Wednesday, April 30th, during the regular ROPE Report podcast, Jenni and Michael discussed Senator Kendal Sacchieri’s Senate Resolution 18.
Here is the Introduction: A Resolution affirming Oklahoma’s right to opt out of the federal REAL ID system; supporting the state’s obligation to offer residents a meaningful choice between REAL ID-compliant and -noncompliant identification; and opposing unwarranted collection and sharing of personal data.
As a person who has been VERY CONCERNED about the religious aspects of the REAL ID, I’ve also been angered that Oklahoma did away with the protections offered citizens in legislation from 2007 that would have delayed REAL ID implementation for Oklahomans. Unfortunately, our legislature sold us out to the feds in 2017 with a bill former Congresswoman, Governor Mary Fallin (R?), was only too happy to sign so that Oklahomans ‘could’ fly.
Though we have a law currently on the books (47 OK Stat § 6-110.3) that says essentially the same thing as the resolution put forth by Sacchieri, it is my hope that this is the first step in moving the legislature toward a RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION FOR ANY BIOMETRIC DATA OF ANY KIND.
NO American citizen should have to provide biometric ID to the government for ANYTHING, let alone travel. If you don’t know anything about REAL ID, please tune in to our podcast, Friday, May 16th (at 9am) as we welcome REAL ID expert, Twila Brase from the Citizens Council for Health Freedom. In the meantime, CALL YOUR SENATOR AND ASK THEM TO HEAR THIS RESOLUTION!
Norman public schools recently sent out a survey to parents to gauge their opinion of the district’s in-school smartphone policy, anticipating the passage of legislation that would severely restrict the use of phones by students during school hours. From “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree”, parents are asked whether phones should be put away all day, used only during passing periods, used only for emergencies, et cetera. I opted for the strictest policy options given, but even then, I don’t believe it’s enough.
“Phone” is an insidious euphemism for these pocket-sized, high-powered computers that can be used to access the most explicit content imaginable. For the first time in human history, the most degenerate content in existence is instantly within our children’s reach, and, being children, they search it out. We as a society have consciously turned a blind eye to this hideous tech revolution, telling ourselves that kids aren’t accessing this garbage, and only using their phones for their intended purpose. We’re lying to ourselves, and instead of confronting this crisis directly, we’re allowing it to unfold without a whimper of protest, with catastrophic consequences for our kids’ developing minds.
The phones, though, aren’t even the worst part of this grotesque tech intrusion.
School-issued laptops have become the primary gateway for adolescents to access pornography, explicit music, and other degenerate content, and nothing at all is being done about it. At NPS, all middle school and high school children are issued laptops to be used for classwork. The problem is that these laptops also access the internet, and despite assurances from the school district that internet “filters” are in place, kids are able to access explicit content, corrupting them and setting them up for debilitating digital addictions for the rest of their lives.
Students also take these laptops home with them, using them on internet connections without any filters in place at all. If all NPS laptops were audited to find out how students have been using them, what would we discover?
A story from January details how parents learned that their 4th grader was able to access “hardcore porn” on his school-issued laptop.
In a post published at HoweverItHappened, a parent described finding pornography on their 9 year old son’s laptop. The parent locked down all devices, and discovered that their son had searched for this content while at school.
““We feel almost robbed of our son’s innocence,” said the boy’s mom, who asked to remain anonymous. “It’s been really hard, I’ll be honest, on me for the past week.” Another parent, who also asked to remain anonymous to protect his family’s privacy, said his 9-year-old third-grader had also accessed extremely graphic content, mostly through Twitter.”
In 2017, auditors found that students at a Mississippi public school were using their school laptops to access explicit content.
Explicit content isn’t the only problem. Many parents are infuriated to discover that their kids have been mindlessly browsing the web while at school, resulting in plummeting grades. Memphis parents found that their daughter had been watching YouTube all day long while in class, and apparently the teachers were either unable or unwilling to put a stop to it.
