Voter Action Project

On October 29th, Fairbanks area parents, workers, and other community members will come together for “Nobody Asked Us: A Town Hall About Data Centers, AI, and Our Tax Dollars” to ask a basic question: Why are our resources being used for Big Tech’s data centers? RSVP here: bit.ly/4BJwmVY

Georgia's data center tax breaks are on track to cost nearly $3 BILLION in state and local revenue next year. Schools alone could lose $295 - $320 million. That's enough for a year of free school meals statewide. Read more here: bit.ly/4zUjhY2 #TaxJustice

10/24 Democratic Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson casts his vote and mails in his absentee ballot for November's election #maine #MEpolitics

Election day is almost here. The best way to create change is to #VOTE in this critical election. Vote early to avoid last minute things like work or family emergencies that make it hard to get to the polls. In CA, drop boxes are the easiest way to vote EARLY. 1/

As data centers expand across Alaska, some of the richest technology companies in the world are exploiting loopholes and special deals that drain revenue from the state and local services communities depend on and drive up costs. RSVP for our October 29th event in Fairbanks here:

Liberal Justice Elena Kagan has accused the Supreme Court’s conservative majority of undermining democracy and creating a more polarized electorate through a series of key rulings that have affected the nature of elections ahead of the midterms. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3W2VR4b

AI is taking your data from you and those around you so they can sell more ads. All subsidized by your tax dollars.

If that ad is still living rent-free in your head as you wonder, "What the hell were they thinking?" this edition of my newsletter is for you. Because I have a theory. www.altrightdelete.news/p/was-this-a...

Dr. Jason Sattizahn, Former Meta AI researcher explains how AI companies trick us into sharing mountains of data unknowingly and what could be done to fight back. @moworkerspower.org

“My thought was they could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any [election] results they don’t like,” one of the former officials said. “This goes against everything CISA represents.” Read more here: https://bit.ly/4jCH6yR #ProtectTheVote

Our property tax dollars fund key emergency services, like police and firefighters. Learn how the property tax amendment would block funding needed to keep communities safe.

"The story we hear over and over and over from our legislators is that 'well, we just don't have the resources to fund our schools.' But I'm going to tell you a dirty little secret: The money is there, they're just letting billionaires and rich corporations off the hook."- Stephanie Rittgers

“Some of the wealthiest corporations in the world are getting enormous tax breaks to build and run these facilities. Meanwhile, families are paying their taxes and watching their schools and public services struggle for funding.” - Kristen Crowell

“My thought was they could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any [election] results they don’t like,” one of the former officials said. “This goes against everything CISA represents.” Read more here: https://bit.ly/4jCH6yR #ProtectTheVote

"If you feel like the system is rigged and the data center companies have an out-sized seat at the table, you're not crazy - this is what's happening." - Kristen Crowell You can watch last night's "Nobody Asked Us" Missouri data center event here: www.youtube.com/live/-x6APxi...

HEADS UP, VOTERS: Make sure to avoid Elon Musk's scam voting website, Vote Safe dot org. Go to www.Vote.org instead - it's there you can safely and reliably make sure you are registered and make a plan to vote. #ProtectTheVote

📅 Jan 1: Everyone starts paying into Social Security. Early Spring: Million-dollar earners are done for the year. Dec 31: Nurses, teachers and cashiers are still paying. Lift the cap. Read more here: bit.ly/4hPhAoJ #ScrapTheCap

Where do things stand with #SNAP cuts coming from the "One Big Beautiful Bill"? Check out our latest update 👇 bit.ly/SNAPupdateME #mepolitics #BigBeautifulBill #Maine

Big Tech whistleblower Dr. Jason Sattizahn will be among the speakers on Monday October 19th in Kirkwood, MO at “Nobody Asked Us” - A Missouri Town Hall on Data Center Tax Breaks & Costs to Public Schools 👇 Learn more and RSVP here: bit.ly/3TDzL7C

HEADS UP, VOTERS: Make sure to avoid Elon Musk's scam voting website, Vote Safe dot org. Go to www.Vote.org instead - it's there you can safely and reliably make sure you are registered and make a plan to vote. #ProtectTheVote

Voters across the states agree: close the loopholes and tax big tech companies (+63 points). Raise taxes on highly profitable corporations (76% support). The public isn't divided on this. Politicians are just ignoring it. Read more here: bit.ly/4zrqy1e #TaxCorporations

Trump will stop at nothing to suppress the vote in any areas he doesn't think will vote his way. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4yfaJtu #ProtectTheVote

"A year on the road taught me what Trump and Republicans in Congress keep getting wrong: people aren't asking for a gentler decline. They want to take their kid to the doctor, feed their family, and see billionaires play by the same rules." Read Kristen Crowell's new op-ed ⬇️

An unusual ruling in Florida — in a case that is part of the Trump regime’s bid to spread fear about noncitizen voting — could raise questions about the constitutionality of the sweeping voter suppression measure being pushed by the president. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4AZjavN

“People know something is deeply out of balance. Because of decisions made in Washington, it’s clearer than ever that the ultra rich are hoarding America’s wealth and convincing policymakers to abandon the public services everyday people rely on.” - Kristen Crowell #WhoPays

“We’re seeing a shortage of wildland firefighters. It’s important that we continue to fund our line of work. We’re consistently, and with climate change, fighting more fires more aggressively. And we’re seeing fires now year-round, even just in Minnesota.”

