I mean, seriously OVER IT. Our tax dollars are stolen from us and then used for everything from giving tax incentives to PRIVATE COMPANIES like OG&E (yet our electric bills keep going up) and Google (so they can keep trying to put data centers in our backyards) to backing each other up to keep an abusive husband – Representative Ty Burns – from having to suffer the same consequences any of us We The People would in that same situation, to preventing We The People’s choice for House Representative in District 32 (the author of “the plan”) from hearing any of the bills he proposed to solve the issues We The People elected him to solve.
Pause. Let’s watch the video of gubernatorial hopeful Drummond telling a voter he’s “not a politician, I’m a grown ass adult” and “I don’t have to have your vote“:
That was fun wasn’t it! Sounds like a representative of We The People, huh? ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Well, today, We The People guy, Representative Jim Shaw, released what he’s calling his “Save Oklahoma Plan” – a plan to which 21 liberty-minded organizations – including this one! – have signed on to promote because we believe it will help bring liberty to Oklahoma’s We The People. You can see his announcement on X below (if you’re not following Shaw, take a second to do that before you go on…).
Criminalize hostile foreign ownership of (Oklahoma) land
Mandatory E-Verify for all Oklahoma businesses
End perpetual toll roads and expose the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority
Stop discrimination based on vaccination status
End taxpayer funded lobbying
Just to be clear: these are all things that many of our Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma have told us they – like We The People – want, but when push comes to shove and a good bill is authored, it’s either not heard in committee, or when brought to the floor, these lawmakers VOTE WITH THE CHAMBER, or whatever lobbying arm is funding their campaigns.
THIS HAS TO STOP.
We so appreciate Jim Shaw’s stalwart leadership and those of us who have endorsed this plan will be working hard to make sure it all comes to fruition in 2026 – the year of MANY ELECTIONS!
The plan can be found in full below. Please pass on this information to others that you know because We The People need to back this plan and see it through if we’re going to see change on these issues.
Join with us and let’s send a message to the ‘leadership’ in our state capitol that WE’RE OVER IT with the elitist, political-class rule of our state as though we’re an oligarchy instead of a REPUBLIC!
One day, while surfing the web for information relating to green energy, I stumbled onto the fact that Oklahoma has the largest carbon capture plant in the United States and the second largest in the world.
Immediately, I contacted friends in Osage county – where the plant is located – and no one I spoke with knew anything about it at all; from long-time politically active folks who get around in their community regularly, to the two County Commissioners I spoke with, to the outgoing Sheriff, to the county clerk. NO ONE had any idea that the LARGEST CARBON CAPTURE PLANT IN THE NATION was right down the road in Shidler off an old oil company road.
Interestingly, neither the Corporation Commission nor DEQ knew much about it either according to the employees I spoke with and neither one of them knew who regulated the site to keep Oklahomans safe from accidental discharge of CO2 (which has injured people in Satartia, Mississippi).
This all makes complete sense when reading a Senator Dave Rader-authored bill that passed through the Energy Committee this session to give the Corporation Commission jurisdiction over carbon capture facilities. So who’s monitoring the CO2 capture facility now? Does our Governor just do these deals on his own and not worry one little bit about the safety or security of Oklahomans? It surely seems that, in Oklahoma, it’s the ‘green’ energy wild west where everything goes so long as we’ve got an “all of the above” energy policy to push forward.
In fact, I only learned anything about the facility at all because I found a video of Governor Stitt excitedly congratulating the company Heimdal for the creation of the carbon capture plant, ‘Bantam’, on Heimdal’s LinkdIn page. Heimdal is the brainchild of a 30-something named, Marcus Lima – a chemist from Norway.
Lima created Heimdal’s carbon capture technology through Y Combinator in 2021, specifically to take advantage of green energy handouts such as the IRA’s $180 per ton credit of CO2 that is captured and stored through at least 2032. Yes, you read that right. He started the process SPECIFICALLY to get the ‘free’ money.
After my article about Oklahoma’s carbon capture fame came out in the Federalist, a post on Marcus Lima’s LinkdIn page, caught me by surprise
These remarks were made after he read a serious article in a national online magazine.
Because I’m me, I commented on the post:
Not long after I posted this, I received a reply in my message box from Lima:
Either he’s a very considerate European, or someone suggested he respond to me and then delete the post. Either way, the original post has been deleted from his LinkdIn page. Note that in his response he mentions only the Native American populations. What about the ‘regular’ folk? Again, no one I spoke to knew anyone who knew anything about this ‘groundbreaking’ plant. This is telling.
