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Tomorrow begins the Rural Corruption Project. I'm taking this two-week jaunt around Oklahoma, looking for folks who feel like they have been wronged by law enforcement, and for good cops tired of bad cops. I'm at [email protected].

#Oklahoma #LawEnforcement #Corruption
February 8, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Another "Hot Seat" interview on State Farm. Important story coming Monday...link in comments.

#Oklahoma #Insurance #StateFarm
February 7, 2026 at 4:19 PM
jchallman.bsky.social
However bad you thought things were, it's worse...

#Oklahoma #Insurance #StateFarm

Lawmakers Wonder if State Farm is Writing Oklahoma Insurance Law oklahomawatch.org/2026/02/02/l...
Lawmakers Wonder if State Farm is Writing Oklahoma Insurance Law - Oklahoma Watch
In May, Rep. Mark Tedford, R-Tulsa, presented a State Farm request bill on the floor of the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The bill sailed through the Senate but failed in the House. As the new le...
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February 2, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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Behind the scenes, the stakes of insurance stories is life and death.

#Oklahoma #Insurance #StateFarm

State Farm Delays Left Dying Woman in Home With Holes, Hose for Water oklahomawatch.org/2026/01/22/s...
State Farm Delays Left Dying Woman in Home With Holes, Hose for Water - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready may have broken the law when he publicly suggested an investigation of State Farm was underway. Regardless, the tragic story of Bradley and Farah Cox reve...
oklahomawatch.org
January 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Polling on insurance in Oklahoma is bonkers. Link in comments.

#Oklahoma #Insurance #Polling
January 20, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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Since I started writing about State Farm a month ago, I've not been threatened -- but I've been warned. I've heard from people all across the country, and national media is taking an interest. The story is getting bigger...

#Oklahoma #Insurance #StateFarm

oklahomawatch.org/2026/01/12/f...
Families Speak Out in Wake of News of State Farm Hail Scheme - Oklahoma Watch
Craig Gutierrez thought he was alone in fighting back against a denied hail claim from State Farm. But then the news hit: there are hundreds of such cases in Oklahoma. Gutierrez and many others are no...
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January 12, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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I was thrilled to have the chance to amplify the work of Molly Bullock -- the world needs more like her.

#Oklahoma #Tulsa #ArkansasRiver

Journalist Claims Officials are Ignoring Flood Danger on the Arkansas River oklahomawatch.org/2026/01/07/j...
Journalist Claims Officials are Ignoring Flood Danger on the Arkansas River - Oklahoma Watch
Since 2023, investigative journalist Molly Bullock has been documenting the history of the Arkansas River, asking difficult questions about whether the city of Tulsa was ready for floods that were muc...
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January 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
jchallman.bsky.social
The beat goes on with State Farm coverage. Suffice it to say, Judge Amy Palumbo was PISSED. Don't mess with Palumbo!

#Oklahoma #Insurance #StateFarm

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Judge Allows Attorney General to Intervene in State Farm Hail Lawsuit - Oklahoma Watch
Emotions flared and patience was tested as Oklahoma County District Court Judge Amy Palumbo granted Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s effort to intervene in a State Farm hail case that has raised ir...
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December 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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When the press release about this went out, some outlets more or less reprinted it as news. I couldn't abide that.

#Oklahoma #Insurance

Too Little, Too Late, Too Weak: Critics React to Proposed Insurance Legislation oklahomawatch.org/2025/12/26/t...
Too Little, Too Late, Too Weak: Critics React to Proposed Insurance Legislation - Oklahoma Watch
Critics say new laws proposed by the insurance department ignore pervasive and sustained outrage over skyrocketing homeowners rates and would make it more difficult for policyholders to fight back.
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December 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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State Farm's past reads like an episode from The Godfather saga, and the rumors I'm hearing now make it sound even worse than what's in the public sphere.

