THE OVERSIGHT HUB · ELECTION 2026
How oversight works
≈ 5 min read · or listen, or skim the bold lines
This page explains how oversight works. Its daily companion: Accountability Corner — one small thing a day →
D · Draft — not verified Not line-checked against the Navajo Nation Code. How we verify →
Follow the money — the whole trail
What candidates said about fraud & waste · the case studies (sober-living, Diné College funding, ZenniHome — claims and findings labeled) · Fraud, Waste & Abuse 101 · how audits work · where to report it
Who watches the watchers? You do.
Some call an engaged public “the fourth branch.” The proposed constitution actually reserves that name for a fiscal-balance branch — but the older truth needs no number: the people are not a branch of the government; the government is a branch of the people. Every tool on this site — the record, the lenses, the questions, the map of obstacles — exists so that watching, asking, and remembering stay in your hands. Officials answer to voters not once every four years, but every time a citizen reads an audit, asks a hard question at a chapter meeting, and follows up on the answer.
Accountability Corner
One a day — a question, a real case, or a quick check
The featured interview
How ethics oversight of elected officials actually works — Cal Nez sits down with the former director of the Office of Ethics & Rules — the interview the diagram above comes from. ▶ Watch on YouTube · The full story, both accounts →
And it isn’t one man’s story — candidates said so in their own interviews: Greg Bigman flags the whistleblower-law gap, Jamie Henio proposes a carefully caveated whistleblower app and a wider ethics-office reach, and Debbie Nez-Manuel says the Nation’s employees have described retaliation, bullying, and loyalty coercion. A sample, alphabetical, from the verified interviews — not a complete list.
Go deeper
Three pages, three angles — the system explained, the candidates’ own words, and the deeper diagnosis.
Ethics & Rules, explained. What the office is, how a complaint travels step by step, where the former director says it breaks down — and the current office’s response. Read the explainer →
What the candidates said. Twenty-five of the 42 candidates spoke to accountability, grouped by approach — transparency, the disputed $24 million, ethics enforcement, boards and 638 oversight. Their words →
Accountability & justice — the deeper look. Why you treat the cause and not the symptoms, how failures cascade onto real people, and what to fix first. The diagnosis →
Need to act on something yourself? How to file a complaint → · Ethics & oversight resources →
The lessons behind this page: Capacity, Leadership & Self-Governance 101 · Ethics & Rules — the Rodriquez Morris interview · Transparency, Accountability & Reporting 101 · Fraud, Waste, Abuse & Oversight 101 · Audit & Performance Review 101 · Justice System 101 · When candidates say the law isn’t followed · The November referendum — Government Reform mission · what it proposes to change · the five lenses — transparency, root cause, culture, collaboration, prevention · Whistleblowing 101
So — what would you fix first?
Ideas from the record — anonymous; counts publish on Community Findings
Take the patterns home
Protect Yourself & Your Relatives — the documented fraud patterns by topic, with the reporting doors in one place.