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Jason Hardaway, Constitution Coach Talks Constitution Education

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.

April 5, 2025 0

Oklahoma Transportation Authority – Usurping More Private Property For A Road No One Needs

Friday, March 28th, President of Pike Off OTA, Amy Cerato and our friend Whitney Mullica with Pike Off, joined us to talk about the OTA’s new route for Norman and other items.

Amy was a joy to talk with! She has a Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering and teaches at OU. Truly, this woman is extremely knowledgeable and it was so obvious from our conversation. She also has a Substack and you should definitely check that out! Also, make sure you check out the full video of the interview on both our Rumble and YouTube channels.

During our chat, both Amy and Whitney talked about how frustrating this particular session of the legislature has been – not being able to find out when bills are getting scheduled, trying to find out when bills are being heard and even when Oversight Committee meetings are being held – something we’ve complained about. In fact, here is Amy saying what I’m sure every conservative is thinking right now – we need to give the People’s House back to THE PEOPLE.

We’ve talked quite a bit on this program about OTA and the real spirit of lawlessness they seem to embody. When we had OTA’s attorney, Richard LaBarthe on last December, he talked about how OTA doesn’t follow their own trust agreements and creates bonds before the others are paid off. It’s simply their way of doing business.

In that vein, Amy talked about how the OTA is planning to build a bridge over the South Canadian river without any kind of impact studies at all. Listen as Amy describes the situation:

How is OTA allowed to get away with these kinds of things? No one can be exactly sure, but there is a whole lot of money tied up in contractors and business developers and land developers and other economic development arms with these turnpike builds that it seems more about money than about people for certain. Certainly, it seems that the OTA has very little regard for the people who own the land they virtually steal to build their roads – roads not even needed.

Every Oklahoman needs to be very aware of what goes on with the OTA and how they operate. This all needs to be stopped. There is no reason for OTA when the Oklahoma Department of Transportation can build/repair any roads. OTA is more a jobs program than a necessity for Oklahomans and we need to make our representation at the Oklahoma State Capitol fully understand that.

March 29, 2025 0

OK Senator David Bullard On Bad Bills Moving Through The Legislature So Far – Including Making Anti-Semitism Illegal

Wednesday, March 26th on the regular podcast, I interviewed Oklahoma Senator David Bullard about bills in the Oklahoma Senate. Of course, the discussion delved into a bit more, but we talked about a couple of really bad bills that need to go away. You can find the full version of the interview on our Rumble and YouTube channels.

Here, Senator Bullard talks about a bill just passed by the Senate on the 25th. It’s Kristin Thompson’s bill to stop anti-Semitism.

This is nonsense. Simply a whole lot of grandstanding and virtue signaling by your Oklahoma Senate. Truly, if a person is injured by another person – for any reason – or if property is damaged – for any reason, there are laws that bring perpetrators to justice and our law enforcement divisions are empowered to do that. It shouldn’t matter if someone used a racial/ethnic slur or not. THAT IS THE POINT. When the government begins to tell the people what they can and can NOT say – for any reason – we have descended into a tyranny. And, as Senator Bullard says here, if it’s anti-Semitic to say that Jesus was killed by Jews, all of Christianity is now called into question. No. Just no.

Just so you know, here are the VOTES on these bills (SB991, SB942):

These bills will go on to the House and they need to be stopped there.

We also talked about a House Bill that will be coming to the Senate that is exceedingly bad – HB2298 which will allow nurses prescribing power, “independent of supervision” by a physician. Although this will apply to Certified Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, and Certified Nurse-Midwives, these are still positions disallowed from prescriptive privileges without physician oversight currently.

There are several things wrong with this bill and Dr. Randy Grellnar also talked about this particular issue at the beginning of our interview with him when he was on several weeks ago, if you’d like to check out his perspective.

Here, Senator Bullard is talking about some of the issues that he’s concerned about with the bill – and mind you, this bill was run LAST YEAR and VETOED by the Governor.

Hopefully, between Dr. Grellnar and Senator Bullard, you get the idea. THIS IS A BAD BILL because it’s – again – government overstepping the bounds of its job – to protect our liberty – and trampling on issues that are best left to the oversight boards and the doctors themselves.

During the interview, we expanded on that topic – the topic of government trampling the liberty of citizens – and gave numerous examples of wherein the government is ruling us from the top down instead of allowing ourselves to govern ourselves from the bottom up – at the local levels of government where we have the most control. Essentially ‘top down’ systems DON’T WORK and that is what we talk about in the clip below. THIS is the concept ALL our legislators must be made to understand!

