Citations
Primary sources for the platform’s principal figures, in document order. Entries marked [confirm] rest on secondary reporting and should be verified against the named primary source before publication.
Item 3 (term limits polling). Pew Research Center (2023) and the University of Maryland Program for Public Consultation (2023) both find support for congressional term limits above 80% across party lines.
Item 9 (Kansas SAFE Act). Fish v. Kobach, 309 F. Supp. 3d 1048 (D. Kan. 2018), aff’d sub nom. Fish v. Schwab, 957 F.3d 1105 (10th Cir. 2020): the court found the law blocked 31,089 registration applicants — roughly 12% of new applicants — while pre-law noncitizen registration was negligible.
Item 9 (SAVE America Act reach). Voter Participation Center analysis (share of eligible voters affected); Center for American Progress, “The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens” (69 million married women whose birth certificates do not match their current legal names); House passage reported February 2026 (The 19th; PolitiFact).
Item 10 (Social Security). Congressional Budget Office, Options for Reducing the Deficit (taxable-maximum options); Social Security Administration, Office of the Chief Actuary solvency memoranda; polling: National Academy of Social Insurance and AP-NORC surveys.
Item 11 (drug pricing). KFF Health Tracking Polls (negotiation support above 80%, including Republican voters); CBO scoring of Inflation Reduction Act negotiation provisions; RAND Corporation international prescription-price comparisons (U.S. prices two to three times peer nations).
Item 12 (minimum effective tax rate). U.S. Treasury, General Explanations of the Administration’s Revenue Proposals (“Greenbook”), billionaire minimum income tax scoring; Joint Committee on Taxation analyses.
Item 13 (housing). H.R. 6644, Housing for the 21st Century Act, passed the House 390–9 on February 9, 2026 (Congress.gov; House Financial Services Committee).
Item 15 (debt and deficits). CBO, The Long-Term Budget Outlook (debt exceeding GDP; rising net interest costs). [confirm the two-thirds public-opinion figure against the specific survey, e.g., Pew Research Center or Peter G. Peterson Foundation polling]
Item 16 (energy polling). [confirm the 90%, 65%, and ~60% figures against the specific surveys — e.g., Pew Research Center on nuclear power and multistate transmission polling]
Item 17 (healthcare). OECD Health Statistics and Commonwealth Fund international comparisons (U.S. spending roughly twice the peer per-capita average); Commonwealth Fund, Mirror, Mirror 2024 (U.S. last among high-income nations on outcomes); Medicare administrative costs of 1.5–3% vs. 11–20% for private insurance: CBO and peer-reviewed analyses (Annals of Internal Medicine); polling on universal coverage trade-offs: KFF and Pew Research Center; foreign-born healthcare workforce (nearly one in six): Migration Policy Institute.
Item 18 (Break the Cycle). San Francisco “Breaking the Cycle” initiative, Office of Mayor Daniel Lurie (2025); Medicaid’s role as the largest payer for behavioral health: KFF and SAMHSA data.
Item 19 (NIH, CDC, pandemic cost). FY2026 President’s Budget (proposed reductions of roughly 40% to NIH and 44% to CDC); House Appropriations Committee action maintaining NIH at approximately $48 billion; COVID-19 economic cost: USC Schaeffer Center (2023), $14 trillion through 2023.
Item 20 (disaster preparedness). NOAA and American Meteorological Society valuation research (roughly $31.5 billion in annual forecasting benefits); National Interagency Fire Center acreage data; NWS staffing losses and proposed NOAA reductions per 2025–26 budget documents and reporting. [confirm the 231% wildfire and 65% Forest Service budget figures against NIFC and USFS budget documents]
Item 21 (civil rights). Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013); Louisiana v. Callais (2026).
Item 23 (veterans). Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our PACT Act, Pub. L. 117–168 (2022).
Item 24 (immigration). Foreign-born physician and direct-care workforce shares: Migration Policy Institute and AAMC data; pending cases (~3.7–4 million): TRAC, Syracuse University; FY2024 completions (~700,000): DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review; judge corps losses, twelve courts losing more than half their judges, two courts with none, and the announced San Francisco court closure: NPR reporting, January–February 2026; $100,000 H-1B application fee: September 2025 presidential proclamation; 2024 bipartisan border legislation: S. 4361.
Item 26 (local news). Northwestern Medill, State of Local News Report. [confirm the 70 million figure against the most recent edition; earlier editions report roughly 55 million]
Part 3A (defense). Topline: FY2025 National Defense Authorization Act (~$895 billion) and FY2026 budget request (DoD budget materials). Cost-exchange examples: open-source conflict analyses (CSIS; UK Ministry of Defence assessments); Red Sea intercept costs: U.S. Navy statements (2024); April 2026 Iran air losses: Air & Space Forces Magazine and The War Zone. Trump-class battleships (15 ships through 2055; lead ship over $17 billion): U.S. Navy 2026 long-range shipbuilding plan; DefenseScoop (April 2026); Fortune (May 2026). F-35 lifetime cost exceeding $2 trillion: GAO-24-106703. Ford-class overruns: GAO and CBO shipbuilding reports. Contractor margins: company 10-K filings.
Part 3B (immigration enforcement). 2025 reconciliation law enforcement funding (~$170 billion over four years): CBO estimates; American Immigration Council analyses; per-removal cost estimates: American Immigration Council (2024) and ICE budget justifications.
Part 3C (watchdogs). Improper payments: GAO-26-108694 (FY2025 estimate of $186 billion across 64 programs at 15 agencies; cumulative roughly $3 trillion since FY2003). Tax gap: IRS Publication 5869, Tax Gap Projections for Tax Year 2022 (net $606 billion); IRS enforcement returns: CBO and Treasury analyses of Inflation Reduction Act funding. Pentagon audit: DoD Agency Financial Report FY2025 (eighth consecutive failure, December 2025; $4.65 trillion in reported assets). Duplication: GAO-26-108505, 2026 Annual Report (~$774 billion in achieved financial benefits; $100+ billion in open recommendations); broadband fragmentation: GAO reporting on 130+ programs across 15 agencies. [confirm the 82% documentation-error share against GAO/CMS payment-integrity root-cause reporting]
Part 3D (revenue items). Medicare negotiation savings: CBO scoring of the Inflation Reduction Act; minimum-tax revenue: Treasury Greenbook and JCT; Social Security taxable-maximum removal: SSA Office of the Chief Actuary memoranda.
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