Candidate positions are quoted word for word from each candidate’s own website, with the page link and the date we pulled it.
Roll-call and committee votes, bill text, and sponsorships, straight from the legislature that recorded them.
Campaign finance reports, financial disclosures, and ethics filings, from the agencies that receive them.
Today, one reviewer works every claim. A second, independent reviewer will be added as the team grows.
A statement, vote, promise, or filing comes in from a public source we monitor: campaign websites, legislative feeds, official sites, and filed documents.
We confirm it’s authentic and complete, and archive a copy so the citation still works if the original is taken down.
The specific, checkable statement is written down word for word. Rhetoric, framing, and predictions are set aside.
Every document that bears on the claim is collected, including the ones that cut against what we’d expect to find.
The claim is worked again from the documents alone before anything is published.
It goes out with every source attached and the date it was published.
The HUSH. Score measures how closely a politician’s actions have matched the positions they stated. A high score means they did what they said. It doesn’t mean we think those positions are good.
A score only appears on that politician’s own page, next to the promises and votes it was built from. You’ll never see two politicians’ scores side by side.
We don’t quietly edit. Every correction sits on top of the original, where anyone can see it.
“Well done is better than well said.”
Promises are easy. The record is what counts.
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