The Nerd Reich – Startup seeks Trump AI emergency for California tech city The Network State comes to Alameda County. Why is an unknown tech company drafting an executive order to declare a national security emergency? Gil Duran 15 Jun 2025 What makes Frontier Valley particularly shocking is not just its scale or ambition, but its timing and tactics. By publishing a ready-made executive order during Trump’s early months in office — at a moment when the administration is already abusing emergency powers in California — the company is betting that the current political moment offers a unique opportunity to fundamentally alter how the U.S. governs itself. Frontier Valley would establish a precedent that any corporation with sufficient resources and political connections can write its own laws, seize public resources, and create quasi-sovereign territories. The draft executive order even includes provisions for replicating the model elsewhere. It envisions “technology-specific zones” across the country that could operate outside normal democratic oversight.
My letter to reps:
I’m against “technology specific zones” dictated to Trump by corporate entities. They intend to put these “network states” outside of normal governance, which runs counter to democracy, and is thoroughly unAmerican. Like the old coal patch towns like Peek-A-Boo in Duryea Pennsylvania, all company towns should’ve gone permanently into the dustbin of history. It’s backwards and against true American values.
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