After seeing the record, do they think for themselves?
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Every story on this site is something that really happened, backed by court records, government reports or official data. Each one is stamped with how solid the proof is.
Read the story, check the proof underneath it, then tell us what you think at the bottom.
Politicians fight on TV like the two parties never agree. On most votes, they simply vote with their team. And when a big spending bill comes up, they often vote yes together while nobody's watching.
The news fights over one person or a few thousand dollars. These are real amounts from the stories on this site. Each section of the scale holds ten times more money than the one before it, so the sections get wider as the money gets bigger. A household's yearly income is a sliver on the left; the bank numbers fill the rest.
When a person launders money, they go to prison. When a bank does it, the bank pays a fine and the bankers go home.
What politicians and their ads are saying this week, checked against the actual record: the vote, the law, the government data. Both parties, same rules. We say what other fact-checkers ruled too, and where we disagree.
Checks out.
Right, with a small catch.
Technically true, but leaves out something that changes the picture.
Has a grain of truth, but points you to the wrong conclusion.
The record says otherwise.
How we check: we start from the primary source (the roll-call vote, the bill, the court or state record, the government data), then compare what other fact-checkers found. Tips for claims to check go through Your Voice.
What every member of Congress actually does, in plain English: how often they just vote with their party, how often they skip work, how long they've been there, who pays for their campaigns, and how much they trade stocks. It's all based on this term, so any of them can change their record fast by changing how they act.
Sources: official House and Senate vote records, the Federal Election Commission, and House and Senate stock-trade filings. One stock-trade report can list many trades.
Cover-ups, keep-quiets and conspiracies that turned out to be true, plus the ones still open. Every story is stamped with how strong the proof is. Pick a category, click a story, check the proof, then cast your vote at the bottom.
A court conviction, guilty plea, or official admission.
Confirmed by an official report, investigation, or the agency's own records.
Sworn testimony or official findings point one way, but the main question is still open.
Not enough receipts yet. We show it so you know exactly what's missing.
How we got these: every official roll-call vote in the record below, from Voteview (UCLA), which compiles the Clerk of the House and Senate records. "Sided with their party" counts only votes where most Democrats and most Republicans voted opposite ways.
Each bar is one year. Taller means they voted with their party more often when the parties disagreed. Click any year to open everything they did that year.
Who votes the same way they do. Each percentage is how often the two of them cast the same vote when both voted.
After seeing the record, do they think for themselves?
Everyone who has held federal power since 1976, every governor of every state since 1976, and the judges on each state's top court, with their family members who hold power of their own. Every family tie has a source. We list relatives who have a public role (office, appointment, lobbying, a federal case, a big public profile) and leave out private citizens.
Who raises the most campaign money, and who gets the most of it from PACs. A PAC is a fund that companies, unions, industry groups and other politicians use to give money to candidates. The more a politician depends on PACs, the more they owe those groups. Click a column to sort.
| Member | Party | State | Raised ▾ | From PACs | % from PACs |
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Source: Federal Election Commission, current election-cycle totals through each campaign's latest filing (mostly June–July 2026). House numbers cover 2025–26. Senators show everything raised in their current six-year term so far: a senator up in 2026 counts 2021 on, up in 2028 counts 2023 on, up in 2030 counts 2025 on. A dash means the FEC has no filing for them this cycle, usually because they are retiring, running for another office, or were just appointed.
Members of Congress write the laws that move the market, and many of them trade in it. Here is who filed the most stock-trade reports with the House and Senate in 2025 and 2026.
| Member | Party | Seat | Reports |
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Source: Clerk of the House financial disclosure index (Periodic Transaction Reports, 2025–2026). One report can list many trades, and filing a report means they followed the disclosure law. Look up any filing at disclosures-clerk.house.gov. Senate numbers come from the Senate's own disclosure system at efdsearch.senate.gov: 301 reports filed from January 2025 to October 2026. A few filers who are not in our member list (former senators Marco Rubio and Tom Carper) count in the totals but not the table.
Seats handed from father to son, husband to wife, brother to sister. Plus the members who came from political dynasties. Seats don't legally pass down, but look how often they do.
This list covers relationships we've confirmed. Know one we missed? Send it through Your Voice.
Bills that passed with at least 75% of Democrats and 75% of Republicans voting yes. These are the deals that get done while the cameras are on the culture-war fight of the week. Spending bills are highlighted.
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