Voters Rejected the Tech Oligarchy. Now Comes the Hard Part.

Pull the Plug on Technofascism Before It Reboots

Voters Rejected the Tech Oligarchy. Now Comes the Hard Part.

After the 2026 midterms delivered a rebuke to Trump and the tech oligarchy, the fight against technofascism is only entering its next phase. The author argues that Congress must pursue accountability — investigations into DOGE's dismantling of USAID, Russ Vought's use of LLMs to cut spending, and Palantir's Privacy Act violations — while progressives spend the next two years building a reform agenda on taxes, privacy, antitrust, and media ownership for 2029.

The pro-democracy movement has drawn blood, but technofascism still lives.

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2026-11-05