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  • 3 weeks ago | oklahomaconstitution.com | Steve Byas

    While the candidate filing for office for the 2026 Oklahoma elections is still a year away, candidates are beginning to announce for the various offices. In non-presidential election years, a host of state offices are up for election. The list includes the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Auditor and Inspector, Attorney General, State Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Labor Commissioner, Insurance Commissioner, and one of the seats on the Corporation Commission.

  • 1 month ago | oklahomaconstitution.com | Tim Bakamjian |Steve Byas

    In recent years a state tax revolution has swept the nation. Many states have lowered their income tax rate to attract investment and create jobs. Red states have led the way. Iowa reduced their rate from 5.7% to 3.8% in the last year. Louisiana dropped theirs from a 4.25% top rate to a 3% flat rate. North Carolina has scheduled a gradual decline to 2.49%, South Carolina’s has gone from 6.2% to 3%, and Indiana cut theirs to 3% this year.

  • 1 month ago | oklahomaconstitution.com | Steve Byas

    State Representative Tom Gann (R-Inola) has expressed concern over recent revelations that he believes highlight a widespread and ongoing violation of Oklahomans’ rights. Gann led an interim study on this issue before the House State Powers Committee last October.

  • 1 month ago | oklahomaconstitution.com | Jason Murphey |Steve Byas

    “I would suggest that if the university wants to truly honor the legacy of Boren – not King David, but the David who became a statewide name for taking on Goliath, in the name of transparency, even as it seemed pointless to do so – it should drop its obstruction and release the report.” The carefully qualified statement of Tom Cole said it all.

  • 1 month ago | oklahomaconstitution.com | Shane Smith |Steve Byas

    Why, two decades after its passage, is the REAL ID Act finally being enforced? Authored by the same man who wrote the liberty-destroying Patriot Act, passed into law amid the hysteria of the living nightmare that was the War on Terror, why has this relic of that hideous era not been scrapped years ago? We’ve gotten along just fine for twenty years without it, and it’s obvious after those two decades that there is no dire need of it.

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