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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.