Updates
This page is the public change log. It records source audits, scoring-method changes, launch notes, and data additions that affect how readers should use the site.
RSSThe historical backfill now separates Executive Order 9066 from the Supreme Court's Korematsu decision, with a Library of Congress U.S. Reports source and a mapped legal record.
The expansion roadmap now adds CBO budget and economic data plus Robert Shiller market data for long-run fiscal, valuation, and crisis comparisons.
Rankings, ledger search, and card pages now show firewall-safe support products, while sponsor and newsletter links use public environment URLs when configured.
The site now preloads publication fonts without blocking first paint. Production Lighthouse moved to 99 performance with 100 accessibility, best practices, and SEO.
Ledger card pages now emit article OpenGraph metadata, canonical URLs, image alt text, section, and tag fields for cleaner launch previews.
The data spine now pulls national-public NAEP Grade 4 reading and math current/prior scores, with caveats separating measured achievement from school-closure causality.
The data spine now pulls no-key FRED CSV rows for the Treasury yield curve, Baa corporate spread, federal funds rate, and S&P 500 context, with explicit limits on vintage and total-return use.
The data spine now parses the 2026 FEC candidate master, adds DIME and Bridging Divides to the target registry, and marks CourtListener as credentialed API access.
The ledger now adds Missouri Compromise, Nullification, Kansas-Nebraska, secession, Civil War habeas, and Bush v. Gore benchmark cards, plus a wider peer-source plan for money, violence, courts, and state-local records.
The historical ledger now adds the Fugitive Slave Act, Wilmington 1898, the 1924 immigration quota law, Watergate, Citizens United, and Shelby County with primary or official source anchors.
The data spine now adds Federal Register executive-order metadata, USAspending obligations, Nonprofit Explorer search, Internet Archive records, and Hugging Face dataset discovery.
Cards now surface caveats for press use, advocacy sources, index limits, dataset coverage, unresolved legal posture, and provisional status.
Evidence entries now label whether a source is primary proof, a denominator, analytical context, discovery, salience, or a counterargument.
The roadmap now adds Federal Register, GovInfo, ACLED, Bridging Divides, OpenSecrets, CourtListener, legal trackers, and democracy-index lessons to the public ingest plan.
Cards with mapped court records now show case name, court, docket, posture, holding, caveat, and source links.
Every card now exposes a claim ID, evidence quality, factual maturity, legal posture, scoring maturity, jurisdiction, and source mix.
The expansion plan now compares document databases, legal trackers, democracy indexes, election-threat datasets, polling datasets, and public-data sources.
Seven more cards now cover Reconstruction rollback, Chinese Exclusion, WWI speech repression, McCarthyism, Vietnam, mass incarceration, and Iraq.
Six early cards now cover the Proclamation Line, Stamp Act, Coercive Acts, Articles weakness, slavery compromises, and Shays' Rebellion.
Crime context, Jan. 6 clemency, law-firm targeting, and inspector-general firing cards now cite FBI, DOJ, White House, Federal Register, and court records instead of challenged Reuters pages.
Eight source-backed historical ledger cards now seed the 1798-2008 backfill, including Indian Removal, Dred Scott, Plessy, EO 9066, the Patriot Act, and the financial crisis.
Election-administration, Trump-family crypto, and NYC rent-guideline cards now use court, OGE, company, and city-board records instead of relying on challenged Reuters pages.
Birthright-citizenship and emergency-tariff cards now cite official Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit, and Federal Circuit records for legal posture.
The static data page now includes CPI, payroll employment, Treasury fiscal-year deficit, and Voteview polarization alongside unemployment, debt, and VIX.
The site now has a public credits page for art and party icons plus a share kit for launch links and the default social card.
How to read the ledger, how to challenge a score, and what must be finished before the July 4 public release.
The source registry now has a repeatable URL health audit and new official legal anchors for unstable 2025-2026 claims.
OpenSecrets is now listed as an influence-money source, with FEC bulk data kept as the primary federal campaign-finance record.