| 1 | Voters need enough information to judge whether an official is compromised. Interest | 0.50 | 30% | 0.0009 |
| 2 | Citizens need government decisions made on the merits rather than on what enriches the decider. Interest | 0.50 | 30% | 0.0008 |
| 3 | Officials and their families need the same property rights and privacy as other citizens. Interest | 0.50 | 30% | 0.0007 |
| 4 | Liberty, personal responsibility and civic engagement each become distorted when pursued on their own. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0007 |
| 5 | Liberty without responsibility turns into lawlessness, meaning freedom that contributes nothing and has no connection to other people. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0007 |
| 6 | When responsibility is cut loose from liberty, the slogan "personal responsibility" gets used as a weapon to justify privilege and concentrate authority. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0007 |
| 7 | Absolute liberty without shared rules produces chaos in which only the powerful thrive. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0007 |
| 8 | Some officeholders want to keep using their position and their families to make money. Interest | 0.50 | 29% | 0.0006 |
| 9 | High rates of homelessness and crime in downtown Denver have increased commercial vacancies, making urban living less attractive and working against efforts to promote density. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0006 |
| 10 | Environmental advocates need less urban sprawl and more sustainable living. Interest | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0006 |
| 11 | Urban planners need efficient, livable city spaces. Interest | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0006 |
| 12 | Public transit authorities need higher ridership to justify their investments and to reduce traffic congestion. Interest | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0006 |
| 13 | Residents concerned about safety need crime and homelessness addressed, and may oppose densification that does not address them. Interest | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0006 |
| 14 | Workers bear the costs of bad decisions such as layoffs and plant closures, so they deserve a voice in making them. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 15 | Workers know how the company actually runs day to day, and boards make better decisions with that knowledge in the room. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 16 | A board that answers only to shareholders tends to chase short-term stock gains at the expense of the company's long-term health. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 17 | Owners put their money at risk, and the people who bear the financial risk should be the ones who control the company. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 18 | Worker directors face a conflict of interest whenever the board must cut jobs or close a site to keep the company alive. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 19 | Boards with two sets of loyalties reach decisions more slowly, and slow companies lose to faster rivals. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 20 | Profit is a signal that a company is making something people want at a price they will pay, which is itself a public service. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 21 | Managers who are told to serve everyone end up answering to no one and can excuse poor results as serving some other goal. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 22 | Broad social problems are the job of elected governments, which answer to voters, not of managers who answer to no voter. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 23 | Many of a company's costs, like pollution or worker burnout, fall on people who never agreed to bear them and never show up in the profit figure. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 24 | The law always lags behind business practice, so a company that does only what the law requires will harm people the law has not yet caught up with. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 25 | Companies that treat workers, suppliers and towns well tend to earn trust that pays off over decades, which a narrow focus on profit misses. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 26 | A single play earns almost nothing, so only artists with enormous audiences see meaningful income from their recordings. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 27 | The money is split so that most of it flows to labels, publishers and the platforms before any reaches the person who wrote or performed the song. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 28 | Musicians now depend on touring and merchandise to survive, which favors the young and healthy and pushes out those who cannot live on the road. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 29 | Streaming brought paying listeners back after years of free downloading, and total music income has grown again as a result, spread across far more artists. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 30 | Before streaming, most musicians earned nothing from recordings because they never got a record deal at all, so the comparison is with obscurity, not with a golden age. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 31 | Low per-play rates reflect what listeners will pay for unlimited music, and forcing rates higher would shrink the audience rather than raise incomes. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 32 | Any musician can upload a song and be heard anywhere in the world the same day, which was impossible when labels controlled distribution. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 33 | Listeners discover artists from other countries and small scenes, so careers can start from anywhere instead of a few music-industry cities. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 34 | Artists keep the rights to their own work more often, because they no longer need a label's money to press records and ship them to stores. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 35 | When everyone can publish, the flood of new songs makes it harder than ever for any one artist to be noticed, and reach without attention is worth little. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 36 | Playlists chosen by platform staff and software have replaced record labels as gatekeepers, so artists still depend on a few decision-makers they cannot reach. