📚 Summer school. Katie Boyd Britt holds 3 of seven stars — but fails a critical Article (Open Books). 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
Own campaign is 16.1% PAC, but Runs Alabama First PAC, a leadership PAC that receives corporate-PAC money (e.g., L3Harris 2024 disclosure). Running a corporate-funded leadership PAC fails Open Books. (FEC/OpenSecrets 2026)
60
2Free & Fair Electionscritical
82%★ earned
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” — Abraham Lincoln
No 2020 election denial, no fake-elector role, and no documented support for partisan gerrymandering. (Jan 6 roll call; OpenSecrets; redistricting record)
60
3The Dignity of the Opponent
62%★ earned
“Treat humanity … always as an end and never as a means only.” — Kant
Generally civil tone toward opponents with limited dehumanizing rhetoric.
60
4Fear Is Not Fuel
48%☆ not yet
“…the better angels of our nature.” — Lincoln, First Inaugural
Her State-of-the-Union rebuttal leaned heavily on border fear and threat framing.
60
5Truth & a Kept Word
45%☆ not yet
“…living within the truth.” A representative owes “his judgment.” — Havel · Burke
PolitiFact flagged false claims; she recounted a sex-trafficking story implying it occurred under Biden though it happened years earlier in Mexico.
60
6Against the Spirit of Party
44%☆ not yet
“The baneful effects of the spirit of party.” — Washington, Farewell Address
Junior senator who votes the party line with little documented independence.
60
7Morality
75%★ earned
“The time is always right to do what is right.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
No personal-corruption matter on record; the SOTU episode was a truthfulness issue, not personal ethics.
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 →