While the Children’s Internet Protection Act requires schools to monitor student’s usage of district-provided devices, it is clear that no amount of “monitoring” will solve this issue.
The current conversation surrounding internet-connected devices in our schools is fundamentally flawed. The question shouldn’t be “when or where”, but whether students should have access to this technology at all while on campus. They clearly should not. School should be a sanctuary away from our tech-saturated society. Students need to learn to live without their devices for at least 8 hours a day. If many can’t, then we need to confront the fact that these devices have become highly-addictive drugs, and begin treating them as such.
The surest way to remove laptops from our schools is to force the district to perform an audit. We would be so horrified at what was discovered that I believe our kids would return to pencil-and-paper learning within a week. The only problem now is how to force the NPS to perform the audit.
Through unrestricted access to explicit content, these devices destroy our children’s innocence before they’ve even begun puberty. And these devices are everywhere. The fact that our schools are giving them to students means that schools themselves are facilitating the destruction of the innocence of America’s school children. This is a national crisis that has been ignored long enough.
The solution isn’t “more filters” or “enhance monitoring” of student’s devices. It is the total removal of this technology from our schools, root and branch. We’ve allowed a Big Tech takeover of our schools without a single objection, and the result is horrific: children developing a life-long addiction to these devices and the content that they find. This may be Big Tech’s real goal: the creation of life-time customers. We must face this reality now, for our the sake of our children’s mental and emotional wellbeing, and their future.
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Addendum: ROPE Report dealt with this in our interview with Kansas parent, Denise Roberts.
Friday, April 11th, our friend and stellar researcher, Mary, with V1SUT Vantage came on to talk about tick-borne illnesses in Oklahoma. I was really looking forward to this because, back in the early 90’s I worked for the Oklahoma State Health Department as an Epidemiologist for a couple years.
During my time there, I wrote a paper, “Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases in Oklahoma”, which won the Charlotte S. Leebron Award from the Oklahoma State Medical Association. This is an actually hysterically funny thing to discover, when you get to one part in the video and you hear me misremember the type of organism causing tick diseases as a protozoan and not a bacteria! I’m going to plead “the hard drive is full”, but good grief THAT was embarrassing! LOL
To see the full video, find it on our Rumble and YouTube channels. You won’t want to miss the full podcast. It was SO informative – in a scary, horrifying way!
Also very interesting is the FACT that during the time I was working toward my Bachelor’s and Masters in Biology – nor during the time I was employed as an Epidemiologist at the OSDH – was I ever taught, nor did I read, or have information shared with me at all, that matched what Mary said during the podcast about the etiology of tick diseases. How believable and unbelievable all at the same time! It’s really SHOCKING, frankly, what we’re finding has been hidden from us by this government that steals our money to keep itself running!
Basically – and to recap the episode – Mary told us that tick-borne diseases are really bioweapons created on Plum Island, New York, by many of the Nazi scientists the US government gave safe harbor. Just think. To many, this sounds completely nuts, but remember, so many people STILL won’t believe that COVID-19 was a manufactured bioweapon even though it’s now pretty conclusively KNOWN to have originated in the Wuhan laboratory in China!
It’s also an odd thing to think that, of all the experimentation we know, AND SUSPECT, the US has done with bioweaponry, Americans wouldn’t think any of it would either get loose, or be specifically used on us. Yet so many refuse to believe.
In this clip, Mary talks about the history of tick-borne diseases. It’s a short video, but fascinating!
In the next clip, Mary describes the spread of Alpha-Gal, the syndrome produced in the Lone Star tick, by Lyme disease. Unfortunately, this syndrome is EXPLODING here in the US, with one of the main symptoms being that people who are bitten can become ‘allergic’ to eating meat, sometimes becoming either violently ill with gastric symptoms or even histamine reactions that can cause anaphylaxis! In fact, I have a friend, whose mother is required to carry an Epi-pen everywhere in the event she accidentally eats something that might have touched or otherwise contain a meat product.
