After seeing the record, do they think for themselves?
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We strip news and politics down to what actually happened, then clean off the spin, the slant and the political hate.
A plain-English look at the U.S. government: what your elected officials actually do, who pays them, and what the official records show. Everything is documented, and if something is only a rumor, we label it a rumor.
Tired of the noise? Every channel, site and app feeds you whatever your algorithm thinks you want. One network spends the night going after Republicans, the other goes after Democrats, and the real story gets lost. We just wanted to know what is actually going on, from someone who doesn't take a side. So we built this.
The week's top stories about your government, told straight: the facts both sides accept, what is still disputed, and how outlets on the left and right covered it.
Stripped Clean tracks the people who run the United States, using public records and official data. Look up any member of Congress since 1976 and see every vote they cast, who they vote with, when they break from their party, who funds them, the stocks they trade and which relatives are in the business too. We also cover every president, vice president, cabinet secretary, Supreme Court justice and governor since 1976, the judges on every state's highest court, today's state lawmakers and big-city mayors, and fact checks of what politicians are saying right now.
Then there are the stories: 340 and counting, with new ones added every week. Each one is a true account of a scandal, a cover-up or an abuse of power by banks, drug companies, spy agencies, the military, Congress or the White House, built from court records, government reports, congressional votes and financial filings that you can open and read yourself.
We don't take sides: both parties get the same rules. Every story is labeled by how well it is backed up. Documented means it is in the official record. Unproven means there is real evidence but the main question has not been answered. Rumor means there is not enough evidence yet, and we tell you exactly what is missing. Read the facts, open the sources, vote on what you think, and talk it over with other readers in The Feed.
Still growing. Our records start in 1976, and every week we add more sources, more people and more history. The goal is a complete 100-year record of the U.S. government, from the 1920s to today. Stay tuned.
A full profile for all 2,493 people who have served in the House or Senate in the last 50 years: every vote, how they voted on the biggest bills, who they vote with, when they broke from their party, family ties, money and stock trades.
New stories go up every week. These are the newest.
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.
Not sure where to start? Here is what each section does. Click any of them to go there.
Every story falls into one of these topics. Click one to see its stories.
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What is actually happening in Washington and the states, told straight from the record: the races on your ballot, how to vote, the new laws and what they do, the week's top stories with how each side covered them, and the viral claims that turned out to be false. Every item links to the documents and the reporting, so you can check it yourself.
What politicians and their ads are saying, 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 state election office, the law itself, the court order, the government data), then compare what the reporting and other fact-checkers found. Race ratings are forecasters' opinions, never results, and we label them that way. Spot something wrong or missing? Tell us through Your Voice.
A quick grade sheet for every member of Congress serving right now. Pick your state to see yours. 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.
True stories about government and corporate wrongdoing: cover-ups, scandals and abuses of power, plus the questions still open. Every story is labeled by what backs it up. We don't prove anything: we show you the records and say plainly what they do and don't show. Pick a category, click a story, check the records, then cast your vote at the bottom.
In the records: court filings, verdicts, guilty pleas, government reports, or the company's or agency's own files. We show you the records; we don't claim to prove anything.
There is real evidence on the record, but the main question has not been answered.
Not enough evidence yet. We show it so you know exactly what's missing.
Everyone who has served in the U.S. House or Senate since 1976. Pick a name to see who they are, how they voted on the biggest votes of the last 50 years, who they vote with, when they broke from their party, their family ties and money, and every single vote they ever cast.
| Name | Party | Latest seat | In Congress | Votes cast | Missed | With their party | Broke ranks | Family ties |
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Vote numbers cover each member's whole career, including the years before 1976 for long-serving members (records go back to 1929). They come from Voteview (UCLA), which compiles the official Clerk of the House and Senate records. In the career totals, a member who was absent but paired or announced a position is counted the way Voteview counts them, as voting that way; on the landmark votes we show that separately as "absent, on record". "With their party" only counts 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.
After seeing the record, do they think for themselves?
Everyone who has held federal power since 1976 (presidents, vice presidents, cabinet secretaries, agency heads, justices), every governor since 1976, the judges on each state's top court, and the state lawmakers and mayors serving today, 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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To show Americans what their government is actually doing, straight from the record, without taking a side. No spin, no teams, no algorithm deciding what you get to see. Just the data, and what it does and doesn't show.
Turn on the news and you get a fight, not facts. One network spends the night going after Republicans, the other spends it going after Democrats. Apps and websites feed you whatever your algorithm thinks will keep you scrolling. The loudest voices on the far left and the far right keep half the country angry at the other half, and the real story gets lost under the noise.
Meanwhile the things that actually decide how you live keep happening quietly: the bills that pass, the votes nobody covers, the contracts and the money, the deals that both parties make together while everyone is arguing about something else.
We got tired of not knowing what is really going on in our own country. So we built the place we wanted to read: the people in power, what they did, and the documents that prove what we say about them, for everyone, from any side.
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