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Guerrilla Publishing- Ron Durbin Guerrilla News is Oklahoma’s independent investigative newsroom exposing corruption, government secrecy, and abuse of power.

We dig into public records, follow the money, and shine a light where politicians and bureaucrats hope nobody looks. Guerrilla Publishing investigates, documents, and exposes government corruption in Oklahoma, and across the United States via its videos on the Guerrilla Publishing Youtube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/

😂 INOLA, WE HAVE A SOLUTION. AND UNFORTUNATELY FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED, IT’S ME.After extensive research, several public m...
10/25/2026

😂 INOLA, WE HAVE A SOLUTION. AND UNFORTUNATELY FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED, IT’S ME.

After extensive research, several public meltdowns, and the voluntary retirement of multiple people from Inola Town Council who apparently couldn’t handle my personality, I’ve decided to announce my candidacy for City Manager of Inola, Oklahoma. 🇺🇸 Is that something you run for? (I ask in jest, of course you can run for it, I just decided to!)

My qualifications?

✅ I ask questions nobody wants to answer.
✅ I read the fine print.
✅ I show up to meetings.
✅ I have absolutely no interest in being popular with the people causing the problems. In fact, I am their nightmare.
✅ And I’ve already demonstrated a remarkable ability to make local corrupt government officials update their résumés.

Now, with the Port suing the city and Scott Devers still sitting in the manager’s chair, I figure it’s time to stop doing the job of an unpaid municipal pain in the ass and apply for the position officially. I offered to do this for Meeker when Jeff resigned, but they didn’t take me up on the offer. Maybe they thought I was kidding. Maybe I was then. Hell, maybe I am now. But I won’t be caught bluffing, so call me on it.

MY PLATFORM IS SIMPLE:

🔥 Less nonsense. More transparency.
🔥 Fewer excuses. More accountability.
🔥 Stop digging the hole deeper.
🔥 And, perhaps most importantly, stop making decisions that require me to buy more storage space for public records and all the videos.

My slogan?

RONALD E. DURBIN, II
Pain in the Ass Extraordinaire
FOR INOLA CITY MANAGER

I promise to be every bit as pleasant to deal with from the inside as I’ve been from the outside. 😎 Except, this time, I would be on the City’s and the People’s side, by unifying the two.

And Scott, buddy, this isn’t personal. It’s just that I’ve been doing quality control for free, and frankly, the benefits package sucks. Ok, and maybe if I’m being honest, it’s also a little personal.

INOLA: YOU CAN KEEP PAYING FOR THE PROBLEMS, OR YOU CAN HIRE THE PROBLEM-SOLVER.

Disclaimer: This is a joke campaign. But if the application comes with a decent salary, health insurance, and the authority to fix things, somebody might want to check my references. 😂 Google me, it’s going to take some time.

A federal energy official told an Oklahoma town the smelter’s emissions “will not leave the plant.” The company’s own pe...
10/25/2026

A federal energy official told an Oklahoma town the smelter’s emissions “will not leave the plant.” The company’s own permit asks to release up to 264 tons of fluoride a year.

The plant is Oklahoma Primary Aluminum, planned for Inola. Its permit application asks to release up to 264 tons of fluoride a year. That’s about 1,450 pounds every day.

The first request was bigger: 425 tons a year. The company lowered it on September 3.

WHAT INOLA WAS TOLD

On August 1, Mike Mazzei brought a slide show to the fairgrounds in Pryor. The room was full of people in teal “Stop the Inola Smelter” shirts.

One slide listed things that contain fluoride: grapes, raisins, carpet, fertilizer. The Frontier reported several words were misspelled.

Two weeks later in Bixby, Mazzei said the plant would be “completely safe for the people, completely safe for the cattle.” He is now running for governor.

In June, Assistant Secretary of Energy Audrey Robertson went further. Her office put $500 million of your tax money into this project. She told Inola the “emissions will not leave the plant.”

If nothing leaves the plant, why does the permit ask for 264 tons?

WHAT THE COMPANY ADMITS

The company’s website says real emissions can’t be confirmed until the plant runs. Its air, soil, and hay studies are still being done.

So “completely safe” came BEFORE the proof.

WHAT IT DOES TO CATTLE

Fluoride from smelters settles on grass. Cattle eat it, and it builds up in their teeth and bones. They go lame and stop eating. The MSD Veterinary Manual says there is no effective treatment.

