Here's a list of #Oklahoma politicians who have taken money from EPIC charter schools' co-founders David Chaney and Ben Harris and former CFO Josh Brock, all of whom were arrested today on RICO and other criminal complaints. 🧵 These records only go back to 2016, but you can see that the founders definitely spread their wealth around to numerous #Oklahoma politicians, including this year's two major gubernatorial candidates before they were opponents - Stitt and Hofmeister, as well as former AG Hunter

When a politician or one of their sycophants tells you “now is not the time” to talk or ask about the causes of a tragedy that just happened, it almost always means it’s definitely the right time to ask/talk about it. It’s a bad faith response. 🧵 First, it attempts to shame/shut down the person asking the question, as if they are somehow disrespecting the victims, while allowing the politician/toadie to appear above the fray, and gets them off the hook to give a substantive answer to the question.

In his state of the state address today, Gov. Stitt touted SB1647, The Oklahoma Empowerment Act by Sen. Greg Treat. The bill is actually a model school choice bill pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council. Here's the ALEC model: alec.org/model-policy/t… And here's SB1647: webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22…

During the course of my research for the new @readfrontier McGirt v Oklahoma site, I was struck again & again by how similar some of the arguments for Indian removal were to the complaints we hear today in regard to the McGirt ruling. Hear me out…(thread) interactive.readfrontier.org/mcgirt-v-oklah… For those who know only the broad strokes of how the eastern tribes came to be in Oklahoma, the reason is often boiled down to White people seized Indian land and moved the tribes west on the Trail of Tears, which is true but…

Thread: Today, @readfrontier launched the McGirt v. Oklahoma site, which contains information about each of the (so far) six #Oklahoma American Indian tribes whose reservation status has been affirmed by the McGirt ruling last year. interactive.readfrontier.org/mcgirt-v-oklah… Since the ruling, there has been a great deal of confusion and little easily-accessible info about the tribal systems. This site is an effort to provide an info and resource hub for those who find themselves within the tribal legal system, as well as journalists and researchers.

Thread: Today, @readfrontier published a story about a Tulsa "church" that has no congregation and no house of worship, but was used to allow the org's president/pastor to avoid thousands of $ in property taxes, & to work with and #Oklahoma political action committee... The "church," Gateway Ministries, once had a congregation in Ada, from 2000 to 2014, when the church's president/pastor Jesse Leon Rodgers dissolved the congregation and moved to Tulsa five years ago. The church's equipment was sold by Rodgers at a yard sale...