In this video, she talks about a scientist, S Matthew Liao, who actually gives a Ted Talk indicating that science could save the planet from climate change if we could make humans allergic to meat, and wow, isn’t it amazing that the Lone Star tick is the vector for a bacteria that seems to cause that in some people bitten. Good grief! It’s unbelievable where we have come in the world today. I’m actually happy my grandparents were dead. All of them would have had a fit to learn about THIS information.
If you’d like to read more, find Mary’s article on her Substack, here. And don’t forget to SHARE!
April 11th, the Department of Homeland Security released a short clip of its Trump-appointed head, Kristi Noem, commanding that all Americans must obtain a REAL ID before May 7th, in order to board domestic flights and enter federal buildings. These national ID cards, in her words, “prevent fraud and enhance security. Please do your part to protect our country.” To hear Noem speak like this, utilizing the mummified vernacular of Bush-era neoconservatives, two decades after the REAL ID Act was first passed, brings back a hideous nostalgia. How is anyone still taking this seriously?
REAL ID was passed into law in 2005 amid the hysteria of the War on Terror, a hysteria we’ve long ago emerged from. Despite this, DHS and the TSA are still hellbent on forcing a national ID card upon us. Why? Surely not to “prevent fraud and enhance security”. We’ve done just fine the past twenty years, so why do we need it now? The answer is we don’t. But they, our federal government do. They want all our information compiled in one tidy bundle, linking all state driver’s licenses together in one big database, for their ease in accessing all of our information immediately.
In response to Noem’s announcement and the coming deadline, Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie posted on X:
“Real ID isn’t needed and won’t stop terrorists from hijacking planes. Most of the 9/11 hijackers held Saudi, UAE, Egyptian, or Lebanese passports. Real ID is a national standard and database of IDs that is primarily a tool for control of Americans. Trump shouldn’t enforce it.”
Resistance against REAL ID has been surprisingly vigorous over the past two decades. At one time, 25 states rejected the notion of a mandatory federal ID card, and announced their noncompliance. 15 states had laws on the books prohibiting compliance with the REAL ID Act. But as the years went on, non-compliant states began to lift their ban on REAL ID, including Oklahoma in 2017. It’s mind-boggling that agencies that should have been abolished years ago are bloated and thriving to this day, and wielding a vulgar and unchecked amount of power over the rights and privacy of American citizens.
Noem’s ridiculous announcement that the Trump administration would begin enforcing the REAL ID Act is very alarming. Is Trump’s “Golden Age” ushering in a return of domestic authoritarianism? The DHS and the TSA were products of War on Terror hysteria, and have long outstayed their welcome. The TSA famously has never captured a single terrorist, but has succeeded tremendously in humiliating travelers with strip-searches, while stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in items from luggage from the moment of creation. A quick Google search produces endless news articles of TSA agents pilfering anything and everything from unwitting fliers. If you’re a frequent flier, you know first-hand that the TSA agents aren’t exactly the best and brightest among society. More often than not, they look and behave like thugs, drunk on the power trip they receive from barking commands all day. Despite this, the TSA is now acting as the DHS’ muscle, enforcing REAL ID at our airport gates for domestic flights.
Most Americans have no idea the scope of danger inherent in REAL ID, hence their nonchalant attitude. “Compliance” could mean anything, depending on the year, the political temperature, or whether or not we’ve found ourselves in another national emergency. Personal records required for a REAL ID could, in the future, contain information on gun ownership, vaccination and medical records, employment, wealth, and all manner of biometrics. The list of requirements for compliance will grow steadily each year. Just watch. The list of “checkpoints” throughout the country will only grow. For now, it’s federal buildings and airports. In the near future, it could (and probably will) be the doctor’s office, your job, your children’s school. If we awake to find ourselves in the midst of another pandemic panic, what will DHS do with its power over our ID cards? It doesn’t take much imagination to see that we’d exist at the mercy of the federal government at the merest hint of a national crisis.
