By Christian Garner of Paden Oklahoma where he is OKGOP Okfuskee County Vice Chairman. He is also the OKGOP CD2 Political Director.

In a time when the conservative movement is under constant assault from media, woke corporations, and progressive politicians, the last thing Oklahoma Republicans need is to surrender control of our own nomination process. Yet that’s exactly what open primaries would do, hand over our Republican ballots to voters who don’t even belong to our party.

Let’s be clear: This is not about transparency. It’s not about fairness. It’s about control. The Left knows they can’t win in Oklahoma as it stands, so they’re trying to sneak through the back door, hijack our nomination process, and install left-leaning moderates who will bow to the woke mob.