Jan Morgan for Arkansas

09/03/2026

Arkansas Alert: You've been betrayed. LOOK AT YOUR ELECTRIC BILL.

There is a new charge called the Generating Arkansas Jobs Act Rider.

I am a Republican. But my party affiliation will never prevent me from calling out Republican officials when they betray the people who elected them.

Arkansas voters deserve to know what our Republican-controlled legislature and Republican governor approved before they cast another ballot.

For months, state leaders, Entergy and data-center promoters have assured us that these multibillion-dollar technology companies would “pay their own way.”

That is not the whole truth.

The legislature passed Senate Bill 307—now Act 373, the Generating Arkansas Jobs Act of 2025—allowing utilities to begin collecting money from customers for major generating and transmission projects while those projects are still under construction.

The law expressly authorizes utilities to recover construction expenses through a rider on OUR bills—and even to earn a return on construction work in progress before the facilities are completed and producing electricity.

That charge finances a portfolio that includes the Ironwood and Jefferson gas plants, transmission improvements and the $1.6 billion Cypress Solar and Battery project.

And here is the data-center connection state officials cannot honestly dismiss:

The Arkansas Public Service Commission’s own report says Cypress is “particularly key” to a large economic-development customer that required the project as a condition of locating here.

That customer is Google, whose new $4 billion West Memphis data center could eventually demand as much as 600 megawatts.

Recently disclosed contract information indicates that Google will provide approximately $526 million toward Cypress and another $190 million for transmission upgrades. Google and Entergy maintain that Google’s payments over its 20-year agreement will ultimately cover the costs associated with serving the data center.

But the exact cost allocation remains hidden behind a largely confidential special-rate contract—and Arkansas households ( YOU) are already paying a GAJA charge that includes Cypress and other construction projects intended to accommodate massive new industrial demand.

Therefore, officials cannot simply chant “data centers pay their own way” and expect citizens to stop asking questions.

If they are truly paying every cost they create, then publicly disclose:

• Every dollar of construction and financing cost
• Every dollar paid by Google and other large-load customers
• Every dollar collected from residential and small-business customers
• How those payments are applied to Entergy’s rate base
• Who bears the risk if projected data-center demand fails to materialize
• The number of PERMANENT Arkansas jobs actually created ( not temporary construction jobs)

Act 373 was openly promoted as a way to meet the enormous electricity demands of DATA centers and other economic-development projects.

The legislature changed longstanding utility policy so ordinary customers (YOU) could be charged during construction rather than after a completed facility began serving them.

That is not the free market. The Republican Party Platform does NOT SUPPORT Corporate Welfare off the backs of citizens .

Are you aware that your Republican controlled state government also approved sweeping sales and use tax exemptions for these multibillion dollar companies that other Arkansas businesses have to pay?

Picking winners and losers in business is not the role of government, especially on our dime.

The free market does not mean: *government grants enormous tax exemptions to multibillion-dollar corporations,

*changes utility law to accelerate their infrastructure and then

*puts a construction-financing charge on the electric bills of Arkansas families and small businesses.

That is socializing the costs while privatizing the profits.

Economic development is not automatically good when working Arkansans must finance it without complete transparency.

And “creating jobs” is not a magic phrase that excuses shifting corporate risk onto captive utility customers.

If these projects are genuinely such a magnificent bargain for Arkansas,
then state leaders should OPEN the contracts, PUBLISH the numbers and PROVE it.

Oh snap. I forgot. Our Republican legislators said these things WE pay for have to remain a secret in order to get the contract.
That sounds like Nancy Pelosi's comment that "we have to pass it before we can find out what's in it."
Last time I checked, she was a flaming democrat . 🤬- Jan Morgan for Arkansas Jan Morgan Jan Morgan

09/02/2026

Not good.

09/02/2026

This is a big deal.
It should never have come to this .
Once again, it's the little guy, the citizens who will suffer the consequences.

As of today, CHI St. Vincent is no longer in-network with Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield. It's as big of a deal as it sounds like. If you have BCBS health insurance, there is a brief drawdown period where certain CHI St. Vincent patients can request continuing in-network status for up to 90 days: https://www.arkansasbluecross.com/docs/librariesprovider9/members/other-forms/abh-request-for-continuity-of-care.pdf.

Reporting on this development is here: https://arkansasadvocate.com/2026/09/01/chi-st-vincent-no-longer-part-of-blue-cross-blue-shield-of-arkansas-network, with a deeper dive here: https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/little-rock/chi-st-vincent-blue-cross-blue-shield/91-0a8ab4da-322e-4d1a-9697-2ab690789f8d.

I get the inclination to blame CHI St. Vincent or BCBS for this bad deal. To be sure, both deserve some blame for letting a contract standoff get to the point that it hurts Arkansans. I don't let them off the hook. However, I think that the lion's share of the blame, and the focus going forward, should go to the state of Arkansas. Our state has kept Medicaid reimbursement rates so low for so long that hospitals rely on private insurance payers like BCBS to subsidize treatment of their Medicaid patients. That means hospital margins are genuinely razor-thin, and their demands for higher reimbursement rates have merit. But it also puts unreasonable pressure on private insurance to subsidize public insurance, which is a big ask, and which leads to costs getting passed down to consumers in the form of higher premiums.

If you are a BCBS customer and get services at CHI St. Vincent, you are going to have to make a change soon or face dramatically higher costs. You can yell at BCBS or CHI St. Vincent if you want. They absolutely should reach agreement now to stop harm to patients. But what I really hope you do is tell the Legislature and the Governor that you're ready for Arkansas to get serious about adequately funding Medicaid. That's the key to all of this. Until we fix Medicaid, we'll continue to see more hospitals, insurance companies, and most of all, patients, pushed to the breaking point.

08/30/2026

🚨 4.25 Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Released Into Arkansas River

🚨 Environmental alert in Pueblo, Colorado: Approximately 4.25 million gallons of untreated sewage were accidentally discharged into the Arkansas River between August 26 and 27, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

Officials and local agencies are responding to the incident and working to assess its impact on the river and surrounding environment. 🌊⚠️

The accidental release involved untreated wastewater entering the Arkansas River, prompting authorities to investigate what caused the discharge and determine what additional actions may be necessary.

💧 Residents and people who use the Arkansas River are encouraged to follow any safety guidance issued by local and state officials while the situation is being evaluated.

Authorities say the response remains ongoing as agencies work to address the release and monitor conditions along the affected portion of the river.

📍 Location: Pueblo, Colorado
📅 Incident: August 26–27, 2026
💦 Estimated release: 4.25 million gallons of untreated sewage

Officials are expected to provide additional information as the investigation and environmental assessment continue.

08/29/2026

DOES ANYONE ELSE FEEL LIKE SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY WRONG?

EVERY day it seems we’re waking up to another warning.

Food recalled for Salmonella, E. coli, glass, metal or undeclared allergens.

Medications recalled because they’re contaminated or improperly manufactured.

And now IV saline—something pumped directly into the bloodstream of hospital patients—recalled because of possible FIBERGLASS particles.

Meanwhile, we’re being warned about cyberattacks and vulnerabilities involving the systems responsible for something even more fundamental: our drinking water.

At some point we need to stop treating each incident as an isolated headline and start asking a much bigger question:

WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?

How resilient are America’s food, pharmaceutical and water systems? Are manufacturers being adequately inspected? Are critical infrastructure systems adequately protected? Have supply chains become so enormous and interconnected that one failure can endanger people across half the country?

Yes, recalls demonstrate that our safety systems are finding problems. That’s important.

But finding a dangerous product after it has already entered the supply chain isn’t the same thing as preventing it from getting there in the first place.

Americans shouldn’t have to wonder every morning whether the food in their refrigerator has been recalled, whether their medication was manufactured correctly, whether an IV bag in a hospital contains foreign particles, or whether the infrastructure supplying their drinking water is vulnerable to hackers.

We spend hundreds of billions of dollars addressing threats around the world.

Protecting the food, medicine, water and critical infrastructure Americans depend upon every single day ought to be among the most basic responsibilities of government.

I’m interested in accountability—and PREVENTION.

When failures involving the necessities of life become routine enough that we barely notice the next recall, we have a problem that deserves a solution.

-Jan Morgan Jan Morgan Jan Morgan for Arkansas

08/18/2026

While hardworking Americans struggle to afford health-insurance premiums, deductibles, prescriptions and basic medical care, REFUGEE criminals have been treating taxpayer-funded Medicaid like their own personal bank account.

The victims are not some faceless government.

The victims are the taxpayers who earned that money—and the vulnerable Americans who were supposed to receive the care it purchased.

Compassion without accountability becomes taxpayer-funded fraud.

SOLUTION:
*Audit every high-risk program.
*Stop suspicious payments.
*Recover stolen assets.
*Prosecute every guilty participant. *Deport convicted noncitizens when the law permits.
*And hold public officials accountable for failures this enormous.

-Jan Morgan, Jan Morgan for Arkansas, Jan Morgan ,

08/17/2026

No.

08/16/2026

Vote NO on issue 3.

08/01/2026

A divided RIGHT is an Election Day gift to the Democrat party.

Looks like some of President Trump’s biggest critics within the Republican base are organizing around a separate movement.

Tucker Carlson. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Thomas Massie. Joe Kent. Others.

Whether this becomes a new political party remains to be seen.

But one fact can’t be ignored:

Our elections are often decided by razor-thin margins.

Any movement that pulls Republican, conservative, or independent voters away from the Republican nominee could easily hand a victory to the Democratic candidate.

Politics isn’t just about making a statement.
It’s about counting votes.

So... The question isn't, "Who is right?"
It is, "Who Wins?"
- Jan Morgan Jan Morgan