REAL ID means the federal government has us by the throat. Failure to comply means a revocation of your Big Brother hall pass that you previously used to navigate Uncle Sam’s panopticon. You will no longer exist as a functioning member of society. In this sense, REAL ID makes an American social credit system much more a possibility than before. A central bank digital currency moves much closer to reality as well. The type of control that the federal government is striving for can’t have the loopholes or exit ramps that the cash economy provides.
Trump’s victory has lulled many conservatives into indifference over privacy-obliterating legislation like REAL ID. If Biden had been re-elected, their tune might be different, but because their team is in control, there’s no need to worry. Let’s hope that conservatives reawaken to these very real issues of privacy and freedom before its too late.
Ask yourself: does our government care more about protecting us, or controlling us? This is rhetorical. The sole reason for the REAL ID is to enhance our government’s ability to monitor and compel obedience from every American citizen. REAL ID makes us less safe, because it dramatically diminishes our freedom, exposing us to the whims and insane ideologies of anyone who gains power in the future. The Constitution exists to prevent this sort of thing, do you think Kristi Noem’s heard of it?
Michael and I were excited to welcome the new Oklahoma County GOP Chair to the program on Wednesday (4.9.25) to talk about her plans and vision for the Oklahoma County GOP going foward.
We’ve had Kayla on several times previously to talk about insurance issues because of her work as an Independent Insurance Agent with her firm 317 Insurance Advisors, but this was an entirely different podcast.
It was great to hear Kayla’s vision for the OKCOGOP. You should watch the entire live broadcast to get the full flavor (YouTube, Rumble), but she has two main foci – one is communication and the other bottom-up leadership.
In the clip below she talks a bit about the fact that she wants to grow the party, but she doesn’t want prospective Republicans just checking a box – she wants them to believe in the Republican ideals.
We also talked a lot about communication. There has been such a divide in the Republican party for so long that she wants to make sure people are communicating and not just talking at one another. I’ve long said that leading Republicans is like herding cats. Everyone is an individualist with their own way of doing things to the point that sometimes even the things we should be working together on get waylaid because of someone else’s idea of the way it should be! The commies on the other hand follow each other bleating all the way off the cliff!!! Communication needs to build up the party and not tear it down. We don’t have the time for that!
In this clip, Kayla talks about the necessity to stop just griping on social media and start communicating with our legislators. If they don’t know how we feel, they’ll vote how they want – or worse – how the LOBBYISTS want!
We also talked a bit about the fact that our legislature killed a very good bill against the spreading of HUMAN CRAP on farmland (SB3). Maybe – if more of us had spoken out on that issue, we wouldn’t have to worry about whether that hamburger we’re eating was fed on hay grown in HUMAN CRAP. Truly. It is important to not just gripe – but to DO SOMETHING.
It was clear from visiting with her, that Kayla – and her Vice-Chair Donna Rice-Johnson (whom I’ve known since we were about 10! LOL) have a plan and are ready to execute that plan. If you haven’t been involved in a while for one reason or another, give it another try. Go to the OKCOGOP website, or contact Kayla directly at chair@okcogop.com to get on the email list and to find out if there’s anything you can do to help her – and Donna – get things off to a great start!
Oh, don’t get me started on this two-tiered committee system dreamed up by the House leadership this year. If you haven’t seen my critique of the House on Organizational Day, you might want to take a bit to at least listen to that. It was a phenomenal specter of what we’ve now seen as the House and Senate begin to hear each other’s bills and head for the legislative finish line.
You might even follow that up by reading this overview of what happened to at least one of our House members this year – not a single one of Representative Jim Shaw’s bills were heard on the floor. Not. A. One. In fact, I make the argument that, in a way, everyone in his district should throw their own little Boston Tea Party because I couldn’t find a better current day example of Taxation Without Representation. Honestly, disgusting – but again – I think those of us who have watched politics for a time could have seen that coming.
Navigating even one committee in the House’s smoke-and-mirrors system is challenging enough, especially when certain privileged legislators can kill bills without proper consideration. Navigating two committees, however, is mighty difficult for grassroots legislation lacking institutional support. Such legislation will most certainly struggle to pass through the closed-door decisions of two separate committee chairmen, either of whom can single-handedly halt a bill’s progress.