#Oklahoma #Insurance #StateFarm

oklahomawatch.org/2025/12/18/s...
State Farm Dodged Billions in 2018 Settlement, Now Faces Fresh RICO Charges in Oklahoma - Oklahoma Watch
Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s petition charging State Farm with racketeering under Oklahoma’s version of the RICO laws is not the first time that Oklahoma’s largest writer of homeowners insuranc...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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A good summary of the entirety of the State Farm scandal…how it got started and where it might be going.

#Oklahoma #StateFarm #Insurance

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Oklahoma lawsuits accuse State Farm of cutting wind and hail claim payouts
A journalist’s reporting outlines allegations that homeowners insurance payouts were reduced as state leaders consider legal intervention.
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December 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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The State Farm corporate thriller story blew up on an Oklahoma scale...and now the attorney general (and possibly the next governor) is stepping in. Queries are flooding in from other states as well...

#Oklahoma #Insurance #StateFarm

oklahomawatch.org/2025/12/04/a...
AG Intervenes in State Farm Lawsuit - Oklahoma Watch
Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed a motion to intervene today in a case against State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, alleging that the company operated a coordinated program to limit roof-relat...
oklahomawatch.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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This one started out with a mysterious anonymous tip, and felt like walking into a John Grisham corporate thriller.

#StateFarm #Oklahoma #Insurance

oklahomawatch.org/2025/12/01/i...
“It Made Me Feel Like a Sucker”: Long-Running Lawsuits Accuse State Farm of Billion-Dollar Hail Scheme - Oklahoma Watch
Upwards of 200 policyholders waged years-long — and ongoing — battles against State Farm. Thousands of pages of filings revealed allegations of a scheme worth billions of dollars, perpetrated by Oklah...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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$1 billion. That's why you should read this story. Insurance companies make bank on the fact that you find their business boring. Resist!

#Oklahoma #Insurance

oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/26/c...
CompSource Flub Raises Questions About a Secretive Reorganization Plan - Oklahoma Watch
CompSource Mutual falsely claimed Oklahoma's insurance commissioner approved its controversial demutualization plan, prompting immediate removal of the misleading notice. Critics say the billion-dolla...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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This one is a double-header (sidebar story in comments). Writing about insurance is a challenge (and who knew I'd wind up with anonymous tips about homeowners rates?), but dissecting the idea of competition was very enlightening.

#Oklahoma #Competition #Insurance

oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/20/l...
Lawmakers, AG Challenge Insurance Commissioner's Competitive Market Claims - Oklahoma Watch
As officials bicker over Oklahoma’s homeowners insurance market and lawmakers contemplate new legislation, Oklahoma Watch investigates measures of market concentration and digs into legal history to u...
oklahomawatch.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Truly excellent work from María Guinnip here. 9-months pregnant, Brittany Sanchez was arrested for a crime she didn't commit, and gave birth shackled to a hospital bed. The story gets worse from there...

#Oklahoma #Justice #Pregnancy

oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/18/c...
Case of Mistaken Identity or Panhandle 'Family Justice'? Woman's Arrest Highlights Systemic Concerns - Oklahoma Watch
Brittany Sanchez gave birth to her first child while shackled to a hospital bed. Despite another person's confession, Sanchez served multiple sentences and spent years torn from her children.
oklahomawatch.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
jchallman.bsky.social
I'm a little slow in posting this conversation about Say Anarcha with Richard Kreitner, whose book Break it Up ought to be mandatory reading these days. It was an honor.

#History #Gynecology #Anarcha

www.thinkbackpod.com/p/the-dark-o...
The Dark Origins of Modern Women's Health
Listen now | J.C. Hallman on exploitation, monuments, and the stories we tell about the past.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Despite the boring white guy as art for this piece, what's at stake in it is half a billion dollars and half of the shares of a soon-to-be-formed insurance colossus.

