Justus Knight – RR News Update! June 24th, 2026
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VIDEO TITLE: 🔥 The First AI Candidate Just Entered Congress
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#AI #Congress #ArtificialIntelligence
AI super PACs, Alex Bores, New York’s 12th Congressional District, OpenAI-linked investors, Anthropic-linked spending, and the RAISE Act collide in a bizarre congressional race that may reveal how artificial intelligence money plans to influence Congress before Congress regulates AI.
Artificial intelligence didn’t need a robot candidate, a metal skeleton, or a bad sci-fi voice to enter Congress. It just needed super PAC money.
In New York’s 12th Congressional District, a local Democratic primary became a national AI proxy war after candidate Alex Bores helped push New York’s RAISE Act, one of the strongest AI safety laws in the country. According to major reporting, AI-linked political groups poured millions into the race, with one side opposing Bores and another side boosting him.
So is this just one strange Manhattan election — or the first beta test for how AI money captures Washington before Washington ever regulates AI?
This is not left versus right. This is machine money, political influence, congressional power, and the future of who writes the rules.
Chapter Markers
00:00 — The First AI Congressman Has No Pulse
02:00 — One Tiny Race Became A Machine-Money War
04:15 — Meet The Candidate AI Money Couldn’t Ignore
07:00 — Sponsor Break: Chapter
08:15 — The RAISE Act Lit The Fuse
10:00 — OpenAI Money, Anthropic Money, Political Chaos
12:30 — This Is Not Left vs Right
14:30 — The Back Door Into Congress
16:00 — Why This Should Scare Every Voter
18:00 — The Real Question Nobody Wants Asked
20:15 — Final Verdict: AI Didn’t Need A Ballot
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REFERENCES :
https://www.theverge.com/policy/954970/ai-super-pacs-alex-bores-new-york-12th-district
https://apnews.com/article/78d9cc60faff70ffe27fd8d7f6dc1355
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/22/new-york-city-house-primary-race
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2026/05/20/ai-money-floods-manhattan-congressional-race
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2026/06/08/super-pac-spending-congressional-primaries-
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/01/alex-bores-vs-ai-ny-12/410958
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/06/ai-and-crypto-take-center-stage-ny-12-debate/413990
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🚨 Did AI just find the back door into Congress?
A tiny Manhattan congressional race somehow turned into a multi-million-dollar war between rival AI power players.
Not over roads.
Not over schools.
Not over taxes.
Over who gets to write the rules before artificial intelligence rewrites your life.
Tonight’s question:
Is AI money already trying to capture Congress before Congress regulates AI?
Poll:
YES — this is the beta test
NO — normal political money game
Maybe — but it’s creepy as hell
Congress was already broken
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What happens when artificial intelligence does not run for Congress… but enters Congress anyway?
Answer:
It does not need a robot body.
It does not need a campaign bus.
It does not need to shake your hand, kiss your baby, fake a smile, or pretend it understands the price of eggs.
It just needs money.
And that is exactly what just happened.
A tiny congressional race in Manhattan became a multi-million-dollar AI proxy war, where rival tech power players poured money into the fight over one simple question:
Will Congress regulate artificial intelligence… or will artificial intelligence money regulate Congress first?
And here is the part that should make every voter sit up straight.
The human candidate tied to AI regulation reportedly lost.
But the AI candidate?
The machine-money candidate?
That one just entered the political bloodstream.
Because this was never just about one guy, one district, or one Democratic primary in Manhattan.
This was a test run.
A beta launch.
A political software update.
And tonight, I’m going to show you how AI may have found the back door into Congress before most Americans even realized the front door was unlocked.
I’m Justus Knight.
And this is the story of the first AI candidate entering Congress…
with no pulse, no soul, and one hell of a checkbook.
Who really won the Manhattan congressional race — the candidate… or the machine behind the candidate?
01:06 — One Tiny Race Became A Machine-Money War
Now let’s set the table without putting everyone into a coma.
The race is New York’s 12th Congressional District.
Manhattan.
A seat being vacated by longtime Congressman Jerry Nadler.
