Why this site exists

I built this because I kept watching things happen in plain sight and then, a year later, hearing them described as though they had not. Not disputed — described differently, by the same people, in a tone that suggested only a crank would remember it the other way. That gap between what happened and what gets said about it later is where damage becomes permanent, and it closes fast unless somebody writes it down while the documents are still online.

Everything here was public when it happened. The votes were recorded, the filings were docketed, the broadcasts went out over the air, the call was on tape. None of it is a revelation and none of it required a leak. What it required was somebody to keep it in one place, dated and sourced, so that a claim can be checked in thirty seconds rather than argued about for an hour.

I made it public rather than keeping a private file because a private file persuades nobody and protects nothing. The point is not that I know these things. The point is that anyone can now look up a name — a senator, a network, a company, a member of the family — and see what that name did, with the document attached.

I am aware this site has a point of view. It is in the title. But a point of view is not the same as a loose relationship with facts, and the two get deliberately conflated by people who would prefer no record at all. So the discipline here runs the other way: the angrier the conclusion, the more carefully the evidence has to be laid out, and the more plainly the entry has to stop where the document stops.

There is a version of the future in which all of this is uncontroversial history, taught in a paragraph, and this archive is redundant. There is another in which the record has been thinned out, the pages taken down, the language softened, and someone genuinely does not know what happened. This site is insurance against the second one. It costs very little to keep, and if it turns out to have been unnecessary, that is the best possible outcome.

It will outlive my interest in maintaining it, which is why it is built to be handed on: every entry either carries its sources or says plainly that it has none yet, every source records where the original sits and whether a copy has been taken, and every correction is logged in public. You should be able to pick this up from a stranger and trust the method even if you have never heard of me.