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You deserve the truth: Republicans are using their huge cash advantage to pummel Democratic candidates just as swing voters tune back into politics. They’re flooding the airwaves with attack ads funded by billionaires. Because they know that losing control of Congress means the end of Trump lining their pockets. Democrats, we need to stand up and fight back. It’s hard for a grassroots movement like ours to keep up with a billionaire-backed machine. And while MAGA elites pour endless money into their candidates, the DNC relies on grassroots donors like you to power our teams on the ground, online, and in court (99.7% of our donations come from ONE MILLION grassroots donors like YOU, Jason. If you've stored your info with ActBlue, we'll process your contribution instantly. Thank you for your patriotism and support, The Official Democratic Party  If you gave recently via check or mail, our system may not have yet processed your gift. We are appreciative and thank you greatly for your support. Jason, we’re building the largest midterm operation in DNC history to take back control of Congress this November, but we need your help right now. Your donation today will help fund our work to register new Democrats in battleground states, organize everywhere, and win everywhere. Text JOIN to 43367 Want to receive fewer emails? Click here. Interested in getting involved? Click here to learn about volunteering. Contributions or gifts to the Democratic National Committee are not tax deductible. Paid for by the Democratic National Committee, www.Democrats.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. Click here if you no longer wish to receive emails from the DNC. Democratic National Committee |
19.9.26
We’re getting hammered…
Not from the Left but from the Bottom
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Years in power. Look at the results.
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Jason, Angie Nixon here. Republicans have controlled Florida for years, and they cannot hold that much power while pretending they bear no responsibility for what working families are experiencing: grocery bills that keep climbing, rent and insurance eating up paychecks, childcare families can't afford, and healthcare that costs too much. Can you split a $20 donation between the DNC and me right now to help change that in November? Here's what Republicans understand about me, and why it scares them. I just shocked the political establishment by winning the Democratic nomination despite being dramatically outspent, proving that people-powered organizing can beat big money. I'm a working-class Black woman who isn't going to Washington to protect wealthy donors or preserve the status quo. I've been clear about why I'm running: I want government to work for working people instead of the wealthy and powerful interests that have dominated Washington and Tallahassee. The wealthy and powerful keep getting richer while working people are told to make do with less. This campaign exists to ask the question at the center of this race: who is the government working for, the people working to pay the bills, or the wealthy few writing the checks? If you've stored your info with ActBlue, we'll process your split contribution between Angela Nixon and the Democratic National Committee instantly: Their track record got us here. Let's give Florida a different one. In solidarity,  If you gave recently via check or mail, our system may not have yet processed your gift. We are appreciative and thank you greatly for your support. Jason, we’re building the largest midterm operation in DNC history to take back control of Congress this November, but we need your help right now. Your donation today will help fund our work to register new Democrats in battleground states, organize everywhere, and win everywhere. Text JOIN to 43367 Want to receive fewer emails? Click here. Interested in getting involved? Click here to learn about volunteering. Contributions or gifts to the Democratic National Committee are not tax deductible. Paid for by the Democratic National Committee, www.Democrats.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. Click here if you no longer wish to receive emails from the DNC. Democratic National Committee |
We agree with Ted Cruz
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Jason — for the first time ever, we agree with Ted Cruz. Take a look at what he said: “If Democrats take Congress, they will use it to fight with everything they can to stop President Trump’s agenda” Jason, he’s right. If Democrats flip the House and the Senate, we will use our majorities to do everything we can to block Donald Trump’s agenda from harming the American people for the remainder of his presidency. The DNC has been fighting tooth and nail all year to power a huge blue wave, but we’re going to need to massively scale up in the next 45 days if we want to wake up victorious on November 4th. We’re deploying an army of organizers across the country to reach voters in the field, registering thousands of new Democrats in key battleground states, and distributing critical resources to over 10,000 Democratic campaigns — up and down the ballot. But we’re relying on your help to keep fighting until Election Day. If you've stored your info with ActBlue, we'll process your contribution instantly. Thank you in advance, The Democrats  If you gave recently via check or mail, our system may not have yet processed your gift. We are appreciative and thank you greatly for your support. Jason, we’re building the largest midterm operation in DNC history to take back control of Congress this November, but we need your help right now. Your donation today will help fund our work to register new Democrats in battleground states, organize everywhere, and win everywhere. Text JOIN to 43367 Want to receive fewer emails? Click here. Interested in getting involved? Click here to learn about volunteering. Contributions or gifts to the Democratic National Committee are not tax deductible. Paid for by the Democratic National Committee, www.Democrats.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. Click here if you no longer wish to receive emails from the DNC. Democratic National Committee |
18.9.26