An Oregon ranch family already lived this. From 1951 to 1956, fluoride from an aluminum plant poisoned their cattle. The plant had a fume system. It didn’t catch everything.

The state Supreme Court called the fluoride a trespass and upheld $91,500 in damages.

WHO’S BEHIND IT

Emirates Global Aluminium owns 60%. Government investment funds in Dubai and Abu Dhabi own that company.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond hired an expert to check the plan. At the first permit numbers, Inola would be the top fluoride emitter of the seven U.S. smelters in the latest federal count. The expert thinks real emissions could run higher.

No air permit has been issued. Drummond is suing to stop the plant. Inola’s moratorium runs until April. Election day is November 3.

If a plant like this comes to your town, ask what the slides skipped. How much, every year?

This comes from the company’s own permit filing, its website, court records, and 25 sources.

Grapes don’t need an air permit. This smelter does.

What else comes to mind that was called “completely safe”?

🚨 ROGERS COUNTY GRAND JUSRY IS BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER🚨We told you we'd be back.We told you we'd come back stronger.An...
10/25/2026

🚨 ROGERS COUNTY GRAND JUSRY IS BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER🚨

We told you we'd be back.

We told you we'd come back stronger.

And tonight, YOU showed us exactly why we aren't giving up.

LOOK AT THE SHEER NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO SHOWED UP TO GET PETITION PACKETS! 🔥

This is what grassroots looks like.

Citizens from across Rogers County are stepping up, taking packets, collecting signatures and saying:

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

This is ROUND 2 of the Rogers County Grand Jury Petition.

And this time, we're coming back with a whole lot of people behind it.

A HUGE thank you to everyone who showed up tonight, everyone who is taking packets into their communities, and everyone who has donated.

And here's something we absolutely LOVE:

ROGERS COUNTY CITIZENS CAME TOGETHER AND COVERED THE ENTIRE PRINTING COST. ❤️

No government money.

No corporate check.

JUST CITIZENS SUPPORTING CITIZENS.

The Flying M meeting had an incredible turnout, with presentations from Grass Roots Coalition board members Casey Jones, Scott Hambrick and Lori Hamilton.

And this is only the beginning.

🔥 SIGNING TIMES AND LOCATIONS ARE COMING.

We'll keep everyone updated as more opportunities become available.

You can also follow Claremore Transparency and Stop the Inola Smelter for updates.

If you want to help collect signatures, get a petition packet and JOIN THE FIGHT.

You can also pick up packets at the Rogers County Courthouse when organizers are there.

This isn't about one person.

It's not about one political party.

It's about citizens demanding answers and using the tools available to them to make their voices heard.

🚨 ROUND 2.

LET'S DO THIS, ROGERS COUNTY.

🚨 BREAKING: ALUMINUM SMELTER WAS RECRUITED BY COMMISSIONERS🚨We have obtained documents that appear to show Rogers County...
10/24/2026

🚨 BREAKING: ALUMINUM SMELTER WAS RECRUITED BY COMMISSIONERS🚨

We have obtained documents that appear to show Rogers County District 3 Commissioner Ron Burrows played a SIGNIFICANT role in helping recruit the proposed aluminum smelter.

And that's just the beginning.

County travel records, official government documents, campaign activity involving government contact information, and political spending are now raising even MORE questions about what was happening behind the scenes.

WE HAVE THE DOCUMENTS.

And we're going to let you see them for yourselves.

🚨 WE'LL BE RELEASING THE DOCUMENTS.

We'll also be putting the records on our website (either today or tomorrow) so citizens can go through them and decide for themselves what they show.

When elected officials are involved in major economic development projects that could dramatically affect an entire community, citizens deserve to know exactly what happened behind the scenes.

And if the documents raise questions about backroom discussions, government resources, political spending or undisclosed relationships...

THOSE QUESTIONS DESERVE ANSWERS.

🚨 THE DOCUMENTS ARE COMING.

READ THEM.

CHECK THEM.

FOLLOW THE MONEY.

AND THEN YOU TELL US WHAT YOU THINK.

YUKON MAYOR MAY BE RECALLED OVER BACKROOM DATA CENTER DEALYukon voters decide Nov. 3 whether to remove Mayor Brian Pillm...
10/24/2026

YUKON MAYOR MAY BE RECALLED OVER BACKROOM DATA CENTER DEAL

Yukon voters decide Nov. 3 whether to remove Mayor Brian Pillmore from his Ward 3 council seat. 🗳️

NonDoc reports a citizen petition forced the recall, fueled by anger over Beltline Energy's proposed hyperscale data center on 185 acres at Route 66 and Frisco Road.