This essentially created a new layer through which grassroots legislation could be killed without the people closest to the Speaker having to get their hands dirty by refusing to give the bill a hearing before the full house.
So, back to Murphy’s article? What was that case-in-point bill, killed by the system?
It was House Bill 1043. And it was a vital proposal, based on an already enacted Florida law, that closes the loophole by which illegal invaders of our nation are using blue-state driver’s licenses to drive on Oklahoma roads.
Nineteen states reportedly offer driving privileges to the invaders, including New Mexico and Colorado, states that border Oklahoma.
The need for House Bill 1043 became very apparent when Oklahoma City Democrat Arturo Alonso-Sandoval, in declaring his opposition to the reform, reportedly claimed that “many” are using out-of-state licenses.
If Alonso-Sandoval is correct, Oklahoma’s roads are likely buzzing with those who have been enabled by blue states to bypass our driving laws and regulations. They are presumably living in Oklahoma but aren’t following the requirement that Oklahoma residents must obtain an Oklahoma driver’s license to drive on our roads. They’ve found a blue-state-enabled loophole and once again, a way to get around the laws and regulations by which the citizens are governed.
This disrespect for our laws, is sure to have consequences. Anyone who has been in Oklahoma City traffic recently, has no doubt taken note that something is now very wrong: it’s almost impossible to drive through that city without encountering an insane driver who has no regard for the traffic laws—almost as if they have no reason to respect the laws or fear of their enforcement.
House Bill 1043, by Jenkins of the House and Bullard of the Senate, would have closed that blue-state-enabled loophole by refusing to recognize these illegal alien driver’s licenses.
The bill was heard in the public safety committee where it was unanimously approved.
At that point, the legislation should have advanced to the house floor for a hearing before the full house.
But that’s where Hilbert’s new system—and one tyrannical super committee chairman—stood in the way. That chairman, Robert Manger, recently eked out a narrow election win after declaring to his constituents that he was 100% conservative. How, or what he based that on, is unclear, but it was just enough of a head fake to eke out a victory. But what is known, is that according to The Oklahoma Constitution’s Conservative Index—which since 1979 has been Oklahoma’s gold standard for gauging the voting of legislators—Manger actually scored a mere 60% conservative score in 2024.
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But no, the self-declared 100% conservative, Manger, simply refused to as much as give the bill a hearing in his committee.
Thus House Bill 1043 provides us with the perfect case-in-point of how Kyle Hilbert’s new committee system is functioning. It’s another new hallway of smoke and mirrors added to the already crazy house that is the House of Representatives.
So, if after reading that, you can’t see your way to become involved in the 2026 elections in order to get some of the worst offenders of this system out, then please move to another state – like Colorado or California – they’re already ruined. In the meantime, follow those of us reporting on grassroots efforts and let’s push back with everything we have. This is getting nuts.
Friday, April 4th, Michael and I welcomed Jason Hardaway to the show. Jason is a Constitution Coach trained through the Patriot Academy – an organization spearheaded by attorney and former Texas Representative, Rick Green.
Jason got involved in learning more about his government when he became a Precinct Chair at his Republican county convention in 2020. He had no idea what a Precinct Chairman did, but he also realized he didn’t know much about government – including the Constitution – so he set out to educate himself.
One day, he went to an event with David Barton and was able to see the Constitution Alive series that David has. That excited Jason and he went home and started having friends and family come to his house to watch the videos and discuss the founding of the country. About a year ago, he became a Constitution Coach with Patriot Academy and he’s never looked back!
In the video below, Jason explains why America is NOT a Democracy, America is governed via a Constitutional Republic. If you want to share this video, you can find it on our YouTube channel. Chances are, we ALL know someone who is completely misinformed about this and needs a good bit of explanation on the topic!
