Support or oppose legislation.
Meet with elected officials and staff, provide testimony and model language, organize supporters, and run public campaigns around major reforms.
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Pillar three
Advocate.
Support the policies and leaders that move the country toward high trust—and oppose those that move it away.
Why advocacy matters
The work does not stop at publication.
If the research shows that a policy would materially improve the conditions for a high-trust society, we should be willing to fight for it.
That means providing evidence to lawmakers, building public support, helping leaders implement reforms, and measuring whether those reforms deliver what they promised.
Make records visible.
Where the law allows, identify officials and candidates whose records and platforms advance the High Trust Roadmap—and those whose actions undermine it.
Measure results, not announcements.
Track whether adopted policies are actually implemented and whether they produce the promised improvements in daily life.
Our standard
No fake neutrality.
We are conservative. We will not hide that fact to sound more respectable.
We should be fair with evidence, consistent in our standards, and willing to criticize our own side—but we are not required to treat every policy or political philosophy as equally compatible with the mission.
Accountability
The High Trust Scorecard.
Connect the Roadmap to actual votes, laws, executive actions, budgets, and results.
A credible scorecard should point every rating back to a published principle or Roadmap recommendation. If the standard changes, we say why.
Legislative scorecard
Bill position
Voting record
Implementation result
Roadmap alignment
The test
If the score is predictable from the letter next to a politician’s name, it is not doing enough work.
High Trust Society Foundation is not a party committee. The mission is larger than any candidate, party, or election cycle.
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