Tech moguls close to Trump see the midterms as a path to long-term power

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Source: Washington Post

The largest of the pro-AI super PACs, Leading the Future, has a war chest of more than $100 million from prominent investors and executives. It has an affiliated nonprofit that launched a $10 million campaign last month to pressure Congress to pass legislation that would unleash American AI companies to innovate faster and challenge China.

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The group plans to support and oppose candidates in congressional and state elections next year. It will also fund rapid response operations against voices in the industry pushing for more oversight. The super PAC is funded by tech elites, including the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, whose co-founder Marc Andreessen is a Trump adviser and supporter; Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, a friend to Vice President JD Vance; and the president of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, Greg Brockman, and his wife.

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The strategy aims to replicate the success of the cryptocurrency industry, which used a super PAC to clear a path for Congress this summer to boost the sector’s fortunes with the passage of the Genius Act.

The crypto industry’s reputation had previously plummeted after fraud convictions at crypto exchange FTX in 2023. To fix it, investors and companies backed a super PAC called Fairshake that aggressively challenged candidates who didn’t back its agenda. The group helped defeat left-leaning Democrats, spending $10 million to defeat Rep. Katie Porter in her Senate campaign in California and $40 million to unseat then-Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/19/tech-super-pacs-midterms-ai/

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Know the enemy.

And if you think AI bros are the good guys, see this thread:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/132299896

Also at https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220879079

[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[slightlv]

2. I see SO much more trouble coming down at us from these Tech Bros

and their "life changing" technology. None of it will be based on whether or not we actually NEED it, or if it will actually help the common person. All of it will be based on how many million will it make me and how fast will it pile in? Never mind the deaths, the suicides, the despair, the loss of hope for the future.

Young ones are sure to be overly excited, tho. Anything fringy, edgy, and disdainful to the general population is always great for stealing money out of the pockets of young ones. Now, AI can steal their soul, too.

I maintain that technology could be a wonderful gift to mankind - healthcare, rehabilitation, etc. I just don't think it WILL be. Instead, it will designed and created with the worst of humanity already inbred in it. War, violence, civil unrest. It would have to evolve to outpace man before it could serve a decent place in society. And we can't even get our own flesh and blood to evolve to that point right now!

[jfz9580m]

3. Lame

Those guys are lame and clunky. It’s kinda on us that they are “winning” at this point.

[travelingthrulife]

4. We should fan the flames between techbros and other MAGA. Evangelicals and Tech Bros are natural enemies.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Tech bros want world domination in other words