AI is eating your voice.
Trump and the AI billionaires want to stop your state and your town from setting the rules, and they are spending hundreds of millions to get their way.
Trump's war on local control
Trump kills AI safety testing
Trump shelved an order to test powerful AI models after calls from David Sacks, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. 79% of Republican voters wanted the testing.
Trump orders DOJ to go after state AI laws
His order created an "AI Litigation Task Force" and threatened states' broadband funding.
A 10-year ban on state AI laws
House Republicans put it in Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," with OpenAI and Google backing it. The Senate stripped it 99-1.
How is the AI industry using its influence?
Where the money comes from and where it goes, per FEC filings.
Raised by Leading the Future, the AI super PAC funded by Andreessen Horowitz and Brockman.
Source: NPR, June 2026 ↗Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin: where its affiliate is running ads selling data centers.
Source: TechCrunch ↗The donors
The PACs
Deals made in secret
In Louisiana, state senators and local officials signed nondisclosure agreements for a $3.6 billion data center code-named "Project Lightning" and "Project Pixel."
Researchers found NDAs in at least 25 of 31 Virginia data center projects.
People are still winning
109 AI laws and 28 data center laws
Enacted by July 1, 2026, despite Trump's pressure.
Don't just scroll. Act.
Make Big Tech pay its own way: no more blank checks, no more cost-shifting onto our power bills, real protections for our water, jobs and kids.
Communities are fighting back.
Referendums, moratoriums, packed hearings and primary upsets — sourced, town by town.