Tuesday, May 5, 2026Public · Read-only
Democracy on the Line

Sources

Every feed we read.

Grouped by tier, ordered by trust weight within each tier. Major media is capped — it never drives a severe alert on its own.

8 sources
  • Federal Register

    Daily journal of the U.S. government — executive orders, agency rules, proclamations.

    0.98
  • U.S. Supreme Court

    Opinions, orders, and docket of the Supreme Court of the United States.

    0.98
  • Congress.gov

    Bills, votes, and Congressional Record.

    0.95
  • DOJ FARA Registration Unit

    Department of Justice unit administering the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Publishes registrations and supplemental statements.

    0.95
  • Federal Election Commission

    Independent federal agency that administers and enforces campaign finance law. Publishes itemized contributions, candidate filings, PAC and Super PAC activity.

    0.95
  • PACER / CourtListener

    Federal court filings and opinions, including district and circuit courts.

    0.95
  • Senate Office of Public Records (LDA)

    Statutory clearinghouse for federal lobbying registrations and quarterly disclosure reports under the Lobbying Disclosure Act.

    0.95
  • STOCK Act / Office of Government Ethics

    Mandated personal financial disclosures from members of Congress (STOCK Act) and senior executive branch officials (OGE Form 278).

    0.92

Academic

4 sources
  • V-Dem Institute

    Varieties of Democracy — global democracy indices.

    0.95
  • ACLED

    Armed Conflict Location & Event Data — political violence and demonstrations.

    0.90
  • Freedom House

    Annual Freedom in the World index and democratic backsliding reports.

    0.90
  • Bright Line Watch

    Political-science survey of democratic performance.

    0.88

Watchdog

6 sources
  • Brennan Center for Justice

    Voting rights, election administration, and rule of law analysis.

    0.92
  • Campaign Legal Center

    Election law, redistricting, and campaign finance litigation.

    0.90
  • Protect Democracy

    Litigation and analysis on authoritarian threats and constitutional norms.

    0.90
  • American Oversight

    FOIA-driven oversight of federal and state executive branches.

    0.88
  • CREW

    Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

    0.85
  • OpenSecrets

    Center for Responsive Politics aggregator of FEC, LDA, and personal disclosure data with industry-level rollups.

    0.85

Government data

4 sources
  • USAspending.gov

    Official U.S. government source for federal contract, grant, and loan data. Mandated by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act.

    0.95
  • GAO

    Government Accountability Office — nonpartisan audits and oversight reports.

    0.90
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics

    Employment, wages, inflation, productivity.

    0.88
  • Census Bureau

    Demographic and economic statistics.

    0.88

Civil society

5 sources
  • Committee to Protect Journalists

    CPJ tracks journalist arrests, attacks, and press-freedom incidents worldwide; longstanding watchdog with rigorous documentation.

    0.92
  • Freedom of the Press Foundation

    FPF tracks U.S. press-freedom incidents (subpoenas, leak investigations, newsroom raids) via the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.

    0.90
  • ACLU

    Civil liberties litigation and policy analysis.

    0.85
  • NAACP Legal Defense Fund

    Civil rights litigation, especially voting rights.

    0.85
  • Southern Poverty Law Center

    Tracks extremist groups and hate-driven political violence.

    0.78

Investigative

4 sources

Major media

4 sources
  • Associated Press

    Wire service. Used only to corroborate primary sources.

    0.55
  • Reuters

    Wire service. Used only to corroborate primary sources.

    0.55
  • The New York Times

    National daily. Used only as secondary corroboration.

    0.50
  • The Washington Post

    National daily. Used only as secondary corroboration.

    0.50