About American Pivot

American Pivot covers candidates for the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 federal elections. The general election date was November 3, 2026, according to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) calendar of 2026 congressional primary dates and filing deadlines.

The federal hub is the starting point for published profiles. Separate directories list profiles for the Senate and the House.

Directory listings and counts are generated from the profile data that has actually been published. A race appears in a directory only after its profile is live.

Coverage is not exhaustive. American Pivot does not claim to profile every candidate in every state, and it will not make a full-roster or all-states claim until a source verifies one.

Each American Pivot profile draws on public sources and identifies dates where available. Sources include official election returns, legislative records, public candidate statements and reputable reporting.

Profiles report attributed public sources.

Profiles follow four rules:

• Issue positions come from a candidate's own statements or records. Party membership is never used to infer them.
• Gender is never inferred from a name or a photo.
• Allegations, candidate responses, official findings and outcomes are labeled as separate items.
• When no source shows a position, the profile marks it as unknown. An unknown entry does not mean the candidate opposes the issue or has no controversies.

See the methodology page for more detail. See also the editorial standards page.

Election-night results are unofficial until state or local election officials certify them. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) states that election-night results are unofficial even when 100 percent of precincts are reporting.

The EAC also states that a media projection does not certify an election. State and local election officials are the authorities for certification dates.

The reporting table on the federal and chamber hubs separates two kinds of entries. It distinguishes media-called results from detailed published profiles. The table makes no claim of nationwide completeness.

The FEC regulates federal campaign finance. It does not regulate state election administration, and state and local election officials are the authorities for certification dates.

American Pivot profiles leave out several kinds of content by policy:

• Political endorsements of any candidate or party.
• Voter persuasion scores or ratings meant to steer a vote.
• Claims that the site lists every candidate or every state.
• Medical, legal or financial advice.

A reader who wants a verdict on how to vote will not find one in a profile. Each profile lays out cited records, dates and stated positions.

Search on American Pivot runs inside the reader's browser. American Pivot is configured with no search logging, no analytics and no tracking cookies.

Fonts are hosted on the site itself, so loading a page makes no runtime request to a remote font service. The hosting and content delivery network (CDN) providers may still process ordinary technical request logs when a page loads.

See the privacy page.

American Pivot publishes under the identity American Pivot. The site does not publish a named author biography or editorial staff credentials.

Questions and correction requests go to support@layer3labs.io. That is the public publisher support address listed on the Layer3Labs Support page.

The site has no contact form, account sign-up, newsletter or payment form. The contact page links to the email address and the support page. See also the corrections page.

To report an error in a profile, email support@layer3labs.io with the profile's web address and the specific claim you are questioning.