📚 Summer school. Elizabeth Warren holds 3 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
0.5% of receipts from PACs — clean under the 15% corporate-money cap. (FEC 2026)
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2Free & Fair Electionscritical
45%☆ not yet
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” — Abraham Lincoln
No 2020 election denial — but endorsed California’s Prop 50 counter-gerrymander (Oct 2025). Backing a partisan redraw fails Free & Fair Elections.
60
3The Dignity of the Opponent
40%☆ not yet
“Treat humanity … always as an end and never as a means only.” — Kant
Targets individuals directly — told a bank CEO he should be criminally investigated and said a Fed nominee seemed to invite corruption.
60
4Fear Is Not Fuel
60%★ earned
“…the better angels of our nature.” — Lincoln, First Inaugural
Runs on a detailed policy vision, the "I have a plan" brand, though the tone can turn prosecutorial.
60
5Truth & a Kept Word
58%☆ not yet
“…living within the truth.” A representative owes “his judgment.” — Havel · Burke
Strong on systems but weak on people; the person opposite often arrives pre-cast as a villain. Reversed her position to accept super-PAC support in 2020 and keeps a leadership fund, complicating an otherwise firm pledge.
60
6Against the Spirit of Party
40%☆ not yet
“The baneful effects of the spirit of party.” — Washington, Farewell Address
Has real bipartisan laws — hearing aids with Grassley, Truth in Settlements with Coburn — but a combative public posture.
60
7Morality
74%★ earned
“The time is always right to do what is right.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
No personal-ethics scandal, but a prosecutorial habit of casting bankers and nominees as villains before hearings.
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 →