As midterm elections approach, candidates from across the political spectrum are finding rare common ground in their skepticism of Flock surveillance cameras — automated license plate readers that have quietly spread into thousands of American communities. The convergence is unusual: conservatives wary of government overreach and progressives concerned about over-policing are arriving, by different roads, at the same destination. Whether this shared unease represents a genuine reckoning with the infrastructure of surveillance, or simply the shape that politics takes in an election year, remain