Stephen Fowler
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It just comes down to the fact that there's a planned development in Plano, North Dallas, where you are going to have a mosque built and several homes that will be built around this mosque.
The developers say that anybody's allowed to be there and anybody's allowed to be in that development.
But Republicans have really run with it and are running on it in multiple races.
And it's a state, like you said, with an open Senate race that's held by a Democrat, Gary Peters, retiring in that race.
And there's four competitive House races, which is among the most for any state.
So, you know, that's going to be a real key place to see how the country has moved, especially since Trump won the state in 2024.
Well, I'm going to pick one here that I think I'm stealing from someone else, and that's from Stephen because he lives in Georgia.
Well, I'm going to take Georgia and that Senate race because I think that Senate race is probably the top one to watch whether or not there could be a Democratic chance at all.
They probably have to hold on to that Senate seat.
That's with John Ossoff, the current senator in that state.
And I'm also watching that race โ
because of AI and this whole new sort of use of deep fakes and campaigns.
There was an ad that was run by Mike Collins, who's a congressman currently, and he ran an ad with a deep fake of John Ossoff with a really tiny disclosure in the bottom that a lot of people probably missed that said that this was generated by AI.
But it had Ossoff saying, you know, I don't understand farming because
The only time I've ever seen a farm is on Instagram.
And it looks kind of hokey.
And if you've seen like a lot of AI, you're probably like, that's AI.
But for a normal person, they probably listened and said, what is that?
And I think the strangest part of it, it raises a lot of questions about the ethics of using deep fakes, of using AI, of transparency going forward.
But also when Collins was asked about this, he didn't back away from it.