Adversarial re-check: all four originally cited URLs are REAL and live (each fetched individually), and the promise text is verbatim on his own issues page ('I will fervently work to protect private property rights against improper government encroachment'). But two of the four cited QUOTES could not be reproduced from the pages ('Our farmers and ranchers feed the country and the world...' and 'The Supreme Court decision rightfully put landowners back in charge'); the verifiable quote on the 5/25/2023 page is 'Today the Supreme Court helped put Montana farmers and ranchers more in charge of the decisions about their own land.' The prior rating's central leadership claim (Montana Water Rights Protection Act) was asserted with NO supporting citation; I independently confirmed it exists and that Daines introduced it and it was signed into law in December 2020, but it is a CSKT tribal water-compact settlement, only tangentially a 'private property rights vs. government encroachment' vehicle. Stripping that, the on-target record is: he was ONE OF 49 cosponsors (his own release: 'Joins All Republican Senators', joining 'all 48 of his Senate Republican colleagues') on the WOTUS CRA resolution; he signed a 200-member amicus brief in Sackett v. EPA; and he voted Yea on H.J.Res.27, which passed the Senate 53-43 on 3/29/2023 (independently confirmed on senate.gov roll call 118-1-79) and was then vetoed. The remaining items on his own site's WOTUS index are reaction statements. He was never lead sponsor of any CRA/property-rights vehicle, and the actual regulatory rollback came from the Supreme Court, not from him. CHAMPIONED (+0.75) requires having LED/driven the effort; caucus-wide cosponsorship plus a group amicus brief plus supportive votes is not leadership under a standard I would apply identically to a member of either party (a Democrat with an all-caucus cosponsorship, a group amicus, a vetoed vote, and one enacted adjacent state-specific bill would not be scored CHAMPIONED either). Downgraded to PARTIAL (+0.5): sustained, genuine, decade-long engagement across multiple vehicles with one lead-sponsored enacted law in the adjacent water-rights space, but the primary federal vehicles he backed were vetoed and he was a participant rather than the driver. Confidence 0.6 — the record is real and verified, but three of four supporting documents are his own press office, and web-search capacity was exhausted so independent secondary coverage could not be canvassed.