Daniel's Digest: Backwards Priorities Biting the GOP in the Butt
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Dear Patriot,
Misplaced priorities.
That is how I would characterize the first 15 months of Trump’s second term. It is shocking to watch them focus on Big Tech, Big Crypto, random foreign policy, reauthorization of FISA Section 702, preempting states on housing, carbon capture, and data centers, and a massive new $1.5 trillion farm monopolization bill.
The focus should have been all along on immigration, cutting spending and inflation, reforming health care, food security, and medical freedom.
Instead of making their views more popular and impactful, they tried to gerrymander a few seats, as if that would make the difference in the face of a blue wave election. Now, Democrats, thanks to their retaliatory tactics, are slated to net four new seats in Virginia with the impending passing of their redistricting scheme tonight.
Thus, Democrats are coming back into power no matter what happens. The question we must all ask is what comes next. Are we going to continue playing the uniparty game or will we pick a few states and try to start a new movement that will serve as an oasis of ordered liberty.
Feel free to email me at danielhorowitz@startmail.com to share your ideas on how to get out of this pickle.
For now, here are some of the stories I’m focused on:
Technocracy
-AI getting smarter means it’s harder to catch its mistakes: If you understand LLMs as statistical regressions that mimic patterns of information humans feed them, you will understand how perfecting these models will not make them super-human intelligence; it will merely make their fluency in human mimicking more authentic and therefore even harder to detect their mistakes, according to a new WSJ analysis.
-Former Border Patrol chief Bernard Looney has been named CEO of Wyoming startup Prometheus Hyperscale: This company is planning two AI data centers totaling $30 billion. A state that should be leading in ranching is now being turned into a Big Tech cesspool.
- A data center is proposed to go next to the blue-ribbon Montana trout water immortalized in the movie “A River Runs Through It.” Neighbors are scrutinizing the plan as industry insiders say the hunt is on in Wyoming and Montana for new data center sites. None of this will actually be operational, but it will permanently alter the landscape and its ownership.
- Microsoft To Triple Its Cheyenne Data Center Footprint With 3,200-Acre Land Buy: Wyoming just can’t catch a break now that it is being colonized for Chatslop centers. The Cheyenne area is already full of windmills, now Microsoft wants to triple its footprint for its existing data centers. For the life of me, with record high beef prices, I don’t understand why we don’t see a fraction of the concern from red state “Republicans” about promoting more farmland rather than promoting ChatGPT, which ironically and tragically, will come out of farmland.
-140 data centers planned for drought stricken Texas: According to an up-to-date analysis by Clearview, Texas has 84 operating data centers and 140 planned projects. But remember, this is not just about numbers. Most existing data centers outside of northern Virginia are not yet hyperscale. Current operating data centers in Texas have a total capacity of 3,789 MW. Planned data centers would add another 75,089 MW of capacity. There is a link in this article to the location of each one, so you can get up to speed on this for your local community in Texas. Again, there simply is not enough capital to build these out and power them even if we wanted to. This is all about the land grab.
- Virginia voter support for new data centers collapses from 69% in 2023 to 35% in new poll: According to a Washington Post poll, the truth is catching up with Big Tech lies. Now that people see the harms of data centers, they are getting more vocal and pressuring local officials to oppose them. Northern Virginia is the canary in the coal mine.
-Emerson poll of Michigan shows 2-1 opposition to data centers: When asked whether Michiganders wanted a data center near their communities, 55% opposed while only 27% supported the idea. Opposition was stronger among Democrats, but it’s still -12 among Republicans despite Trump’s strong support for it.
- Oklahoma farmer arrested and jailed for trespassing during AI data center town hall: Remember, the farmers arrested in February at a data center townhall meeting in Claremont, Oklahoma? Well, there are new details out. It turns out that he merely spoke for a minute over his allotted time, and then when prompted to cut his speech short, he walked up to the councilmen to hand out written copies of his speech. He was not only arrested, but evidently served time in jail. These are our people in what is supposed to be the heart of red America. Wake up!
-Generative AI Is Turning Workplaces Into Hopeless Gridlock: This article perfectly sums up the problem with elevating generative AI to an Oracle of Delphi and using it as a primary endpoint rather than an adjunct tool. “There’s a problem, though: the workers who remain often say they now have to fix a flood of error-ridden AI-generated “workslop” that’s burdening them, paradoxically, with more work than ever.”
“All this pointless busywork to correct AI-generated output results in hidden costs for companies that embrace the tech, according to The Guardian. One recent survey of 1,150 desk jockeys found that the 40 percent had encountered workslop — defined as “AI-generated content that looks good, but lacks substance” — in the course of their duties, forcing them to waste 3.4 hours per month dealing with it. At scale, that’s significant: all those hours wasted tally up to an estimated $8.1 million of lost productivity for a workplace with 10,000 workers.”
-Texas data center project named after Trump fails to materialize: What happens when things that are gaslit by government meet economic realities? The project in the Texas panhandle that was slated to take up an area the size of half of Manhattan and use over a gigawatt in power has failed to materialize because they cannot construct the cooling system. Fermi Inc., a startup co-founded by former Texas governor and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, was going to name this project after Trump. With the president’s support they got an IPO, but when reality hit, their stock price dropped 84%, and now investors are pulling out their shares.
-One NY data centers got $77 million in sales tax abatement for one job created: Rockland County, NY held a quiet town meeting with nobody in attendance to offer a JPMorgan data center $77 million in sales tax breaks, and all it had to do was create one job. This report demonstrates that once again the only way the data center movement can succeed is through special favors and a lack of transparency.
