A different kind of list
The Honor Roll
This isn't a "worst of" list. We don't publish anyone's name here to say they're bad — we just don't write about them. Everyone on this page cleared a real bar: a sourced, documented record of actually protecting free and fair elections, not just saying they do. Congress, the executive branch, and the Supreme Court are each scored on their own rubric — a justice isn't graded the same way as a senator. New names get added through the year; every profile already here gets re-scored once a year, so you can see if a record has changed. Full method, rubric, and what this deliberately doesn't do:read the methodology.
Congress
- Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Klobuchar has a long, consistent record of certifying elections (including losses), championing voting-rights bills, and passing bipartisan Electoral Count Act reform — a strong Honor Roll case.
- Sen. Cory Booker
Booker has a two-decade record of accepting election outcomes, championing voting-rights legislation, and defending checks on executive power, with no nonpartisan ethics findings against him.
- Sen. Michael Bennet
Bennet has a consistent, well-documented record of certifying legitimate elections, championing voting-rights legislation, and exercising executive oversight, with no nonpartisan ethics findings against him.
- Sen. Richard Blumenthal
Blumenthal has a consistent, unambiguous record certifying legitimate elections, championing voting-rights legislation, and conducting executive oversight, with no nonpartisan ethics findings against him.
- Sen. Tammy Baldwin
Baldwin has a clean record of certifying legitimate elections (including her own narrow 2024 win), a strong voting-rights legislative record, and no adverse nonpartisan ethics findings.
- Sen. Lisa Murkowski
Murkowski has a consistent record of certifying legitimate elections, convicting Trump for Jan. 6, and leading bipartisan election-integrity legislation — a strong Honor Roll case.
- Rep. Jamie Raskin
A leading architect of the Jan. 6 accountability effort with a strong pro-voting-rights and oversight record, docked slightly for hedging on 2024 certification and a symbolic 2017 objection to Trump's electors.
- Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester
A strong democracy record — accepted every election outcome, championed voting-rights legislation, no ethics findings — though evidence of cross-party work specifically on democracy issues is limited.
- Sen. Angela Alsobrooks
A first-term senator with a strong pro-voting-rights record and no election-denial or nonpartisan ethics findings, though her checks-and-balances record is still thin given her short tenure.
- Sen. Susan Collins
Collins certified 2020's results and co-authored landmark Electoral Count Act reform, but her voting record consistently opposes major voting-rights expansion bills.
- Rep. Dan Newhouse
Newhouse voted to certify the 2020 result and impeach Trump over Jan. 6, a strong record on election legitimacy, but his voting-rights and voting-rights-expansion record is thin and conservative.
Judiciary — Supreme Court
- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
No evidence of election-denial statements, disclosures track through nonpartisan AO releases, and only unconfirmed partisan complaints exist about her ethics record.
- Chief Justice John Roberts
Roberts has a strong, consistent public record defending judicial independence and has never disputed an election outcome, but faces real, sourced questions about spousal-income disclosure and recusal.