We talked about so many different issues during the time Jason was on! I know it’s two hours, but you should really take the time to go back and watch the entire video if you can. You can find it here on our YouTube and Rumble channels. In the next clip, we talked to Jason about the fact that we don’t even use the Constitution in the Judicial Branch the way it was supposed to have been used. Instead of lining up laws with the Constitution itself to determine if they’re ‘constitutional’ or not, now we use CASE LAW to make those determinations and it’s just wrong.
One of the things we talked quite a lot about was the Supreme Court deciding whether or not the state of Oklahoma can provide taxpayer funds to run a Catholic online charter school. Michael and I disagree with this notion entirely and we talked about what the Constitution says about that and what the Founders would say if they were here today (and not rolling over in their graves fast enough to create the gravity for earth). In the clip below, all three of us chimed in on different aspects of the Separation of Church and State argument. Again, I just put together several different segments from the full video to make this clip, it’s best to watch the whole video to get the full idea of our arguments.
Please, look up Patriot Academy online to find out what they can offer you in terms of education on the Constitution and our Republican form of government. Also, if you have any questions for Jason, or would like to attend one of his classes, email him here coachmentorhardaway@gmail.com. And please don’t forget, Jason has a new class that he’ll be starting up on May 5th called “Biblical Literacy” at the Woodland Hills Baptist Church in Newcastle beginning at 6pm in the evenings. If you’d like to attend, reach out to Jason! He’ll be happy to sign you up!
President Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” If we don’t learn about the Constitution and our Republican form of government and THEN if we don’t make our elected officials follow that path, we will not recover and it will be US telling our grandkids what it was like when we were once a free people.
Wednesday, April 2nd (2025), former Oklahoma State School Board Member, Kendra Wesson, joined us to talk about all the things – what she felt like after Governor Stitt (King Stitt) fired her from the school board, how she got the news, the frustration she felt at her firing – was it for political drama and NAEP scores, or because she was ‘hurting’ kids – and what she learned from her years of serving.
Our conversation was wide-ranging and covered a lot of ground between politics and education and I truly suggest you watch the whole thing. It really was a great interview. You can find the full interview on our Rumble and YouTube channels.
Because I’m still angry about her firing, I would just like to remind everyone that, King Stitt – as I like to call him, because Kings do whatever they want whenever they want, without a care in the world as to the ramifications – has a truly ‘off-with-your-head’ governing style (don’t forget, one of his houses burned down so he fired the head of the Oklahoma Forestry Service much to the anger of Oklahoma firefighters who apparently loved the guy) and because of this, removed one of the hardest workers in the state from that board. I hope that fact is NEVER forgotten. I hope that’s his legacy – that he acts first, doesn’t get all the facts and does what he wants. But enough of my rant about our lame duck governor.
At any rate, as usual, Kendra was exceptionally poised and graceful throughout the interview and it was clear that her time on the Board gave her perspective she hadn’t had previously. We talked about school boards several times – and those are the things we’ll cover in the clips because it’s such important information. For example, in the clip below we all talk about how important school boards – and even other boards. Why are ‘regular’ people not on these boards? Why not moms and dads? Why is it always business associates or cronies? Kendra and I both have seen many people sitting on boards who don’t VALUE their job. It’s just padding their resume. Few on a board really do the work. And since the boards aren’t doing the work, that puts the oneness on CITIZEN to go to ALL board meetings to keep the members accountable to doing their jobs. “It’s just one meeting a month,” as Kendra says!
In the clip below, Kendra calls us all out – school board elections are one time a month, but we should be going to the meetings EVERY MONTH. Holding the board accountable is the job of The People. If we only show up at election time, it’s like coming into a play after intermission! We’re far, far behind at that point. It’s a YEAR ROUND JOB.
Though is is truly an AWFUL miscarriage of justice that Kendra Wesson is no longer on the State School Board, she has learned a whole lot in the process and that will not only make her stronger, but allow her to make US stronger as she educates us on her lessons!
In fact, we’ll have Kendra back with Sherrie Conley on Wednesday, May 21st! You won’t want to miss that!
