Dark Money Mailer Boosting Curtis Erwin Targets Principled Conservative Dusty Deevers

The Same Hilliary Communications Machine at Work in Senate District 32

By Marven Goodman
SPECIAL EDITION


May 25, 2026 — Oklahomans in Senate District 32 opened their mailboxes this week to yet another glossy “dark money” mailer, this one pushing pastor Curtis Erwin as the “Conservative for Oklahoma State Senate District 32.” The piece features warm family photos:

Here’s a shot of the Erwin clan gathered outdoors, an un-modest skirt length best tells that story.

It touts Erwin’s pledge to “Lower Taxes,” “Put Oklahoma First,” “Bring jobs to Oklahoma,” and “Fight for Conservative Values.” We call this the politics of promoting “vague generalities.” The fine print at the bottom confirms: “This advertisement is not authorized or approved by any candidate.”

And here they show Erwin and his wife smiling by the water.

“Authorized and Paid for by Oklahoma Conservative Coalition,” with the now-familiar Lawton P.O. Box 89 and the identical U.S. Postal Service bulk mail permit used on the recent Chuck Hall and Madison Bolay “dark money” mailers.

This is not a grassroots groundswell. It is the same Lawton-based Oklahoma Conservative Coalition, the Hilliary Communications-linked dark-money vehicle, recycling its playbook. As we detailed in our earlier reporting on the Chuck Hall & Madison Bolay mailer (see Dark Money Mailer for Chuck Hall and Dark Money Mailers Hit Rural Oklahoma, Madison Bolay), as this group continues to lists the Medicine Park headquarters of Hilliary Communications as its address on the bulk mail permit. The pattern is unmistakable: taxpayer-subsidized insiders using dark-money PACs to protect their political allies and attack the few genuine limited-government Oklahoma conservative legislators.

Our investigative reporting, and previous articles by Jason Murphey and V1sut, describes how Hilliary interests deliberately created and exploited this identically named “Oklahoma Conservative Coalition” in what appears to be a calculated effort to frame former State Representative Ryan Martinez (who had originally formed an earlier entity by the same name) for a series of dark-money hit pieces aimed at a candidate for Oklahoma Governor.

In June 2025 alone, this Hilliary-linked Coalition received $2.3 million in rapid infusions from two Virginia-based entities (A Public Voice, Inc. and American Jobs and Growth Fund) that use the same anonymous P.O. box and FedEx drop tactics common in dark-money operations.

This is the “dark money” machinery at work: taxpayer subsidies flow to Hilliary → Hilliary donates and builds media influence → dark-money PACs funded by out-of-state shells protect friendly legislators and attack those who won’t play ball, in this case, targeting Senator Dusty Deevers, a consistent voice for limited government, low taxation, and reduced regulatory control.

The Broader Crony Pattern: Broadband Grants, Political Appointments, and Protection Rackets

As we have previously documented, but worth restating, Hilliary Communications, once a small rural telephone company, transformed into a broadband giant on the back of massive taxpayer-funded grants. The family secured at least $66 million in federal COVID-era broadband money and stands to benefit from hundreds of millions more through the Oklahoma Broadband Office’s $1.4 billion expansion push. Co-CEO Mike Hilliary sits on the Broadband Expansion Council itself, while Dustin Hilliary has been showered with high-profile Stitt administration appointments, including Senior Advisor, a seat on the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, and confirmation to the OU Board of Regents.

Powerful Appropriations & Budget Committee Chairman Chuck Hall has been a reliable supporter of these “economic development” schemes. Now the same network is flooding District 32 mailboxes to elevate Curtis Erwin over incumbent Senator Dusty Deevers, a pastor and businessman who has repeatedly stood against corporate welfare, crony appointments, and the regulatory stranglehold that drives Oklahoma businesses and families to seek relief elsewhere.

True conservatives understand the danger. When government dangles hundreds of millions in grants and contracts, the game stops being about serving customers and starts being about political access. Rural Oklahomans waiting for reliable broadband deserve real competition and private investment, not a patronage machine that funnels public money to insiders and then spends a portion of those gains on dark-money mailers to re-elect or install friendly politicians.

The Limited-Government Alternative

Oklahoma voters in Senate District 32 deserve better than recycled propaganda from the same crony network that has turned “rural connectivity” into a taxpayer-funded empire. Senator Dusty Deevers has earned a reputation as a fighter for limited government, low taxation, and slashing the red tape that burdens small businesses, family farms, and energy producers.

Curtis Erwin’s glossy mailer, funded by the Hilliary dark-money apparatus, offers the opposite: more of the same insider deal-making dressed up in conservative rhetoric.

The Sooner Sentinel has long warned that “economic development” schemes always mean bigger government, higher taxes or debt, and regulatory favoritism for the connected few. The Hilliary story, complete with its copycat PACs, out-of-state dark money, and coordinated mailer campaigns, is once again presented as exhibit A.

Oklahoma deserves a legislature willing to say “no” to corporate welfare, regardless of the partisan label on the donor check. Real opportunity and rural prosperity will come when government gets out of the way, not when it picks winners and then spends public money to re-elect or install the politicians who made the picks possible.

The trash bins are filling up with these “dark money” mailers. It’s time voters filled the ballot box with a different message: enough with the cronyism, enough with the subsidies, and enough with the dark-money protection racket.

Limited government isn’t just a slogan. It’s the only way to actually serve Oklahoma families and restore trust in our institutions.