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Let states experiment on AI, privacy, cyber, and digital services while using federal floors, interoperability, and preemption only where fragmentation breaks rights.
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Jul 5, 2026
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
Republicans are exposed on Inconsistency when states' rights rhetoric disappears whenever blue states regulate technology companies or privacy. Executive Order 14365 (December 2025) built a DOJ AI Litigation Task Force specifically to challenge state AI laws, and its first action was intervening against Colorado's own AI Act in April 2026 on Equal Protection and preemption theories, the opposite of the anti-commandeering, states'-rights posture the same administration invokes elsewhere. Democrats are exposed on Self-Interest and Ill- Informed design when national preemption is treated as clean technocratic order even where it would erase useful state experimentation; this half of the comparison is an interpretive characterization of a general pattern in preemption debates rather than a single named Democratic plank or bill, since no comparably specific citation grounds it the way EO 14365 and the Colorado suit ground the Republican half. The Innovation Party's delta is disciplined federalism: experiment locally, protect nationally, and preempt only with a record.
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