Flock is a surveillance company that operates over 90k cameras nationwide that feed location data to over 5k law enforcement agencies, including ICE. Sign the petition: Tell Congress to ban Flock's authoritarian camera network and protect our privacy rights!

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Flock is a surveillance company that operates over 90,000 cameras nationwide that feed location data to over 5,000 law enforcement agencies.1 This totalitarian spying network is a grave danger to our ...

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NEW: Trump’s coziness with AI oligarchs is a defining feature of his admin. But the AI companies reshaping our lives are also betting on the support of Democrats. We tracked close to 100 former Biden officials to their new jobs working in the AI industry:

Tracking the Revolving Door Between AI and Former Biden Officials | Revolving Door Project

This tracker was last updated on August 3, 2026.  The artificial intelligence industry is rapidly reshaping every facet of life, from the popularity of chatbots and disruption of the workplace to the ...

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$1,200 a year. That's what card swipe fees cost the average household — baked into the price of nearly everything, even if you pay cash. A bipartisan bill would fix it. Wall Street spent ~$200M to stop it, per new @demandprogress.bsky.social report. Who's paying & who's protecting it? 🧵

The Senate just confirmed a new chief spy, a Trump crony who went after NYT reporters and investigated DEMOCRATS’ Epstein ties—all to please the president. Because this man will be point on handling intelligence, Congress must enact warrant requirements to stop FISA abuse.

Today, a group of consumer advocates asked the CFTC to reject a proposal that opens the door to let prediction markets like @kalshiofficial.bsky.social & @polymarket.extwitter.link run nationwide gambling operations. Prediction markets are not derivatives. They’re straight-up gambling.

The White House just officially launched "Trump Accounts," which serve as a backdoor way to privatize Social Security. We need you to tell Congress: Don't let Trump destroy Social Security! Say NO to cuts, privatization and raising the retirement age.

Block Trump's scheme to destroy Social Security

The White House just officially launched "Trump Accounts," an investment program for kids. The Trump administration called the accounts a "backdoor way for privatizing Social Security."1,2 These ac...

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Netflix is casting for a Monopoly reality show where 12 people fight to build a monopoly on a life-sized board. Their antitrust lawyers must be sitting somewhere hoping nobody notices the metaphor right in front of them. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Netflix wants you to apply to its new game show with $2M prize

Netflix opens casting for a competition series inviting applicants to join a life‑size version of a classic board game.

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Just now, 103 House Democrats voted to adopt an amendment that would cut $3.3 billion in military subsidies to Israel. Dem leaders like @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social can no longer deny that the tide is turning against giving Israel a blank check.

At a trainwreck hearing today, Trump nominee Jay Clayton repeatedly denied the 2020 election results and showed he would be a submissive hatchetman as our nation’s chief spy. We hope @markwarner.bsky.social and @jahimes.bsky.social realize the danger he would pose as Trump’s pointman on FISA.

Senate Democrats must not support Trump’s nominee to be the nation’s top spy, especially after he just subpoenaed New York Times journalists for reporting information that the administration didn’t like. Read the full story from @huffpost.com and @delaneyrules.bsky.social

New York Times Subpoenas Could Complicate Jay Clayton’s Confirmation

Donald Trump's nominee for director of national intelligence signed off on subpoenas targeting reporters who upset the president.

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While KOSA (Kids online safety Act) may seem like a good idea on paper. This administration and the corporations backing it should give you pause. @eff.org and @demandprogress.bsky.social Have good resources on it if you wanna help fight it getting passed or educating yourself on the dangers.

NEW: We're launching the AI Villains Tracker - a resource for keeping tabs on the Silicon Valley elites who are crafting Trump’s AI policy in the second Trump administration.

AI Villains And The Trump Administration | Revolving Door Project

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NEW in @prospect.org : Silicon Valley financiers are frothing at the mouth over a startup founded by Kirsten Gillibrand’s fresh-out-of-college son. Last month the company, APEC, was valued at $300 million.

Not All Nepo Babies Are Trumps - The American Prospect

DSCC chair’s 22-year-old son strikes it big in pursuit of further gamifying finance.

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Demand Progress Education Fund put up a billboard telling the CFTC: Prediction Markets Are Gambling. Companies like Kalshi & Polymarket offer gambling by another name. They should have to follow the state gambling laws that have set firm guardrails around these risky activities.

Today, Demand Progress Education Fund put up a billboard outside the FTC and DOJ with one message: NETFLIX IS A MONOPOLY. These agencies can’t ignore it any longer.

EFF and allies including @demandprogress.bsky.social Education Fund, @nationalconsumers.bsky.social, and @epic.org call on the FTC to reject X’s petition to lift a regulatory order imposed after it was shown (twice) to abuse user data.