I noted that in his post he lists his “fellow secretive luminaries” as Kevin Stitt, Scott M, Victoria Tran, John Podesta and James Lankford. We know Stitt, Scott M. is either Scott Mueller (briefly Secretary of Commerce and Workforce Development, who now works for Goldman Sachs), or Scott Mitchell (an Oklahoma broadcaster). Victoria Tran was the Deputy Secretary of Oklahoma Secretary of Energy & Environment at some point, but I can’t find her listed in that position any more. John Podesta is the creepy democrat political operative who’s worked for everyone from the Clintons to the Obamas and who served as Senior Advisor to President Biden for International Climate Policy from 2024 to 2025 after which he became the Chair of the leftist Center for American Progress. Then, of course, there’s our liberal Republican Senator Lankford, who has a lovely picture with Lima still up on Lima’s LinkdIn page.
He also has a photo of himself with the AG – “We discussed CLass VI well permitting and primacy for the State of Oklahoma, as well as Heimdal plans for DAC facilities in the State, with the launch of Bantam, as well as our expansion plans. It’s clear direct air capture (DAC) and carbon management broadly has an ambitious future and home in Oklahoma.”
I’m not sure what the AG has to do with any of that, but this was upsetting. He wants MORE Direct Air Capture (DAC) facilities in Oklahoma. Why? This has nothing to do with oil and gas exploration (although there is experimentation with injecting liquid CO2 into old wells as a way of fracking out new oil, instead of using salt water). This has everything to do with carbon credits and ‘sequestering’ CO2. In fact, in an article posted to Heimdal’s website but released by Bloomberg News, Lima says, “The world must cut greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible, and research shows reducing the use of fossil fuels is the fastest way to do so.”
Why in the world are we chasing after DAC technology in Oklahoma? This is the entire basis for the Carbon Credit scheme and the Green New Deal. This should be upsetting I would think – especially to REPUBLICANS as this whole thing is just a way to usher in a new economy based entirely on NOTHING. This whole technology is about nothing more than investors creating investment projects to make themselves more money.
We can almost forgive the Altman’s and Lima’s – as Rush Limbaugh is quoted as saying, “If you’re not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart; if you’re not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.” But our Governor should be expected to DO better – if not KNOW better – if not for his age, but for the fact that he should have advisors to dispense topical thoughts and a pulse on his constituency, listening to their desires. Yet he doesn’t. He rules Oklahoma like a King – on his own with advisors he picks himself and changes depending upon whether or not he likes what they have to say – look at the State School Board, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, his Energy and Environmental Secretary and the Oklahoma Veterans Commission – and these are but a few examples. This history does not at all indicate an affinity for Oklahomans, but a myopic, self-centered, elitist view of governing that can only acknowledge his constituency as “the little people”.
Here in Oklahoma, the only ones crying out about the continued shoving of the Green Agenda down our throats in a Red State are the CONSERVATIVE little people; land owners and rural people effected by CO2 pipelines that can break and discharge their deadly gas onto their livestock and families – farmers whose land can become ruined from the oil and fiberglass thrown down to the soil by fractured wind turbines – communities whose farmland is being usurped for huge solar panel installations that seed the ground with glass and toxic chemicals should they catch fire or be damaged by hail or a tornado, preventing local food from ever being grown there again.
Unfortunately, Oklahomans have tended to love these authoritarian types of Republican Governors, we can only hope to learn from our history and be wiser in 2026.
The full podcast can be found on YouTube and Rumble.
Friday, November 8th, Oklahoma Representative Justin “JJ” Humphrey joined us to talk about the endless roadblocks and political nonsense that has prevented him from getting a full investigation of Oklahoma’s DHS system.
Though many of us have heard about situations within Oklahoma’s DHS system that have made us cringe, none more so than the plight of the Wooley family now enshrined in the documentary Saving Clayton. The documentary details the events that have unfolded since the tragic death of one of the grandsons left in their care, which resulted in the removal of the other grandson by DHS in 2018. Sadly, though the Wooleys have continued to fight to have Clayton returned to them, he is STILL in the Oklahoma foster care system.
According to Humphrey there are many other similar situations playing out in OKDHS and though he has the evidence to request an investigation of the agency, he has been unable to do so himself as allowed by law. And even if there’s an argument as to whether or not Humphrey has the ability to request an OSBI investigation of the agency, the Governor has not, nor has AG Drummond, nor has the Speaker of the House Charles McCall. Why? Why not an investigation? What could THAT hurt? Couldn’t it only help by proving current allegations as false?
