The Baseline Brief

The Baseline Brief

By The Baseline, edited by Cory HeplerNewsPolitics
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The Baseline Brief episodes

  • Ep. 1 — Six claims, six verdicts: war powers, crime, tariffs
    The first Baseline Brief walks the week’s record: the “first war powers resolution in history” framing (Missing Context), the claim that violent crime is at record highs (False — the FBI shows record lows), who actually pays tariffs (False — Americans do, ~90–95%), interest now exceeding the defense budget (True), foreign aid as a quarter of spending (False — it’s ~1%), and what the House really passed in the KOSA package (Missing Context). Every source cited at the site.
    4 min

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The week’s political claims, measured against the record, in under five minutes. Built from published fact-checks — every source cited.