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July 14, 2026 — Following Governor Kathy Hochul’s executive order today creating the nation’s first statewide pause on new hyperscale data center development, the American Economic Liberties Project issued the following statement:

July 13, 2026 — Today, 12 state attorneys general sued to block Paramount-Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Brothers-Discovery. In response, American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement applauding their decision and encouraging them to ensure this anticompetitive and illegal merger never sees the light of day:

July 6, 2026 — Following last week’s settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice, 17 State Attorneys General, and three dominant egg producers accused of coordinating to inflate wholesale egg prices, the American Economic Liberties Project is calling for a congressional hearing:

July 1, 2026 — Unwilling to take on the big meatpacking monopolies, President Trump has incorrectly blamed ranchers, the weather, and even his own trade policies for our nation’s record high beef prices. Yet despite cutting beef tariffs and authorizing record-high beef imports, the administration has failed to bring down beef prices for American consumers while accelerating the collapse of the American ranchers Trump claims to support, according to a new report released today by the American Economic Liberties Project’s Rethink Trade program.

July 1, 2026 — Despite a tidal wave of opposition spending by Big Tech and corporate lobbyists, the California Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced the COMPETE Act (AB 1776, Aguiar-Curry), which represents the most significant expansion of state antitrust enforcement in more than a century.