Humphrey makes this point in the clip below.
In the next clip, Humphrey talks about the Oklahoma SWAMP and how that creates issues for state agencies, transparency and children.
After the resignation of Oklahoma DHS director Deborah Shropshire, Governor Stitt moves one of his appointments from the Director of the Office of Juvenile Affairs, to that position. Jeffery Cartmell was Stitt’s appointment to OJA. The following is an excerpt from Stitt’s announcement of Cartmell’s appointment to DHS.
But Cartmell is a SWAMP creature of the most amazing kind. Look at the resume over which Stitt is so proud and waxes so eloquently – like so many SWAMP creatures, the man has barely ever been employed off the government teat – in Cartmell’s case, he survived in private employment for two whole years.
THIS is the kind of thing that is killing Oklahoma – multiple appointments to multiple government jobs of individuals who are friends or donors to Governor Stitt and/or Swamp creatures who have continually been in and around government. Where are The People in Stitt’s government? I have yet to find one – at least one that can be appointed and still manage to work for The People and not for our tall, but Napoleonic Governor.
Here’s Humphrey’s take on that phenomenon.
Humphrey and the Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee in the House, sent an official order to the OSBI to investigate Oklahoma DHS and other agencies on September 25th of this year and yet NOTHING has happened. Why? What is our Oklahoma government hiding from its citizens? We want to know!
Contact your Representative IMMEDIATELY and inform them that you need them to contact the OSBI and tell them they must investigate OKDHS based on the official, September 25th order by Humphrey and Committee. Oklahoma’s children and families MUST BE PROTECTED!
Last Friday, Michael and I had former attorney and non-profit wrangler, Ken Malloy on the ROPE Report to talk about the NorthStar Project and how NorthStar is influencing Tulsa Public Education. From recruiting and helping school board candidates to run on a campaign of reforming TPS, to writing White Papers detailing TPS educational legacy, this new Think Tank formed last year is off to a running start.
Ken and his wife Maria Seidler (of Legal Overwatch For Parents Rights), both retired attorneys, migrated from the East Coast to Oklahoma to be with family.
During the interview, Ken talked about how different the culture is in New York – where litigation against governmental entities is more commonplace – compared to here in Oklahoma where few of our governmental officials are ever called on the carpet and therefore, are not at all responsive to the citizens they represent and who pay their salaries. In fact, Ken likens Oklahoma’s citizens to mushrooms because we’re kept in the dark and fed ‘crap’, by our government officials.
Ken’s comments in the video struck such a chord with viewers that the first comment wanted to know “how we can get involved” and the second comment said this:
Jenni’s heard me say this approximately 386 times, but…once again: As a fairly recent transplant from the west coast who took the time to study OK and visit here TWICE before moving–I’m shocked at the complacent attitudes of most Oklahoma conservatives. I’ve heard, “Oh, that won’t happen here–it’s OKLAHOMA, not California!” more times than I can count, seriously.
I tell them I lived through “the fall of California”, was a young adult during the Reagan administration, saw the decline of that red state. I tell them I see Texas purpling. I tell them I see the exact same signs I saw in CA 40 years ago and if Oklahoma isn’t careful, vigilant, aggressive in defending it’s freedoms–it will be faced with attempting to take back ground instead.
We all know how much more difficult that is.
Instead of being well-received, or taken at least a bit seriously, my words are often pooh-poohed, and I’m treated as though I know nothing, as though I’m somehow “mistaken”. Many folks aren’t even old enough to know what California USED to be like.
“That won’t happen HERE, Lisa–THIS IS OKLAHOMA!” may be the last thing some of these folks remember thinking “back before the statists took over” if they’re not careful.
And THEY STILL WON’T LISTEN.
Sadly, the first video of the week on Wednesday found ROPE Report Regular V1SUT – instead of telling us how school officials are molesting students and seemingly getting away with it – telling us that our Attorney General, Gentner Drummond, hasn’t signed on to the Supreme Court case (Missouri V Biden) that COULD put an end to government interference in social media -for example, requesting the censoring of users whose opinions and ideas might be contrary to the state’s.
In addition, our own state legislators are using the recent suicide death of Owasso student Dagney Benedict, to to create language – in a gutted, already-filed bill – that could substantially chill free speech in Oklahoma. Please read SB1100 and then let your Representative know that this bill isn’t right for Oklahoma and that free speech MUST stand.