#Oklahoma #Insurance

Critics Say CompSource Plan Will Hurt Policyholders oklahomawatch.org/2025/10/20/c...
Critics Say CompSource Plan Will Hurt Policyholders - Oklahoma Watch
A surprise August hearing was for many the first sign of a huge change in workers’ comp insurance in Oklahoma that critics say is an effort to rob policyholders of millions of dollars.
oklahomawatch.org
October 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Drummond is Oklahoma's leading candidate for governor -- nice to see him acting behind the scenes on a piece of investigative journalism. (Mulready hates my guts.)

#Oklahoma #Insurance #homeownersinsurance

Drummond Takes Mulready to Task Over Homeowners Rates oklahomawatch.org/2025/10/13/d...
Drummond Takes Mulready to Task Over Homeowners Rates - Oklahoma Watch
Attorney General Gentner Drummond sharply criticized Oklahoma Insurance Department Commissioner Glen Mulready in an Aug. 12 letter over stewardship of the state’s only regulatory safeguard against out...
oklahomawatch.org
October 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
jchallman.bsky.social
Despite readily available funding and training materials, Texas County police make bad arrests that endanger citizens.

H/T Maria Guinnip for taking the lead and doing excellent work on this one.

#epilepsy #epilepsyawareness #Oklahoma #TexasCountyOK

oklahomawatch.org/2025/09/26/s...
Seized for Seizing: Lack of Training Endangers Oklahomans with Epilepsy - Oklahoma Watch
Despite laudable recent progress in Oklahoma law, the story of Nikole Janowski reveals the inadequacy of response to individuals suffering from epilepsy, particularly in regard to law enforcement.
oklahomawatch.org
September 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Prosecutorial misconduct is a trend in OK. But do all defendants wrongly tried get treated the same?

I was very happy to have had the chance to work with Haley Parsley on this one.

#Oklahoma #NAACP

Withheld Evidence Emerges in Another Old Murder Case oklahomawatch.org/2025/09/24/w...
Withheld Evidence Emerges in Another Old Murder Case - Oklahoma Watch
Joshua Christon was convicted in 2008 of a crime he may not have committed; similarities to the beleaguered prosecution of Richard Glossip have activist groups and Christon’s family calling for equal ...
oklahomawatch.org
September 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The organization that oversees high school athletics and activities in Oklahoma has gone to court 40 times in 22 years...

#Oklahoma #HighSchoolSports

Full Court Press: How OSSAA’s Latest Legal Loss Extends Basketball Controversy oklahomawatch.org/2025/09/22/f...
Full Court Press: How OSSAA’s Latest Legal Loss Extends Basketball Controversy - Oklahoma Watch
Payne County District Judge Michael Kulling’s rejection of a key OSSAA argument in the case of four teenage basketball players attempting to transfer from one school to another raises questions about ...
oklahomawatch.org
September 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I wrote something very strange...I present it with deep gratitude to Gertrude Stein.

#Art #Meaning #GertrudeStein

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What is Meaning and Why is There So Little of It? - Pittsburgh Review of Books
A work of art means what its artist means it to mean this is what the word artist means for the same reason this sentence means what I mean it to mean.
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September 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I made a judge very angry with me.

#Oklahoma #Guardianship #RestrainingOrder #GagOrder

oklahomawatch.org/2025/09/09/j...
Judge Attempts to Quash Press Investigation With Gag Order - Oklahoma Watch
A gag order issued in the guardianship case of Estelle Simonton exposes deep concerns in Oklahoma’s guardianship system.
oklahomawatch.org
September 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I very nearly got arrested for this one.

#Guardianship #Oklahoma #eldercare

Oklahoma Unprepared for Looming Guardianship Crisis oklahomawatch.org/2025/09/04/o...
Oklahoma Unprepared for Looming Guardianship Crisis - Oklahoma Watch
Dramatic confrontations in the stories of Rena Denton and Estelle Simonton expose ignorance of eldercare law among Oklahoma eldercare professionals and betray the inadequacy of guardianship laws and r...
oklahomawatch.org
September 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM