Cait Conley, a Special Operations combat veteran and former national security adviser under former President Joe Biden, is running in the crowded Democratic primary to challenge incumbent Republican Rep. Mike Lawler in New York’s 17th Congressional District. Her candidate financial disclosures show that she earned more than $80,000 between January 2024 and July 2025 from two companies, Primer and Hidden Level.
Both companies partner with far-right billionaire Peter Thiel’s surveillance tech firm Palantir to help government agencies use AI. Both are military contractors; Hidden Level holds an active contract with the Department of War, and Primer’s most recent one was paid out last year. Primer has also praised President Donald Trump’s AI policy and advertises on its website that it “helps” the Department of Homeland Security with data and intelligence work and that “Primer’s AI platforms support DHS missions,” but it does not appear to have an active deal with the department in a federal contracting database.
She’s a Theil Operative, which makes her WORSE than a MAGA, if that’s even possible.
People keep bitching about the worst in this race instead of hyping up what looks like the only good choice…
It’s literally her against like 5 neoliberals and a literal Republican.
I think Conley is gonna be the lightning rod to sneak someone else in. She’s just there to make everyone else look progressive so the actual progressive gets lost in the noise