Happy Independence Day from OCPA! 🇺🇸.Today, we honor the courage of our Founders and the enduring ideals of freedom and limited government. Let’s keep working to secure those blessings.

The California-style top‑two system proposed in SQ 836 doesn’t deliver—too often, it makes it harder for Oklahoma voters to find candidates who truly reflect their values and interests.

Does school choice work?.It depends on what people want from schools.

ICYMI: California-style activists are suing to overturn Oklahoma’s new initiative petition reforms—trying to undo hard-won protections for our election system.

In 2025, Oklahoma policymakers enacted a series of economic reforms that are also social-policy reforms. Strong families, meaningful work, and limited government all rise and fall together.

It’s time to hold professors and teachers accountable for continuing to use a discredited method.

Reviews of Medicaid spending across the nation indicate billions of dollars are being wasted on individuals who do not qualify for the welfare program, echoing similar findings in Oklahoma during a 2020 review.

This year, legislators provided more than $1 billion in appropriations to Oklahoma colleges and universities. That negates any need for tuition increases.

RT @brandondutcher: We should require everyone to shop at the heavily unionized government-owned-and-operated grocery store closest to thei….

It’s time for all state-funded universities to follow the lead of our legislators and the OSDE by fully abandoning debunked literacy programs and committing exclusively to phonics-based literacy reform.

Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols has signed an agreement with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation that prohibits city police and courts from prosecuting any alleged criminal who is a member of one of over 500 federally recognized tribes.

Oklahoma policymakers must continue to press for reading reforms—while also empowering parents to choose schools that enthusiastically embrace the science of reading.

A new report ranks Oklahoma among the 10 best states in the nation for parental empowerment and educational choice.

Oklahoma’s Medicaid expansion was sold on a promise to financially enrich state hospitals and improve Oklahomans’ health outcomes. Five years and billions of taxpayer dollars later, is it working?

The free market depends on informed choices. But if kids can’t read, they can’t choose wisely. Illiteracy is more than an education issue—it’s an economic one.

A trade loophole gives foreign tobacco companies tax refunds they never paid—hurting Oklahoma jobs. The U.S. House voted to repeal it. The U.S. Senate must follow.

In Sweden, I worked for 20 cents a paper—and I’m grateful. Early jobs teach more than just how to work—they teach how to grow. Don’t take that chance away with one-size-fits-all laws.

In a case involving minors who identify as transgender, Justice Clarence Thomas this week brilliantly rejected the notion that unelected experts should dictate constitutional interpretation or override legislative judgment.

For too long, conservatives have treated cultural and economic issues as separate arenas—but they are inseparably linked. OCPA’s Matt Oberdick takes a look at some policy wins from Oklahoma’s 2025 legislative session.

Oklahoma lawmakers have banned the use of the discredited “three-cueing” method of reading instruction in public schools. Yet OSU continued to tout a program that uses it—until OCPA’s reporting caused the school to change course.