{"id":750851,"date":"2025-09-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/?p=750851"},"modified":"2025-09-01T18:38:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:38:52","slug":"education-department-forced-to-release-key-card-data-for-matt-langston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/09\/03\/education-department-forced-to-release-key-card-data-for-matt-langston\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Department Forced to Release Key Card Data for Matt Langston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-custom-everlit-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Everlit Audio Player\" src=\"https:\/\/everlit.audio\/embeds\/artl_maqp6tb7pAK?client=wp&amp;client_version=2.6.0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80px\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Texan Matt Langston has kept his campaign business running while collecting a six-figure salary as the Department of Education\u2019s chief policy advisor, though he rarely comes into the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Langston badged into the department\u2019s office on North Lincoln Boulevard on 27 days in 2023. In 2024, that dwindled to 11 days. And through June of this year, Langston worked in person on just four days, according to data obtained by Oklahoma Watch under the Oklahoma Open Records Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s just 42 days in the office since Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters hired Langston in January 2023 and issued a directive ending telework for the agency\u2019s employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe is a ghost employee,\u201d former state representative Mark McBride said after reviewing the findings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, McBride, along with other state lawmakers, asked the attorney general to investigate whether Langston was a ghost employee, which is a person on an organization\u2019s payroll who does not actually perform the duties associated with their position. The attorney general declined to investigate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2023, Langston\u2019s political consulting firm, Engage Right, worked for two Texas candidates, formed a political committee in Florida and sent campaign emails on Walters\u2019 behalf.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-newspack-blocks-homepage-articles is-style-borders wpnbha show-image image-alignright ts-4 is-1 is-landscape is-style-borders\" style=\"\">\n\t\t<div data-posts data-current-post-id=\"731647\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-section-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>the latest<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<article data-post-id=\"754196\" class=\"tag-attorney-general tag-cdc tag-covid-19 tag-george-monks tag-measles tag-oklahoma-news tag-oklahoma-state-department-of-health tag-oklahoma-state-medical-association tag-whooping-cough category-health category-publichealth type-post post-has-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2026\/01\/05\/oklahoma-health-department-refuses-to-share-county-level-measles-data\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-newspack-article-block-landscape-large size-newspack-article-block-landscape-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Oklahoma Health Department Refuses to Share County-Level Measles Data\" data-hero-candidate=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 2400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 782px) 600px, (min-width: 600px) 42.5vw, 90vw\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><!-- .featured-image -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2026\/01\/05\/oklahoma-health-department-refuses-to-share-county-level-measles-data\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Oklahoma Health Department Refuses to Share County-Level Measles Data<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/author\/paulmonies\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cropped-Paul-Monies.jpg?resize=48%2C48&amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cropped-Paul-Monies-96x96.jpg 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-48 photo\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\"><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"author-prefix\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/author\/paulmonies\/\">Paul Monies<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><!-- .author-name -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2026-01-05T06:01:00-06:00\">January 5, 2026<\/time><time class=\"updated\" datetime=\"2026-01-05T11:05:42-06:00\">January 5, 2026<\/time>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-wrapper -->\n\t<\/article>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>Langston managed Walters\u2019 2022 campaign for state superintendent and joined the agency when Walters took office. That campaign is still active, though Walters hasn\u2019t announced plans to run for any state office in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walters\u2019 campaign has made only one payment to Engage Right since the 2022 election. It was for $5,000 on March 4, 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January, Langston created a new political committee called <a href=\"https:\/\/dos.elections.myflorida.com\/campaign-docs\/?account=88983\">MAGA Florida<\/a>, according to records from the Florida Division of Elections. The committee reported two donations: $2,000 from Florida Council for Safe Communities, a nonprofit organization that advocates for safe families and communities; and $15,000 from One on One Communications, a company registered to Brett Doster, founder of Front Line Strategies, a political consulting firm where Langston and Matt Mohler, Walters\u2019 chief of staff, have both worked.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MAGA Florida sent mailers in February to promote two Republican legislative candidates. The mailers resembled voter guides and bore the logo of the state Republican Party, which drew a cease-and-desist letter from the party, <a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/722366-florida-gop-sends-cease-and-desist-over-flyer-promoting-brian-hodgers-debbie-mayfield\/\">according to Florida Politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Walters\u2019 Staff Also Working from Arkansas, Colorado and Michigan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oklahoma Watch identified three other agency employees who live out of state; each reported working fewer than 40 hours per week. Two of them, like Langston, have little educational work experience but have stout political consulting resumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Typically, part-time, out-of-state workers are hired as vendors through the competitive bidding process, as Mary Vought was. The Department of Education hired Vought\u2019s D.C. area firm, Vought Strategies, last year to write op-eds and book Walters on national TV and radio shows at a cost of $5,000 per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the agency employs, rather than contracts with, advisors in Colorado and Arkansas and a consultant in Michigan.