The Capitolist media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places The Capitolist as leaning right. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Capitolist biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places The Capitolist as leaning right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Capitolist left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places The Capitolist as leaning right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is The Capitolist reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Capitolist are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Capitolist has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Capitolist’s own report linked underneath.
Democrats won majorities in both chambers of Congress in the 2026 midterms. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis called the Republican defeat an extinction‑level event. Vice President JD Vance blamed the Iran war, and Mississippi’s Senate race remained too close to call.
The Capitolist reported it asDeSantis warns GOP losses could take years to reverse (opens The Capitolist in a new tab)
More than 34 million Americans have cast early ballots in the current midterm elections. This figure is on pace to surpass the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to data tracked by the UF Election Lab.
The Capitolist reported it asFlorida Democrats narrowly lead GOP in early ballots (opens The Capitolist in a new tab)
On Tuesday, Americans vote in the 2026 midterms that will decide whether Republicans keep their narrow House majority and Senate seats. Trump faces low approval ratings, a war with Iran and a costly cost‑of‑living squeeze, while polls show 54% of his base would back him even if he loses.
The Capitolist reported it asFlorida Democrats narrowly lead GOP in early ballots (opens The Capitolist in a new tab)
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, together with the State Board of Administration of Florida, filed a shareholder lawsuit in New York state court on 29 July 2026 accusing The New York Times of anti‑Israel bias in its Gaza war coverage. The Times says the suit has no merit.
The Capitolist reported it asFlorida Files Petition Seeking New York Times Corporate Records (opens The Capitolist in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckleanRightCheck it
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Mixed factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckmixedCheck it
Who owns it
- Brian BurgessBillionairedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- thecapitolist.com
- Seen publishing on
- thecapitolist.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 4
- Reports listed
- 4
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 24 September 2026
4 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and The Capitolist ran the story anyway.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Capitolist: its report arrived a median of 4 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 November 2026. Ratings pulled 24 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
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