We only measure what both sides already say they believe.

Feed the hungry. Welcome the stranger. Judge not. Don't store up treasure. You'll hear all of it from both parties. So we're putting it next to the recorded votes of the people who govern you — every member, by name, scored the same way — and publishing the method first, so you can check our work before you decide to trust it.

Methodology Specimen - Example

MemberNamed on publication

PrincipleThe same rule for the stranger as for the citizen.

SourceLeviticus 24:22

BillFrom the roll call

VoteFrom the roll call

MappingSame paperwork, same answer. One step, nothing inferred.

Score— / 10

Every row we publish will look like this one: a named member, a principle, where it comes from, the bill, how they actually voted, and the one sentence connecting them — short enough that you can disagree with it precisely. Ten rows make a score. Enter your address and you'll get the people who govern you, and theirs.

At scale — illustration, not data

Ten principles. Every member of the delegation, scored against the same ten, from the same recorded votes. Nobody gets a different test.

Score

Member A

6 / 10

Member B

4 / 10

Member C

6 / 10

Vote matched the principle It didn't No recorded vote

Read across a row

That's one person's record — ten votes, one number, and every mark links back to the roll call that produced it.

Read down a column

That's not about anyone in particular. A column everybody fails is a fact about the institution, and probably the more useful finding.

Before you ask

This is not a religious organization. We don't take positions on faith, and we don't ask yours.

We use Jesus' teachings as a standard for public conduct — nothing more, and we think that's plenty.

And this is not a policy platform. We don't score how many people should cross a border, or how large a program should be. Reasonable people land in different places on both, and the text doesn't settle either one.

We score whether the rule got applied the same way to everyone it was written for. That's it.

Three things we're committing to now

The method goes up before the scores do.: Principles, sources, and the rules for connecting a principle to a vote — all published and dated first. We couldn't reverse-engineer a result if we wanted to, and you'll be able to prove it.
The public names the principles, not us.: Ten principles, derived from what people say is missing from how they're governed, on a fixed schedule. When the ten change, that's the country moving — not us moving the goalposts.
Where a principle cuts both ways, we publish the disagreement.: Some principles are claimed honestly by both sides for opposite conclusions. Those don't get a score. They get the argument, laid out straight.

The only thing we need from you today

What's missing from how you're governed?

Answer in a sentence. Every answer feeds the derivation that picks the ten principles — so this isn't a mailing list signup wearing a question mark. It's the first piece of the record.

On the record. We'll write once — when the method goes up.