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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 4
NOON
OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER
MULTIPLE SPEAKERS
INCLUDING
TONI HASENBACK
SENATOR DUSTY DEEVERS
JOURNALIST KATY SMITH
SENATOR KELLY HINES
JAKE MERRICK
TOPICS:
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1. TONI HASENBACK
WILL MAKE A MAJOR
ANNOUNCEMENT
| State Representative, Toni Hasenback, former educator, will make a major campaign announcement at the OCPAC Foundation meeting this Wednesday. | |
2. BATTLING MUSLIM INSURGENTS:
SENATOR DUSTY DEEVERS
| Senator Dusty Deevers understanding of the political threat Islam poses to America's governmental policy has provided him a national voice on the subject. Dusty will be with us to articulate the danger this political movement represents in Oklahoma, the nation, and to the world. | |
3. REMOVING MADURO:
HOW WE DID IT
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FORMER SPECIAL FORCES PILOT
SENATOR KELLY HINES
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Senator Hines will provide details on how this unit trains and the mechanics of the operation which will continue to be a major point of interest in 2026.
Hines served over seven years with the 160th Special Operations aviation Regiment (SOAR), the unit which captured Maduro.
Was it the right thing to do? Senator Hines says it was absolutely the right thing to do!
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4. GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE
JAKE MERRICK
| Former Senator and beloved radio host (Freedom 96.9 FM), Jake Merrick will talk to us about what he sees as Oklahoma's most important issues in the years to come. | |
5. KEYNOTE:
UNCOVERING THE INSIDE POLITICAL
STORIES IN OKLAHOMA POLITICS
& OKLAHOMA EDUCATION
KATY SMITH
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Katy Smith’s work has been featured on The Blaze, Fox News, NBC News, Newsweek, Christian Post, New York Post, Washington Post, MSNOW, National Desk, Washington Examiner, Daily Caller, Western Journal, Candace Owens, Joe Rogan.
This Wednesday, she tells the details of how the Department of Human Services has made a practice of illegally removing children from homes and placing them into unhealthy situations for a variety of unacceptable reasons.
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TOTALITARIAN
TEMPTATIONS
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In 2007 Jonah Goldberg published his book, Liberal Fascism. He wrote:
I have tried to write a book warning that even the best of us are susceptible to the totalitarian temptation.
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Authoritative totalitarianism in the Oklahoma Senate was never on public display more than it was last week when Senate Pro Tempore Lonnie Paxton initiated punitive measures against Senator Shane Jett for having filed SB 1640, a bill which called for more restrictive measures regarding alcohol consumption by Oklahoma Senators.
Find Shane Jett's bill (SB1640) here.
Find current rules about drinking
in the Senate chambers here.
Alcohol consumption by Senators during working hours is nothing new in Oklahoma.
Last week, one lobbyist remembered his college days as a volunteer in the Senate during the Gene Stipe era. His afternoon duties were comprised of taking liquor orders for the Senate.
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Clearly, with last week’s move to enforce Senate drinking codes, the shift in majority from Democrat to Republican has not meant a shift in the culture. At least, we have not eliminated those whose addiction unleashes the ferocity of Hell when threatened with the use of breathalyzers to test their capacity to serve as an Oklahoma lawmaker.
THIS BEGAN LAST YEAR (2025)
ON THE LAST DAY OF SESSION . . .
On Thursday, May 29, 2025, a number of non-drinking Senators reported to the Sergeant-at-Arms that there were inebriated Senators on the Senate floor. When senate Pro Tempore Lonnie Paxton chose to allow them to remain, Senator Jett requested a draft of his alcohol bill to Senate staff on Friday, May 30. He asked them also to do a press release.
IT TOOK SEVEN MONTHS
FOR THE POT TO BOIL . . .
The reaction against Senator Jett from Senate Pro Tempore Lonnie Paxton was not immediate. The explosion waited for seven months and it was ferocious. As someone reminded me yesterday, when you throw a rock into a group of dogs, the dog that barks is the dog you hit.
Actually, it was Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullen who last year drew the attention of the U.S. Senate to their own problems with alcohol abuse. You may watch that interesting little video here.
FYI:
The images below represent products not to my
knowledge found in the Senate offices.
I don't think there is an Oklahoma Senator Bourbon.
But there is a Kentucky Senator Bourbon!
I included them only to lighten the
heaviness of this article a bit!
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Rather than ask for discussion and a vote on the bill, Paxton engaged in what has become a media firestorm of accusations against the character of Senator Jett.
