Values for America — public data release 2026-10
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Snapshot taken 2026-10-08 21:59 UTC. Records public on https://www.valuesforamerica.com at that moment are included.

Datasets (each as .csv, .json and .parquet):

  grades                     311 rows  Constitution Index grades
  voting_records             530 rows  Constitutional Voting Records
  constitutional_votes     66832 rows  Votes behind the voting records
  solutions                  330 rows  VFA SI Solutions
  think_tank_ideas             9 rows  SI Think Tank ideas
  adoption_log                 0 rows  Moved toward VFA (adoption log)
  corrections                 11 rows  Corrections log

Files:

  data_dictionary.json / .csv  every column, its type and meaning
  CHANGELOG.txt                changes versus the previous release
  LICENSE.txt                  CC BY 4.0 and the required attribution
  CITATION.cff                 machine-readable citation
  manifest.json                files, sizes, row counts and SHA-256
  SHA256SUMS.txt               checksums (verify with: sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt)

Cite as: Values for America, Constitution Index, release 2026-10. https://www.valuesforamerica.com/data/releases/2026-10
Attribution: Source: Values for America, Constitution Index, release 2026-10 (https://www.valuesforamerica.com/data/releases/2026-10), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Methodology: https://www.valuesforamerica.com/methodology
Corrections: https://www.valuesforamerica.com/corrections
Contact: hello@valuesforamerica.com