The latest antitrust crusade would cripple thriving small businesses

Published April 9, 2026 12:42pm ET



American businesses are being besieged by federal, state, and foreign far-Left antitrust ideologues.

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are reportedly preparing to re-introduce the twice-failed American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA). And in California, state Sen. Scott Wiener just introduced the Blocking Anticompetitive Self-Preferencing by Entrenched Dominant Platforms (BASED) Act, a copy-and-paste of the same legislation.

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