See the communique which found its
way to FOX News this weekend here.
| In response, Dr. Randy Groellner wrote two Senate Resolutions. SR25 addresses the inappropriate emotional response and vitriol from Senate Pro Tempore Paxton and SR 26 re-directs the Senators to do their duty to consider the bill before them in a sober and level-headed way. | |
As I think about the rage of Senator Lonnie Paxton to a proposal that is, in the context of American jurisprudence, without controversy, I can only reflect on the general decline in the Bible and Christianity from their position in 18th Century American education as the foremost in importance. This "tempest in a teapot" makes me think of the difficulty Oklahoma is having returning to these proven pillars of Western and American culture.
I opened with a note from Jonah Goldberg’s book Liberal Fascism. A closing thought in Goldberg's book is a note about how Hitler’s Germany, like America today, eviscerated Christianity from its cultural identity. Goldberg writes:
Christian morality was slowly purged from the schools, and teachers were instructed to base their moral teaching on ‘secular’ patriotic ideas.
| Removing full-orbed Christianity has been the game plan for America for more than a century. Below, Dr. Everet Piper addresses the topic of Christianity without a soul. But first, pastor Wade Burleson felt duty bound to comment on the assault on OCPAC Foundation Board member and Oklahoma Senator, Shane Jett. His article is next. | |
WADE BURLESON
"WADES IN" ON THE
OKLAHOMA SENATE
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In 2005, when I was accused of “gossip, slander, and lack of integrity” by leaders of a major national institution, I learned a lesson that never leaves a man who values truth: When you challenge a system that has grown comfortable with opacity, the first weapon used against you is character assassination, not principled argumentation.
Labels are cheaper than facts. Yet, labels are shouted louder than the facts.
This week, while in South Carolina, I read about Oklahoma Senator Shane Jett in the news. The language in the Oklahoman news articles sounded familiar. Too familiar.
Words like "division" and "lack of integrity," used against Senator Jett, are ad hominem. These words do not argue policy; they question character.
And when character becomes the battlefield, the public must slow down and look carefully—because smoke is often used to hide the fire of corruption.
Oklahomans are not naïve.
We are a people who know the difference between a political disagreement and a moral failing. We also understand that strong men who ask uncomfortable questions or press for institutional reform are rarely praised by those who benefit from the status quo.
I have known Oklahoma Senator Shane Jett for years. He is not reckless with words, nor careless with duty. His background in U.S. Naval intelligence did not train him to sow chaos; it trained him to analyze facts, weigh consequences, and protect the mission's integrity. Those habits do not vanish when a uniform is replaced by a suit. They become part of a man’s bones.
Division is sometimes the byproduct of honesty.
Transparency often irritates those who prefer shadows.
Integrity, ironically, is most questioned when it is most held.
History teaches us that organizations—religious, political, or corporate—do not drift toward clarity.
They drift toward comfort.
It takes a person willing to endure criticism to redirect them toward accountability. Such people are rarely celebrated in the moment. They are often resisted. Sometimes removed. Almost always misunderstood—until time renders its verdict.
Oklahomans have long memories.
We watch patterns, not press releases. We know that integrity is not proven by titles held, gavels wielded, or letters circulated. Integrity is proven over years of consistent service, disciplined speech, and a willingness to stand alone when principle demands it.
When smoke screens dissipate, character remains.
When the air clears, citizens recognize the difference between a man who divides for power and a man who disrupts for principle's sake.
Oklahoma needs men of courage like Senator Shane Jett.
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Dr. Piper's comments on national events last week appears below.
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DR. EVERETT PIPER
Sunday, February 1, 2026
PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANS
ARE FROGS IN THE KETTLE
| This week, a friend sent me an article and asked for my opinion. The author of the essay in question is a “progressive Christian” named Tripp Fuller. His column is a long, verbose tome titled, “Bonhoeffer’s Warning, Unheeded: The Moral Collapse of White Evangelicalism.” | |
Painful though it was, I read all 7,300 words of Mr. Fuller’s musings and here’s what he said in a nutshell. Today’s “white evangelicals” are like the German Christians of the 1930s, and, like them, we are “sequentially complicit” in the evils of a Nazi regime. In other words, America’s white evangelicals are “frogs in the kettle” whose consciences have been slowly “boiled” by our moral compromise with the Republican Party.
That’s it. Mr. Fuller could have saved himself a lot of words and barrels of ink and just said, “If you want to know what’s wrong with America, look no further than ‘white evangelicals.’ Their sellout to the GOP is the cause of all that ails us.”
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Am I the only one who gets weary of the hypocritical duplicity of oxymoronic “Christians” like Mr. Fuller? I mean, seriously, how could such a self-declared “scholar” be so clueless?
Has it never crossed his mind that millions of “white evangelicals” vote for Republicans for a variety of reasons other than superficial political alignment?
