Share your record: where candidates post their full Top 10

A candidate shares one thing: the full PDF record of every subject and every answer, with their name, office and the date completed on the cover. No single cards, no social images and no highlights. Post the record where voters already look for you: a page on your campaign site first, then your official accounts, your newsletter, and every debate and forum. Citizens share cards and choose what to include. Candidates share it all.

What exactly does a candidate share?

A candidate shares the full PDF record that “I’m running for office” mode produces on the Top 10 board, and nothing else from the board. The board produces the record only once every subject and every answer is complete. Its contents are the same for every candidate:

• Cover: name, office, date completed, and “Fill it all out, or don’t run.” and “We deserve to know.”
• MyPriorities: the ten subjects in order, and the issues inside each subject in order.
• MyBudget: the $1 billion split across the ten subjects.
• MyGrade: a grade from 0 to 10 for how the government is doing now on each subject.
• MyOpinion: every question on every subject, with both sides and where the candidate stands.
• In my words: the candidate’s optional statement for each subject.

The record is self-reported by the candidate, with the date. Sharing it is the candidate’s choice, and nothing leaves the browser until they share. The full standard is on Every subject, every answer.

Why do candidates share a record instead of cards or images?

Candidates share a record instead of cards or images because a card or an image is a highlight, and a candidate choosing highlights is the half answer the standard exists to prevent. Citizens share cards and pick what to include, or download their own Top 10 PDF at any time with whatever they have answered, because their answers are their own business. They have to share it all. We don’t. We aren’t running for public office.

A record also travels whole. A single image can be cropped, quoted without its context or passed around without a date. A PDF with the name, office and date on the cover, and every answer inside, is hard to misread and easy to check against the candidate’s own site.

Where should a candidate post the record?

A candidate should post the record in five places, in this order.

1. A page on the campaign website. One page, with a plain address such as yoursite.com/top10, that links the current PDF and every earlier dated PDF below it. It is the permanent home every other post links to.
2. Official accounts. A short post in your own words with a link to that page. Pin it where the platform allows.
3. The campaign newsletter. Send the link to your list.
4. Reporters and organizers. Send the PDF to local reporters and to every debate and forum organizer on the calendar.
5. Printed copies. Bring the printed record to forums where handouts are allowed.

Posting from the candidate’s own website and accounts is also what tells voters the record is really theirs. A record on the candidate’s own site is the candidate’s own statement.

How should a campaign put the record on its website?

A campaign should put the record on its website as a dated link to the PDF, with a short line of context and every earlier record listed below it. Name each file with its date, so the address itself shows when it was completed. A simple pattern for the campaign page:

<h2>My Top 10: every subject, every answer</h2>
<p>My full Top 10 record, completed [date].
   Self-reported by me, with my name and the date on it.</p>
<p><a href="/files/top10-record-2026-10-29.pdf">Read my full record (PDF)</a></p>
<h3>Earlier records</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="/files/top10-record-[earlier date].pdf">Completed [earlier date]</a></li>
</ul>

Keep every earlier record on the page with its own date. The standard for changes is on Changing answers.

What should a candidate write when posting the record?

A candidate should write two or three plain sentences that point voters to the answers they will ask about first, plus the date and a link. The record carries the answers, including “In my words” for each subject; the post just opens the door. A shape that works: your first subject in MyPriorities and why, the hardest tradeoff in your MyBudget, and “My full Top 10 record, every subject and every answer, completed [date].” More on the words is in Fill out your Top 10.

How should a candidate use the record at debates and forums?

A candidate should use the record at debates and forums by sending it to the organizers in advance and pointing to it in the room. During the event, the record gives a clear way to answer: “My full record puts housing first in MyPriorities, with the largest share of my MyBudget, and here is why.”

When an opponent has not shared a record, say so plainly and once, and ask them to share theirs. “All my answers are public. Nothing is hidden.” No more is needed. The moderator’s side of this is on For journalists and debate moderators.

What rules apply when a campaign posts the record?

The rules that apply are the ones that already apply to the campaign’s other communications. For federal political committees, the Federal Election Commission requires a disclaimer on public communications, including committee websites available to the general public, and says a disclaimer must be clear and conspicuous.⁠¹ The page that links the record, and any mailer or paid ad that quotes it, follows the campaign’s usual disclaimer practice. State and local campaigns follow their own state’s rules.

Unresolved questions

Two questions about sharing records are still open.

1. A standard address. Would a common page address, such as /top10 on every campaign site, make records easier for voters and reporters to find?
2. Print layout. What is the most readable printed layout of a full record for a forum handout?

Make my Top 10

Fill it all out, or don’t run. We deserve to know. Make the full record, then post it everywhere voters look.

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