Critics allege corruption and claim Pillmore signed a nondisclosure agreement with the company. Pillmore denies it. He says former Vice Mayor Jeff Van Wootton and former city manager Mike Castro signed NDAs, not him. Van Wootton resigned in June. 📄

Challenger Joe Phillips, a retired baseball coach, says an NDA was signed within two days of a failed amphitheater proposal on the same land. He says he does not oppose data centers everywhere, but objects to this site and the lack of transparency. 👀

Pillmore supports the project. He told NonDoc, "The data center economic engine is equivalent to Garth Brooks Boulevard."

If voters remove Pillmore, he cannot hold office for one year. ⚖️

Who signed what, and when? ❓

Live in Yukon? Tell us what you are hearing. Know more? Message us. 👇

The Fourth Estate is dead. Guerrilla News is the Fifth.We have three branches of government. Executive, legislative, jud...
10/24/2026

The Fourth Estate is dead. Guerrilla News is the Fifth.

We have three branches of government. Executive, legislative, judicial. Each one is supposed to check the other two.

The press is the fourth. Not written into the structure, but the First Amendment frees it from government control for a reason. Somebody outside the system has to watch all three. Edmund Burke made that point about Parliament two centuries ago, and it carried over here because the job is the same: keep the people who hold power from operating in the dark.

Here is where that stands today. Gallup found that before 2004, most Americans had at least some trust in the media. By 2016 it was down to about a third. An institution built to inform the public, and two out of three people do not believe a word of it.

They earned that.

Turn on any Tulsa station tonight and count the stories that came straight from a police press release. Count the ones that quote the DA and never ask a follow-up. Count the ones that read a city council agenda back to you and call it reporting. That is not journalism. That is stenography for the government.

It happened for a reason. A handful of corporations own nearly every newspaper and station in this country. Those outlets run on advertising and access. The reporter who asks the sheriff a hard question loses the sheriff's phone number. The station that digs into a developer loses the developer's ad money. So they quit asking. They repeat the thin blue line talking points, they protect the people who feed them stories, and they call it balance.

Four checks on power. One of them got bought, and now it guards the house it was supposed to watch.

The usual defense of the old media goes like this: sure, newspapers are dying, but independent people cannot replace them, because nobody out here has the time or resources to do real investigative work.

We do.

That is the Fifth Estate. Independent reporters, citizen journalists, people with a camera, an open records request, and no advertiser to protect.

That is Guerrilla News. We file the records requests the legacy outlets will not file. We name the officials they will not name. We sit in the courtrooms they stopped covering. We protect our sources with infrastructure no corporate newsroom would pay for. And we answer to 430,000+ of you, not to a station manager or a board in another state.

The traditional media had the First Amendment and a two hundred year head start. It traded the watchdog job for access and ad revenue.

We are not making that trade.

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10/23/2026

🚨 TULSA POLICE ILLEGALLY STOP MAN THEN TRY TO FIND SOMETHING TO CHARGE HIM WITH?🚨

We were sent video of a traffic stop involving Tulsa Police, and after watching it, we have some serious questions.

From what appears to happen in the video, officers stop this man for turning around in a parking lot, identify him, and then begin looking for something - seemingly trying to find a reason to charge him with something.

Then comes the part that really caught our attention.

Officers have him roll down ALL of the windows so they can look into the vehicle, including the back.

WHAT EXACTLY WERE THEY LOOKING FOR?

Because this doesn't appear to be about a traffic violation anymore not that turning around in a parking lot is one anyway.

It appears to us that they were looking for something illegal - and when they couldn't find anything, they eventually let the man go.

A traffic stop isn't supposed to become an open-ended fishing expedition just because an officer hopes they might find something.

If there was reasonable suspicion or probable cause for what happened next, then let's hear it.

If there wasn't...

WHY WAS THIS MAN STOPPED IN THE FIRST PLACE?

And why were officers seemingly searching for a reason to charge him?

We were not there when this happened, so we're not going to pretend we know everything from a video clip.

BUT WE DO KNOW THIS:

If officers are stopping people without a legitimate reason, extending stops to go fishing for evidence, or pushing the limits of what they're legally allowed to do, that is a constitutionally prolonged stop.