Already, that alone makes it politically interesting.
You’ve got a high-profile district, establishment names, big donors, progressive activists, party insiders, and enough consultant cologne to violate the Geneva Convention.
But then something weird happened.
The race stopped being just another Democratic primary.
It became a political testing lab for artificial intelligence.
And that sentence should bother everybody.
Because this is not about whether you like Democrats.
This is not about whether you like Republicans.
This is not about whether you think AI is going to cure cancer, replace your job, write your emails, fake your grandma’s voice, design your next car, control your search results, rewrite your news feed, or someday decide humanity needs a firmware update.
This is about power.
Raw power.
The kind that shows up before the laws are written.
The kind that doesn’t ask permission.
The kind that sees Congress not as a branch of government, but as a software environment waiting to be configured.
And that is exactly why this story matters.
Because the AI industry is no longer just building products.
It is building political muscle.
And the first big public flex may have just happened in a congressional primary most Americans didn’t even know existed.
That’s how power likes it, by the way.
Quiet.
Local.
Technical.
Boring on the surface.
Because when something looks boring, regular people scroll past it.
And that’s how the machine gets installed while everyone is busy yelling about the latest shiny political squirrel.
02:28 — Meet The Candidate AI Money Couldn’t Ignore
At the center of this is Alex Bores.
He is a New York Assemblyman.
He is also a former Palantir engineer, which immediately makes this story feel like it was written by a guy in a basement with six monitors and a suspicious amount of beef jerky.
Bores helped push New York’s RAISE Act.
That law deals with safety and transparency rules for powerful frontier AI models.
In plain English?
It tells major AI developers: if you are building systems powerful enough to create serious public risks, you need safety protocols, and you need to report serious incidents.
Now, depending on your worldview, that either sounds like common sense…
Or it sounds like government sticking its greasy little fingers into one of the most important industries on Earth.
And that is the fight.
One side says AI is moving too fast, too much power is concentrated in too few hands, and lawmakers better set rules before these systems become embedded into everything from hiring to finance to war planning.
The other side says too much regulation will crush innovation, hand the future to China, slow down American dominance, and turn the next technological revolution into another government DMV with better graphics.
Fair debate.
Real debate.
Important debate.
But that’s not the weird part.
The weird part is what happened when one guy involved in AI regulation tried to move from the state legislature to Congress.
Suddenly, his race became a magnet for AI money.
Not a little money.
Not “buy a few yard signs and a sad little radio ad” money.
We are talking millions.
A local congressional primary got treated like the launch event for a new operating system.
And the voter?
The voter became the beta tester.
03:38 — The RAISE Act Lit The Fuse
Here’s the fuse.
New York’s RAISE Act was signed by Governor Kathy Hochul in December 2025.
It requires large AI developers to publish information about safety protocols and report certain incidents to the state within 72 hours.
That is not small.
Because once states start building AI rules, the industry has two choices.
Adapt to the rules.
Or stop the rule-makers before they get promoted.
And that is where this little House race becomes a giant flashing warning sign.
Because if a state-level AI lawmaker can get buried or boosted by national AI money the moment he runs for Congress, every other politician in America sees the message.
Support the wrong AI rules?
Money comes.
Support the right AI rules?
Different money comes.
Either way, the machine is in the room.
And let’s be brutally honest.
Most members of Congress barely understand the apps on their phone.
These are people who ask tech CEOs questions like, “How does Wi-Fi know where my printer lives?”
Now imagine that same Congress trying to regulate artificial intelligence while the industry is pumping millions into races before the rules are even written.
That’s not oversight.
That’s a hostage negotiation with better branding.
And the hostage might be your future.
And if you think this is just one Manhattan race, that is exactly how they want you to think. Because test runs are always small before the machine goes national. So hold on until after the break to find out how this footprint goes from flip flop to big foot is the blink of a nano-second.
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Now, back to the political robot hiding in the campaign finance machine.
05:35 — OpenAI Money, Anthropic Money, Political Chaos
Now here’s where it gets spicy.
According to major reporting, this race did not just attract “tech money.”
It attracted rival AI money.
