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Tuesday, July 28, 2026 • Cloudy, but still dangerously hot. 101. ☁️
Poll results:
We received 174 votes on the Monday poll, “Should the reimbursement local communities receive for corporate tax incentives be guaranteed in the Oklahoma Constitution, or should future Legislatures be able to change it?”
• 133 said, “Keep the constitutional guarantee.”
• 20 said, “Let the Legislature decide.”
• 21 said they were unsure.
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Sen. Alan Armstrong violated STOCK Act with 700 tardy stock disclosures
U.S. Sen. Alan Armstrong (R-Okla.) | Oklahoma.gov
By Dave Levinthal, NOTUS for Oklahoma Watch
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One of the Senate’s newest members was months late disclosing 700 personal stock trades that together are worth millions of dollars, according to a NOTUS review of new congressional financial records.
Sen. Alan Armstrong, R-Oklahoma, who entered the Senate on March 24 after Markwayne Mullin vacated his seat to become homeland security secretary, made a flurry of stock purchases and sales in the several days after his swearing in.
But the senator, a wealthy businessman who served as CEO of the oil and gas company Williams Companies until 2025 and as executive chairman thereafter, didn’t publicly disclose his financial moves until this week — more than two months past a 45-day deadline mandated by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act.
Together, Armstrong’s improperly disclosed stock trades are worth between $3.24 million and $16.05 million, a NOTUS analysis of the new financial records indicates. (Federal lawmakers are only required to disclose their trades in broad ranges.)
Armstrong finally disclosed them this week when the House, in a 232-198 vote, passed the Republican-sponsored Stop Insider Trading Act, which aims to ban members of Congress from purchasing individual stocks at all. But it faces an uncertain path through the Senate despite President Donald Trump’s stated support for the legislation.
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