Jonathan Hewitt

Republican for House District 101

Jonathan Hewitt's journey of service began at age 18 in the Marine Corps, working on F-18 avionics at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort South Carolina. After five years in the Corps, Hewitt continued service to his community, this time, for four and a half years as a deputy sheriff in Beaufort County South Carolina.

In 2021, Jonathan and his wife, Kimber, made the decision to move to Oklahoma as the best place to start and raise their family. Last year, they welcomed their daughter, Scarlett.

Since then, Jonathan has served in the House of Representatives, where he worked for one of the most principled, conservative members of the House and helped put together Oklahoma's pro-life law, a law specifically criticized by Kamala Harris.

Today, as a police officer in Moore, Jonathan continues his service to the public. Kimber also works in law enforcement as a member of Cleveland County's Internet Crimes Against Children Unit.

The Hewitts attend church at St. Phillip Neri in Midwest City. Jonathan is the past President of Little Axe Youth Sports. He's a Constitution Bible Coach at Patriot Academy and, now, having witnessed firsthand the liberalism of the current six-year incumbent state representative — who scored a mere 40 on The Oklahoma Conservative Index in 2023, and a low 30.43% on the Republican Platform Scorecard — Jonathan is again hearing the call to serve: with your vote, he seeks to restore conservative values in the office of our state representative.

Is it 1984 in Oklahoma?

Jonathan Hewitt is stepping up as the guardian of our privacy against an unsettling rise in surveillance technology.

Hewitt, a seasoned police officer with a deep respect for personal freedoms, is spotlighting the concerning spread of hundreds of license plate scanners across the state and nation.

These rapidly deployed devices—sometimes funded by the Biden DOJ—are creating a near-ubiquitous, omnipresent surveillance network, and in some instances, the FBI and the ATF have been given access to these systems, thus potentially providing the federal government with warrantless real-time monitoring of our traffic.

The systems allow operators to set custom alerts and provide notification whenever a person, whom they are tracking—without a warrant—travels past a scanner.

Imagine the possible abuses of this system, a system that can track you everywhere you go!

These scanners are designed to not only capture information about your license plate, but many other of your vehicle’s characteristics including your bumper stickers.

Hundreds of scanners have already been deployed across the state.

In nearby Del City, they are scanning vehicles and appear to be providing access to that data to departments in three states, including the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Postal Service, and the Texas Financial Crimes Intelligence Center.

Why does Del City need to share your travel data with these bizarre, out-of-state agencies?

There's one, very thin, roadblock still remaining to the surveillance state's effort to develop these networks: Except for insurance verification reasons, their tracking devices have never been specifically authorized by state law.

But, unbelievably, given the conservative values of our district, it's our representative, Robert Manger, who is authoring the bill to statutorily authorize these devices.

Fortunately, Manger's bill was defeated by a wide margin in it’s first floor vote on the Senate floor after the Senate author admitted that the plan would share our travel data with governments outside of Oklahoma.

But, Manger and the other advocates for this Orwellian system are very likely to do what big government advocates always do: try and try again until their system is in place. That’s why we must replace Manger.

We know where Manger’s plan is ultimately going to end up: warrantless, real-time, FBI and ATF surveillance of everywhere we go.

This is what is on the ballot on June 18th. When we vote for Hewitt, we will send a powerful message to the whole state: Take down the scanners! George Orwell's 1984 has no place in Oklahoma.