🎥 WATCH THE VIDEO.

Then tell us what YOU think.

Was this a legitimate traffic stop that simply turned into a search for something else?

Or does this look like an unlawful fishing expedition?

YOU BE THE JUDGE.

BROKEN ARROW CHIEF SUSPENSION UPDATEBroken Arrow's police chief is on paid leave, and new emails show the city manager d...
10/23/2026

BROKEN ARROW CHIEF SUSPENSION UPDATE

Broken Arrow's police chief is on paid leave, and new emails show the city manager disagreed with how he handled a warrantless arrest. 👀

Chief Lance Arnold has been on administrative leave since October 14 pending an internal investigation, per News On 6.

📄 Emails News On 6 obtained through an open records request show two officers made a warrantless arrest at a home. Records indicate it conflicted with department policy OPS 120.

In a March email, Arnold wrote "Technically yes" when acknowledging a policy violation, News On 6 reported. He called it a training failure.

🏛️ Hours after the leave was announced, City Manager Michael Spurgeon ordered acting Chief Scott Bennett to rescind Arnold's email. Spurgeon wrote that leaving it unanswered undermines the policy.

The city said "the content of those emails speaks for itself" and declined to discuss the investigation. The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 170 defended Arnold and asked for a fair, prompt investigation shared with the public.

❓ Who is running this investigation, and will the public see the findings?

Tag your Broken Arrow council member. Know more? Message us. 👇

INOLA SCHEDULED A VOTE. TULSA PORTS VOTED TO SUE. ⚖️Carolyn has raised cattle two miles south of the Tulsa Port of Inola...
10/23/2026

INOLA SCHEDULED A VOTE. TULSA PORTS VOTED TO SUE. ⚖️

Carolyn has raised cattle two miles south of the Tulsa Port of Inola for 45 years.

"I've been looking for places to move in case this happens," she told KTUL. "It's just a shame."

"This" is a $4 billion aluminum smelter the U.S. Justice Department calls the largest primary aluminum production facility in the country.

Here's what Inola did 👇

🗳️ Residents filed a petition to ban smelting in town. The Election Board verified 201 signatures.
🛑 The town board paused the project, then sent the ban to voters on April 7, 2027.

And here's what happened next 👇

📜 The President wrote the town: approve it "without delay."
⚖️ On Oct. 15, the Tulsa Ports board voted unanimously to authorize a lawsuit against the Town of Inola.
🧪 On Oct. 7, DEQ told the developer it still has to back up its emissions numbers.

The developer warned the town back in June that a lawsuit "would impose substantial expense on Inola." Now the Port's lawyers have the green light.

This isn't the first time Inola has stood on this ground. In 1979, hundreds of people were arrested on this same land fighting the Black Fox nuclear plant. It never got built.

"If this can happen to us, it can happen to any small rural community in Oklahoma." 🌾

Full story in the first comment 👇

ENID: THEY WANT THE ZONING FIRST. THE BUYER COMES LATER. 🏗️"At first I kind of freaked out about it."That's Angeleen Woo...
10/23/2026

ENID: THEY WANT THE ZONING FIRST. THE BUYER COMES LATER. 🏗️

"At first I kind of freaked out about it."

That's Angeleen Woolf, who owns property next to one of the proposed Project Thunderbird campuses. Then she read what the city is actually being asked to do, and found the problem nobody at the podium explained:

"It gets rezoned and then the protections don't come in until a data center moves in."

Here's what Enid is voting on Tuesday 👇

📍 About 1,735 acres across four campuses
⚡ Up to 3.3 gigawatts from a private gas plant
💰 $35 billion in September. $38 billion in October.
🏭 Farmland to heavy industrial zoning

The developers' own plan, as News 9 reported it: zoning and water agreements FIRST. Talks with the hyperscalers who would actually run the data centers AFTER.

The city's own page says the developer, site plans and timeline "have not been finalized."

And the developers' website says the quiet part out loud about the Vance Air Force Base connection:

"Future moratoriums, taxes, and regulatory changes would face this argument."

Zoning does not remember promises. Zoning remembers land. If the parcels sell, the next owner gets the zoning too.

🗓️ TUESDAY, OCT. 27, 5 PM
Special City Commission meeting
Stride Bank Center, Grand Ballroom
Show up early. Sign up to speak. Ask who the buyer is.

Full story, the water math and the questions to ask your commissioners are in the first comment 👇

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