Please make a note of these bills and contact your Senator and Representative and tell them to be on the lookout for these bills and to vote NO when they see them.

March 27, 2025 0

PikeOffOTA (aka Citizens for Responsible Transportation) Request Bills For 2025

Bills requested to help curb the power, influence and transparency of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority. Please contact your legislators and ask them to watch for these bills.

OTA SPECIFIC

HB1188 – Title 69, Section 1707 – Abutting property owner rights along turnpikes, including compensation for damages, devaluation of property or at the request of the property owner, acquisition of property plus all relocation costs incurred by owner. (Rick West) **MIRROR BILL TO SB969

HB1781 – Title 69, Section 1914 (NEW LAW) – Restricting how and where the OTA can advertise. (Shaw)

HB1939 – Title 69, Section 1705 – Sunset location authorizations if the OTA has not commenced physical construction in earnest within five years. (Sterling)

HB2090 – Title 74, Section 213 – State Auditor and Inspector to perform a special audit providing a determination of the revenue required to repay the original cost of existing turnpikes, provide an assessment of risk within the agency, conduct a 15 year look back and 10 year projection of maintenance reserved fund balances, deposits, expenditures and explanation of cross pledging refinancing practices, provide explanation of gap between required reserve maintenance fund deposits and actual reserve maintenance funds, provide an explanation of financial impact of cost overruns on the driving forward program. (Menz)

HB2093 – Title 69, Section 1709 – Establishing a bond debt ceiling on the OTA. (Menz) **MIRROR BILL TO SB963

HB2097 – Title 69, Section 1711 – – NEW LAW – Requiring legislative approval via a joint resolution for toll increases. (Menz) **MIRROR BILL TO SB964

SB963 – Title 69, Section 1709 – Establishing a bond debt ceiling on the OTA. (Standridge) **MIRROR BILL TO HB2093

SB983 – Title 69, Section 1705 – Audit by the State Auditor and Inspector prior to Bond Sales. Auditor can request any information necessary for the determination of the feasibility and economic soundness of any turnpike projects or parts thereof listed in 1705(e) which are to be financed with revenue bonds. (Standridge)

SB966 – Title 69, Section 1703 – Creation of a Turnpike Legislative Oversight Board. OTA must annually provide a copy of its most recent annual report to the members of the Turnpike Legislative Oversight Board, in addition to any information requested by such body. (Standridge)

SB969 – Title 69, Section 1707 – Abutting property owner rights along turnpikes, including compensation for damages, devaluation of property or at the request of the property owner, acquisition of property plus all relocation costs incurred by owner. (Standridge) **MIRROR BILL TO HB1188

SB 964 – Title 69, Section 1711 – NEW LAW – Requiring legislative approval via a joint resolution for toll increases. (Standridge) **MIRROR BILL TO HB2097

Open Records Act

HB2095 – Title 51, Section 24A.5 – Requiring state agencies to reply to open record requests within 30 days.

February 3, 2025 0

Election Integrity Tips For 2024 Voters

Today on the podcast, we had Oklahoma election integrity watchdogs, Amber Evans and Wendi Montgomery Dial. They talked about what kind of things should and SHOULDN’T happen at the polls when you’re voting and what to do if you see something or have questions.

Please find the full video on Rumble and YouTube – it was about an hour and a half with some pretty good laughs at the end, so you might want to stay tuned for the whole thing! Just sayin’…

In the video below, Wendi talks specifically about what could happen at the polls that would warrant a call to your county sheriff. Please, take note of these specifically.

Below is the slide with the numbers of all the county Sheriffs. If you can’t read that, please click here for an article from Oklahoma Grassroots that contains the slide in a downloadable format. That way you can enlarge it as needed.

One last thing that we forgot to talk about.

At least two people have reached out to Wendi to ask why it is that there are names of individuals printed under the Trump/Vance presidential voting section on their ballot. Check out her blog here, but suffice it to say, in our electoral system of voting, while we individuals go to the polls, seven electors are chosen from state Republicans to cast their vote FOR you FOR Trump/Vance. These are the names underneath the Trump and Vance names on the ballot – Oklahoma’s seven Trump/Vance electors.

In closing, I want to encourage you, but also admonish you. Voting for Trump isn’t going to fix all the problems we’ve built up in America today – it’s a great start – but as we talk about below, what’s arguably more important is what’s right under your feet.

The Oklahoma Title 26 laws respective to VOTING can be found here. Click the arrow on the right hand side to advance the slides.

November 1, 2024 0