-DRAM and SSD Prices More than Doubled in Q1 2026: Who needs actual computers when you can just rent cloud space from Big Tech so they can surveil you? As I’ve mentioned before, edge computing is so much more useful than cloud-based LLMs, yet all our resources are being artificially diverted to data centers. This is causing PCs to become unaffordable, as DRAM prices surged 110% and SSD prices jumped 113-147% during the quarter.
- CEO of $1.5 Billion AI Startup Accused of Massive Fraud by Justice Department: Par for the course in an industry built upon “artificial” and hallucinations. “One of the largest schemes so far, concealed within the record-breaking valuations of the AI hype cycle, was iLearning Engines, a relatively young tech company that quickly scaled itself to a $1.5 billion market cap. A scathing statement by the US Department of Justice alleges that iLearning, an “out-of-the-box AI platform that empowers customers to ‘productize’ their institutional knowledge,” has been faking “virtually all its customer relationships and revenues” since January 2019.”
Congress
-Jim Jordan preparing to succeed Johnson as GOP House leader: This is the worst of all outcomes. Jordan has become so subversive, it would actually be a step down from Johnson, given that he has more clout with the right to disarm their opposition.
States
-DeSantis Admin moves to block Florida city from approving hyperscale data center: In a first of its kind, DeSantis became the first governor to use state authority to try to impede a city from approving a data center. Given the severe drought in the region, the DeSantis Department of Commerce warned the Fort Meade city council that the data center needs better plans for water and power before getting state permitting. The city ignored the wishes of the voters and unanimously approved a data center.
-DeSantis Admin will block illegals from attending Florida universities: Not that we should abide by judicial supremacism, but the Supreme Court ruled that illegals are entitled to K-12 education. However, why are we allowing them to attend state universities? Florida is now moving to implement a block administratively after RINOs refused to enact legislation, which was backed by the governor, to keep illegals out of the university system.
-Aspiring pot companies had big dreams for Florida. Reality has hit hard: Or put another way, DeSantis has hit hard. This article chronicles how marijuana was set to take off in Florida, and because of the passion and tenacity of one man, it did not. This is what we lack in other states.
-Utah Judge who gave Dems a free House seat had alleged affair with Dem lawyer arguing the case: Last year, I discussed how the Utah Supreme Court ruled against a Republican-led amendment tied to a redistricting effort, thereby adopting a Democrat map and usurping the power of the legislature. I had my friend Rep. Trevor Lee on the show to discuss his effort to impeach the judges, including Judge Diana Hagen. Of course Republicans failed to do it. Then again, Hagen was appointed by gov. Spencer Cox to begin with. Well, now the governor and legislative leaders announced an investigation into allegations of an inappropriate relationship between Hagen and attorney David Reymann, the lawyer who argued the redistricting case on behalf of the left. Just TWO weeks after she issued the ruling, Judge Hagen attended a party at the home of the lawyer, and she is now accused by her ex-husband of having a romantic relationship with this lawyer. This is what happens when you have judicial nominees from RINOs.
-How every medical freedom bill in Idaho was blocked this session: Here is a great synopsis from the Idaho Freedom Foundation on how every good health care bill was blocked in the House Healthcare and Welfare Committee this session. Until and unless we turn our focus to red state legislatures, we will continue to underperform in states where we should be running the table.
Immigration
442,637 people deported in FY 2025: According to ICE, nearly 443k people were deported in FY 2025, which runs from October 1, 2024 through Sept. 30 2025. So the numbers are a bit old and do include almost four months from the Biden administration. In total, that is 171k more people than the previous fiscal year. Either way, this is woefully underperforming relative to the magnitude of the Biden wave and what Democrats will do when they get back in power. The key focus should have been jurisdiction stripping of the courts, defunding sanctuary cities, real employment enforcement, and maritime removals.
-Trump allies with clubs pushed for more H-2B slaves: The WSJ reports on how Trump associates got him to expand the H-2B program. This is a glimpse into why Trump not only supports more worker visas but has ultimately taken the position that he doesn’t want to end illegal immigration either so long as they are working without a criminal record. He will eventually claim that mass deportations are impossible, but we all know the lynchpin of this issue: workplace enforcement.
-Rep. Roy introduces MAMDANI Act to denaturalize and deport Marxists and Islamic fundamentalists: This is the sort of legislation Republicans should be focused on, rather than reauthorizing Fisa Section 702. Rep. Chip Roy introduced bills to denaturalize and deport anyone given citizenship who turned out to be a support of communism or Islamic fundamentalism. This should be covered by current law, but this is the sort of message and legislation that Trump promised when elected but has shied away from.
Foreign Policy
-Netanyahu stunned Trump pulled the plug on Lebanon op: There are two important implications to this story. First, the reason there are forever wars is precisely because both parties have hamstrung Israel for years from achieving total victory, so it becomes a constant game of rebuilding, re-attacking Israel, then Israel re-defends, we hold them back from total victory, and then rinse and repeat. Second, the notion that Israel controls us rather than the other way around is proven every day by the fact that we clearly define the contours of any Israel military operation.
Elections
-Jon Hansen surges to second place in South Dakota poll: A new Mason Dixon poll has speaker Jon Hansen in second place for governor. Dusty Johnson is leading at 34%. He needs 35% to avoid a runoff, so the key is developing a credible challenger, and Hansen is emerging as that challenger. The internal numbers show that Hansen has a lot more room to grow and is gaining traction despite having the least money. The difference between electing Hansen or Johnson as governor is greater than the difference between electing Johnson and a Democrat.
My latest
-Blaze column: How Republicans have failed to defund sanctuary cities for a generation
In Liberty,
Daniel
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