That matters.
Because this is not simply “Big Tech versus one candidate.”
This is closer to an AI family feud with super PACs.
On one side, you have political spending linked to OpenAI investors and Silicon Valley figures opposing Bores.
On the other side, you have Anthropic-linked support and other pro-regulation forces boosting him.
So this is not just a clean story of one brave candidate versus evil tech billionaires.
Real life is messier.
Annoying, I know.
Would be much easier if politics came with cartoon villains wearing capes that say “I hate freedom.”
But here, the twist is that different AI power centers seem to be fighting over the future rules of the game.
One group may fear state-level regulation.
Another group may want guardrails.
Another may want federal rules.
Another may want influence over whatever rules come next.
And suddenly, the voters in one Manhattan district are not just choosing a congressional candidate.
They are standing in the middle of a cold war between artificial intelligence factions.
That is insane.
Imagine going to vote because you care about rent, crime, schools, taxes, immigration, foreign policy, or whether your city smells like a subway platform got into a fistfight with a dumpster.
And behind the curtain, the race is also being treated as a national referendum on AI regulation.
That’s the problem.
The voter thinks they are choosing representation.
The industry thinks it is choosing leverage.
Two very different games.
Same ballot.
07:10 — This Is Not Left vs Right
Now let me make something crystal clear.
This is not a red team, blue team story.
Do not let anyone shove you into that lazy little cage.
This is not about whether Alex Bores is your guy.
This is not about whether you like New York Democrats.
This is not about whether you trust regulation.
This is not about whether you think AI is amazing or terrifying.
The real issue is much bigger:
Can an emerging industry pour massive money into congressional races before Congress writes the laws that will govern that industry?
That is the question.
And if your answer changes based on whether your side benefits, congratulations, you are not defending a principle.
You are defending a jersey.
And we don’t do jersey politics here.
We do power.
We do patterns.
We do the dirty little mechanics behind the shiny press release.
Because today it is AI.
Yesterday it was crypto.
Before that it was pharma.
Before that it was defense contractors.
Before that it was banking.
The industry changes.
The strategy does not.
Capture the referee before the whistle blows.
That is the oldest game in Washington.
AI just brought better software.
08:34 — The Back Door Into Congress
This is the weird twist that makes the story worth covering.
Artificial intelligence does not need to literally run for office.
It does not need a robot body.
It does not need campaign slogans.
It does not need to show up at a debate and say, “As a large language model, I care deeply about affordable housing.”
It just needs influence.
It needs lawmakers who are friendly, afraid, indebted, confused, dependent, or politically shaped by the money around them.
That is how the takeover works.
Not with lasers.
Not with drones.
Not with a chrome skeleton kicking down the House chamber doors.
With PACs.
With consultants.
With ads.
With polling.
With targeted messaging.
With opposition research.
With a quiet little river of money flowing into exactly the races that matter.
This is why “AI Just Took Over Congress” is not a literal statement.
It is worse.
It is a structural statement.
Because if AI money can turn one House primary into a test case, it can do it again.
And again.
And again.
Until the people writing AI law are surrounded by AI money, AI lobbyists, AI donors, AI think tanks, AI consultants, and AI-funded messaging telling them what “responsible innovation” is supposed to mean.
By the time Congress finally holds a hearing, the hearing may already be sponsored by the future it is pretending to regulate.
And I’m sorry, but that is not democracy.
That is a software update disguised as an election.
10:12 — Why This Should Scare Every Voter
Here is why this should scare every voter, left, right, center, independent, disillusioned, politically homeless, or just generally sick of watching the federal government operate like a nursing home with subpoenas.
AI is not a normal industry.
This is not lawn chairs.
This is not breakfast cereal.
This is not a new brand of overpriced sparkling water for people who describe their dog as emotionally gifted.
AI is infrastructure.
It touches labor.
Speech.
Surveillance.
Policing.
Medicine.
Banking.
Education.
War.
Search.
News.
Elections.
Identity.
Fraud.
Propaganda.
Voice cloning.
Deepfakes.
Hiring.
Firing.
Insurance.
