AMERICA FIRST
SYSTEMS.
Civic infrastructure for self-governing citizens.
Building the primary-source record of American nationalism — its canon, its critics, and its hardest cases — from first principles.
An independent civic research project.
We build the primary-source record of American nationalism — its canon, its critics, and its hardest cases — processed through a published framework and a published filter.
Every claim traces to a citation. Every filter verdict cites the criterion that produced it. Every steelman is written before the critique. Every source is archived so the record survives.
We don't tell you what to conclude. We make the evidence checkable, the reasoning visible, and handle the uncomfortable material honestly instead of pretending it isn't there.
A reference library with a methodology — not an opinion outlet.
SIX COMMITMENTS. NO EXCEPTIONS.
PRIMARY SOURCES ONLY
Every claim traces to a cited source. Books, speeches, transcripts, briefs, statements — verbatim, hashed, archived.
PUBLISHED FRAMEWORK
The analytical method is public, versioned, and revisable. Ten layers of structured analysis, nothing hidden.
PUBLISHED FILTER
Exclusion criteria are explicit and appealable. We tell you what we filter, why, and by which criterion.
STEELMAN FIRST
The strongest defensible form of every retained claim, written before any critique. If we can't steelman it, we don't retain it.
TENSIONS SURFACED
The canon disagrees with itself. Hawks vs. restrainers. Integralists vs. libertarians. We show the fault lines.
VERSIONED, NOT SILENT
What the site said on any date remains queryable. Revisions are logged. Nothing is memory-holed.
World View
Nation-states, international organizations, global companies. Alignment vectors across 190+ countries. Foreign-policy posture, trade, sovereignty.
US View
Congress, committees, legislators, voting records. Positions traced to sources. Sortable by axis, faction, and era.
TEN LAYERS. EACH A SEPARATE PASS.
Every source is processed through ten layers of structured analysis. No layer is compressed into another.
Atomic propositions pulled verbatim from source.
Empirical, normative, policy, grievance, identity, predictive.
Sovereignty, immigration, economic, foreign-policy, populist, cultural.
Material, cultural, status, existential — presence-based.
Traced back through Buchanan, Taft, Lasch, Francis, Burnham.
Type of warrant, argument structure, rigor, emotional register.
Internal fault lines surfaced. External critics steelmanned.
Retained, modified, or excluded — with criterion cited.
Strongest defensible form of every retained claim.
Four reader views: researcher, citizen, adherent, skeptic.
WHAT WE DO
- ▸ Cite every claim to a primary source.
- ▸ Publish the exclusion criteria — so you can appeal any verdict.
- ▸ Steelman every retained position before any critique.
- ▸ Archive every source so the record survives disappearance.
- ▸ Surface internal disagreements in the canon.
- ▸ Include serious left and right critics by default.
- ▸ Apply the same criteria across political valence.
- ▸ Version every output so history stays queryable.
WHAT WE DON'T
- ▸ Exclude claims because they are unpopular, uncomfortable, or polemical.
- ▸ Discriminate on political valence — left and right claims get the same filter.
- ▸ Treat institutional consensus as the same thing as empirical consensus.
- ▸ Sanitize grievances. Specificity stays.
- ▸ Exclude claims because of who said them.
- ▸ Silently revise. Changes are logged and versioned.
- ▸ Amplify dehumanization, atrocity denial, or calls to extralegal violence.
- ▸ Pretend we are neutral when we are being synthetic.
For self-governing citizens who would rather check the work than trust the discourse.
The ten-layer analytical methodology.
Published criteria. Worked examples. Appealable.
Provenance, versioning, audit trail, governance.
Transparency is the neutrality mechanism.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO TRUST US. YOU CAN CHECK THE WORK.
ENLIST.
YOUR REPUBLIC NEEDS ARCHIVISTS.
Every verified claim is an act of citizenship. Every appeal is a check on power. Read the record, submit a source, file an appeal, or just check the work.