Nathan Ryan Dahm (born January 27, 1983) is an American politician who has served the Chair of the Oklahoma Republican Party since 2023.
Prior to holding office, Dahm worked as a missionary in Romania and was a Tea Party activist in Tulsa County.
[3] After graduation, Dahm moved back to Romania to continue working as a missionary and later became dean of the Biblical school affiliated with his mission.
[5][6] In 2010, he spoke at Tea Party rallies in Tulsa while campaigning for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district against incumbent John Sullivan.
After the 2010 census, Oklahoma Senate District 33 was redistricted from Midtown Tulsa to Broken Arrow, creating an open seat.
[14] Four Republican candidates - Nathan Dahm, Cliff Johns, Don P. Little, and Tim Wright - filed for the office.
[21] In the second session of the 54th Oklahoma Legislature in 2014, Dahm introduced the "Piers Morgan Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms Without Infringement Act" which would allow firearms to be openly carried without a permit.
[22] Dahm sponsored legislation in the Oklahoma Senate that would subject physicians performing abortions to felony charges and revocation of their medical licenses.
[28][29] Dahm has filed senate resolution 47, which could officially recognize June 14, as "President Donald Trump day".
Chris Boring, president of the District Attorneys Council, applauded the veto but advocates for the measure believed it "is critical to address systemic failures in criminal justice for women in Oklahoma.
[41] They claimed that they had "heard this misinformation from the state’s prosecutors and the District Attorneys Council for two years" during their efforts to get a bill passed.
[49] In a press release, they accused prosecutors of “continuously and mercilessly prosecuting survivors of domestic violence, and seeking harsh, maximum punishments, while simultaneously letting their abusers plead out and face minimal consequences.”[50] Treat accused the DAs of going back on a deal he struct with them and saying that another bill had been drafted to ensure criminals couldn't abuse the system,[48] addressing any concerns prosecutors had with the bill.
News Channel 8 Tulsa also said that the Oklahoma District Attorneys Association has "refused or ignored repeated requests for comment on the legislation for more than a year.
[57] On February 28, 2022, Dahm announced he would instead run in the concurrent special election for Jim Inhofe's open Senate seat, upon news of his resignation.