Jim Himes claimed in town halls that the US doesn't buy commercial data from data brokers. This is untrue; the NSA disclosed this years ago. That's one of several misleading claims from Himes as he tries to sell an extension of warrantless spying. @jamesjbaratta.bsky.social reports.

Donald Trump & Stephen Miller want Congress to renew their FISA spying powers without any privacy reforms. Top House Intel Dem Jim Himes is trying to get Democrats to give them what they want, saying that we should trust them to oversee themselves and not abuse their power 🤔

Do you think kids' sports shouldn't cost an arm and a leg? The Monopoly Busters Caucus and Co-Chair @deluzio.house.gov will be in Western, PA for a public hearing on April 7 to talk about how private equity is pricing kids and families out of youth sports. Register here:

Thank you, @wyden.senate.gov & @balint.house.gov, for introducing the Privacy Protection Updates Act, a necessary bill to protect a free and independent press.

Trump is escalating in Iran, Democrats have the votes to stop him but @repgregorymeeks.bsky.social won’t force a vote until after the 2-week recess. Learn more from Demand Progress’s Cavan Kharrazian and @dropsitenews.com 's @ryangrim.bsky.social on @democracynow.org

Today is Russell Vought's 50th birthday. This obscure official is leading Trump's anti-democratic and lethal effort to concentrate federal spending power in the executive branch and selectively sabotage government capacity. With much less fanfare than Musk, he's continuing DOGE's assault. 🧵⬇️

🔔 Section 702 of FISA, which enables spying on Americans while harming press freedom and source protection, is up for renewal in Congress. Join our conversation today with @seanvitka.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social, and John Dickas for more. 🕜 1:30 p.m. ET RSVP: freedom.press/section-702

Right now, the government can buy your location data and browser history from shady data brokers and then feed that into AI-powered surveillance systems—all without court approval. Learn more about how to stop that on the Lever Time podcast from @levernews.com

🔔 Section 702 of FISA, which enables spying on Americans while harming press freedom and source protection, is up for renewal in Congress. Join our conversation with @seanvitka.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social, and John Dickas for more. 🗓️ March 26, 1:30 p.m. ET RSVP: freedom.press/section-702

🔔 Section 702 of FISA, which enables spying on Americans while harming press freedom and source protection, is up for renewal in Congress. Join our conversation with @seanvitka.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social, and John Dickas for more. 🗓️ March 26, 1:30 p.m. ET RSVP: freedom.press/section-702

House Dems are reportedly not planning to vote on a war powers resolution this week. Meanwhile, Trump is preparing to send thousands of troops overseas & just raised the Army’s maximum recruitment age to 42. A delay gives Trump time to escalate while the House is in recess for the next 2 weeks.

Speaker Johnson is delaying a vote on FISA, which was previously planned for next week. This reversal is because his members and the American people—left, right and center—don’t want Congress to rubberstamp warrantless mass surveillance without serious privacy protections.

Don’t let Congress renew the government’s FISA spy powers w/o privacy protections! Tell them to protect us from AI-powered surveillance first! Go to StopDangerousAI(dot)com or call 202-953-1892. Enter your zip, connect w/ your members' offices & we'll give you a sample script.

NEW @dataforprogress.org POLL: 56% of voters think a war with Iran benefits Israel more, compared to only 29% who think it benefits the U.S. Surprisingly, 47% of Republicans, a plurality, think the war benefits Israel more, compared to only 42% who think it benefits the U.S. more.

Right now, the government can bypass courts to buy our private information in bulk from shady data brokers and feed that data to AI-powered mass surveillance systems. Today Demand Progress, @pogo.org and 130+ groups sent a letter asking Congress to close this loophole before renewing FISA.

Zillow paid Redfin $100 million to exit the rental listings market. Now a Zillow-adjacent hedge fund wants to push out another competitor, Homes.com. Zillow's monopoly lets it charge high referral fees on commissions at the expense of homebuyers.

This morning, @politico.com reported that Speaker Johnson wants a vote to renew sweeping government spying powers next week. A recent Demand Progress poll found that large majorities of GOP, Indy & Dem voters do not want the government to have warrantless surveillance powers.

Congress must not once again extend FISA Section 702 without stopping abuses that allow surveillance of Americans, including journalists. Read the letter we signed with over 80 other organizations: demandprogress.org/wp-content/u...

Demand Progress proudly supports the Government Surveillance Reform Act, a bill to close loopholes in the law that allow the government to conduct warrantless surveillance on people in the United States and buy their private communications in bulk.

Stephen Miller wants Congress to reauthorize the government’s sweeping spying power. Today, Demand Progress & a coalition of 90+ civil rights and progressive leaders sent a letter asking Democrats to not give Miller the power he is asking for and instead enact privacy reforms.

New Poll! Demand Progress and @dataforprogress.org found that Americans do not support the Trump admin’s plans to force AI companies to let them use their tech for military and surveillance.

Chip giant Nvidia sees AI as a chance to cement its monopoly power. Don’t believe us, take their CEO’s word for it. For Jensen Huang, “the fact that everything is scarce is fantastic for us.”

They’ve been making jokes about Ticketmaster being evil and hurting customers since the 90s. Today, Trump ended a lawsuit that could have broken up Live Nation and Ticketmaster, paving the way for the company to use its monopoly to keep prices high and customers angry.

