Editorial Standards

American Pivot applies the same profile rules to every candidate, whatever the candidate's party. Each rule sets a limit on what a profile may state or publish.

• Profiles cite public records, official election returns, legislative records, public statements or reporting and identify dates where available.
• Party membership is never used to infer a candidate's position on an issue.
• Profiles do not guess a candidate's gender or other demographic facts from a name or a photo.
• Private home addresses and family details are not published.
• Profiles carry no endorsement, no vote recommendation and no partisan score.

Each profile must retain source links, dates and uncertainty. The profile covers the candidate's public role, so details unrelated to that role are left out as well.

Profiles link to their sources and identify dates where available. A reader can open the link and see the record, statement or report the profile relied on.

Profiles that cover a dispute keep four kinds of information apart:

• Allegation: what someone has claimed about the candidate.
• Response: what the candidate or the candidate's campaign said in reply.
• Official finding: what a court, agency or other official body decided.
• Outcome: what happened as a result, such as a dismissal, a penalty or a settlement.

An allegation is never written as a finding.

American Pivot reports a candidate's position on an issue only when a public statement, a vote record or another dated source shows that position. A party label alone does not count as evidence of where a candidate stands.

When no public source shows a candidate's position, the profile marks that position as unknown. An unknown entry does not mean the candidate opposes the issue. It also does not mean the candidate has no controversies on record.

Background facts such as past offices or work history follow the same rule. A background fact appears in a profile only when a cited source supports it.

American Pivot profiles do not publish a candidate's private home address or details about the candidate's family.

Profiles never infer a candidate's gender from a name or a photo.

Profiles report facts about candidates and do not offer medical, legal or financial advice to readers.

Election-night results are unofficial, even when 100 percent of precincts have reported, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) guidance on election results, canvass and certification. The EAC also states that media projections are not certification.

State and local election officials are the authorities for certification dates. American Pivot treats a race call by a news organization as a media projection until those officials certify the result.

The 2026 general election date is November 3, 2026, according to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) 2026 congressional primary dates and filing deadlines. The FEC regulates federal campaign finance, not state election administration.

The reporting table on the federal hub, the Senate hub and the House hub separates races that media outlets have called from candidates who have a detailed published profile. The table does not claim to cover every race in the country.

American Pivot does not endorse candidates, recommend votes or assign partisan scores. Profiles also carry no rating meant to persuade a reader toward or against a candidate.

Each profile lists sourced facts about the candidate's public role, statements and record. The reader decides what those facts mean for a vote.

American Pivot covers federal Senate and House candidates only. State and local offices are outside the current scope.

Directory listings are generated from the profiles that have been published. American Pivot makes no claim to a full roster of candidates or to coverage of every state until a source confirms that completeness.

Readers can report an error in any American Pivot profile by emailing support@layer3labs.io, the publisher support address authorized for American Pivot corrections and questions. The same contact appears on the Layer3Labs support page.

The site has no on-site contact form, account sign-up, newsletter or payment form. See also the contact page and the corrections page.

A useful correction request includes the profile's page address, the exact sentence that is wrong and a link to a public source that shows the correct fact. Send those three items to support@layer3labs.io to report an error.