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lexi Swearingen, senior advisor for communications under Langston, lives in Colorado, and Chad Gallagher, whose title is senior advisor, works from Arkansas, according to internal agency documents obtained by Oklahoma Watch.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swearingen co-owns a gun range with her husband, a county commissioner in Pueblo, Colo., according to news reports and her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lexi-stemple-swearingen-733408\/\">LinkedIn profile<\/a>. Previously, she worked as a producer for CNN and Fox News, as well as the presidential campaigns of Rick Perry and Carly Fiorina and the 2016 Republican National Convention, according to a story in <a href=\"https:\/\/shoutoutcolorado.com\/meet-lexi-swearingen-owner-republic-shooting-range\/\">Shoutout Colorado<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She collected $16,900 from May to July, Department of Education payroll records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cHe is a ghost employee.\u201d<\/p><cite>Mark McBride<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gallagher is a consultant specializing in high-profile brand management and a longtime advisor to former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. Gallagher collected about $24,600 from March to July as a Department of Education employee, according to state payroll records.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another out-of-state employee, Jordan Adams, is an academic standards consultant whose home office is in Michigan. Adams graduated from and worked as an instructional coach for Hillsdale College, the conservative, Christian liberal arts school. Adams has been paid nearly $122,500 since July 2024.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gov. Kevin Stitt\u2019s return to work order doesn\u2019t apply to part-time employees and has limited exceptions for full-time employees. But Langston is full-time and is paid an annual salary of $150,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Langston did not respond to requests for comment. Quinton Hitchcock and Madison Cercy, spokespeople for the department, also failed to respond to repeated requests for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oklahoma Watch\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/04\/23\/walters-new-hires-steeped-in-politics-not-education\/\">previous reporting<\/a> revealed hefty bonus payments to some agency staff, including Langston, who received an additional $32,000 in January. The department has refused to provide an explanation for the payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Education initially denied Oklahoma Watch\u2019s request for Langston\u2019s key card data and claimed it was exempt under an anti-terrorism provision that allows confidentiality of certain records, such as those related to schematics or security monitoring.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the Attorney General this summer affirmed that the data is public and subject to disclosure, the department provided the data.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnytime an agency is saying, \u2018No, you can\u2019t see the records,\u2019 and is constantly dragging their feet to provide public information, it raises suspicions that there\u2019s incompetency, corruption, inefficiency,\u201d said Joey Senat, an Oklahoma State University professor and expert on Oklahoma\u2019s open records and open meeting laws. \u201cClosed government is always where those thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/StaffHeadshots2022_5194.jpg?resize=771%2C771&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-700097\" style=\"width:193px;height:193px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/StaffHeadshots2022_5194.jpg?resize=771%2C771&amp;ssl=1 771w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/StaffHeadshots2022_5194.jpg?resize=336%2C336&amp;ssl=1 336w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/StaffHeadshots2022_5194.jpg?resize=140%2C140&amp;ssl=1 140w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/StaffHeadshots2022_5194.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/StaffHeadshots2022_5194.jpg?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/StaffHeadshots2022_5194.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/StaffHeadshots2022_5194.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/StaffHeadshots2022_5194.jpg?resize=706%2C706&amp;ssl=1 706w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/StaffHeadshots2022_5194.jpg?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/StaffHeadshots2022_5194.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/StaffHeadshots2022_5194-771x771.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Jennifer Palmer has been a reporter with Oklahoma Watch since 2016 and covers education. Contact her at <a href=\"tel:4057610093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(405) 761-0093<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:jpalmer@oklahomawatch.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jpalmer@oklahomawatch.org<\/a>. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jpalmerOKC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@jpalmerOKC<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:3px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-newspack-blocks-homepage-articles is-style-default wpnbha is-grid columns-3 colgap-1 show-image image-aligntop ts-3 is-3 is-landscape is-style-default\" style=\"\">\n\t\t<div data-posts data-current-post-id=\"731647\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-section-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>MORE FROM Jennifer Palmer<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<article data-post-id=\"753221\" class=\"tag-brandon-pasley tag-domestic-violence-fatality-review-board tag-jacquelyn-campbell tag-laura-thomas tag-scott-hawkins category-criminaljustice category-domestic-violence type-post post-has-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a 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advocate Brandon Pasley to resign. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"entry-date published updated\" datetime=\"2025-11-24T06:00:00-06:00\">November 24, 2025<\/time>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-wrapper -->\n\t<\/article>\n\n\t\t\n\t<article data-post-id=\"752624\" class=\"tag-charles-rust tag-deaths tag-guns tag-savannah-phillips tag-suicide category-health category-mental-health category-vulnerable-populations type-post post-has-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/11\/07\/isolation-illness-and-guns-why-more-older-oklahomans-are-dying-by-suicide\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" 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