Clifton Adcock

A 77-year-old McLoud woman told The Frontier she let her grandson use her name for a network of secretive political groups involved in several Tulsa-area local races and at least one state Senate race in 2024.

Oklahoma agencies must appoint a coordinator for Gov. Kevin Stitt’s Oklahoma Division of Government Efficiency “as soon as possible,” according to an internal email dated Thursday.

A Grand River Dam Authority’s report found it shouldn’t have to buy out landowners affected by chronic flooding. But the agency won’t hand over records showing how the study was performed.

Gov. Kevin Stitt fired Oklahoma Secretary of Energy and Environment Ken McQueen via social media on Tuesday, halfway through the first day of a federal court evidentiary hearing in Tulsa on the state’s decades-long lawsuit against several Arkansas poultry companies on degradation of the Illinois River watershed.

The attempts to build layers of secrecy around a tangled web of independent political groups span numerous post office boxes, corporate filings and other records across several states.

U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin argues that the cost of land buyouts could be passed on to many Native American, rural and poor Grand River Dam Authority ratepayers and that the federal government should pay instead.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said he is looking into whether the funds were properly used to pay for legal counsel for Gov. Kevin Stitt in several lawsuits.