{"meta":{"title":"Bernie Sanders public record","reviewedOn":"2026-09-12","scope":"A source-bounded record of Sanders-related campaign committees, organization filings, disclosed personal financial information, official proceedings, selected AI and climate policy, and an attributed career roll-call archive.","reuse":"Freely accessible public-interest reporting. Source-specific statutory and reuse restrictions apply; see https://ai-analytics.org/sanders/methodology/#reuse. Not a donor-prospecting, credit-screening or paid personal-data product. No blanket CC0 license.","limitations":["The financial and policy records are a reviewed selection, not a complete inventory of every receipt, asset, tax year, bill, statement, backer or legal proceeding.","The personal-finance section includes directly acquired calendar-2024 and calendar-2025 Senate annual reports and voluntarily released 2009–2018 tax returns. The newest acquired annual was filed August 13, 2026. Report sections have different reporting cutoffs; later amendments and underlying transactions are not independently established.","Campaign cycles have individual start and end dates; 2026 figures are partial periods. Original and amended reports can change historic totals.","No hidden funding channel, financial motive for AI policy, or undisclosed personal enrichment is established by this collection. Documented civil findings and settlements retain their exact parties, scope and outcomes.","Legislative announcements and introduced proposals are not enacted law. The September 2026 ASI proposal lacks a located filed identifier and full statutory text in this review.","The Voteview archive includes not-voting and present entries and excludes quorum calls and vacated votes; its latest captured vote is August 8, 2026.","Checked-on dates indicate review of a source or index reference, not necessarily acquisition of the full original. accessStatus and source notes identify unacquired documents and third-party mirrors."]},"record":{"id":"org-dsa-2020-endorsement","category":"organizations","title":"DSA's National Political Committee endorsed Sanders","date":"2019-03-21","period":"2020 presidential election","status":"verified-organization-republication","summary":"A national-director message reproduced by Metro DC DSA says the NPC endorsed Sanders. It cites his socialist platform and the opportunity to build a lasting grassroots socialist base.","facts":[{"label":"NPC vote date","value":"2019-03-21"},{"label":"Original message date","value":"2019-03-22","note":"Identified in the reprint footer."},{"label":"Reprint issue","value":"April 2019; exact webpage publication day not supplied."},{"label":"Advisory poll","value":"13,324 respondents; 24% of eligible membership; 76% favored endorsement.","note":"Figures reported by DSA's national director."}],"limitations":["An endorsement is organizational political support; this source does not establish a payment, financial influence, or a quid pro quo.","This is an organizational reprint of the national director's statement, not a recovered national-site original.","The poll result describes respondents, not all members."],"sourceIds":["src-endorsement-dsa-2019"],"tags":["endorsement","2020","DSA","organizational-reprint"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-endorsement-dsa-2019","title":"National DSA Endorses Sen. Bernie Sanders' Candidacy","publisher":"Metro DC DSA / Washington Socialist; reproducing national director Maria Svart's message","url":"https://washingtonsocialist.mdcdsa.org/ws-articles/national-dsa-endorses-sen-bernie-sanders","documentDate":null,"kind":"organization-statement","locator":"April 2019 issue; opening dates NPC vote March 21, 2019; footer identifies original message as sent Friday, March 22 by DSAUSA National Director Maria Svart. Exact webpage publication day is not given.","sha256":null,"note":"Reprint publication is April 2019; exact publication day was not established.","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","accessStatus":"source_reviewed"}]}