The “We Can Do Better” Project

We Can Do Better

Georgia’s biggest decisions — how its money gets spent, how its politics actually work, how its policy gets made — too often happen fast, unaccounted for, and out of public view. This project takes the issues that shape the state, does the homework everyone else skipped — digging into the primary records and showing the work — and lays out a better, more accountable way. The subjects range widely, from data centers to AI governance to campaign money to wherever the next fight over Georgia’s future leads. What ties them together isn’t a topic; it’s a standard: sourced, honest, and built to be useful.

The essays

The HUMAN Act: A Model Federal AI Bill

Not a think-piece — an actual model bill, drafted section by section. Independent oversight, a safety-and-security floor, worker protection, market-stability guardrails, and public ownership when taxpayers fund AI data centers. Read the summary or the full text.

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The $14,630 Party: Georgia's State-Legislative Funding Gap

We counted every one of the 581 state House and Senate candidate committees in Georgia. Democrats field 321 candidates to the GOP's 252 and hold 36% of the money — but the median Democrat has $14,630 to the median Republican's $82,505. Of 236 seats, only 17 are real races.

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The S-Word: What Socialism Actually Is

The textbook definition, the honest failures, and the ownership test that settles almost every argument. Then the Georgia receipts — $5.08M in forgiven PPP loans held by 13 officials, three of whom opposed student-debt relief — and the $4.3 billion in untraceable political money nobody calls a threat.

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Watching the Watchers: Georgia's Surveillance Network

An Atlanta company built America's largest surveillance-camera network — 100,000+ cameras, 4,800 agencies searching it, under 1% of scans tied to a crime. What has gone wrong, in Georgia and nationally, and a framework to keep it from becoming a dragnet. Every claim sourced and labeled.

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Counting What We Can Verify: Georgia Election Security

Not the rigged machine one side imagines, nor the flawless system the other insists on. What actually protects a Georgia ballot, where the state has cut its own corners, and a nonpartisan way to do elections better.

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Building the Data Centers Without Breaking the Community

A $5 billion, 900-megawatt project approved in one evening — no signed tenant, no water permit, no honest accounting. A Central Georgia case study, and a better, more accountable way. Every claim sourced.

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The Flourishing Compact: A New Ruleset of Robotics

Asimov’s laws were built for obedient robots. Real AI is learned, not programmed — this is a ruleset where humans and the minds we make can both thrive.

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More on the way — each one digs into a specific Georgia issue and shows its work. Have one worth digging into? Email [email protected].