Samuel Larreal
Technology & Politics Reporter // Washington, D.C.
I cover technology and politics for NOTUS — focusing on AI policy, social media regulation, and how tech giants shape national politics.
Previously: Florida election correspondent for Teen Vogue, a bilingual fact-checker for the Miami Herald, and a local news intern at NBC4 Washington and Telemundo 44.
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AI-aligned super PACs are pouring money into 2026, targeting candidates like Alex Bores who cross the industry.
Trump Loves Data Centers. Many Republican Lawmakers Don't.
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These Democrats Decry Trump's Immigration Actions. They Also Invested in ICE Contractor Palantir.
Lawmakers who denounced Trump's immigration crackdown while holding stock in ICE contractor Palantir.
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- 🤖AI Is Scaring American Workers. Mallory McMorrow Sees An Opportunity.
- 📊What Donald Trump Knows About His Stock Investments
- 📊Trump Bought Corporations' Stock as His Administration Boosted Their Business
- 🤖Progressives Bet AI Anxiety Will Win Them Elections
- 📊Defense Contractors Pump Big Money Into Congressional Campaign Accounts Amid Iran War
- 🤖Lawmakers on Capitol Hill Are Learning to Love AI
- 🏠The White House App Is Riddled With Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
- 📊Democrats Say Rep. Eric Swalwell Personally Pitched His Political AI Startup to Lawmakers
- 🏛️Senate Advances Markwayne Mullin's Nomination for DHS Secretary
- 📊Eric Swalwell's AI-Powered Political Startup Is Making Big Money From Democratic Allies
- 📊Palantir Hires Two New Lobbyists With Democratic Party Ties
- 📊Outside Group Spending Is Overwhelming Democratic Primaries
- 🤖House Defense Committee Leaders Don't Know How AI Is Being Used on Iran
- 🤖Republicans Want to Protect the AI Industry as the Pentagon Cracks Down on Anthropic
- 🏛️Senate Republicans Block Effort to Curb Trump's War Powers on Iran
- 🏗️Big Tech Leaders Sign Trump's Nonbinding Pledge to Address Data Center Fallout
- 🤖Some Democrats Hope Trump's Anthropic Feud Will Help Them Win Over the AI Industry
- 🏛️Rapid U.S. Military Operation in Iran Hasn't Sparked Quick Response by Congress
- 🏛️Trump's Iran Strikes Haven't Changed the State of Play on Congress' War Powers Push
- 🏛️Senate Intelligence Leader Lays Out Worst-Case Scenario After Trump's Strikes on Iran
- 🏠Trump Moves to Cut Anthropic From Federal Agency Work
- 🏗️Trump Puts Pressure on Tech Companies to Pick Up the Tab for Data Center Energy
- 📊Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi Owned Palantir Stock While Voting to Fund Homeland Security
- 🏗️Trump Loves Data Centers. Many Republican Lawmakers Don't.
- 📊Nvidia Struck a $20 Billion Deal With an AI Startup. Kelly Loeffler Made a Massive Investment Weeks Earlier.
- 📊These Democrats Decry Trump's Immigration Actions. They Also Invested in ICE Contractor Palantir.
- 🏛️Lawmakers Are Nowhere Near a Deal on DHS Funding
- 🏗️The Virginia Democrat in the Middle of the Data Center Boom Wants His Party to Crack Down
- 📊Banking Industry Political Committee Hit with Fraud
- 📊AI Industry Super PAC Enters Midterm Elections With a $70 Million War Chest
- 🏛️Democrats Are Taking Claims of Anti-Trump Censorship on TikTok Seriously
- 🤖Grok Is Testing Republicans on Content Moderation
- 📊Nvidia Won Trump's Favor. These Federal Lawmakers Stand to Profit.
- 🏗️Data Center Lobbying Is Booming as Tech and Energy Giants Face 'Affordability' Backlash
- 🤖Silicon Valley Has Bought Into Trump's 'Tech Force' — Even as Details Remain TBD
- 📊The AI Super PAC Fight That Might Shape the Midterms
- 🏗️This Democratic Candidate Is Trying to Leverage Data Center Backlash
- 🏛️Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa Has Died
- 🏠Latest Epstein Files Release Includes Many Mentions of Trump. The DOJ Called Them 'Unfounded.'
- 🏠Trump DOJ's First Epstein Files Drop Heavily Features Bill Clinton
- 🏛️These House Republicans Won't Commit to Running in 2026
- 🤖Will Trump's AI Agenda Backfire?
- 🤖Trump Signs Executive Order Aimed at Curbing State-Level AI Regulation
- 🤖How Congress Fumbled Regulating Artificial Intelligence
- 🏗️Data Centers Are Embedding Themselves in American Communities. Who Will Pay?
- 🏛️House Unanimously Votes to Repeal Senators' Ability to Sue the Government Over Data Collection
- 🏛️Republican Senators Want to Repeal the Phone Data Provision They Added to the Funding Bill
- 🌴DOJ Joins Legal Bid to Stop California's New Congressional Map
- 🏛️House Republicans Want to Force Congress to Revisit a Provision That Lets Senators Sue Over Their Data
- 🌴The Race to Replace Nancy Pelosi Could Be All About Tech Regulation
- 🏠Nvidia CEO Confirms He's Helping to Fund Trump's Ballroom
- 🎭Artificial Intelligence Is Hitting Politics. Nobody Knows Where It Will End.
