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    2026 primaries. All of the House and a third of the Senate will be up for grabs.

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        The question is not whether they will happen; the question is whether they will be fair and free.

        Every modern authoritarian regime, even including North Korea, at least maintains the pretense of voting.

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          They won’t be free. If zuck and musk keep supporting Trump, they can decide the election with their websites alone.

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            Partial list of billionaires in attendance to Trump’s inauguration in person. The collective control they have over the information, infrastructure, and financing is terrifying.

            • Mark Zuckerberg - Meta
            • Jeff Bezos - Amazon
            • Sundar Pichai - Google
            • Elon Musk - Telsa / Twitter / SpaceX
            • Tim Cook - Apple
            • Sam Altman - OpenAI
            • Shou Zi Chew - Tiktok
            • Rupert Murdoch - NewsCorp
            • Chris Wright - Liberty Energy
            • Howard Lutnick - Cantor Fitzgerald
            • Doug Burgum - Arthur Ventures
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            They will be free of foreign interference for the first time in decades largely because the US government will be interfering instead.

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      There is a pretty big part of me that feels like they’re going to hold off their political persecution spree for just before the midterms so the media can run with story after story of “XYZ Democrat found guilty of being a Democrat lying about God Emperor Trump”