What's New

November 8, 2026

• Updated

  Free Speech Timeline Now Runs Through 2026

  Added NRA v. Vullo, Executive Order 14149, Meta ending U.S. fact-checking, the FTC's censorship inquiry, Alphabet's 2025 letter and the March 2026 Missouri v. Biden consent decree, with its limits. Every entry links its source.

• Correction

  Media Record: Corrected the Nadler Attribution in the Rittenhouse Case

  We had said Rep. Jerry Nadler claimed Rittenhouse crossed state lines with an assault rifle. The case now quotes his actual tweet and his office's response. A line-by-line source check of all 12 cases also tightened several other attributions; see the correction log.

• Updated

  Latest Official Figures Across the Site

  FY2026 deficit and interest costs, the 2025 trade deficit, 2025 gas prices, border encounters through FY2026, the current oil reserve level, and new Berkeley Lab grid and data-center reports.

• New

  The America First Pledge and Newsletter Are Open

  Sign the pledge and subscribe to the email newsletter on the Take Action page.

• Updated

  A Start Here Path, Share Buttons and Clearer Sourcing

  New visitors get a three-step path from the home page. Every calculator, game and quiz now has a share button that writes a postable sentence. Issue pages link to related sections elsewhere on the site, and more figures carry a date and source next to them.

• New

  Cost of Living Since 2019, with a Household Calculator

  Official BLS price changes for groceries, rent, gasoline, car insurance and electricity since December 2019, plus a calculator that applies them to your own monthly costs.

• New

  Electricity Prices in All 50 States, Tied to Generation Mix

  An interactive comparison built on EIA's final 2025 data. Pick a state to see its price and where its power comes from, and why no single fuel explains the bill.

• Correction

  Home Electricity Price Rise Updated to 38%

  The Energy page's 2019 price comparison now uses EIA's latest data: 13.0¢ per kWh in 2019 to 18.0¢ over the 12 months ending August 2026. It replaces an approximate 27% figure for 2019 to 2024.

• New

  Media Record: Hamilton 68 "Russian Bot" Dashboard

  How a research dashboard became press shorthand for "Russian bots," and what Twitter's internal emails and the dashboard's own fact sheet later said.

• New

  Media Record: The "Russian Bounties" Story

  A June 2020 report framed as a firm intelligence conclusion, set against the April 2021 public assessment of low to moderate confidence.

• New

  Media Record: The Jussie Smollett Attack

  Early coverage, the police findings and jury verdict and the 2024 Illinois Supreme Court reversal on due-process grounds.

• New

  Find Your Representatives by ZIP Code, Plus a 20-Question Quiz

  Take Action now links straight to your House member and senators from your ZIP code. The quiz grew to 20 questions, four per issue.

• Updated

  Debt Ticker Now Uses the Latest Treasury Figure

  The ticker starts from the official Debt to the Penny figure ($40.56 trillion as of Nov. 5, 2026) and shows its as-of date.

• Updated

  Direct Links to Founding Documents

  Hamilton's Report on Manufactures and Silence Dogood No. 8 now link directly to the documents on Founders Online (National Archives).

• Updated

  Dark Mode, Print-Ready Issue Pages and a Faster Site

  The site follows your device's dark mode setting, issue pages print as summary sheets and pages load faster.

• Launch

  America First Record Launches

  Five issue pages, the Media Record, interactive tools and a full source index.