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A tech giant's power bill should not turn up on your meter. $1.31 billion. That’s the estimated Texas sales-tax revenue forgone through data-center exemptions in FY2026. Not a cash check. A tax break with a real budget cost. The projections…
GOOD — making AI builders pay their own power and water freight, and killing secrecy NDAs, is basic fairness; phase out tax carve-outs cleanly
Investors do not wait for the final vote to price a political risk. 5.5%. That’s the Nasdaq’s November 5, 2026 decline reported by CBS. NPR put the market-value…
The AI boom still has to live next door to somebody. 41 ballot measures, ten states. That’s the local data-center tally for November 3, 2026, cited by CNBC…
A data center should pay its own bills, not inherit a rulebook designed to stop it. 100%. That’s the share of utility costs Ohio’s incoming governor says data…
Texas has a case for rules. It also needs an end date for the pause. 41%. That’s Texas’s slice of planned U.S. data-center capacity for 2028. And the…
Fifty-one signatures did not turn suspicion into proof. 51. Former intelligence officials signed the October 19, 2020 laptop letter. It described “classic earmarks” of a Russian operation while…
A clean-energy label does not clean up the mine. Zero Congo-specific U.S. rules, in this research. That’s a narrow claim about rules targeting child labor in Congolese cobalt.…
Proven ballot abuse needs an answer. So do false claims about ordinary voters. 23 million inactive registrations. That’s the count reviewed here. Not 23 million fraudulent votes, and…
A raise is not much of a raise if the grocery bill outruns it. 9.1%. That was the 2022 inflation peak. The September 2026 figure in this research…
Control the border. Do not look away from the employers profiting inside it. Roughly 95%. That’s the drop in border crossings by FY2026 from the earlier records reviewed…
Protect fair competition without turning every child into a political case. Fewer than ten. That’s the NCAA’s count of transgender athletes cited in this research. A small number…
You cannot refund a child's lost school year. $190 billion. That’s federal COVID school relief. The districts that stayed remote longest still saw the biggest learning losses. Many…
It is a tidy arrangement when the candidates choose who gets to challenge them. 15%. That’s the polling threshold associated with the presidential debate commission. No third-party candidate…
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41%. That's Texas's share of planned U.S. data-center capacity for 2028 — and the new governor just promised a statewide ban on new approvals. Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa (D)…
95%. That's roughly how far border crossings fell by FY2026 from their 2021-23 records, under tougher enforcement. The surge overwhelmed cities, which handed out emergency contracts with little…
3,201,144. That's total CBP encounters in FY2023 — an all-time record. It wasn't weather. In 2021 DHS ended Remain in Mexico, then released many crossers with Notices to…
$24 billion. That's what California spent on homelessness from 2018 to 2023, and homelessness still rose 24% from 2019 to 2024. A court-ordered audit found Los Angeles couldn't…
Zero. That's how many laws have banned free speech. The real threat is quieter: government pressure on private companies. The Biden administration pressed platforms over COVID and election…
23 million inactive voter registrations. And mail ballots are where proven, outcome-changing fraud keeps turning up. 2018: a GOP operative's crew altered absentee ballots and North Carolina threw…
27 states, the NCAA, the IOC (from 2028) and a June 2026 Supreme Court ruling now allow or require female sports limited to biological females. Studies show male-puberty…
$25.5 million. That's what Austin spent on police overtime in 2022, against a $5.85M budget, after 'defunding.' In 2020 Minneapolis, Austin and Portland cut or redirected police money.…
9.1%. That was peak inflation in 2021-22. And in 2026 it's rising again: 3.7% in September, mostly gasoline. Paychecks fell behind in 2021-22, caught up in 2023-25, and…
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