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Press and citation kit

Everything you need to write about Values for America or cite its work. Press contact: hello@valuesforamerica.com.

In one paragraph

Values for America is the first SI think tank grounded in the U.S. Constitution. It grades every new bill and executive order against one published five-check constitutional rubric (the VFA Constitution Index), turns recorded roll-call votes into each member's Constitutional Voting Record, and drafts source-grounded, bipartisan alternatives (VFA SI Solutions) that cite the specific constitutional provisions they rest on. Every item is SI-generated and published only after automated checks: a real Constitution citation, a live check against the official source, and an independent SI critic. Items are not individually reviewed by a person, and every correction is public.

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About Values for America: Values for America is a nonpartisan civic project that builds open, citable infrastructure for holding government to the U.S. Constitution. Its Constitution Index, Constitutional Voting Records, SI Solutions and SI Think Tank are published at valuesforamerica.com under a public methodology, with a public corrections log and monthly open-data releases licensed CC BY 4.0. Values for America does not endorse or oppose candidates or parties. Contact: hello@valuesforamerica.com.

Logos

VFA mark, square (400 x 400 PNG)
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VFA banner (1500 x 500 PNG)
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Use the logos to refer to Values for America. Please do not alter them or imply an endorsement. Colors: black #0A0A0A, white #FFFFFF, orange #FF5A1F.

How to cite

A constitutional grade
Values for America. “Constitutional grade: H.R. 1234, [title].” VFA Constitution Index, grade [id] (rubric vfa-constitutional-grade/1.0), graded [date]. https://www.valuesforamerica.com/constitution-index/grades/[id]. Accessed 2026-10-19.
Every grade page shows its own ready citation and a permalink that never changes, even after a re-grade.
A VFA SI Solution
Values for America. “[Solution title].” VFA SI Solution [id], published [date]. https://www.valuesforamerica.com/solutions/[id].
Describe it as a VFA proposal drafted by VFA SI and published after automated checks, not as law and not as reviewed by a person.
A member’s Constitutional Voting Record
Values for America. Constitutional Voting Record: [member], computed [date]. https://www.valuesforamerica.com/intelligence/actor/[id].
A factual aggregate of public roll-call votes by the grade of each measure; not an endorsement.
The dataset
Values for America, Constitution Index, release YYYY-MM. https://www.valuesforamerica.com/data/releases/YYYY-MM
The weekly report
Values for America. “State of the Constitution, week YYYY-Www.” https://www.valuesforamerica.com/state-of-the-constitution/YYYY-Www.

Short form in copy: “according to the Values for America Constitution Index”, linking the grade page.

Embed a grade

Every graded bill has a badge and a card that update in place and link back to the canonical page. Replace hr-119-1234 with the bill id from its page URL.

<a href="https://www.valuesforamerica.com/bills/federal/hr-119-1234"><img src="https://www.valuesforamerica.com/badge/hr-119-1234.svg" alt="VFA Constitution grade for H.R. 1234"></a>

<iframe src="https://www.valuesforamerica.com/embed/grade/hr-119-1234" width="360" height="150" style="border:0;max-width:100%" loading="lazy" title="VFA Constitution grade for H.R. 1234"></iframe>

More options on Sources → Embed a grade.

Latest data releases

All releases · API · State of the Constitution · Moved toward VFA

Methodology

How grades, Solutions and checks work · Constitution Index rubric · Scoreboard · Weekly public audit · Corrections log. “SI” means superintelligence-assisted: software reads public records and drafts analysis at scale; every item passes automated checks and is not individually reviewed by a person.

Contact

Press, corrections and data questions: hello@valuesforamerica.com.