Rules of evidence
The PDF that started this project is a research queue, not evidence. Nothing is published from it alone.
HasanBacked uses a receipts-first standard designed to make every visible label independently checkable.
A candidate must have a dated, affirmative connection: an explicit endorsement, campaign appearance, organizing or fundraising help, or clearly positive platforming. A neutral interview alone does not qualify. Appearing beside Piker at another candidate’s rally documents support for that other candidate, not for you.
Direct campaign material, full video, social posts from the parties involved, or strong contemporaneous reporting. A single unsourced tracker is never promoted to verified; names that rest on one are held in the research queue.
Primary and general-election status comes from an election authority whenever available, with AP or established local reporting used as a readable companion source.
We link to original or longest available footage, quote briefly, describe the surrounding exchange, and include Piker's explanation or correction.
A support relationship does not establish that a candidate agrees with every Piker position. The archive documents the relationship, not ideological identity.
Records are dated and should be updated when a candidate withdraws, advances, loses, wins, or when better primary footage changes the factual picture. Every change is logged below.
Why a candidate may appeal to Piker is editorial inference, never presented as a private motive or quote. It must be grounded in that candidate's own platform, biography, posts, interviews, or documented coalition.
A flashpoint identifies documented criticism or a point of dispute. The candidate's response, correction, denial, or important limiting context appears beside it, not buried in a footnote.
The matrix uses 8 issues where the national Democratic Party has a stated position. A cell is “documented” only when a source already in the file supports it; “partial” marks adjacent or conditional language; “not documented” is blank and never counted. The break count is a tally, not a weighting; every issue counts once.
The reference column is the 2024 Democratic Party platform and, where the platform is silent, the stated position of party leadership. Each issue links its reference source. If the party moves, the reference moves and the change is logged.
Corrections & changes
Every material change to the archive, dated. Newest first.
Every route now carries a descriptive title, canonical URL, social card, and JSON-LD (Person, Article, BreadcrumbList, ItemList, Dataset, FAQPage). Added a plain-language index of all files to the home page, a web manifest, and a GitHub Actions workflow that tests and deploys to Cloudflare Workers.
The home page now opens on a cursor-reactive halftone portrait of Piker (St. Louis, May 1, 2026; CC BY 4.0) rendered live on canvas, with kinetic headline type and a broadcast-style lower third that plays through his most-cited statements with clip and context links.
Added eight Creative Commons photographs (Wikimedia Commons; Morgan Rice, Poisonwithahawkseye, SlikeR) of Piker at the Rabb and Bush rallies and at TwitchCon: behind the home-page reel, as the Who Is Hasan hero portrait, and in a credited photo strip linking back to the candidate files. Every use shows the photographer, license, and a link to the source file. Sub-page heroes now share the matrix field and react to the cursor.
Replaced the static hero panel with an animated reel of Piker’s most-cited statements, each typed out with its date, his response, a link to the clip, and a link to the context file, plus a running quote ticker. Sub-page heroes now carry distinct, fading backgrounds so patterns no longer run into text sections.
Added the eight-issue party-line matrix for all 19 files, a filterable timeline of support events, controversies, and results, a deduplicated index of every cited source, side-by-side candidate comparison, a state map, JSON/CSV data export, glossary, FAQ, and a research queue for reported-but-unverified endorsements.
Oliver Larkin marked lost after the August 18 FL-25 primary; Wisconsin and Missouri outcomes confirmed with AP results.
Nineteen verified candidate files with dated support records, election status sources, editorial profiles, and a six-item Piker controversy archive.
HasanBacked is not connected to Hasan Piker, Twitch, any political candidate, campaign, party, or election authority.
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