I read Gov Greg Abbott's book Broken but Unbowed -- I am generally not his supporter, but grew up among semi-conservative Texans under Governor Ann Richards (D) — loved her wit (she was also a family friend, Beloved Woman)!

An (the only) interesting concept that Gov Abbott (R) explores in his book is about the US States' collective right (under our Constitution) to call for a national convention for ANY REASON, initiated by a super-majority of states in mutual agreement on topic only, in order to propose Amendments (all prior were done by the Federal Congressional route).

This seems like the most-reasonable solution to introduce some sort of technology bill of rights (e.g. privacy; AI governance; data collection practices; right to cancel; opt-ins) — to address limitations to our geriatric Congress' inability to get with the goddamn modern times. We still operate on telecommunications laws from the friggin' eighties!!!

We might as well overhaul all of healthcare, too... and this really isn't too far fetched (I don't have the book in front of me... but there have been prior attempts to call such state conventions, decades ago).

...perhaps end Citizens' United? It's certainly time for some citizen initiative (via our State Congresses).

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If Sir Glubb's Fate of Empires taught me anything, most societial governances don't last too much longer than 250 years (¡happy birthday USA!). I think ours can, with massive but only with massive overhaul.

Giving advice to Gov Abbott: you're doing a great job for your state as Governor; stay there (don't run for president, again — you'll just waste time better-spent preparing Texas for what's next?); perhaps you should lift the boot up off your citizens' impoverished throats just. a. little. bit. ...but otherwise, Keep Texas Beautiful. [and say `hi` to James for me — it's been too long].