How we research and write the platform

Our platform is produced by the Common Good Policy Team — a working group that researches each issue, drafts the position, and reviews it collectively before it's published. We credit the team rather than individuals because every position is a committee product: written, fact-checked, and signed off as a group. The team is accountable for the accuracy of everything published here.

We start from primary sources, not summaries. For each issue we work from the actual text of federal law and regulation, official government data, peer-reviewed research, and the published platforms and voting records of the major parties. Where we compare positions, we cite the parties' own 2024 platforms and specific legislation — never a paraphrase of what we assume a party believes.

Claims that carry weight — statistics, legal facts, cost estimates — are sourced. Our issue pages and party comparisons link to the underlying bills, agency data, and studies so you can check our work. If a claim isn't sourced, treat it as our analysis or opinion, clearly framed as such.

Nothing publishes on a single person's say-so. Each position is reviewed by the team before it goes live, and we revise positions as the underlying law, data, or evidence changes — policy is not static, and neither is the platform.

Stories in the Common Good Dispatch respond to a single news report, which each article names and links. They are drafted with AI assistance from that report and the platform position it touches, then reviewed, edited where needed and approved for publication by an editor on the Common Good Policy Team. Nothing is published without that approval, and drafts that don’t meet these standards are rejected.

Each article’s fact-checks list the claims it relies on, with a source and a verdict for each. Claims about events too recent to verify are marked as such and re-checked as official data catches up; when a verdict changes, the article shows an “Updated” date. When new reporting adds to an event we have already covered, it is added to the original article as a dated update rather than published as a second story.

We will get things wrong, and we'd rather know. If you spot a factual error — a misquoted statute, a stale statistic, a mischaracterized position — email hello@thecommongoodparty.com and we'll review it. When we correct something material, we update the page.

We are a political party advocating for our platform — we don't claim to be a neutral referee. What we do claim is that our positions are honestly researched and sourced so you can judge them on the evidence. See our pledge for what we stand for.