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 37 | Making music available for almost nothing worldwide has taught listeners that music should cost nothing, and that expectation follows artists into every other part of their business. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 38 | Comedy works by saying what people are not supposed to say, and a comedian who must avoid every touchy subject cannot do the job. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 39 | Audiences already control comedy by laughing or not, and a joke that lands badly punishes itself without anyone needing to end a career. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 40 | When comedians are punished for offense, the safest response is blandness, and the loss falls on every audience, not just the people who were offended. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 41 | Losing a booking is not censorship; venues and networks are free to decide who they pay, just as comedians are free to speak. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 42 | A joke that spreads contempt for a group is a public act with public consequences, and the person who makes it should answer for it like anyone else. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 43 | Great comedians have always worked within limits set by their audience and era, and doing so pushed them toward sharper and more original material. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 44 | Laughter makes contempt feel normal, so a joke can spread an ugly attitude further than a plain insult ever could. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 45 | People in the mocked group hear the joke too, and being the punchline in a room full of laughter teaches them they do not belong. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 46 | Pushback is itself free speech; a comedian who claims the right to offend cannot deny others the right to answer. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 47 | Most jokes about groups poke at the stereotype rather than the people, and audiences understand the difference better than critics assume. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 48 | Comedians from within a group often tell the sharpest jokes about it, and a blanket rule against such jokes silences them first. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 49 | Organized pushback rarely stays with the worst offenders; it quickly reaches mild jokes and creates a fear that shrinks comedy for everyone. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 50 | A publisher's editors, designers and fact-checkers catch problems an author working alone cannot see, and readers get a cleaner book as a result. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 51 | Publishers pay authors in advance, which lets writers spend a year or more on a book instead of rushing out whatever sells fastest. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 52 | When a publisher has to invest its own money in a book, it must judge whether the book is worth a reader's time, and that judgment filters out a great deal of weak work. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 53 | Publishers pick books they think will sell, not books that are good, so their filter favors the familiar and rejects much that readers would love. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 54 | Online reviews and recommendations now do the sorting that publishers once did, and they do it with far more readers weighing in. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 55 | Self-published authors can hire the same editors and designers publishers use, so the quality gap comes down to money, not to who owns the imprint. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 56 | A self-published author keeps most of each sale, while a traditional contract hands the publisher the larger share for the life of the book. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 57 | Authors who self-publish keep control of their rights, pricing and cover, and can fix mistakes or change course without asking permission. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 58 | Publishers put their marketing behind a few lead titles each season, and most authors on their lists get little more than a listing in a catalog. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 59 | Self-publishing turns a writer into a small business owner who must handle editing, design, marketing and taxes, and most writers are neither good at that nor want to be. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 60 | Bookstores, libraries, prizes and review pages still mostly deal with traditional publishers, so self-published books are shut out of the places where readers browse. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 61 | An advance is guaranteed money in a field where most books lose money, and a self-published author carries every cost and every risk alone. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 62 | Some children cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons, and they are only protected when nearly everyone around them is. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 63 | Schools gather many children in close quarters every day, which is exactly the setting where an outbreak spreads fastest. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 64 | A requirement tied to school attendance reaches almost every family, while a purely voluntary approach leaves gaps that a disease can find. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 65 | Parents, not school administrators, are responsible for a child's body and should make medical decisions for that child. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 66 | Mandates breed resentment and distrust of public health, which can lower vaccination rates over time more than persuasion would. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 67 | Most vaccine-preventable diseases are already rare, so the added benefit of forcing the last holdouts is small compared with the cost to liberty. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 68 | Screening finds many slow-growing abnormalities that would never have caused harm, and treating them exposes healthy people to surgery and drugs they did not need. