The Desk · Washington
About Fendoria and how we report
Fendoria is a U.S. political news site covering the 2026 midterms, Congress, the White House, redistricting, and the Senate map. This page explains who produces that coverage, the standards behind it, and how we handle corrections and sourcing.
Coverage
What we cover
Our beat is the machinery of American politics: federal legislation, elections, courts, and the campaign trail. We write for readers who follow the news closely enough to want the underlying vote count or the operative court order, not just the reaction.
Coverage is organized around a few recurring pages: the Congress Tracker, Senate Races, Redistricting & Election Law, and White House press access. Each one is built to be followed over time rather than read once, so a bill that stalls in committee stays visible on the tracker instead of dropping off the front page into silence.
We are a small desk and we publish on the parts of the cycle where a record exists to check — a roll call, a filing, a schedule, a docket entry. When a story is still moving and the record is thin, we say that plainly rather than dress up a hunch as a finding.
How we source stories
Public record first. Secondhand description second. Anonymous sourcing only when it is the only way to verify something the reader needs.
Bill texts, committee schedules, court orders, and roll-call results are checkable, so we prefer them to secondhand descriptions of what they say.
We use named sources when we can get them, and we say when a source is anonymous and why. Where a story depends on a single source, we say so.
Working this way takes longer than aggregating someone else's reporting. It is the standard we hold ourselves to, and it is why a story sometimes lands a day later.
A hearing room the morning after a markup. The desk reads the same record you do — the posted agenda, the amended text, the vote tally — and reports from it rather than around it.
Photograph of Fendoria's coverage subject matter: an empty congressional hearing room between sessions. No subjects depicted.
On polls and forecasts
Polling in midterm cycles is state-level and often sparse outside competitive races, so national numbers can mislead. A national generic-ballot figure tells you very little about a district where only a few hundred responses were collected, and we try not to let it stand in for one.
Forecasts are models, not results. They carry uncertainty that headlines tend to strip out, so we report poll data with its source and its limits, and we separate a projection from a reported fact. If a number looks decisive, we ask where it came from before we use it.
In practice that means a Fendoria story on a competitive Senate race will name the pollster, give the field dates and the sample, and tell you whether the race has been surveyed once this month or not at all. Where the polling is thin, we would rather say the polling is thin than borrow confidence from a model.
Corrections policy
If we get something wrong, we correct it, and we note what changed rather than quietly editing the text. Substantive corrections are described at the point of the error or in a visible note, so a reader returning to a story can see that it moved.
If you spot a mistake, send it to the desk through the contact page with the story and the specific detail. Naming the story and the exact sentence or figure saves us a round trip, and it is the fastest route to a fix. We read every correction request.
Standards we hold to
Four rules that shape what gets published and what does not.
How we handle tips
Tips are read by the desk, and we follow up when there is something checkable to pursue. A tip with documents or specific dates is more useful than a general assertion, because it gives us a record to start from.
We do not promise coverage in exchange for information, and we protect source identities when we have agreed to. Read the contact page for how to send one.
Independence and funding
Fendoria's editorial decisions are made by the desk, not by advertisers or partners. Where content is sponsored or otherwise distinct from our reporting, it is labeled.
We do not accept payment to alter news coverage. That separation is the basic condition for the work, and it is the reason we publish a labeling rule instead of a promise.
What we do not do
We do not publish poll numbers we cannot source, and we do not present projected outcomes as settled facts. We do not run synthetic quotes, invented anecdotes, or stock testimonials as if they were real accounts.
Where a race or a map is in court, we say so. If that costs us a fast headline, it is a trade we make on purpose — a district line under review is not the same thing as a district line decided.
Sponsored content
Where content is sponsored or otherwise distinct from reporting, it is labeled. Advertising does not change news coverage, and sponsored material is never dressed as a news story.
Corrections, tips and inquiries all go through one desk.
For time-sensitive corrections, say so in the subject line. We read everything and respond when there is something to act on. You can also find our contact details there.
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