Fund HUSH.

Funded by voters, not donors.

Who funds HUSH.?

You
Not political campaigns.Not political parties.Not PACs.Not special interests.
Follow the money

Most of the political information that reaches you comes from someone with a stake in the outcome. Campaigns, parties, PACs, and corporations with an agenda spend heavily every election deciding what you see — and what you don’t.

Nobody has to send a memo. When the people paying for the information also want something from it, the work bends toward them on its own, through the quiet arithmetic of who you can afford to upset.

So we built HUSH. to be paid only by the people who use it. Before we accept any money, we ask whether it would give the person paying a reason to expect something back: kinder coverage, a softer story, or silence. If it would, we turn it down, no matter how much it is.

That’s how the list beside this was made. Every line on it is money someone could offer us, and every line is a no. It isn’t a policy we might revisit. It’s the reason HUSH. exists.

Follow our money, and it ends with you.

Eight kinds of money we won’t take
Campaigns and candidate committeesThe people being covered cannot pay for the coverage.
PACs and super PACsMoney whose entire purpose is persuasion.
Political parties and party committeesSame reason, larger budget.
Advocacy groups with a legislative agendaEven the ones we might agree with. Especially those.
Political advertising of any kindNo campaign, party, or issue ads. Not for any race, at any price.
Foreign lobbyists and their intermediariesNo exceptions, and no routing it through a US entity.
Grants and foundation donationsWe are not a nonprofit. Nobody’s endowment sets our priorities.
Donations of any sizeNot even from readers. We would rather sell you something than be owed a favour.
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It pays the bills and keeps the lights on.

Your membership pays for the work of keeping the record current — pulling it, checking it, and keeping it from going stale between elections.

Research and verification
Source monitoring
Data and infrastructure
Product development
Keeping HUSH. running

At the close of each year we publish the real numbers: total members, what went back into the product, and whether we finished up or down.

Membership options

Corporations, super PACs, and politicians would happily pay for a tool like this. When voters pay for it instead, none of them get a say in what it shows you.

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✓Feed: what changed, year round
✓Politicians: compare any two, and see who’s funding them
✓Stance Check
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✓Stance Check
✓HUSH. Guide: every race on your ballot
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✓Feed: what changed, year round
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✓Stance Check
✓HUSH. Guide: every race on your ballot
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“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both.”

James MadisonLetter to W. T. Barry, 1822

Information needs a means of acquiring it. Here, that’s you.

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