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
Validity verdicts break the loop here

How we keep this honest →

Where to start

Follow a bill →

What a measure actually does, who sponsored and voted for it, and who lobbied on it.

Follow the money →

Which committees paid which candidates — traced the way the money legally flows.

1,804 federal measures
271 state & local measures
537 current politicians
$815M contributions tracked
1,500 lobbying filings
1,513 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.