You deserve the truth, Jason
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Jason, We’re about to ask you to make your first donation of 2026 to the DNC — but first, we hope you’ll give us a chance to explain why we’re coming to you with this urgency, because you deserve the truth: Here’s what’s happening:
You can see where this is going. Trump wants to rig this election and to make people fear opposing him. He wants to intimidate us into silence as he changes rules in his favor. He and his allies are counting on Democrats like you to completely give up. We can’t let that happen. That’s why this month is so important. In 12 days, the FEC has its FINAL end-of-quarter fundraising deadline before the midterms. We’ll be legally required to report how much the DNC has raised since June. That number will tell a story. A flood of contributions will tell a good one: that Democratic opposition to Trump and his agenda is strong. But a bad FEC report could tell the world that Democratic momentum is slowing at the worst possible time. If you've stored your info with ActBlue, we'll process your contribution instantly. Thank you for standing with us, The Democrats  If you gave recently via check or mail, our system may not have yet processed your gift. We are appreciative and thank you greatly for your support. Jason, we’re building the largest midterm operation in DNC history to take back control of Congress this November, but we need your help right now. Your donation today will help fund our work to register new Democrats in battleground states, organize everywhere, and win everywhere. Text JOIN to 43367 Want to receive fewer emails? Click here. Interested in getting involved? Click here to learn about volunteering. Contributions or gifts to the Democratic National Committee are not tax deductible. Paid for by the Democratic National Committee, www.Democrats.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. Click here if you no longer wish to receive emails from the DNC. Democratic National Committee |
My thoughts on AI
Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest AI companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down AI development.
Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.
This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that AI companies are “gambling with our lives.”
For years, people have warned that generative AI could slip out of our direct control.
Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.
And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how AI is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.
But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley’s bet that AI will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn’t looking good.
The formula for a profitable business isn’t complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest AI companies aren’t doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these AI companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, and Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit and having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers and other infrastructure, AI companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying and dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of AI companies.
That tells us two things:
Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the AI industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly and the gains from these few companies are disguising it; and
Millions of people’s retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, and investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That’s why these AI companies’ dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They’ll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, and that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on “circular financing” where tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft give billions to AI startups like OpenAI and Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy AI processing power.
In other words, these AI companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.
What’s even worse is that retirement and pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the AI companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds and retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk’s AI business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don’t even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech’s perspective, that’s a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, AI billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, and broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman and Amodei come months - if not weeks - before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors - like their own employees - sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAI has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars and public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds and investments, they opened themselves to public accountability and scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game and are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they’re right about AI’s potential, they reap the profits. If they’re wrong and the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.
We can stop this, and we shouldn’t play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted AI development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.
We must make it clear now that should the AI bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.
And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold AI companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.
Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that AI robots will destroy humanity.
But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.
It’s time we hold them accountable.
Thank you for reading.
In solidarity,
Alexandria
One last thing before you go…
Alexandria refuses all corporate lobbyist money and she doesn’t believe elected officials should be bankrolled by special interests at all. Each cycle the big dark money interests rotate - NRA, AIPAC, fossil fuel lobby, etc.
This cycle it’s the AI lobby.
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