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What YOU should know about election poll workers 🗳️ CAP talks to Ben Hovland, former chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, about the essential work of poll workers and how you can ensure your voice is heard this fall.

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Co-authors of the Everywhere Millionaire, @omzidar.bsky.social and Eric Zwick, explain how tax cuts intended to protect small businesses have created a new group of extremely wealthy small business owners.

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The Big Beautiful Bill cut corporate income taxes pretty substantially. Corporate tax revenues came in even lower than expected.

corporate tax revenue was at around 1.7% of GDP when BBB was enacted. Now it's down to 1.2% of GDP.
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In the second entry of their three-part "Boots Off Ballots" series, @americanprogress.bsky.social's Dan Herman and Devon Ombres outline election scenarios and their important legal redlines for troops to be aware of if they are deployed during the midterm elections.

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As AI makes surveillance pricing more intrusive and unfair, the FTC should limit the harmful ways businesses can use personal data and give shoppers meaningful control over how their information is used to set prices.

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With gas prices soaring, the Trump administration is gutting fuel economy standards that help consumers save money. The Trump administration keeps moving us backward while Americans pay the price.

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The Trump administration is fast-tracking deep-sea mining in federal waters in pursuit of the administration’s so-called “Energy Dominance Agenda"—all for a scheme that is technologically unproven, economically impractical, and likely to cause extensive environmental damage.

A three-panel graphic continuing the same speaker in a brown jacket against a blue background with yellow and white subtitles. Top Panel: The speaker holds his hands out as yellow text reads: "In this case, it's minerals on the deep seabed" Middle Panel: He gestures closer together as white and yellow text reads: "and then give them away to corporate interests. This doesn't benefit the people who live there." Bottom Panel: He holds both hands out to the sides, palms up, as yellow and white text reads: "In fact, the people who live there are left with all of the costs but receive none of the benefits."
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