Transparency
Hold us to the same standard.
We ask voters to judge candidates by their record. This page is ours: how we source, how we report our money, how we propose to govern ourselves, and how we fix mistakes. Where a standard is proposed rather than adopted, it says so.
Sourcing
What counts, and what does not
These rules apply to everything the committee publishes. The publishing system enforces the first of them: a sourced item cannot be built for this site without a list of the records it relies on.
Primary records are the basis
Roll-call votes and bill text from the Clerk, the Secretary of the Senate, and congress.gov; court filings; financial disclosures; FEC reports; agency records; transcripts and recordings of statements made on the record.
Reporting gives context, never the claim
A news report may be cited to explain circumstances. A factual claim about a candidate is not published on the strength of secondary reporting alone.
Nothing anonymous
Anonymous or unverifiable material is not used, in any format, for any claim.
Three labels, kept apart
Documented facts are what a record shows. Analysis is what we conclude. Opinion is what we think should follow. Each appears under its own heading.
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Write each claim down with the record it comes from.
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Obtain the original record and read it in full.
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A second person checks the claim against the record.
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Publish the record list beside the material, linked.
Money
Reported to the FEC, summarized here
As a registered political committee, Americans for Accountability files periodic reports with the Federal Election Commission listing its receipts, including the name, address, employer, and occupation of each contributor who gives more than $200 in a calendar year, and its disbursements. Independent expenditures are reported separately, and on accelerated schedules close to an election once spending reaches the thresholds in federal rules. All of these reports are public.
After each filing, the committee summarizes it on this site: total receipts, spending on independent expenditures and production, fundraising costs, and officer compensation, each as a dollar amount and as a share of receipts. Where a summary here and an FEC filing differ, the filing controls.
Finances
Current financial summary
Reconciled to each FEC filing as it is made. Where a figure here and the filing differ, the filing controls.
Status
Registered October 22, 2026. First financial report not yet due.
After each filing this section will show total receipts, spending on independent expenditures and production, fundraising costs, and officer compensation, each as a dollar amount and as a share of receipts.
Until then, no figures are shown. The committee does not publish estimates.
Governance
Six rules, written down before the first dollar
Proposed · not yet adopted
Drafted for the committee and published so they can be examined. They become commitments when the committee's leadership adopts them; this page will state the date.
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No related-party payments
No officer, advisor, or their family members or businesses would be paid for goods or services beyond published officer compensation. Vendors would certify that no officer holds an ownership interest in them.
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Two-person approval above $2,500
Any single payment above $2,500 would require written approval from two officers before it is made.
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Competitive bids above $10,000
Any vendor engagement expected to exceed $10,000 would require at least two written bids, with the reason for the selection kept on file.
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2 outside advisors with the right to review the books
Two named advisors who are not officers, employees, or vendors would be able to inspect bank statements, invoices, contracts, and approvals at any time. Their names would be published on this page.
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Annual independent review
Once a year an accountant with no other relationship to the committee would review the books, and the result would be summarized here.
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No debt beyond cash on hand
The committee would not take on obligations it cannot pay from cash already in the bank.
Outside advisors
None appointed yet. The proposed standards call for two, independent of the committee's officers and vendors, with the right to review its books at any time. Their names and backgrounds will be published here when they are appointed.
Pay
What officers can be paid
Proposed · not yet adopted
- Cap
- 10%
- of net receipts (after payment-processing fees and refunds), in total, to all officers.
- Program first
- 70%
- of receipts must have gone to independent expenditures and the research and production behind them before any officer is paid.
Under the proposal, officer pay would be paid only after vendors are paid, each payment would require written approval from the outside advisors, and the total paid would be published in the financial summary above.
Corrections
Fixed on the page where the error was made
Current practice · formal policy not yet adopted
The committee has not yet adopted a formal corrections policy. That is a decision for its leadership, and this page will describe the policy once one is adopted. In the meantime, this is the practice:
- Anyone who believes a published claim does not match its source writes to [email protected] with the item and the record.
- The claim is compared with the cited record.
- Where the claim is wrong, the material is corrected, and a dated correction notice is placed at the top of the item. The original wording is not silently replaced.
- Where the claim is right, the committee says so and explains why.
Independence
No coordination, no direction
The committee does not coordinate with any candidate, candidate's committee, or political party, and it takes no direction from them about what to research, what to publish, or where to spend. Federal law requires that independence of an independent expenditure-only committee. Our work requires it too: a record checked by people who answer to a campaign is not a check.
The committee has a stated political objective, published on the About page. It does not claim to be neutral. What it offers instead is a method a reader can test.
Public filings
Verify us at the source
The FEC's public database listed the committee when last checked on October 23, 2026.
This website
What it loads, and what it does not
This site sets no tracking cookies and loads no advertising scripts. Fonts are served from this domain. Website analytics are switched off. Forms use Cloudflare's spam check only when it is configured, and the check is explained beside the form.
The site's source code is kept in a private repository. The committee has not yet decided whether to publish it; this page will link to it if it does.