📚 Summer school. Nancy Pelosi holds 4 of seven stars — but fails a critical Article (Open Books & 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
Own campaign is 1.3% PAC, but Runs 'PAC to the Future,' a major leadership PAC (OpenSecrets). Running a corporate-funded leadership PAC fails Open Books. (FEC/OpenSecrets 2026)
60
2Free & Fair Electionscritical
42%☆ not yet
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” — Abraham Lincoln
Championed Prop 50; reports say she helped engineer its passage (AOL/Yahoo, Nov 2025). Backing a partisan gerrymander fails Free & Fair Elections.
60
3The Dignity of the Opponent
65%★ earned
“Treat humanity … always as an end and never as a means only.” — Kant
Formidable partisan combatant and frequent target; sharp rhetoric but generally values-framed, not systematically dehumanizing.
60
4Fear Is Not Fuel
65%★ earned
“…the better angels of our nature.” — Lincoln, First Inaugural
Trump-era messaging leaned on democracy-threat framing alongside a substantive legislative agenda.
60
5Truth & a Kept Word
72%★ earned
“…living within the truth.” A representative owes “his judgment.” — Havel · Burke
Generally solid fact-check record; votes match stated positions across a long leadership tenure.
60
6Against the Spirit of Party
35%☆ not yet
“The baneful effects of the spirit of party.” — Washington, Farewell Address
The definitional party leader; loyalty to caucus over independence, by design.
60
7Morality
60%★ earned
“The time is always right to do what is right.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
No charges, but well-documented family stock-trading controversy and past STOCK Act late-disclosure reports draw scrutiny.
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 →