Editorial standards

Sources

Every published claim is sourced to one of the following: STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate Office of Public Records or the House Clerk; roll-call vote records from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives or the Secretary of the U.S. Senate; committee membership rosters from Senate.gov or House.gov; SEC filings via EDGAR; market data from Polymarket and Kalshi public APIs; and news coverage we cite by URL. We do not use anonymous human sources. We do not paraphrase claims we cannot link to.

Fact-checking

Every article passes through code-side validators that check days-late math against the database, verify ticker and politician identity against canonical records, ban accusatory verbs and AI-writing tells, and flag tenuous bill-ticker connections. A second AI editor pass reviews the headline, dek, and body for readability, factual support, and voice rules before publish. Articles flagged for factual issues are regenerated or suppressed.

Voice rules

Banned: "insider," "rigged," "knew," "tipped off," "bribed," any verb that implies a crime not in evidence. Allowed: "raises eyebrows," "the timing is the thing," observational framings on the public record.

Corrections

If we get something wrong, we correct it publicly on the corrections page and update the article inline with a dated note. Email support@blindtrust.io with corrections.

AI disclosure

Beltway Alpha articles are drafted with AI tooling against a fixed voice guide and verified against Blind Trust's database before publish. The byline "Beltway Alpha" is the brand pseudonym for this AI-assisted, editorially-reviewed pipeline.

Publisher

Blind Trust is published by DreamKey. Contact: support@blindtrust.io.

Blind Trust — Congress trades. We keep the box score.

Blind Trust tracks every public stock-trade disclosure filed by a member of the United States Congress under the STOCK Act of 2012. Each trade is scored on a 0–100 Heat Index, flagged when its timing overlaps a committee vote or sector-moving news event, and surfaced in a daily editorial digest under the Beltway Alpha byline.

Every receipt on this site links to a public filing. We don't have anonymous sources. We don't write "sources tell us." If a chart can't be pointed at — a Periodic Transaction Report, a roll-call vote, a committee roster, a published poll — we don't make the claim.

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How the Heat Index works

The Heat Index combines five inputs: (1) the 30-day forward alpha of the traded ticker versus the S&P 500, (2) the politician's committee-jurisdiction overlap with the company's sector, (3) the recency of a relevant roll-call vote, (4) the size of the disclosed trade range, and (5) the gap between trade date and disclosure date. Blazing trades score 70+. Warm trades score 40–69. Cold trades score below 40. Full scoring methodology →

Editorial standards

Blind Trust is a free, ad-supported publication. We do not solicit, accept, or publish paid placements. Articles are drafted with AI tooling against the Beltway Alpha voice guide and verified against our database of trades, votes, polls, and committee assignments before publish. Every error gets a public correction. Editorial standards · Corrections · Methodology

Publisher

Blind Trust is published by DreamKey. Editorial and tip line: support@blindtrust.io. Read about the publisher or about the Beltway Alpha byline.