Everything.
So when the AI industry starts flooding elections with money, that should hit differently.
Because whoever shapes the first generation of AI law may shape the next generation of American life.
And if Congress is already up for auction before the American people even understand the stakes, then we have a serious problem.
Not a partisan problem.
A constitutional problem.
Who governs?
The people?
Their elected representatives?
Or the industries with enough money to pre-install themselves into the legislative process?
That is the question this race exposes.
And it exposes it beautifully, because it is so absurd.
One Manhattan House race.
A local primary.
A seat most of the country was not watching.
And suddenly, boom.
AI money everywhere.
Like the Terminator, but with FEC filings.
11:48 — The Real Question Nobody Wants Asked
Now, here is the question nobody in Washington wants asked out loud:
If artificial intelligence is so powerful that it needs national rules…
Then why are the companies and billionaires connected to that world allowed to spend millions shaping the politicians who will write those rules?
That does not mean every AI company is evil.
That does not mean every AI regulation is good.
That does not mean every politician taking a position on AI is corrupt.
Life is not that simple, and anyone selling you that level of simplicity is probably hiding the receipt.
But it does mean we need to watch this.
Closely.
Because the future of AI regulation cannot be written entirely by people who are funded, pressured, flattered, threatened, or politically engineered by the AI economy itself.
And don’t miss the real magic trick.
The public conversation is still stuck on whether AI will take your job.
Meanwhile, the political conversation may already be about whether AI money can take your government.
That is the bigger story.
That is the stranger story.
That is the one hiding behind the nerdy headlines.
Because while everyone jokes about robots replacing workers, the smarter play may be replacing influence first.
Not your job.
Your lawmaker.
Not your voice.
Your representation.
Not your ballot.
The meaning of the ballot.
That is the part nobody wants to say because it sounds too dramatic.
Fine.
I’ll say it.
AI does not have to overthrow Congress if it can purchase the operating environment around Congress.
That’s not sci-fi.
That’s Tuesday in American politics.
13:05 — Final Verdict
So here’s the final verdict.
Did AI literally win a congressional seat?
No.
Not yet.
Did a robot become a member of Congress?
No.
Although, again, I would like several members tested just for quality assurance.
But did AI-linked money just turn a local congressional race into a national proxy war over who controls the future of AI law?
Yes.
And that should matter to every American.
Because this may be the first visible test run.
A small district.
A strange race.
A candidate tied to AI regulation.
A flood of money.
Rival factions.
National implications.
And voters stuck in the middle of a war they didn’t start.
That is how the future usually arrives.
Not with a thunderclap.
Not with a villain speech.
Not with a giant red warning label.
It arrives through some boring-sounding election filing, some super PAC nobody heard of, some ad buy nobody questioned, and some local race that suddenly becomes ground zero for a national power struggle.
That’s how you know the real machine is moving.
Quietly.
Legally.
Expensively.
And right on schedule.
So tonight’s question is simple:
Is this just another ugly campaign finance story?
Or did we just watch artificial intelligence find the back door into Congress?
Because if this is the prototype, then the next version will be bigger.
Cleaner.
Smarter.
And probably a whole lot harder to see coming.
And that, my friends, is the problem.
AI didn’t need a ballot.
It didn’t need a pulse.
It didn’t even need to run.
It just needed Congress to be for sale.
And apparently, Washington’s front door was already unlocked.
I’m Justus Knight.
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Drop your answer below:
Did AI just find the back door into Congress?
Or is this just another rich-guy political circus with better branding?
Either way, keep your eyes open.
Because the machines may not be voting yet.
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MEDIUM ARTICLE
The First AI Candidate Just Entered Congress — And It Has No Pulse
What happens when artificial intelligence does not run for Congress, but enters Congress anyway?
Answer: it does not need a robot body.
It does not need a campaign bus.
It does not need to shake hands, kiss babies, fake a smile, or pretend it understands the price of eggs.
It just needs money.
And that is exactly what just happened in New York’s 12th Congressional District, where one Manhattan primary became something far stranger than a normal campaign fight. It became a political stress test for the future of artificial intelligence power in Washington.
