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Texas Attorney General and Republican U.S. Senate candidate who leads state lawsuits and enforcement actions on consumer data privacy and tech regulation.
Democratic Senate nominees in Texas, Michigan, Maine and Ohio out-raised their Republican rivals by $104.5 million from July through September. The GOP's main Senate super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, raised a record $272.9 million in the same quarter, CNBC reported.
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Elon Musk gave the Senate Leadership Fund $158 million in September through a Texas PAC created to support Ken Paxton, CNBC reported. Crypto Briefing said a Kalshi market had Democrat James Talarico at 62.5% to win, relatively stable over the past week.
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Elon Musk gave more than $276 million to Republican groups since July, making him the biggest known donor of the 2026 midterms, CNBC and SCMP reported. CNBC put his known 2025-26 federal giving at roughly $366 million, 26% above the roughly $290 million he spent in 2024.
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Florida, Iowa, Montana and Nebraska sued TP-Link, saying it misled buyers about router security and its ties to China. For anyone buying routers, the federal ban that already blocks TP-Link's new models from US sale is the constraint that applies now.
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Republicans hold $1 billion to Democrats' $579 million, but Trump-aligned groups booking in September sometimes pay over five times earlier rates. At those prices the cash lead buys less airtime than its size suggests, though the record cannot say how much less nationally.
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Texas AG nominee Nathan Johnson would investigate Deloitte after a DPS software error left at least 178,000 voter registrations unprocessed. His pledge also covers other state vendors, and it takes effect only if he beats Republican Mayes Middleton in November.
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Donald Trump opens a 32-day midterm campaign in Texas and Oklahoma as AP-NORC puts approval of his handling of the economy at a record-low 26%. He is spending his first days on ground his party once held easily, so investors should treat a change in control of Congress on Nov. 3 as a live outcome.
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QTS, NextEra and Siemens Energy formed a Texas coalition to win local consent for data centres after nearly $200 billion of US projects were blocked in six months. For their investors, a county commission's vote now sits beside financing and equipment as something a project timeline depends on.
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Default 2-hour caps, a midnight-to-6am block and age assurance are now written down, with a contingent payment attached to Snap, TikTok and YouTube adopting the same defaults.
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The build is now the largest driver of U.S. private investment growth, and 71% of Americans polled want none of it nearby, which makes entitlement risk rather than capital the thing infrastructure investors have to price.
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A real estate agent in Bells found survey markers near his 26 acres last December and went looking for whoever owned the plan. A Republican strategist now calls data centers a sleeper issue of the cycle.
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Judge Cory Liu decided on the documents that TikTok told parents Restricted Mode kept graphic content out of a child's feed while its own moderation labels only made some of that content harder to find. Next month's trial covers what it owes.
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The attorney general's 66-page complaint quotes a 2016 engineering talk, a 2019 shareholder letter and a January 2020 earnings call, then asks the court to bar ad systems built with data from those years. Netflix says the case lacks merit.
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More than $3.4 billion is chasing a chamber that decides who staffs the administration and who fills open court seats for the rest of the term, and the spending so far shows the two sides pricing the same seats very differently.
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Fortune's split screen at the G20 in Chapel Hill has Sam Altman calling more infrastructure the only way to keep AI cheap while hundreds outside object; the number that decides it is a 3,000-site pipeline needing county consent.
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Flock says its license plate readers operate in 6,000 communities in every state but Alaska, and candidates in both parties are now pledging bans, funding pauses and warrant rules, which turns a signed municipal contract into an election-year liability.
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Ken Paxton and James Talarico disagree about tax breaks and local control, but they ask for the same thing on water. That moves cooling design out of the campaign column and into the siting spec.
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Paxton's four-point plan and Talarico's veto-and-water platform share no instrument, only a direction. The escape route both leave open is the off-grid power plant.
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