Source-backed claims should be checkable.

Sources keep factual claims reviewable. They make it easier to catch errors, separate evidence from opinion, and avoid asking readers to trust unsupported assertions about candidates, elections, laws, public records, polling, policy, allegations, voting deadlines, or current events.

• Candidate claims, records, positions, self-descriptions, or public statements.
• Election information, polling, voting deadlines, and voting process details.
• Laws, policy claims, court records, public records, and official actions.
• Allegations, investigations, controversies, and current-events claims.
• Historical claims that readers may reasonably want to verify.

Values-based opinion, civic framing, moral argument, and voter-agency essays usually do not need citations unless they make factual claims. A statement like "public office is a job" is a civic frame. A statement about a specific person, record, deadline, law, or event needs support.

Unsupported or uncertain claims should not be dressed up as settled fact. Source-backed pages distinguish proven facts from allegations, candidate positions from outside interpretation, and the project's view from the underlying record.

Source-backed pages use numbered citations with visible claim types (fact, allegation, candidate position, interpretation/opinion, or historical/current event). Readers should be able to see what a claim rests on and what kind of claim it is.

Email hello@nobodyownsyourvote.com to flag errors, missing context, or sourcing problems on source-backed pages.

• Your Vote Is Private. Your Judgment Is Yours. A voter-permission page with an official Texas source for the distinction between participation records and ballot choices. Read the voter privacy page
• Texas U.S. Senate 2026: A Side-by-Side Hiring File A side-by-side hiring file applying the same criteria, source labels, and visible research limits to both candidates. Compare the candidates
• Ken Paxton and the Accountability Question A source-backed accountability note separating allegations, legal outcomes, campaign framing, and voter judgment. Read the accountability note
• Ken Paxton and the Tenet Media Overlap A source-backed media audit separating documented overlap, speaker attribution, and unsupported claims of coordination. Review the media evidence
• Why This Project Is Paying Attention to James Talarico A candidate-adjacent note about service, corruption, concentrated power, scrutiny, and source limits. Read the candidate note

The voter privacy page uses the Texas Secretary of State for the narrow distinction between public participation records and private ballot choices.

• Official Texas Secretary of State voter-record information

The live race guide combines official public-office and campaign-finance records, public polling and reporting, campaign positions, and the existing candidate evidence dossiers. Polling is treated as a snapshot, not a prediction. Campaign sources are used only for self-description and stated positions.

• Public polling/reporting
• Official campaign sources
• Official candidate and public-office records
• Explicit evidence gaps where the available review is incomplete

The Paxton accountability note separates impeachment articles, legal outcomes, a pretrial agreement and dismissal, federal-investigation reporting, State Bar disciplinary-case reporting, campaign framing, and voter judgment.

• Official impeachment records and Senate trial records
• Reported legal outcomes and dismissal or declination decisions
• Official campaign sources used only for self-description

The Paxton and Tenet Media audit uses an official federal allegation, a complete academic transcript corpus, original recordings, episode listings, and speaker-attributed transcripts. It separates creators’ own programs from videos distributed on Tenet’s channel and treats disposition labels as interpretation rather than private intent.

• Official Justice Department allegations and court records
• The complete 560-video Tenet Media Rumble dataset
• Original recordings, public episode listings, and time-coded transcripts

The Talarico candidate-adjacent note uses campaign materials for campaign self-description, official records for basic public-office facts, and reporting for caveats around money, faith language, and campaign messaging.