Not left versus right.
Not Republican versus Democrat.
Not even really candidate versus candidate.
This was machine money versus the lawmakers who may someday try to regulate the machine.
And if Americans are not paying attention, they should be.
Because the first AI candidate may have just entered Congress through the back door.
No pulse.
No soul.
One hell of a checkbook.
The Race That Became A Test Lab
The race itself was local. Manhattan. A Democratic primary. The seat was being vacated by longtime Congressman Jerry Nadler, making it politically attractive from the beginning.
But then the story mutated.
Alex Bores, a New York Assemblyman and former Palantir engineer, entered the race. Bores was not just another candidate in a crowded primary. He had helped push New York’s RAISE Act, a major artificial intelligence safety law aimed at powerful frontier AI models.
That detail mattered.
Because once AI regulation entered the picture, the money followed.
Suddenly, this was no longer just a congressional primary. It became a proxy war between rival AI power players, super PACs, and tech-aligned interests fighting over one question:
Will Congress regulate artificial intelligence?
Or will artificial intelligence money regulate Congress first?
That is the real story.
Because the strange part is not that money entered politics. Money entered politics a long time ago, bought a condo, got a parking spot, and started ordering room service.
The strange part is that artificial intelligence — an industry still being debated, defined, feared, hyped, and barely understood by many lawmakers — is already becoming politically organized before the rules are even written.
That should stop every voter cold.
The Human Lost. The Machine Learned.
Bores reportedly lost the primary to Micah Lasher.
On the surface, that sounds like the end of the story.
It is not.
In fact, it may be the beginning.
Because the human candidate tied to AI regulation may have lost, but the machine-money model proved something much more important: a local congressional race can be turned into a national AI battleground if the stakes are high enough.
That is the beta test.
That is the prototype.
That is the political software update most Americans did not know was being installed.
The lesson is simple and ugly: if a candidate touches AI regulation, AI-linked money can flood the zone.
Support the wrong kind of rule? Money comes.
Support the right kind of rule? Different money comes.
Either way, the machine is now in the room.
And once the machine is in the room, the voter is no longer the only audience.
The donor class is watching.
The industry is watching.
The next candidate is watching.
And every politician considering whether to support, weaken, block, or rewrite AI regulation is watching too.
That is how influence works. It does not need to win every race. It just needs to send a message.
This Is Bigger Than One Candidate
This is not about whether you like Alex Bores.
This is not about whether you care about Manhattan politics.
This is not about whether you think the RAISE Act is brilliant, excessive, necessary, or dangerous.
The issue is much bigger.
Artificial intelligence is not a normal industry. It is not breakfast cereal. It is not lawn chairs. It is not another overpriced app promising to revolutionize your calendar while somehow making your life worse.
AI touches everything.
Labor.
Speech.
Surveillance.
Banking.
Medicine.
Education.
War.
Policing.
Search.
News.
Deepfakes.
Hiring.
Insurance.
Identity.
Elections.
That means whoever writes the first generation of AI law may shape the next generation of American life.
So when AI-linked political money begins flooding congressional races, that is not just another campaign finance story. That is a constitutional pressure test.
Who writes the rules?
The people?
Their elected representatives?
Or the industries with enough money to pre-install themselves into the lawmaking process before the public even understands the stakes?
That is the question this race exposes.
And it exposes it beautifully because it is so absurd.
One local House race became a national AI proxy war.
That is not normal.
That is a warning flare.
The Takeover Does Not Look Like Science Fiction
The public has been trained to imagine the AI takeover like a movie.
Metal skeletons.
Red eyes.
Drones.
Lasers.
A robot army marching through the streets while someone in Congress asks whether the robot has considered forming a bipartisan working group.
But the real takeover was never going to look like that.
The real takeover looks boring.
It looks like super PAC disclosures.
It looks like consultants.
It looks like ad buys.
It looks like donor networks.
It looks like “responsible innovation.”
It looks like think tanks, white papers, lobbyists, campaign contributions, and carefully selected candidates in carefully selected races.
That is the part people miss.
