by jmerritt | Sep 21, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) is waging a one-man campaign against basic AI safety protections, and he apparently wants both government and independent experts kept as far away from the process as possible. Schmitt has spent years casting the federal...
by jmerritt | Sep 18, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — A new report from The Independent exposes the Capital Research Center (CRC) as exactly what it is: a pay-to-play outfit for wealthy conservative donors that functions as a mouthpiece for the Trump administration’s crackdown on nonprofits,...
by jmerritt | Sep 18, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Key Point: “It is also a group with a documented record of publishing material that did not hold up — on elections, on tobacco and, repeatedly, on climate science.” The Independent: Many Trump ‘enemies’ are being spoon-fed to him by one conservative think...
by jmerritt | Sep 17, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — A new tracking tool shows Trump has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants in every state in the country, the FBI has quietly built out a national center to police dissent under the guise of counterterrorism, and the top Democrat on House Oversight...
by jmerritt | Sep 14, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding was secretly financed by a Russian oligarch with direct ties to Vladimir Putin, ProPublica revealed today. Umar Kremlev, a recent recipient of Putin’s Order of Friendship, covered hundreds of thousands of...
by jmerritt | Sep 10, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — A coordinated right-wing narrative attacking an AI researcher who warned that leading labs are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives” is falling apart under even minimal fact-checking, even as Republican...
