The promise (sworn in 2023-01-11) is a posture pledge to keep pushing back on government intrusion and overreach. CHAMPIONED requires the sources show real leadership (authored/sponsored/led), not a mere vote — and both cited sources do. Source 1 (Fox News) confirms the ERASER Act was Schmitt's FIRST Senate bill, explicitly framed as leading the fight against the administrative state; both quoted fragments appear verbatim ("Joe Biden is the poster child for excessive regulations on hardworking Americans" and "somebody needs to lead the way in taking on the administrative state, and I'm proud to lead that fight"). Source 2 (Schmitt's official Senate press release) confirms he INTRODUCED the Censorship Accountability Act as sponsor/author, letting citizens sue federal officials who collude with social media to censor speech — a second authored/lead effort on exactly the anti-overreach theme. Both sources are reachable and support the outcome. One blemish: the cited quote for source 2 is a composite where the second sentence ("The Biden Administration's brazen collusion with social media companies to censor speech should frighten every American") appears verbatim, but the first clause ("...allows citizens to sue federal employees who collude with social media companies to suppress First Amendment rights") is a paraphrase, not verbatim — the actual text reads "This legislation would allow citizens to hold individual bureaucrats accountable if they collude with social media companies to censor speech." That is an accurate paraphrase of the bill rather than a misrepresenting fabrication, and the distinctive attributed quote is genuine, so it does not overturn the outcome. I correct the quote below. Confidence is 0.8, not higher, because "at every step" is broad/aspirational (not exhaustively verifiable) and the bills were introduced, not enacted.