Stand With Crypto Will Score Every CLARITY Act Senate Vote for 3M Advocates
Stand With Crypto announced July 27 it will permanently record each senator's CLARITY Act vote on its public lawmaker scorecards, putting the results in front of 3 million advocates ahead of the November midterm elections.
Every senator's CLARITY Act vote will become a permanent public record handed to what Stand With Crypto reports as 3 million advocates with less than 100 days until the midterm elections.
Key takeaways
- Stand With Crypto announced July 27 that senators' CLARITY Act votes will be permanently recorded on its public lawmaker scorecards, visible to the organization's 3 million self-reported U.S. advocates.
- The Senate must act before the August recess or the bill is effectively dead until 2027-28, leaving developer protections and self-custody clarity as reversible administrative guidance only.
- Passage requires roughly 60 votes; Republicans hold 53 seats and need approximately 7 Democrats to cross over, with ethics disclosure language tied to Trump's crypto-related income remaining the central sticking point.
Stand With Crypto announced on X on July 27 that each senator's vote on the CLARITY Act will be recorded in its public lawmaker scorecards on behalf of what the organization reports as 3 million U.S. advocates. Per Stand With Crypto, every senator will now carry a permanent CLARITY Act entry on their public rating, visible to crypto owners comparing candidates before November.
"The CLARITY Act has galvanized millions of crypto owners, as they eagerly await market structure legislation that will deliver certainty about the technology they rely on," Stand With Crypto said in its announcement. "Crypto voters across the country are paying attention to which lawmakers stand with them in this critical moment."
The scorecards are live at standwithcrypto.org/politicians. The CLARITY Act vote joins an existing scorecard built on lawmakers' crypto-related actions and public positions, and will be among the highest-profile single entries on those records heading into the fall.
The Vote Count and the Clock
The Senate Banking Committee advanced the CLARITY Act 15-9 on May 14, 2026, per the official majority press release. All 13 Republicans voted yes, joined by Democrats Ruben Gallego (AZ) and Angela Alsobrooks (MD). The bill (H.R. 3633) was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar as Calendar No. 423 on June 1 and awaits a full floor vote. No floor vote is scheduled as of this writing.
That's the problem. The Senate needs to act before the August recess or the bill sits until a new Congress convenes in 2027. Per Galaxy Research, the probability of 2026 passage sits at approximately 30%. Floor passage requires roughly 60 votes under Senate cloture rules, meaning supporters need around seven Democrats beyond the two who voted yes in committee. The primary obstacle is ethics and disclosure language tied to Trump's reported $1.4 billion in crypto-related 2025 income, alongside unresolved provisions on Section 604 developer protections and stablecoin yield language.
The House passed the bill 294-134 on July 17, 2025. The Senate is where it stalls or survives.
What the Scorecard Actually Does
The mechanics matter here. SWC previously applied the same scoring mechanism to GENIUS Act votes. A scorecard entry is not a press release that fades. It stays on the public record, attached to a senator's name, searchable by their constituents. Per a Stand With Crypto midterm voter survey, nearly 8 in 10 cryptocurrency owners consider themselves almost certain to vote, roughly 70% say a candidate's crypto position influences their choice, and 59% identify as non-partisan. That last number is the one senators in competitive races should be reading closely.
The thesis here is straightforward: a senator facing a tight November margin bears a measurable cost for a "no" vote that a safe-seat senator does not. The scorecard is not a threat, it's a ledger. Watch how senators in toss-up races (Arizona, Nevada, Montana) vote against their eventual SWC scores after the election. If those senators vote no and win comfortably, the scorecard's political leverage is weaker than advertised. If they flip to yes, it worked.
The Section 604 developer protection provisions inside the CLARITY Act are what give this bill teeth beyond exchange registration rules. Without a floor vote before recess, those protections exist only as the March 17, 2026 joint SEC/CFTC interpretive release on digital asset classification. A future administration rescinds guidance overnight. Statute requires an act of Congress to undo. Bitcoin developers, node operators, and anyone building open-source tooling are one hostile administration away from the pre-CLARITY enforcement environment if this bill dies in August.
The scorecard's leverage is also temporal. It functions while senators are staring down a competitive election cycle. After August recess, that pressure evaporates until at least 2027-28. SWC is betting the clock runs in its favor. Whether it does depends entirely on whether senators in competitive races decide the cost of a "no" vote now outweighs the cost of the ethics-disclosure horse-trading still underway.
What to Watch
The practical window closes before the August recess. Senators who are undecided face a binary: lock in a yes vote now while the political calculus favors it, or let the bill die and carry the scorecard entry into November. Anyone tracking this bill should check their senator's current rating at standwithcrypto.org/politicians and watch whether institutional pressure translates into Democratic crossover votes before the recess deadline.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The scorecard aggregates lawmakers' crypto-related votes, public positions, and actions into a single public grade. The CLARITY Act vote will be added as a scored entry alongside existing criteria. Each senator's current rating is visible at standwithcrypto.org/politicians.
The bill effectively dies until a new Congress convenes in 2027-28, restarting the entire legislative process. In the interim, developer protections and self-custody clarity exist only as the March 2026 joint SEC/CFTC interpretive release, which any future administration can rescind without congressional action.
Yes. Section 604 of the current Senate draft contains developer safe harbor language that Stand With Crypto's call-your-senator page specifically calls out. Those provisions would protect open-source Bitcoin developers and node operators from the kind of enforcement exposure they faced under the pre-2025 regulatory environment. Without a floor vote before recess, Section 604 does not become statute.