EFF and Allies: X’s FTC Petition to Waive Privacy Violation Order Should be Rejected

Strong safeguards on our information require eagle-eyed oversight when that data is abused and misused for profiteering ventures. X’s actions not only showed us this in the past, but continue to do so...

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From the White House ballroom, to the reflecting pool to possibly even Mount Rushmore, Trump is trying to remake America in his image. Tell Congress: Stop the WH ballroom and don't let Trump imprint his right-wing renovations all across America.

Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want Congress to give them the power to bypass the courts and spy on us. Sign the petition: Tell Congress to vote NO on handing over warrantless spying powers to Trump and Miller!

Block Trump's warrantless spying on Americans!

Trump has failed to extend his warrantless spying powers and pass the SAVE America Act, one of the most extreme voter suppression bills in modern history. So, now he’s grinding Congress to a halt to g...

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A new poll from @ourfinancialsecurity.org & the Center for Responsible Lending finds that clear majorities of democrats, republicans and independents think the crypto industry has too much influence in Washington.

Press Release: New Poll Reveals Republicans, Democrats, and Independents Agree that Crypto Needs Strong Regulations - Americans for Financial Reform

A new poll shows that voters across party lines are concerned about the crypto industry’s influence in Washington, and worried that legislation shaped by crypto donations will enrich the industry at t...

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Big Tech’s AI money machine is already trying to shape the rules before they’re written. 💰 Kudos to @demandprogress.bsky.social for tracking which politicians are being bankrolled by Leading the Future, the Super PAC backed by AI executives fighting guardrails. ⬇️

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Leading the Future, the Super PAC from the people who brought you Palantir and OpenAI, are spending millions on elections to kill AI safeguards. Go to aimoneywatch.org to see who they're bankrolling and who they're trying to stop.

Crypto lobbyists are rushing to push the CLARITY Act — a disastrous pro-crypto industry giveaway bill — through the Senate. Sign the petition: Tell your Senators to vote NO, oppose cloture, and support a filibuster of the CLARITY Act now.

Demand the Senate Filibuster the CLARITY Act

The crypto lobby is trying to push the CLARITY Act through the Senate, and Senators need to hear from the public immediately. This bill would weaken key safeguards, undermine the SEC’s authority, a...

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The USPS is planning to reject ballots from any state that refuses to hand over state election data to Trump's Department of Homeland Security. Sign the petition and tell Congress to block Trump's attack on mail voting!

Demand Progress's Carter Dougherty will talk on June 30 about the Visa-Mastercard cartel and how these companies are using monopoly power to jack up prices on consumers and small businesses. Register here:

Leading the Future, the Super PAC from the people who brought you Palantir and OpenAI, are spending millions on elections to kill AI safeguards. Go to aimoneywatch.org to see who they're bankrolling and who they're trying to stop.

Don’t let opposition to Trump become opposition to peace. The announced, initial deal is tangible progress towards ending the illegal, reckless war against Iran and should be embraced, not sabotaged.

Iran Deal Should be Embraced, Not Sabotaged - Demand Progress

Congress Must Not Let Opposition to Trump Become Opposition to Peace Washington, D.C. — On Sunday, President Donald Trump and Iranian officials announced that they have reached an initial peace deal. ...

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AI industry Super PAC Leading the Future is spending BIG on @menendez.house.gov. Go to aimoneywatch.org to see who's being bankrolled by them and who they're trying to stop.

Section 702 sunsets today. What’s next? Surveillance can continue until March 2027 under a grandfather clause. In the meantime, Congress must take this opportunity to build real protections for Americans’ privacy into any Section 702 2.0. 1/17

Trump tasked Jay Clayton with investigating Democrats’ ties to Epstein. Now he’s nominating Clayton to be the nation’s top spy and Dems @markwarner.bsky.social & Rep. Jim Himes are practically gushing over him. No one should celebrate the fact that Trump just named his Epstein hatchet man to ODNI

Warner and Himes Gush Over Trump’s Epstein Hatchet Man Jay Clayton - Demand Progress

Like Bill Pulte, Jay Clayton Carried Out Trump’s Directive to Investigate His Political Enemies Washington, D.C. — On Thursday, President Donald Trump nominated U.S. Attorney for the Southern District...

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Yet again, Speaker Johnson tried to jam through a FISA bill with no privacy reforms. And yet again, he failed—this time without even getting a simple majority of the House on his side. If he wants a FISA deal, all he has to do is allow amendment votes on warrant requirements.

House Yet Again Rejects Warrantless FISA Bill - Demand Progress

Washington, D.C. — On Thursday, the House failed to pass legislation that would have extended Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act with no privacy protections until July 2. Yesterd...

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Congress is staring down the barrel of a manufactured crisis. prospect.org?p=139660