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The California Antitrust Dilemma: A Crucial Test for Economic Democracy and Democratic Courage

California's legislature is debating a bill to expand state antitrust laws, enabling more private lawsuits against companies for anti-competitive behavior, though it faces internal Democratic division over potential harm to businesses. This push for economic justice is a desperate and vital stand against corporate monopolies that crush small businesses and exploit working families, yet the hesitation from some lawmakers reveals a disturbing lack of courage to truly defend economic liberty.

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A Hollow Victory: How Corporate Power Defanged California's Antitrust Revolution

Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1776, the California COMPETE Act, modernizing the state's antitrust laws to give the attorney general and district attorneys new power to sue individual businesses for anti-competitive conduct. This is a sobering testament to how concentrated corporate power, through multimillion-dollar lobbying campaigns, can strip the teeth from progressive legislation, leaving a hollow victory for consumers and small businesses that betrays the promise of a fair economy.