- 🌴California Is Struggling to Find its Next Trump-Era Leader
- 🏠Crews Knock Down White House Exterior as Trump's Ballroom Project Begins
- 🎭The NRSC Is Using a Schumer Deepfake to Knock Democrats on Shutdown
- 🎭Political Strategists Are Embracing AI
- 🌴California's AI Law is Setting the Tone for Democratic Party Policy — And Gavin Newsom's Future
- 🏛️Democratic Presidential Prospects Are Unified in Shutdown Messaging Fight
- 📱Trump Signs Executive Order Clearing the Way for a TikTok Deal
- 📱The White House Says TikTok Will be Sold to a U.S. Joint Venture
- 🎭Deepfakes Are Everywhere, and Many Campaigns Aren't Prepared
- 🏛️Republicans Grapple With Content Moderation After Charlie Kirk's Assassination Was Shared on Social Media
- 📱Trump Pushes the TikTok Sale Deadline for a Fourth Time
- 🏛️Congress Is Facing Escalating Political Violence — And Doesn't Know How to Stop It
- 🏛️'Violence Will Not Silence Us' Says Lawmaker Who Represents District Where Charlie Kirk Was Assassinated
- 🌴Alex Padilla Won't Rule Out a Gubernatorial Run in California
- 🌴California Republicans Say the Redistricting Battle Should Play Out in the State Rather than Congress
- 📱Lawmakers Are Getting Tired of Trump Ignoring Congress' TikTok Law
- 🏛️Trump's 'Pocket Rescission' Is Already Complicating Government Funding Negotiations
- 🌴Channeling Trump, Newsom Deploys His Own Crime-Fighting Teams Onto California Streets
- 🏠White House Says Monarez Wasn't 'Aligned' With Trump on CDC, Issues a Warning to Others
- 🌴Fired-Up Newsom Shares His Pitch for a Democratic Turnaround
- 🏠2020 Election Denier Given Key DHS Post Overseeing Election Integrity
- 🤖Apple's New iOS Update Could Further Damage an Already Struggling Polling Industry
- 🤖Republican Senators See AI as a Shortcut to Shrinking the Government
- 🌴Kamala Harris Just Kicked Off the California Governor's Race
- 📊Trump Lashes Out at 'Second-Tier Senator' for Backing Stock Trading Ban
- 🌴Kamala Harris Won't Run for Governor
- 💰The Cryptocurrency Industry Wants CLARITY When Congress Returns
- 🤖Trump Announces Plan to Accelerate U.S. Artificial Intelligence Development
- 💰House Passes Landmark Cryptocurrency Bill
- 💰House Republicans Are Trying to Steer 'Crypto Week' Back on Track
- 💰'We're Working It Out': House Republicans Still Don't Know How They'll Pass Crypto Legislation
- 💰Congress's Crypto Week Derailed on Day 1
- 🤖Lawmakers Worry that AI Will Hurt Entry-Level Tech Jobs
- 🏛️Republicans' Reconciliation Bill Threatens to Upend the Gambling Industry
- 🤖Lawmakers Are Celebrating the Senate Stripping an AI Moratorium from Reconciliation
- 🤖Will an Artificial Intelligence Provision Sink Republicans' Reconciliation Bill?
- 📱'I Just Want Finality': Some GOP Senators Are Tired of Trump's TikTok Extensions
- 💰The Senate Passes Its Landmark Cryptocurrency Bill
- 💰Senate Republicans Say They're Close to Making Crypto a Party Priority
- 💰House Republicans Think Their Crypto Bill Stands a Better Chance Under Trump
- 💰Democrats Say They Can Support Crypto While Calling Out Trump
- 🤖Trump Wants the U.S. to Manufacture Drones and Flying Cars
- 🌴California 'Can't Bend the Knee': Democrats Want Their State to Hold the Line on Trans Rights
- 🤖Marjorie Taylor Greene Regrets Voting for the Reconciliation Bill Without Reading Its AI Provision
- 🤖Lawmakers Find a New Legislative Assistant: Artificial Intelligence
- 🤖Hawley Says He'll 'Do Everything I Can to Kill' the AI Provision in the House's Reconciliation Bill
- 💰Democrats Want to Force Republicans to Vote on Whether They're OK With Trump's Memecoin Activity
- 💰Sen. Dave McCormick Is Legislating Crypto — And Making Money Off It
- 🤖House Republicans Want to Block States From Regulating AI — But Congress Hasn't Made Progress on Its Own Guardrails
- 🌴The California Legislature Just Cleared the Way for a New Congressional District Map
- 🌴Democrats See California's Redistricting Efforts as a Path to Building Momentum for Their Party
- 🏛️Adam Schiff Forms Legal Defense Fund to Prepare for Trump Attacks
- 🌴Trump's Efforts to End Homeless Encampments Are Putting Gavin Newsom in a Political Bind
- 🌴California Democrats Say They'll Redistrict Only if Texas Does First
- 🏠Trump Wants to Limit Classified Info Sharing With Congress