Oklahoma Politics

The ad, paid for by a dark money group, describes a record commutation stemming from 2016 criminal justice reforms approved by voters as "the largest mass release of felons in U.S. history."

The maps will be in effect for the next 10 years, and the new congressional district boundaries sailed through the Republican-controlled legislature without a single Democrat's support.

Fresh off calling Dr. Anthony Fauci a mass murderer and Kyle Rittenhouse an American hero, Oklahoma Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jackson Lahmeyer accepted the endorsement from Stone, who is a convicted felon.

The redistricting plan Democrats are panning as gerrymandering to give Republican candidates an advantage in the Fifth District easily passed the Oklahoma House.

Democrats in the Oklahoma legislature oppose the redistricting plan Republican leaders unveiled two weeks ago, which moves large Hispanic populations in Oklahoma City to a rural district and replaces them with conservative communities.

Their rhetoric included misleading or false claims about COVID vaccines and the efficacy of masks, as well as repeated comparisons of the present-day United States to the political climate in Germany before the Nazis took control.

The session is supposed to settle redistricting issues caused by delayed census data, but lawmakers have thrown additional proposals into the mix as well.

Redrawn congressional district lines that lawmakers will consider in a special session move areas with large Latino populations out of the Fifth District while bringing in heavily Republican ones.

"I truly believe that the power over life and death is given to God only," said gubernatorial candidate Connie Johnson.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The first Republican candidate to challenge Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said Tuesday he’s leaving the party and will run against Stitt…