Serve path
Bread-and-butter tracks
The record isn't a feed. This path is material outcomes, not identity theater. There is no buyable score. Tracks are not ranked as culture-war theater.
Commitments never rewrite votes, money, attendance, or effects. The civic record is never for sale. A number appears only when a public series parsed. If the source is missing, untrustworthy, or the fetch failed, the field stays blank with the reason. Metrics never rewrite votes, money, attendance, or effects.
cost-of-living
Cost of living / inflation
Rent, groceries, and a tank of gas are the first things a household feels.
Fixture ingest does not pull live BLS or HHS series. Run npm run ingest:serve-metrics (or a live npm run ingest) to store sourced numbers. We do not invent them.
Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index (CPI) family. Blank stays blank — we do not invent an inflation score.
cost-of-goods
Cost of goods
The price of what people buy — food, fuel, hardware — hits before any speech does.
Fixture ingest does not pull live BLS or HHS series. Run npm run ingest:serve-metrics (or a live npm run ingest) to store sourced numbers. We do not invent them.
BEA, Census, and BLS price series for goods. Blank stays blank. No invented basket.
free-market
Free-market competition
When a few firms set the terms, households pay more and new shops never open.
No single national firm-concentration series is trustworthy for v1 without inventing a market-power score. Census Economic Census concentration ratios are industry-specific and published on a multi-year cycle; BEA industry accounts are not a household competition index. Related recorded votes still appear below when keywords match.
Census and BEA structure data; Congress.gov when a recorded vote is tied. Blank stays blank.
foster-adoption
Foster & adoption reform
Children wait in care while paperwork, not families, decides the clock.
Fixture ingest does not pull live BLS or HHS series. Run npm run ingest:serve-metrics (or a live npm run ingest) to store sourced numbers. We do not invent them.
HHS AFCARS or the state's child-welfare report. Blank stays blank. We do not invent caseloads.
district-wildcard
District material wildcard
A district names what is actually on the ground — a plant closing, a water system, a waitlist — and must cite a public source.
This track has no auto-ingested national metric. A candidate must name the district issue and cite a public source URL on their commitment.
The candidate names the issue and cites a public URL. Congress.gov or FEC when tying a vote or a filing. Blank stays blank.