Never mind that the party Mr. Fuller and his progressive sycophants favor supports government collectivism over individual responsibility, drag queens over the dignity of women, and the sexual indoctrination of children over the innocence of little boys and girls.
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Never mind that they align with those who champion illegal immigrants over the blue-collar citizens in Springfield, OH, who are being overrun by the crime and vagrancy of these imported masses.
Never mind that Mr. Fuller’s politics favor illegal gangs over the working-class Hispanic Americans in Aurora, Colorado, who are afraid to leave their apartments because another country’s murderous thugs have taken over their neighborhoods and streets.
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Never mind that Democrats seem to care more about the “rights’ of those who have entered our country illegally than they do about young women who are afraid to go for a jog in the local park for fear of being raped and murdered.
Never mind that this is a party that seems to think running over a federal officer with your car in Minneapolis is justified, while singing hymns outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Tennessee is not.
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Never mind that Democrats at the highest level of government have specifically labeled anyone who champions traditional sexual morality, school choice, parental rights, secure borders, and religious freedom to be a “national security threat” while at the same time they laud the “peaceful protests” of BLM and ANTIFA.
Never mind all this.
How is it possible that the smart folks like Mr. Fuller are so deluded? How can they be so blind?
How can they not see that “white evangelicals” (as well as those who are Black, Hispanic, Native, and Asian) vote Republican because we believe women are biological facts, that antisemitism is wrong, and that Marxism is evil?
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How can they not see that we vote Republican because we can read and have thereby concluded that the Green New Deal is not only anti-science but also anti-human, Orwellian, and insane?
How can they not see that we vote Republican because we understand what a fascist is and what a Nazi isn’t and they apparently don’t?
How can they not see that we vote Republican because we are appalled by the racism of Critical Race Theory and the divisive agenda of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
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I could go on and on, but the point is clear.
What Tripp Fuller’s long-winded, condescending essay really tells us more than anything else is that he and his acolytes, i.e., his tribe of “progressive Christians,” are the ones being slowly cooked in the proverbial pot, much more so than the conservative “white evangelicals” they bemoan.
The fact that this guy can't see that he’s the poster child for the "sequential complicity" that he pedantically criticizes is nothing short of stunning. My land, he just spent 7,300 words blathering on about the moral compromise of "white evangelicals” while apparently blind to his own rampant moral compromise.
These progressives could save themselves a lot of words by simply quoting Pogo: "We have met the enemy, and it is us."
A good dose of self-awareness never hurt anybody. These proudly deconstructed “Christians” (and I use that term loosely) would all do well to go back and reread Matthew 7:5. "You hypocrites, first take the log out of your own eye..."
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DECEMBER 3 MEETING:
SAMANTHA FULNECKY INTERVIEW
With OCPAC Foundation President Bob Linn and Senator Shane Jett
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Watch Samantha Fulnecky interview here.
Note:
Senator Shane Jett was pointed in his query and his followup remarks.
Shane Jett's first question begins at: 9:38 mark.
Shane's blistering salvo to the University begins at the 11:21 mark.
Watch the full meeting here.
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LEGISLATIVE COMMENDATION
GABE WOOLEY
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GABE WOOLEY here
Full Meeting here
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WES LANE, PRESIDENT
SALT & LIGHT LEADERSHIP TRAINING
SALLT
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Wes Lane was the keynote speaker and once he finished, it was clear why he has had so much success challenging the church to step forward in boldness.
Watch Wes Lane's presentation here.
Watch the full meeting here.
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We anticipated the professionalism of Jen Nicole's voice, but her moving presentation of the Christmas season was breathtaking. She opened the meeting by leading us in "O Come All Ye Faithful" and brought tears to our eyes as she followed Wes Lane singing "O Holy Night."
Watch the presentation here.
Watch the full meeting here.
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TPUSA
Students were in attendance
Supporting Samantha
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SHANE JETT
MESSAGE TO POLITICAL CLASS
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Senator Shane Jett here
Watch the full meeting here.
BOB LINN
PRESIDENT OF
OCPAC FOUNDATION
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I encourage each of you to support our mission.
To get started, we are suggesting:
The Century Club
To join, mail a cancelled check to:
OCPAC FOUNDATION
P.O. Box 721212
Norman, OK 73070
Your $100 per month donation will help support the development of the Foundation’s work to widen our audience and outreach capabilities with quality meetings and enhanced educational video content.
Our beginning financial goals will allow us to secure the initial permanent staff positions necessary to the function of a foundation with ambitions to change the world.
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We are in desperate need of returning
our nation and our state to Biblical foundations.
Thank you for your activism.
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