ALEX NEWMAN & CINDY BYRD at OCPAC FOUNDATION

ALEX NEWMAN & CINDY BYRD at OCPAC FOUNDATION

Published Monday, March 2, 2026 SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. THIS WEEK!!!!! WEDNESDAY MARCH 4 NOON OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER ALEX NEWMAN IS A JOURNALIST PUBLISHED AROUND THE WORLD AND A MUCH SOUGHT-AFTER SPEAKER Alex will address the growing concerns for the future of education, a topic about which he has published books, written extensively, and spoken widely. CINDY BYRD IS OKLAHOMA'S AUDITOR Cindy will review her audit of the Tulsa school system and update us on more of the troubling news from our public schools. OKLAHOMA EDUCATION & THE LEFTIST THREAT IN 2026 On Saturday, the OKGOP hosted a gubernatorial panel with all seven currently announced candidates.  Only six were present in person, as Charles McCall had a prior commitment which took him out of town. Charles sent a video which was played at the end of the live panel. Among the panel's many comments, it was expressed that there is a need for a Governor who both possesses and governs with a Christian (Biblical) worldview. Paired with this were many comments on the need to more closely evaluate those who fill the office of university Regent as well as the need to ask for direct accountability to the Governor’s office from the university presidents. It was noted that when the Marxist revolutionary front titled Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) was outlawed by Oklahoma’s Legislature, O.U. (Joe Harroz, President) simply re-named the DEI department as the “Office of Opportunity.” The damage done by the transfer of control of academia to the cultural Marxists was seen last month when Oklahoma’s secondary schools dismissed their classes in order to incorporate Oklahoma’s school children into the Cultural Revolution whose most recent manifestation has been led by Minnesota’s Governor (Tim Walz) and the rebellion against federal immigration policy and the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). When discussing 21st century’s battle with WOKE ideology, there are elements of the irrational.  Meaningless name-calling, vacuous phrases, and using words in ways that are antithetical to their historic place in the literature of the language.  Among the philosophers I studied while at Indiana University was Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.  In 1846, in the midst of his seven-year prolific writing career, he wrote Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age, A Literary Review. Perhaps Kierkegaard had us in mind when he wrote in his Two Ages: When the mouth blathers pure drivel, it is futile to try to deliver a coherent discourse. As British scholar Dr. Joseph Boot put it: The jiggery wokery of the West is especially difficult to deal with because it is a form of stupidity.  Stupidity is a peculiarly human condition that arises because of a herd mentality formed around powerful propaganda.  A collective stupidity. In his book, Thinking Christianly, Dr. Boot refers to the insight of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.  Bonhoeffer delt with the mass hysteria which inflicted the German people as they were mesmerize by the rhetoric of Adolf Hitler. He wrote this:  The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent . . . One is not at all dealing with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have possession of him.  He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being.  Having this become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil . . . the internal liberation of human beings to live the responsible life before God is the only genuine way to overcome stupidity. Perhaps John Wayne said it better than anyone when he said: Life is tough.  It is tougher if you are stupid. Oklahoma needs its next Governor to be aware of the devastation of what Dr. Boot calls “the poisoned chalice of humanistic thought.”  It is the gruel which is served to every young Oklahoman who is not either in a home school or another form of private school. It is the cultural poison which has made slaves out of the Chinese as they now live only to serve their Communist (CCP) masters.  The proud and enthusiastic youth who composed Mao’s Red Guard drank from the same poisoned chalice as our government educators provide to our American youth today.  As the nation’s moral decay indicates, we have reduced man from God’s earthly royalty with lofty callings to simple material bundles which house physical needs and serve no purpose. Gone is the Divine Theater which Scripture indicates is the teleological reality into which each of us is gloriously embedded! We need a Governor with a vision which originates in the transcendent realm of our Creator.  Someone whose ideas originate from an epistemological foundation found in Divine Revelation, the Word of God, the code of Western Civilization. Such a man will indeed shake the foundations of Oklahoma's universities, their boards of regents, and the state Board of Education. Charlie Kirk was on a national mission to do just that before a "furry" took his life. Options for those who have succumbed to the stupidity of the WOKE culture have only two options: Violence and rhetorical nonsense are the only options for those who have succumbed to the mass hysteria of a cultural revolution. This week, OCPAC Foundation Board member, William Federer, sent me some notes reflecting his concerns and thoughts on the post-assassination media chaos which has emerged with Candice Owen’s “The Bride of Charlie” fanning the flames of division within the cultural tsunami which became Charlie's legacy. His focus is on the impact this may have on mid-term elections, an impact he considers troubling for those on both sides of this perceptual chaos. Troubling on a national scale. Below are a few of his thoughts followed by a link to this weekend’s article on the same topic by one of Oklahoma's treasures, Dr. Everett Piper. WILLIAM J. FEDERER CANDICE OWENS & THE MID TERMS DIABOLICAL DEEP STATE DIVISION Edited for Brevity by Bob Linn Candace is so wrong to vilify Erika.  Charlie and Erika Kirk loved each other very much.  