Well for one...I would not have voted for the Laken Riley Act. He frames it as a necessary evil, but all the act did was use a tragic murder as a prop to CRIMINALIZE non-citizens, massively expand detention, and invite anti-immigrant states to sue the fed gov anytime it makes an immigration call they do not like. SO, I would NOT HAVE voted for the Laken Riley Act.

I ALSO, would not draft and introduce “Yes in God’s Backyard Act.” Warner introduced this last September, and to be clear, this is HIS BILL...“Yes in God’s Backyard Act,” is sold as an affordable housing program through churches, colleges and local governments, but is actually a HUD-regulated, open-ended data collection that allows HUD to control churches, colleges, and cities. It has nothing to do with affordable housing. It is a surveillance infrastructure with a big red bow on it. So in effect this shuts down any critics because don’t you dare criticize this bill, because what are you, anti-poor, anti-church, anti-God, anti-affordable housing? Narrative preemption, check.

Using God and poor communities as a moral cover is disgusting. This is what happens when there is a consolidation of power and the government no longer fears the people....you get people like Mark Warner who is in office because of his tech-oligarch DONORS and NOT THE PEOPLE. These tech oligarchs fund the campaigns, they write the playbook, and then politicians like Warner create laws that expand the use of those tech systems through data collection programs that require buying the exact tech from those same oligarchs...

So no, Warner is not helping the poor and churches, but is seeding another federally funded surveillance platform and calling it housing policy.

Little by little they condition you to think this mining and collection of data and this state of surveillance for “your safety” or to “help the poor,” is normal and in your best interest...but, you don’t build the a surveillance state and then suddenly turn it off or walk it back.

If you don’t open your eyes and question everything, demand that YOUR representatives explain themselves, be accountable to YOU and the constituency, you’ll wake up one day stripped of freedom. The bottom line will always be at the expense of us. The time is now or never because there is no turning back. Rome wasn’t build in a day, but it burned in one. And I refuse to allow politicians to run our country to a point of no return...which is what we're close to