AI does not need to kick down the front door of Congress.
It can enter through the same side door every other powerful industry uses.
Money.
Influence.
Access.
Fear.
Dependency.
Confusion.
And Washington, being Washington, already left the door unlocked.
The Old Game Has New Software
There is nothing new about industries trying to influence government.
Pharma does it.
Banks do it.
Defense contractors do it.
Energy companies do it.
Crypto tried it.
Big Tech perfected it.
Now AI is joining the party.
The industry changes. The strategy does not.
Capture the referee before the whistle blows.
That is the oldest game in Washington.
AI just brought better software.
The difference is that AI is moving faster than the political system understands. Congress is not exactly famous for technological literacy. These are the people who hold hearings where basic internet questions sound like they were written on a napkin in 1997.
Now imagine that same Congress trying to regulate powerful artificial intelligence systems while AI-linked money is already shaping the political environment around them.
That is not oversight.
That is a hostage negotiation with better branding.
The Voter Becomes An Extra
Here is the most disturbing part.
The voters in NY-12 may have thought they were choosing a congressional nominee. Fair enough. That is what elections are supposed to be.
But outside forces saw something else.
They saw a test case.
A pressure point.
A national signal.
A chance to fight over the future of AI regulation without waiting for the debate to fully arrive in Washington.
That means the voter becomes an extra in someone else’s power struggle.
The voter sees a ballot.
The industry sees leverage.
Those are not the same thing.
And if this model scales, future elections may become less about local representation and more about which emerging industry wants to plant a flag in Congress before the next regulatory fight begins.
That is not democracy functioning well.
That is democracy being quietly reprogrammed.
The Question Nobody Wants Asked
Here is the question Washington does not want said out loud:
If artificial intelligence is powerful enough to require national regulation, why are the companies, investors, and power players connected to that world able to pour millions into shaping the politicians who may write those regulations?
That does not mean every AI company is evil.
It does not mean every AI regulation is wise.
It does not mean every tech donor is corrupt or every lawmaker is bought.
Life is not that simple, and anyone selling you that kind of simplicity is probably hiding the invoice.
But it does mean Americans should pay attention.
Closely.
Because the future of AI cannot be written entirely by people surrounded by AI money, AI lobbyists, AI consultants, AI-funded messaging, and AI-aligned political pressure.
That is how the public gets boxed out before the fight even begins.
And make no mistake: the fight is coming.
AI regulation will become one of the defining battles of the next decade.
The only question is whether the American people will still have a meaningful voice by the time Congress gets around to pretending it has one.
The First AI Candidate
So did artificial intelligence literally win a seat in Congress?
No.
Did a robot get sworn in?
No.
Although, based on some congressional hearings, quality control testing may still be appropriate.
But did AI-linked money turn one local race into a national power experiment?
Yes.
And that matters.
Because the first AI candidate does not need to be a person.
It can be a network.
A funding machine.
A political pressure system.
A donor ecosystem wrapped around a legislative agenda.
It can enter through super PACs, consultants, attack ads, support ads, and national spending poured into local races that suddenly become much bigger than the voters were told.
That is the candidate.
That is the machine.
That is the future trying on a congressional suit.
And this may only be version one.
The next version will be bigger.
Cleaner.
Smarter.
Harder to track.
Harder to explain.
And much harder to stop.
Final Verdict
The first AI candidate just entered Congress.
Not with a campaign speech.
Not with a robot face.
Not with a fake smile and a flag pin.
It entered through money.
It entered through influence.
It entered through a congressional race that became a testing ground for whether the AI industry can shape politics before politics shapes AI.
The human candidate lost.
But the machine proved the model works.
That is the part that should bother everyone.
Because if this was the prototype, the national rollout is coming.
And when it comes, it will not announce itself with flashing lights and science-fiction music.
It will arrive through election filings, donor networks, polished ads, policy language, and politicians who suddenly discover that “responsible innovation” sounds a lot better when the check clears.
AI did not need a ballot.
It did not need a pulse.
It did not even need to run.
It just needed Congress to be for sale.
And apparently, the door was already open.
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