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 69 | A false alarm sets off follow-up tests and weeks of fear, and false alarms are common when large numbers of people who feel fine are tested. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 70 | Finding a cancer earlier often just means a person lives longer knowing they have it, without changing when or whether they die from it. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 71 | Many cancers are far easier to treat before they spread, and screening is the only way to catch them in people who feel fine. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 72 | Patients can be told the risks of overdiagnosis and choose for themselves; the answer to false alarms is better counseling, not fewer tests. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 73 | The harms of screening are mostly temporary anxiety and minor procedures, while the harm of a missed cancer is death. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 74 | Many prescriptions are refills of medicines a person has taken for years, and requiring an appointment to renew them adds cost and delay without adding safety. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 75 | Pharmacists are trained in drugs and their interactions, often more thoroughly than the doctors who prescribe them. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 76 | People who cannot easily get to a doctor, because of cost, distance, or work hours, often go without medicine they need rather than jump through the hoops. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 77 | A doctor's visit catches problems the patient did not come in for; the refill is often the excuse that gets a person examined at all. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 78 | Pharmacists work for stores that profit from selling drugs, which puts them in a poor position to tell a customer not to buy one. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 79 | Antibiotic resistance and dependence on some medicines grow when access loosens, and those harms fall on everyone, not just the buyer. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 80 | A patent already gives a company a monopoly, and a monopoly seller with sick customers will charge whatever the desperate will pay unless someone stops it. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 81 | Much of the basic research behind new drugs is paid for by taxpayers, so the public has already bought a share of the result. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 82 | Patients who skip doses or split pills because of cost end up sicker and in hospitals, and that bill lands on everyone. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 83 | Companies invest in research because a successful drug earns a large return; cap the return and the riskiest, most valuable research is the first to be cut. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 84 | A cap set by officials will be wrong in both directions, too high for cheap-to-make drugs and too low for hard ones, because no committee knows the true cost of discovery. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 85 | Prices are already bargained down by insurers and public programs; a legal cap adds a blunt tool where negotiation is already doing the work. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 86 | Local governments have blocked new homes for decades because existing residents vote and future residents cannot, and only the state answers to both. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 87 | Teachers, nurses, and service workers commute for hours because they cannot afford to live near their jobs, and that cost falls on the whole state. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 88 | People and businesses are leaving the state mainly because of housing costs, which shrinks the tax base that pays for everything else. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 89 | Local communities understand their own roads, schools, water supplies, and fire risks, and homes added without regard to those limits create new problems. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 90 | State mandates have mostly produced lawsuits, paperwork, and resentment rather than finished homes, because building still depends on local approval in practice. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 91 | Market-rate construction alone does not produce housing that low-income families can afford, so the state's effort would be better spent on direct subsidy. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 92 | When extreme weather hits, a connected grid can import power from regions that are not suffering the same storm, which is exactly when a closed grid fails. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 93 | Texas produces more wind and solar power than it can always use, and connection would let it sell that surplus instead of wasting it. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 94 | Investors are more willing to build power plants and transmission lines where they can reach a bigger market. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 95 | Connecting to the national grids brings federal oversight of prices and rules, and the state's freedom to run its own market is the reason it has been able to build so much new generation so quickly. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 96 | The lines needed to connect the grids would cost an enormous amount and take many years, and the state can harden its own system faster and cheaper. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 97 | Neighboring regions have had their own blackouts and shortages, so connection would not guarantee help in a crisis and could import their problems. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 98 | Without a measure of results, teacher ratings rest on a principal's impression, and nearly everyone ends up rated the same. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 99 | Parents deserve to know whether their child's teacher is helping students learn, and test growth is the one measure that can be compared across classrooms. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |
| 100 | Teachers who consistently help students grow deserve recognition and pay that a system without measurement cannot give them. Claim | 0.50 | 0% | 0.0005 |