years, President Donald Trump is set to attend a rally Thursday in Durant, the Republican National Committee announced.

The “midterm rally” featuring Trump is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. at the Choctaw Event Center.

Read the full atory at Oklahoma Voice.

A federal judge has granted a proposed Jewish charter school‘s request for a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of the nonsectarian requirement of the Oklahoma Charter Schools Act.

Read the full story at NonDoc.

The White House Thursday withdrew the nomination of Richard “Lance” Schroyer to lead the agency the president tasked with carrying out his mass deportation campaign, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, had yet to have his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Read the full story at Oklahoma City Free Press.

Two Oklahoma mothers, who said they were forced to leave the state in order to terminate nonviable pregnancies, sued state leaders Wednesday, challenging the limits of the state’s abortion ban.

Read the full story at Oklahoma Voice.

nola residents will decide the fate of a massive aluminum smelter in a town-wide vote next spring. Until then, city officials have paused heavy industrial development — including the aluminum smelting facility, which would be the largest in the country.

Inola’s town council voted unanimously in favor of extending the moratorium through April 7, 2027. They originally enacted the pause on development in late June, and it expired at the end of August.

Read the full story at Oklahoma Voice.