They Built a CCS Machine — And John Fleming Is in Its Crosshairs !!!
The MAGA Energy Project isn’t grassroots. It’s a political machine for CCS.
If Louisiana voters want to understand what is really happening in the Senate race, they need to stop looking at the branding and start looking at the layers. Because the MAGA Energy Project is not just a website. It is not just a slogan. And it is not some random burst of grassroots energy. It is a political message operation built to sell carbon capture to Louisiana conservatives and to politically damage the one candidate who has made opposition to CCS and 45Q tax credits a defining part of his campaign. (MAGA Energy Project)
Start with the group’s own words. The MAGA Energy Project website tells people to call legislators and “stand with President Trump and Carbon Capture.” It markets CCS as part of an “America First energy future,” frames opposition as an effort to block President Trump’s energy agenda, and gathers names, emails, and phone numbers for marketing and polling texts while noting donations may be solicited. This is not neutral public education. This is political persuasion built with a very specific audience in mind. (MAGA Energy Project)
Then move to the next layer: the target. MAGA Energy Project did not leave its mission vague. It created an entire page called “Fleming Flip-Flop” devoted to arguing that John Fleming supported carbon capture in Congress and is now reversing himself. In other words, the site is not merely promoting CCS. It is actively prosecuting a political case against Fleming on behalf of that policy. (MAGA Energy Project)
Now look at the legal shell behind the message. MAGA Energy Project’s privacy policy identifies the entity as MAGA Energy Project, Inc., and Louisiana Secretary of State records show that the corporation was filed on October 23, 2025. The filing lists Stephen Gelé as registered agent and Raymond Griffin Jr., Amanda Maloy, and Annie Simon Perez as officers. These are not anonymous patriots who just threw up a page one weekend. There is a real entity behind the branding, and the public record names the people connected to it. (MAGA Energy Project)
And this is where the political layers get harder to ignore. The Associated Press has identified Stephen Gelé as Gov. Jeff Landry’s personal attorney in ethics matters. That does not prove the governor owns or controls the MAGA Energy Project. But it does place the organization’s legal structure squarely inside Landry’s political orbit. (AP News)
The next layer is even more direct: Landry himself. On March 4, 2026, Gov. Jeff Landry publicly endorsed Julia Letlow for U.S. Senate. Days later, reporting described Landry as using MAGA Energy Project material in his attack on Fleming over carbon capture. That matters because it shows the group’s messaging is not floating out there on its own. It is being echoed and amplified in an active Senate fight by a governor who has already picked a side. (https://www.knoe.com)
So what does that tell Louisiana voters? It tells them this is not just a debate over energy. It is a debate over political control of the issue. Carbon capture has become a line of division inside Louisiana Republican politics, and MAGA Energy Project is functioning as a weapon in that fight. It wraps CCS in Trump branding, turns dissent into disloyalty, and aims its fire at the candidate who has most forcefully promised to oppose both CCS expansion and the 45Q tax credit structure behind it. (MAGA Energy Project)
John Fleming’s position, at least publicly, is not subtle. Reporting and campaign-linked posts have attributed to him a pledge that if elected, he would seek to defund and repeal 45Q tax credits and oppose carbon capture and sequestration. That is why he matters in this story. Whether voters agree with him or not, he has become the clearest obstacle to the CCS political establishment in this race. (Carbon Pulse)
That is also why Louisiana citizens should pay attention to the method here. When a project markets itself as pro-Trump, builds a dedicated anti-Fleming page, operates through a corporation with ties to the governor’s orbit, and then sees its talking points echoed by a governor backing Fleming’s opponent, voters are no longer looking at spontaneous grassroots advocacy. They are looking at a layered political operation. (MAGA Energy Project)
Louisiana voters can decide for themselves whether they support carbon capture. They can decide for themselves whether they trust John Fleming, Julia Letlow, Bill Cassidy, or Jeff Landry. But they should not be asked to pretend this machine is something it is not. The record is public. The structure is visible. The message is coordinated. And the target is obvious. (MAGA Energy Project)
When you strip away the branding, what remains is a coordinated political effort to protect carbon capture, damage John Fleming, and shape the Senate race for the benefit of the people already holding power. (MAGA Energy Project)
The people are in control — not the politicians pushing eminent domain, forced CCS, and threats to our water. Vote for John Fleming.
