Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma Watch is a non-profit organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism on important public-policy issues facing the state. Oklahoma Watch is non-partisan and strives to be balanced, fair, accurate and comprehensive. The reporting project collaborates on occasion with other news outlets. Topics of particular interest include poverty, education, health care, the young and the old, and the disadvantaged.
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The legislatively referred constitutional amendment does not change Oklahoma’s voter identification law, though critics fear it could have unintended consequences. -
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A 2024 Oklahoma Ethics Commission opinion approved allowing candidates and elected legislators to use campaign funds to cover some dependent care. Policies like these can help more women, who tend to be primary caregivers, seek public office. But few candidates seem to know it’s available. -
Families share stories of life after their loved ones were deported amid a surge of ICE arrests across the country. -
Oklahoma political candidates and outside groups are increasingly using texting, with its cheap cost and high open rate, as a campaign strategy. -
Since 2021, harm-reduction organizations have distributed hundreds of thousands of sterile needles and syringes to drug users across Oklahoma. -
Oklahoma City's Key to Home initiative successfully housed 65 of 75 people from one encampment within 90 days, but advocates say the housing voucher inspection process, a shortage of willing landlords and a lack of affordable units are slowing progress as more people fall into homelessness than are being housed. -
The Supreme Court’s denial of AG Drummond’s effort to intervene in a prominent State Farm bad faith case contains a silver lining: precise instructions from the Court on how the AG should file a new lawsuit against the insurance giant. -
As Congress debates the BUILD America 250 Act, a sweeping five-year transportation reauthorization proposal, Oklahoma officials and economic developers are watching closely. -
Oklahoma Watch, June 24, 2026