Donald Trump should know “all too well” that siding with a giant monopoly over the American people makes him look like “the smallest man who ever lived.” This atrocious settlement preserves the Live Nation/Ticketmaster monopoly that cost Swifties their Eras Tour tickets.

Did you know that the government can sweep up your private texts, calls and emails without a court order? Congress must pass the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act from Rep. Andy Biggs to help close the loopholes in the law that allow invasive spying.

Today, the House failed to pass a war powers resolution to stop the war in Iran. Everyone who voted to block the resolution owns the casualties, rising gas prices and regional chaos that comes with this disastrous, unpopular war.

The Senate just voted to block a war powers resolution that would have stopped Trump’s war in Iran. The American people will remember who voted to keep our servicemembers in danger by supporting this dangerous, unnecessary, unpopular war.

Democrats who raced to applaud Trump’s illegal Iran war, including one who was pardoned by him, are drafting a pro-war war powers resolution that will give Trump a month-long free pass in Iran. This Trojan Horse resolution is meant to sabotage the real war powers resolution from Massie & Khanna.

Stephen Miller in 2024: “If young men don't want to be drafted to fight in Kamala's and Cheney's 3rd World War they better get out and vote for Trump.” Trump now: “The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties. That often happens in war.”

The American people don’t want another regime change war in the Middle East. Meanwhile, a handful of elites in DC and abroad have spent their whole lives dreaming of bombing Iran. Trump sided with the elites by starting an illegal war with Iran.

Dem leaders just announced that they are forcing an Iran war powers vote next week. A war with Iran is a clear war of choice that the American people do not want. Like with Iraq, whether or not politicians support this will become a key litmus test in all future elections.

The abundance clique has an AI problem. Beyond being funded by Silicon Valley, the ecosystem features an array of tech libertarians, a smattering of technofascism, and no answers for our anti-AI moment. Read @dylangyauchl.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com! newrepublic.com/article/2064...

At the State of the Union, Trump plans to announce pledges from Big Tech to pay for some data center energy costs. These pledges amount to a face-saving pinky swear from companies that are trying to get us to sacrifice our jobs and families for an AI future they control.

Airbnb’s cofounder is now working for the Trump admin to use AI to revamp government websites. But NextGov noticed something suspicious. The new websites kept featuring logos and links for other private companies, which they would remove after they sought comment.

Congress passed a law slashing debit card fees. Instead of following it, the Federal Reserve issued a rule capping the fees at more the five times the average transaction cost. These high fees get passed to consumers while the big banks make billions.

Next week, Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie will force a vote to stop Trump’s march to an illegal, disastrous war with Iran. Call 1-833-STOP-WAR (1-833-786-7927) to connect with your Reps to urge them to vote YES on the Khanna-Massie War Powers Resolution.

The president is gearing up for war in Iran, foreign governments are cheering him on & congressional leaders in both parties are silent. Meanwhile, the American people are shut out of the conversation. Congress pass the @rokhanna.bsky.social /Thomas Massie war powers resolution and stop this war.

The truth: Meta targeted kids, pushed them toward harmful content, and knew the risks—even comparing themselves to Big Tobacco.

The 2008 financial crisis happened because we let bankers gamble on housing. Now the CFTC is trying to let gamblers gamble on every aspect of life. By fighting state prediction market safeguards, the CFTC is siding with gambling company CEOs instead of everyday Americans.

Instead of taking a stand against ICE, Target merely signed onto a weak statement calling to “de-escalate tensions,” without mentioning ICE or the murders of Alex Pretti or Renee Nicole Good. Sign the petition: Tell Target’s new CEO — ICE out of Minnesota!

The CFTC was tasked with preventing a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. Earlier this week, the CTFC’s top enforcement office was gutted. Yesterday, Trump appointed gambling, crypto and prediction market CEOs to a CFTC committee. The corruption is obvious.

Matt Yglesias on voter anger at elite corruption: “voters do not bother to inform themselves about the actual difficulties involved in assessing policy problems” Also Matt Yglesias talking about voter anger at elite corruption: “Polymarket is sponsoring this post”

We’re in an era where people on the left, right and center are furious at the elites who have lied, failed, broke the law and faced no consequences. If the Democrats want to credibly harness this energy, they need to cut ties with anyone connected to Jeffrey Epstein.

An official federal website for new dietary guidelines prominently urges people to use Grok—the same AI chatbot that created sexualized images of minors, declared itself to be “mecha-Hitler” and is owned by one of the president’s largest patrons.

Russ Vought’s CFPB is making it harder for you to lodge a complaint about errors on your credit report. The Trump administration is protecting giant financial companies and their profits, even when they make it harder for you to buy a home or get a job.

Abundance has a new 501(c)(4) group to help push its deregulatory message according to reporting by Axios. "Next American Era" will be headed up by former DCCC chair and current OpenAI/Oracle lobbyist Cheri Bustos, further integrating data center construction with abundance

We already polled this and found that corporate-friendly messaging fixated on regulations is just not as popular as populist messaging focused on challenging corporate power.

CNN reported that Trump's former "weaponization" czar at the DOJ mishandled sensitive information and lied about it. Demand Progress Education Fund just filed an ethics complaint with the DC Bar and Missouri Bar demanding an investigation.

ICE is misusing a facial recognition app that can’t reliably verify identity and was rushed into use. Without real privacy safeguards, tools like this can be used by the government and law enforcement to bypass our fundamental rights.

Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to reverse the Kennedy Center name change and save the institution from Trump’s personal vendettas.