Two Day Event for Leaders and Advocates in the Fight to End Human Trafficking
Tulsa, OK – The Demand Project is hosting the two-day Beyond Awareness Educational Summit 2025 on January 9-10, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency Tulsa Downtown. This event will bring together law enforcement, healthcare professionals, educators, trafficking survivors, community advocates and industry experts from across the country to engage in vital discussions on the intersections between emerging technology and sexual exploitation.
By Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin, Cherokee Nation
Analysis: Indian Country, just like the rest of America, has a choice to make in this election cycle.
One party wants to roll back excess regulation, shrink the administrative state, and promote personal agency and individual responsibility; the other side wants big government to dictate nearly every aspect of American life — from the car you can drive to how you can use your own land.
In my view, as a member of the Cherokee Nation, our Native values of tribal sovereignty and self-determination are best aligned with President Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party.
Abandoning the Base: How Ideological Litmus Tests Are Turning States Red
Analysis: The Democratic Party’s steady retreat from Michigan should serve as a cautionary tale of what happens when party leadership ignores its base. In 2016, Bernie Sanders won the Michigan primary in an upset over Hillary Clinton—an early warning sign of discontent that went largely unheeded. Sanders’ populist platform, focused on trade and economic fairness, resonated with Michiganders weary of the status quo. His win highlighted the disconnect between the party leadership and working-class voters, yet the DNC largely ignored it and continues to do so.
In 2016, while working for the DNC, I saw firsthand how badly Democrats underestimated Michigan voters. On a bus tour, several members of Congress warned that the party was losing ground across the state and pleaded for more support. Their concerns were dismissed, with the DNC claiming they were “all set.” The result was clear: Trump won Michigan, transforming a historically blue state into a battleground.
Joe Biden and Author Will Pierce (Photo: Fox News)
Oklahomans are an honest, straightforward, hardworking people, but our court system is deeply corrupt. Politicians come and go, but Courts run the horror show and the “reform” enacted in 1967 made it much worse. The Oklahoma judiciary leans so hard left that some law professors warn students that they will never make a living in law, if registered Republican or thought to be honestly conservative.
By the Grace of God, some lawyers “fight the good fight” regardless.
The Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Education and Executive Officer of the Oklahoma State Department of Education, Ryan Walters, today released a letter he sent to Vice President Kamala Harris dated yesterday, October 29. Walters demands reimbursement for the costs incurred by the state for illegal immigration. The estimate of Harris’ failure to stop criminal invasion over America’s borders is estimated to be a burden on Oklahoman taxpayers of $474,900,000.00 (four hundred seventy-four million, nine hundred thousand dollars) the estimate to date and growing.
Walters places this financial obligation squarely on the federal government writing in a release with the letter, “Kamala Harris’ Fiasco at the border has led directly to an enormous financial burden on all Americans, especially Oklahomans.