If you want to check your voter registration, take the safe route and use www.Vote.org

Heads up, Mainers: Filling out the voter registration status-check form on maine dot vote gives your data to a conservative Maine PAC campaigning for Senator Collins and the form on vote safe dot org goes to a database owned by Elon Musk's PAC. Use www.Vote.org instead to be safe.

Today we released two new videos featuring people we met during our “Who Pays?” bus tour, alongside a new op-ed from Kristen Crowell reflecting on what she has heard from average Americans about the harm the policies of Trump and the GOP are doing every day. Check it out here:

9/29 Filling out the voter registration status-check form on https://Maine.vote gives your data to a conservative Maine PAC campaigning for Senator Collins. The form on https://VoteSafe.org goes to a database owned by Elon Musk's PAC. Mainers should be cautious. #maine #MEpolitics

Since 1978: 📈 CEO pay: up 1,316% 📉 Typical worker pay: up 28%. Same economy. Same decades. Very different rules. Time to rewrite them: tax wealth, raise the corporate rate, raise the minimum wage.

After Trump's right-wing, hand-picked Supreme Court ruling weakened key Voting Rights Act protections, Black organizers in Louisiana are building a turnout movement they hope will reshape elections across the South. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4deMx2V #ProtectOurVote

71% of voters want their state to tax the wealth of the richest households — stocks, bonds, real estate, all of it. That's a +46-point margin. Taxing billionaires isn't fringe. Republicans in Congress are the ones out of step. Read more here: bit.ly/4hFizXk #TaxJustice

In 1990, 6.6% of Minnesota’s budget went to MN State. Today it’s 2.7%. 60% of MN undergrads attend one of its 33 schools, which train nurses, teachers, tradespeople, and enrich our communities with educational opportunities. Our students deserve a state that funds their future.

Your football tailgates, brought to you by the Trump economy: 🍔 Ground beef: +24% 🌭 Hot dogs: +6.3% ⛽ Gas: $4.15 🔥 Propane: +11% Even the tickets cost more. Billionaires are having a great season, though. Read more here: bit.ly/4AH3cpW

One snapshot of the Trump-GOP economy: 📉 Wages behind inflation 5 straight months 🏥 Premiums rising ~3x faster than pay ⚡ Energy up 16.3% in a year 🧾 Tariffs: $1,000+ per household They rigged it. We're keeping the receipts.

"Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud, but a group of outsiders is making that difficult," Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Michael Scherer report 👇 Read more here: https://bit.ly/4hrJ4z8 #ResistTrump

1/ “We’re watching private equity absolutely demolish industries, mine in particular. And it’s getting harder to be one of the little guys.” Meet Lauren Gaffney, co-owner of Mastel’s Health Foods, a vitamin and supplement store in St. Paul. 🧵

The man setting war policy has been buying and selling oil and gas stocks worth hundreds of thousands of dollars while that war drives fuel prices to records. In any other job in America, that's a firing offense. In this White House, it's Tuesday.

Federal workers care for veterans, inspect our food, keep our air and water clean - make our communities thrive and stay safe. They need a strong voice on the job to keep our services running. Senators must stand with working people and pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act.

Intuit charges you to file your taxes after it lobbied to kill the Direct File program, which let you file for free. And then in 2025, it paid $0 in federal income tax — after pocketing over $1 BILLION in breaks from the Big Ugly Bill. You can’t make this crap up.

Minnesota has the 2nd-highest post-tax income in the Midwest and 15th-highest in the country. Smart public investments build a stronger economy and higher wages for everyone. You can read more here: www.census.gov/library/work...

Civil rights groups and labor unions have sued the Trump regime, asserting that its aggressive immigration enforcement and suggestions that it could send armed agents to polling sites amounted to voter intimidation and violated the Voting Rights Act. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4hfH78W

Corruption sounds abstract until you realize you're the one paying for it. 4 in 5 Americans say corruption in government raises their costs — nearly half feel it strongly. When leaders govern for donors, the invoice goes to you. Crack down. Lower costs.

If Republican leaders were serious about lowering food prices, they could start today. Instead, they cut SNAP — yanking grocery price help from millions as food costs rise even higher. Every trip to the register is a reminder of whose side Trump and the Republicans are on.

Early voting starts today! We've spent months hearing how the status quo of chronic underfunding is hurting communities across the state. Now is your chance to elect leaders who will fully fund the public services we all rely on!

MORE CORPORATE TAX GIVEAWAYS: Trump’s Big Ugly Bill helped Intuit avoid a bunch of taxes, that much is clear. The company received over $1 billion in tax breaks from a provision that retroactively allowed companies to expense research costs. Read more here: itep.org/intuit-turbo... #TaxJustice

Americans who have lost the most faith in democracy are the ones who see the connection between taxes and democracy the clearest. Want people to believe in democracy and the power of govt? Tax a billionaire!

Recent attacks on Black voting rights have strengthened Walden University professor Kisha Walker's resolve to cast a ballot in this year's midterm election — and she's not going alone. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4AfCT9W #ProtectTheVote