I knew Charlie since 2014, before he met Erika, when he met her, when they got engaged, when they married, when they had their daughter Genevieve, and their son MacArthur. CHARLIE & ERICA IN THE ENID HOME OF ONE OF BOB LINN'S FRIENDS Whenever I was with Charlie he would sing her praises. He was even bragging on her when Rob McCoy and I and a few others were together with him in the green room backstage in South Korea four days before he was shot. When the Korean reporter asked Charlie if Trump winning the election was the best day of his life, he said, after the day he gave his life to Jesus, the best day of his life was the day that he married Erika. Candace has unfortunately been effectively co-opted in a targeted deep state psyop campaign to diffuse the enthusiasm Charlie had built up with his TPUSA movement. Charlie had our campuses and our nation invigorated with his message to put Jesus first, go to church, get married, have kids, and save America and Western Civilization.  The distractions generated by Candice’s “Bride of Charlie” and other assaults serve to squander all that national momentum by chasing what is for her a profitable media campaign regarding her conspiracy theories. She is not at all concerned about winning the MID-TERMS! President FDR, in his address to the U.S. Congress on January 3, 1940, spoke of the way political forces rose to power through creating division.  He spoke of Doctrines . . . used as rabble-rousing slogans on which dictators could ride to power.  And once in power they could saddle their tyrannies on whole nations. Franklin D. Roosevelt stated in a Fireside Chat, December 29, 1940: These trouble-breeders have but one purpose. It is to divide our people into hostile groups and to destroy our unity and shatter our will to defend ourselves. A year later, FDR again addressed the way in which division weakened a people clearing the way for a totalitarian regime. On January 2, 1942, FDR stated:  Remember the NAZI technique -- Pit race against race; religion against religion; prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! Who would have thought that within a month of Charlie’s death, Candace would be co-opted into a deep state psyop to split MAGA, lose midterms, impeach Trump, and get conservative Christians to unwittingly side with the Ayatollah in destroying Israel—the "Little Satan", and the U.S.—the "Big Satan", with the goal of an Islamic Caliphate one world government. We can’t let divisive psyop-ed influencers cause us to lose the mid-terms so Trump can get impeached. Read more from William J. Federer at the American Minute here. DR. EVERETT PIPER Sunday, March 2, 2026 THE WASHINGTON TIMES Find his article on Candice Owens here. Find more Everett Piper here: Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery).  He can be reached at epiper@dreverettpiper.com. Copyright © 2025 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission. Don't forget to watch his podcast! Before you go about your day be sure to sign up for Dr. Piper's free podcast here. It takes only a moment of time. __________ Follow Dr. Piper on his podcast here. Follow Dr. Everett Piper weekly in The Washington Times here  SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. FEBRUARY 25, 2026 MEETING: LEGISLATIVE PANEL Senators Lisa Standridge & David Bullard Representatives Jim Shaw & Denise Crosswhite-Hader Senator Shane Jett moderated the panel. Watch the panels presentation here. Watch the full meeting here. THIRTY YOUTH Home Schoolers from Elgin, Oklahoma TPUSA Students Grace Reformed Baptist Church Homeschoolers from Elgin, Oklahoma led the Pledge of Allegiance KENDRA WESSON JOINS RYAN WALTERS AND TEACHER FREEDOM ALLIANCE Kendra Wesson is stepping aside from other responsibilities to work full time with Ryan Walters and the Teacher Freedom Alliance (TFA) with a goal of providing teachers a pro-America Christian environment within which to work. Thus far, the effort has been massively successful as thousands of teachers are fleeing the pro-Marxist teacher unions including the National Teachers Association (NEA). Watch Kendra's Announcement here. Watch the full meeting here. News media was there to cover the TFA announcement. SENATOR SHANE JETT INTRODUCES VIPS MODERATES THE LEGISLATIVE PANEL CLOSING THE MEETING SENATOR DUSTY DEEVERS DECEMBER 3 MEETING: SAMANTHA FULNECKY INTERVIEW With OCPAC Foundation President Bob Linn and Senator Shane Jett Watch Samantha Fulnecky interview here. Note: Senator Shane Jett was pointed in his query and his followup remarks. Shane Jett's first question begins at:  9:38 mark. Shane's blistering salvo to the University begins at the 11:21 mark. Watch the full meeting here. LEGISLATIVE COMMENDATION GABE WOOLEY GABE WOOLEY here Full Meeting here WES LANE, PRESIDENT SALT & LIGHT LEADERSHIP TRAINING SALLT Wes Lane was the keynote speaker and once he finished, it was clear why he has had so much success challenging the church to step forward in boldness. Watch Wes Lane's presentation here. Watch the full meeting here. JEN NICOLE SOPRANO We anticipated the professionalism of Jen Nicole's voice, but her moving presentation of the Christmas season was breathtaking. She opened the meeting by leading us in "O Come All Ye Faithful" and brought tears to our eyes as she followed Wes Lane singing "O Holy Night." Watch the presentation here. Watch the full meeting here. TPUSA Students were in attendance Supporting Samantha SHANE JETT MESSAGE TO POLITICAL CLASS Senator Shane Jett here Watch the full meeting here. BOB LINN PRESIDENT OF OCPAC FOUNDATION Full Meeting here I encourage each of you to support our mission. To get started, we are suggesting: The Century Club To join, mail a cancelled check to: OCPAC FOUNDATION P.O. Box 721212 Norman, OK 73070 Your $100 per month donation will help support the development of the Foundation’s work to widen our audience and outreach capabilities with quality meetings and enhanced educational video content. Our beginning financial goals will allow us to secure the initial permanent staff positions necessary to the function of a foundation with ambitions to change the world. We are in desperate need of returning our nation and our state to Biblical foundations. Thank you for your activism.

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