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D Crosswhite Hader
@DeniseCH50
OK State Representative, House District 41
🚨VICTORY FOR LIFE: The Oklahoma State Senate just passed HB 1168, the “Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Act!” This makes Oklahoma the first in the nation to pass this model legislation from Students for Life Action, which can end the shipping of Chemical Abortion pills into a pro-life state with criminal charges for abortionists. The bill now heads to Governor Kevin Stitt's desk. We are calling on him to sign HB 1168 into law IMMEDIATELY. This win comes after YEARS of sustained grassroots efforts by the Pro-Life Generation to combat the growing trafficking of dangerous Chemical Abortion Pills. Grassroots campaigns like this matter & we just proved why they work. Babies will be saved, and women will be better protected. studentsforlifeaction.org/breaking-oklah…
This is what real leadership looks like. Huge thank you to Senator David Bullard and @DeniseCH50 for leading the charge on HB 1168. This didn’t happen by accident! It took courage and real work. Appreciate @SenSacchieri, @SenatorGuthrie, former Senator, @NathanDahm, @SenStandridge, Senator Jonathan Wingard, Representative Jim Olsen, Representative Rob Hall, Representative Stan May, and Representative Derrick Hildebrant for standing for Life. America needs more leaders like this, willing to do the hard work to protect preborn children and their mothers.
Incredible hyper-lapse video of a large tornado moving across south Enid, Oklahoma! Captured with our Enid cam, you will see the tornado disappear into a curtain of hail only to remerge moments later! #okwx @KOCOMichael @NWSNorman @KOCOdamonlane @MikeMorganKFOR
To my Oklahoma family; this piece comes straight from the heart. I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and feel what I felt. Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it. I came to @okcthunder to play basketball. I left carrying 168 lives. When I was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I was thinking about basketball, nothing more. I didn’t know that before I ever stepped on the court, this place would show me something that would stay with me far longer than any game. Like any player, my mind was on the game. A new team, a new city, a new opportunity. I expected the usual routine when I landed in Oklahoma City. Physicals, practices, meetings, and a jersey waiting in a locker. But before any of that, Sam Presti pulled me aside and told me there was somewhere we needed to go. He didn’t explain much, and I didn’t think to ask. I was focused on the next step in my career. What I didn’t understand was that, before I could represent the place I was about to play for, I needed to understand it. So instead of heading to the facility, he took me to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum. I walked in without knowing what I was about to see, and within minutes, everything slowed down. There are 168 chairs at the memorial, each one representing a life lost on April 19, 1995. They are arranged in quiet rows, each engraved with a name, each standing where a person once stood in that building. Then you notice something that is impossible to process the first time you see it. Some of the chairs are smaller. They belong to children. There is no speech that prepares you for that, no headline that captures it. You simply stand there, and the silence carries a kind of weight that is hard to describe but impossible to ignore. As you walk through the memorial, you pass between two gates marked 9:01 and 9:03. At first, they seem like simple numbers, but then you understand what they hold. One marks the last minute before the attack. The other marks the first minute after. And in between those two gates is 9:02, the moment when everything changed. That minute does not feel like history when you are standing there. It feels present. The reflecting pool stretches across what used to be a city street, its surface calm and still. When you look into it, you do not just see water. You see yourself standing in a place where unimaginable loss occurred, and for a moment, everything else in your life becomes quieter. Nearby stands the Survivor Tree, an American elm that was damaged in the blast but endured. It is not untouched. Its scars are part of what it represents. But it is still standing, and in that, it carries a kind of strength that does not need to be explained. We did not speak much while we were inside. It did not feel like a place for conversation. Some places ask for words. This one asks for reflection. When we stepped outside, Sam Presti looked me in the eye and said, “This is what this state has been through.” Then he said something I will never forget. “Every time you step on that court, you are not just playing in front of fans. You are playing for a state that carries this with it. Give them everything you have. They deserve that.” In that moment, basketball felt different. Not smaller, but clearer. Because what I had just seen was not only about what was lost. It was about what remained. A state that had experienced unimaginable pain and still chose to come together, to rebuild, and to move forward without losing its humanity. From that day on, every time I stepped on the court, I carried that with me. On the nights when I was tired, when I was hurt, when I was dealing with challenges that felt heavy in the moment, I would think about those chairs, about that minute, about the people behind those names. And I was reminded that what I was going through did not compare to what this state had endured. oklahoman.com/story/opinion/…
I recently spoke at a meeting of the College Republicans at Oral Roberts University. We shared a conversation about leadership and prayed for my campaign. I was impressed by the faith and hope for the future these young men and women expressed that evening. Thank you for having me.
Today I officially filed for my campaign to be Oklahoma’s next senator. Oklahoma needs a proven conservative leader, and I look forward to traveling the state and sharing how I’ll fight for them and the America First Agenda in the U.S. Senate. 🇺🇸
Excited to go back home and help my alma mater. Not a lot of certainties in life, but I do know the world needs more graduates from ORU.
BREAKING: Oklahoma House just passed a bill requiring the state to opt in to President Trump's new school choice program. The vote was 73 to 20. It now goes to the Senate.
Sixteen years ago, one man stood alone on a grassy hill at a music festival in Washington State, USA, and started dancing by himself. People glanced over and looked away. Some laughed. His roommate leaned in and warned him people were filming him. He did not stop. Then one stranger got up and joined him. Then another. Then the hillside tipped. Within minutes, hundreds of people were sprinting from across the field to be part of something that, thirty seconds earlier, had been one man being laughed at in a field. Someone filming from higher up the hill said quietly: "See what one man can do. One man can change the world." The clip spread across the internet in 2009. Entrepreneur Derek Sivers played it at a TED conference to explain how movements actually begin. Not with the first person brave enough to start, he argued, but with the first person willing to join them. Collin Wynter, the man dancing alone, later said he had no idea he had done anything special. He was just tired of watching everyone sit still.
Today I’m announcing my campaign for the United States Senate. I grew up on an Air Force base, worked my way through school, built businesses, and served Oklahoma in Congress. Now I’m ready to fight for Oklahoma in the Senate. Watch my launch video!
Lisa and I decided to not run for governor because we were ready for a new chapter outside politics. While the announced developments in our congressional delegation opened up that conversation again the past few days, it has not changed how we feel about pursuing something new outside of politics. I will not be a candidate for any elected public office this year. Serving the state as lieutenant governor has been an incredible honor, and we're excited about a new season in our family's life when my term is finished.
NEWS: Trump appoints Markwayne Mullin as Secretary of Homeland Security