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Big Tech's AI Utopia Is a Lie. Republicans Are Helping Them Take Your Job.
Tech billionaires are telling us that AI will cure cancer, solve world hunger and bring an age of abundance where none of us has to work.
MAGA is Ruining America
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Elon Musk Is Buying Our Elections. He's Already Started on the Midterms.
In 2024 Elon Musk spent an estimated $288 million to buy himself a president and a Republican Congress.
Trump's EPA Is Moving to Gut Leak Rules at 700,000 Wells That Produce 6% of America's Oil and About Half of the Industry's Methane. The Official Running the Rollback Used to Lobby for a Company That Buys Those Wells.
A draft rule seen by ProPublica would drastically weaken leak inspections and equipment requirements at more than 700,000 low-producing wells, and kill a program built to track massive methane releases. It would save oil companies $42 billion. The EPA published no estimate of what it costs everyone else.
Trump Left the Labor Board Without a Quorum for Nearly a Year and Moved to Turn Employees Into Contractors. Workers' Share of the Economy Just Hit Its Lowest Level Since 1947.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts labor's share of GDP at 52.8% for the second quarter of 2026, the lowest since it started measuring in 1947. Corporate profits rose $400.9 billion in the same three months.
John James Pitched Repealing Michigan's Marijuana Tax at a Fundraiser the Industry Threw Him. It Raised Nearly $90,000.
The 24% wholesale tax was supposed to send $420 million a year to Michigan roads. James told marijuana executives at their own fundraiser he wants it gone, then said so publicly weeks later. He has not said how he would replace the road money.
Ashley Hinson Wrote a Bill to Void Other States' Farm Rules. Iowa Farmers Say It Punishes the Ones Who Already Paid to Follow Them.
Hinson's Save Our Bacon Act would stop states from setting conditions on livestock products sold inside their borders. Iowa hog and dairy farmers stood in a field in Elkhart and said it would punish the producers who paid to meet California's standard.
Elon Musk's Super PAC Is Spending $5.1 Million on the Midterms, Almost All of It in Races With 18 Republicans on This Site. It Spent $3.7 Million of That Attacking Democrats.
America PAC has reported $5.1 million in independent spending this cycle. Eighteen Republicans with report cards on this site are the main beneficiaries — and nearly three-quarters of the money went to attack ads, not to making a case for them.
Greg Abbott Left Home Insurance Off His List of Seven Emergency Priorities. Eighteen Months Later He Says Premiums Are Up 79%.
Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Insurance to act on home insurance costs on August 24, 2026, citing a 79% premium increase in six years. In 2025 his Legislature killed both bills that would have addressed it, insurance was not one of his seven emergency items, and it was not on his 18-item special session agenda either.
Elon Musk's Super PAC Is Paying to Send You to a Voter Registration Site. On August 29 It Gave Itself the Right to Sell What You Type In.
Votesafe.org, run by Musk's America PAC, collects your name, birthdate, home address, phone and every click. A privacy policy change on August 29, 2026 lets the PAC sell all of it, including whether you are registered and how you submit your vote, to 'business partners.'