Diné Civic CenterBuilding a future, together. — days to Primary Election

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How this project works — and how to take part

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Read by your own device — private, nothing sent anywhere.

The Diné Civic Center is an independent, nonpartisan civic-education project. Every candidate for every office receives the same treatment: the same page structure, the same questions, equal footing.

What we publish

We summarize what you have said publicly — with Cal Nez interviews (Politics on the Navajo Nation) as a primary source — always linked to the recording so voters can hear your exact words. Summaries are clearly marked as the site's words, never presented as quotations. We never score, rank, or endorse.

Not interviewed yet?

That is labeled on your page as a scheduling fact — never a judgment. Every candidate is welcome to request an interview: email the project or message Politics on the Navajo Nation.

Corrections and additions

Candidates and campaign representatives may submit corrections, biographical information, campaign website and contact details, and photographs they authorize for publication. Every submission is reviewed by a volunteer. Submit a correction or addition.

Our commitments to you

Facts distinguished from interpretation. Your words linked to source. Concerns phrased as questions, never attacks. No candidate hidden. No endorsements — of you or your opponents. If we get something wrong, we fix it and record the correction.

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The written questions — same six for every candidate

These six questions come from this site’s findings and are the same for every candidate in every race. This site does not collect written answers, and it never keeps a record of who answered. The questions are published so that anyone may ask them, and so that a candidate can prepare an answer before someone does. If you answer publicly — on air with Cal Nez, in a statement, on your own campaign channel — and we can confirm the words are yours, they publish on your profile verbatim, unedited, in your own words, dated, with the relevant law linked beside the question so readers can weigh your answer against the record themselves.

LESSON

Ask them yourself

A candidate who has thought about the record will have something specific to say. One who has not will say something general. That difference is the whole point of asking.

  1. The published Navajo Nation Code stops at 2009; everything since is scattered across individual resolutions. If elected, what specifically would you do so any Diné person can read the current law?
  2. In the disputes this site reviewed, the law almost always applied; the failures came where two rules meet and nobody is standing at the seam. Which seam would you personally take ownership of?
  3. The 1989 government was set up as temporary and never finished. Is finishing it the Council’s job, the referendum’s job, or someone else’s — and what is your first step?
  4. Federal inspectors watch federal healthcare dollars. What should the Nation’s own check on that money look like?
  5. Name three things you would publish in your first year that are not public today.
  6. Where do you actually disagree with your opponents?

This site does not collect written answers. If a candidate answers publicly — on air, in a statement, on their own campaign channel — and we can confirm it came from them, their words publish verbatim on their profile, dated. A profile never notes whether a candidate has or hasn’t answered: silence is not evidence.