📚 Summer school. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez holds 5 of seven stars — but fails a critical Article (Free & Fair Elections). Assignment: summer school for Civics, watch every Schoolhouse Rock episode five times, and submit a one-page report — due before the end of the year. Report to summer school →
“…the property of the people.” — Cicero, De Re Publica
0.1% of receipts from PACs — clean under the 15% corporate-money cap. (FEC 2026)
60
2Free & Fair Electionscritical
45%☆ not yet
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” — Abraham Lincoln
No 2020 election denial — but she starred in the “Yes on 50” ad backing California’s Prop 50 counter-gerrymander (Sept 2025). Party-blind: rigging the map fails, whoever does it.
60
3The Dignity of the Opponent
45%☆ not yet
“Treat humanity … always as an end and never as a means only.” — Kant
The “oligarchy / billionaire class” enemy-frame casts a class as adversary — though she works respectfully with Republicans (Luna, Graham). The one star the grace rule forgives.
60
4Fear Is Not Fuel
72%★ earned
“…the better angels of our nature.” — Lincoln, First Inaugural
Runs on an affirmative agenda — climate, maternal health — with some democracy-alarm mixed in.
60
5Truth & a Kept Word
74%★ earned
“…living within the truth.” A representative owes “his judgment.” — Havel · Burke
Broadly fact-based; a few Fighting-Oligarchy-tour claims drew fact-checks. Delivers for her district on a consistent public record.
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6Against the Spirit of Party
75%★ earned
“The baneful effects of the spirit of party.” — Washington, Farewell Address
Her refusal of corporate money is itself independence from the party machine; bipartisan bills with Rep. Luna.
60
7Morality
82%★ earned
“The time is always right to do what is right.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
No personal-ethics scandal on the record; a consistent, plain-living public character.
60
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Scores are Independent 2026’s own editorial read against the Seven Articles — ≥60% earns the star. The first two Articles are critical: fail Open Books or Free & Fair Elections and there is no seal, whatever else holds. Each Article carries its founding quote as the yardstick. On bias →