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By Dylan Goforth, The Frontier
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The Oklahoma Freedom Caucus announced its debut in September 2024 with an ambitious goal: to pull one of the nation’s most conservative Legislatures even further to the right.

The group argued Oklahoma’s Republican supermajority wasn’t conservative enough. Its members accused GOP leaders of abandoning campaign promises, demanded votes on hardline legislation and frequently targeted fellow Republicans they viewed as moderates masquerading as conservatives.

Now, after a primary election that saw several Freedom Caucus-backed candidates struggle, Sen. Dusty Deevers, R-Elgin, defeated in his own district and Sen. Shane Jett, R-Shawnee, preparing to leave office because of term limits, the movement is in flux. 

The June Republican primary served as a major political test for the group. And the Freedom Caucus flopped.

The most significant defeat came in Senate District 32, where Deevers — an Elgin pastor who became one of the Legislature’s most outspoken conservatives after winning a 2024 special election — finished third in a three-way Republican primary and failed to advance to a runoff.

Senate President Pro Tempore Lonnie Paxton, R- Tuttle, a longtime target and foe of the Freedom Caucus, told The Frontier the results showed who conservative Oklahoma voters want to represent them — and who they do not.

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