You’re making a difference, but we need to keep the pressure on

Where We’re At It’s clear that your advocacy has made a difference in Oklahoma’s state budget. Your advocacy helped prevent cuts to the sales tax relief credit and the child tax credit. Funding for common education and Medicaid would have been much worse if legislators hadn’t heard from you. Unfortunately, our lawmakers didn’t protect education and […]

What advocates can do in the last week of session.

Our legislators face a deadline to end session by this Friday, May 27th, but they still haven’t produced a solution to Oklahoma’s massive budget shortfall.  It’s all come down to this week when the key funding decisions will be made with huge consequences for Oklahoma families. What advocates are doing this week when we #DoSomethingOK: Ask Governor […]

We see you out there making a difference!

For years folks have been saying “Oklahoma will have to hit the bottom before we bounce back up”.  Well, it looks like that bounce is happening!  Every day we see more articles about the budget crisis, more posts about conversations with legislators, more questions from constituents who have become better budget advocates for the very […]

Writing to Your Legislators

Hand written letters can be particularly effective in influencing legislators’ views. Why? Who tends to hand write things? You guessed it! Older Oklahomans write and older Oklahomans vote. Write to give the legislators one more good reason to take you seriously! Writing to legislators also offers an opportunity to maintain contact and keep your issues […]