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The Institute (a nonprofit research and education organization organized under section 501(c)(3)) studies and publishes research on whether Americans want an enforceable right to honest government and what that mechanism should look like. The 501(c)(4) Action organization pursues a state ballot initiative requiring officials to put honest written reasons and the real evidence for major decisions on the public record, reviewed by an advisory citizen review panel with courts keeping final authority. The standard applies equally to every official of every party. Honest, reasoned decisions are protected even when they are unpopular.

• The Right to Honest Government Action, a nonprofit organized and operating as a social-welfare organization under section 501(c)(4); IRS Form 8976 notice filed May 2026 (EIN 41-4784643). Campaign site: righttohonestgovernment.org.
• The Right to Honest Governance Institute, a nonprofit research and education organization organized under section 501(c)(3); federal tax-exempt recognition application in preparation (EIN 41-4546412). Research site: righttohonestgovernance.org.
• Funding to date is from the founder. No partisan or anonymous money. What donations fund is published at /funding.
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• In a nationally representative study (fielded by Verasight, an independent research firm, September 1 to 9, 2026; N = 1,000 US adults; margin of sampling error 3.1 points), 73% of Americans said they would vote for the framework on the final vote, measured after they read the complete ballot text and reviewed the detailed enforcement design. 8% opposed it: nine supporters for every opponent, with the remainder undecided.
• 95.5% agreed that the American people have a right to honest government service, and every individual principle behind the framework drew more than 91% agreement.
• Support is cross-party: 83% of Democrats, 69% of Republicans, and 70% of independents said yes on the final vote, with opposition at 4%, 8%, and 10% respectively. Most of the rest were undecided, not opposed.
• We report the full sequence: right after the ballot text, before the enforcement deep-dive, support was 77.1%. The enforcement review moved some supporters to neutral, barely moved opposition, and converted a third of the initial skeptics to supporters. The 73.3% final vote is the headline because it is the number that survived the details.
• The replication was designed and sponsored by the Institute, fielded by Verasight, an outside survey-research firm and AAPOR Transparency Initiative member, weighted to census benchmarks, and preregistered before fielding on OSF (osf.io/x5ve6).
• It replicated our pre-registered April 2026 study (N = 392 after pre-registered exclusions, fielded on Prolific, pre-registered at osf.io/br3u2), which found 90.3% support and 99.5% agreement with the principles.

The 73% figure is the pre-registered replication result (the final vote, after the enforcement review), not a live website tally. Any public momentum counter on the site is a separate number from the scientific study, and we keep the two clearly distinct. We cite "73%" or "nearly 3 in 4" and never round up, and the more-than-9-in-10 language attaches only to agreement with the right itself and with the individual principles, never to the vote.

Between the April study and the September replication we ran small developmental waves to refine how the framework is explained and measured. Those are design iterations, not findings; we do not cite their numbers publicly and they never replace the pre-registered results above. The replication's preregistration is public at osf.io/x5ve6, and the full result tables will be published with the study materials.

David Jones is a technology entrepreneur, engineer, and self-directed researcher. He co-founded M3D, where he led technology. In 2014 he and his co-founder launched the Micro, the first truly consumer 3D printer, on Kickstarter. It hit its goal in about eleven minutes and closed with 11,855 backers and $3,401,361 raised, the 9th-largest Kickstarter campaign in history at the time and, per Guinness, the largest 3D-technology campaign ever to that point. M3D grew from two founders to more than 100 employees with its own manufacturing plant in Maryland, with national coverage in Fortune, the BBC, Fox Business, and the Baltimore Sun.

He holds five U.S. patents and a degree in computer science from the University of Maryland, and has built advanced technology across consumer hardware and construction. He now brings that track record to building the Right to Honest Government.

“I'm not a politician. I'm not famous or rich. I started this to fix the broken system that holds us back. It's not that solutions don't exist. It's that we're not choosing them and our government isn't required to be honest with us about why. We're building the coalition that changes that.”

Verification: Kickstarter, BBC, Fortune, Baltimore Sun.

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