Opening the ledger…
Opening the ledger…
Texas Promise Tracker is an independent public project. It is not a campaign, a political party, or a government site.
A promise enters the ledger with the words someone actually published, and a link back to them. A status stays pending until evidence is public.
Texas Promise Tracker is an independent public project. It is not a campaign, a political party, or a government site.
An explicit pledge is a line where they say they will do a thing: “When I’m governor, I will…” A platform line is a position published on a campaign issues page. Both are tracked. The label tells you which kind you are reading.
Overlapping wording stays as separate rows when each one has its own source quote. We do not merge them into a score.
Every promise stores a verbatim quote and a source URL. A news paraphrase is not enough. The quote has to come from the candidate, the campaign, or another primary record.
Right now the ledger holds 144 promises, 47 sources, and 22 snapshots.
When we can, we save the page and a screenshot, and keep an Internet Archive link. Social posts do not always have a screenshot. A missing picture does not erase the source link.
Nobody gets a kept or a broken on a hunch. The person proposing the change links a public record: a vote, a signed bill, a veto, a budget, or their own later statement.
Voting records and donations are on the roadmap. Until those records are loaded from a primary source, the site shows a coming-soon card and nothing else.
Phase 1 crawl + promise seed. Finished November 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM CST. Those run counts are history. The live totals above come from the tables now.
That run recorded no errors.
Open an issue on GitHub with the quote, the source, and, for a status change, the evidence. The contributing guide in the README walks through both.