Oversight is how this incoming set of representatives and senators unearth key facts. Facts about how expensive basic necessities are, including healthcare, gas, groceries, and housing. Facts about air and water quality, especially after the elimination of environmental protections and the unleashing of cancer-causing chemicals. Facts about food safety under an administration that pushed out food safety inspectors. Facts about the delays and denials of disaster aid. Facts about an AI industry eager to develop a technology it thinks could take all our jobs and end life on earth.

Before Texas’ Governor-elect, Gina Hinojosa, made history in the stunning blue wave that swept the state the country in 2026, she spent long years in the Texas State legislature fighting for vulnerable people across the state.

On November 3, voters made it abundantly clear that they reject the inevitability of the tech industry’s rush to build out AI data centers. Dozens of Democratic candidates ran successful campaigns talking about AI and accountability for Big Tech, and dozens of AI data center moratoria were passed around the country.

In the brief lame duck session before this next generation of political leaders takes office, the quartet of Senators behind the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA) seem eager to fulfill Abundance Twitter’s dreams.

Last night was unequivocal: voters are done with this era of corruption, incompetence, and cruelty.