The Record • Main Street Lobby

AUDIT SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 2 · 4 · 8 MIN READ

The CEO Says Slow AI Down. We Had Fable Check the Receipts.

Anthropic's CEO published a plan to slow AI development. We ran the fourteen factual claims his argument rests on against their sources, including his own company's. Seven hold, five hold in part, and the two that cannot be checked are the essay's two forecasts.

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ARGUMENT AUGUST 13, 2026 2 · 4 · 12 MIN READ

The Tyranny of the Organized

120,000 people are rewriting the rules for 340 million. The answer isn't to fight them. It's to outnumber them on paper, where it counts.

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EXPLAINER AUGUST 9, 2026 2 · 3 · 4 MIN READ

The Epstein Vote Was 427 to 1. Forcing the Vote Was the Hard Part.

The bill nearly the whole House supported needed 218 public signatures just to get a vote. The same tool is sitting 134 names short on the one issue 86 percent of the country agrees on. We checked the signers' portfolios to find out why.

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AUDIT AUGUST 8, 2026 2 · 6 · 22 MIN READ

You've Been Arguing About the SAVE Act. The Senate Still Calls It a Veterans Bill.

In February the House struck a veterans bill's entire text and inserted a new version of the SAVE Act. That rewrite, not the bill you've read about, is what's parked in the Senate. We checked every claim from both directions against the primary record.

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