Follow the money to the words.
We tie money to the politicians it funds, to the legislation they pass, to the arguments they use to justify it to voters — and we check whether those arguments are true. Every assertion carries a receipt.
Money
Politician
Legislation
Public justification
Keeping it honest
The loop breaks here — verdicts on the record
What we’re tracking
2,820
federal measures
300
state & local measures
537
current politicians
$826M
contributions tracked
54,088
lobbying filings
1,521
votes recorded
0
claims logged
0
rated for accuracy
Sources: legislative corpus (Congress.gov, House/Senate clerks, Calvert County BOCC), FEC bulk data and Senate LDA filings for money, and our own editorial claim record.