About This Paper

Fifteen years ago, a book had a good idea

In 2011, the investigative book Throw Them All Out made a simple, infuriating argument: that politicians of both parties get rich off insider information, land deals, and cronyism — using the rules they write for everyone else. A mortified Congress responded by passing the STOCK Act, which sailed through 96–3 and 417–2. Democracy worked. For about a year. Then, on a quiet afternoon in 2013, Congress deleted the law’s searchable public database by unanimous consent — no roll call, no debate, no fingerprints.

That is the entire cycle, in miniature: perform outrage, pass a fix, quietly defang it, run for re-election. This site exists to keep score.

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We’re not anti-Republican. We’re not anti-Democrat. We’re anti-permanent.

The one rule: non-partisan means non-partisan

“Throw them all out” is not a slogan for one team to aim at the other. It’s aimed at the incumbency itself — the permanent political class that treats public office as a career with tenure. So we go after all three branches: a Congress the public rates at 10% and re-elects at 98%; an executive branch where the Constitution’s emergency brake gets filed away on a schedule; and a Supreme Court that wrote itself an ethics code and forgot to hire anyone to enforce it. If your side is in power and feels left out of the mockery, don’t worry — check back after the next election.

How we keep the satire honest

Satire earns its bite by being true underneath. So we hold ourselves to a few rules:

• Every factual claim links to a primary source. Votes, stats, scandals — if we assert it as fact, you’ll find a citation to a named outlet or public record right next to it.
• We don’t invent news. No fake quotes, no fabricated events, no made-up crimes. The exaggeration lives in the framing and the cartoons — clearly labeled as opinion.
• We punch at power, not at private people. Our targets chose public office and public power. We don’t target private citizens.
• We separate fact from joke. A number is a number. A punchline is a punchline. We try never to dress one up as the other.

Who this is for

Anyone who has ever looked at Congress’s approval rating, then its re-election rate, and felt the specific vertigo of a democracy arguing with itself. If that’s you, the good news is on the Take Action page: the fix is real, it’s free, and it fits in a Tuesday.