The action catalog
Challengers — putting better people in seats
Identify somebody promising. Vet them against the published rubrics. Recruit them. Support a filing. And, at the top of the scale by a wide margin, help one win.
This track carries the heaviest weights in the catalog because it is the only one that changes who holds the seat. Also here: flagging a worrisome challenger, which carries the same weight as identifying a good one and a far heavier sourcing burden, because it is a negative public claim about a living person.
Communications — making the argument reach people
Public posts, media appearances, press pickups, and published explainers.
Explainers are weighted well above posts on purpose. A post is a moment; an explainer is a thing that keeps working, that somebody can cite next year, and that reduces the number of people who have to rediscover the same argument from scratch.
Organizing — the work that leaves no paper trail
Meetings held, citizens recruited, canvass shifts, poll-watching shifts.
This is the track most likely to be undercounted, because most of it produces no artifact. It leans hardest on peer reporting — one citizen reporting another citizen's work — for exactly that reason.
Lawmaking — feeding the libraries
Proposing a problem, reporting a problem law, drafting or improving a fix bill, closing a coverage gap nobody had closed.
The highest-leverage work in the catalog for somebody with an evening and a good archive.
Participation — keeping the record alive
Adding a politician video or channel, adding a source, filing a correction, transcribing.
Individually small, and the reason the rest of the product has anything to read. A record that nobody feeds becomes wrong quietly.
Picking one
One hour: add a channel or a video for somebody whose record is thin, or file a correction on a row you know is wrong.
One evening: close a named coverage gap, or write an explainer for the argument you keep having.
One month: vet a challenger properly, against the rubrics, and publish what you found.
One cycle: recruit somebody worth electing.