What follows is the pledge we are asking citizens of the United States to take. It is offered in two forms: a short statement designed for clarity, and a longer statement that explains each commitment and the conduct standard behind the third. It rests on a documented record in three parts: false claims, corruption and self-enrichment, and abuse of official power. The pledge replaces our original petition: it asks nothing of any institution, and everything of the only people with the power to deliver a verdict (voters).
The administration of Donald J. Trump has governed through documented falsehood, defiance of the courts, and the use of public office for private gain. No institution will deliver the verdict this record demands. I will. I pledge to vote on November 3, 2026; to encourage at least two people I know to vote; and to vote against any elected official, of any party, who I believe has enabled this administration's corruption and abuse of power. The 2026 midterm elections are a referendum on autocratic government, and I will be counted in it.
To my fellow citizens of the United States:
Since January 2025, the President of the United States has made public statements demonstrably contrary to the documentary record, 322 of them verified, sourced, and published in The Record, about the security of our elections, the conduct of our courts, the state of our economy, the health of our people, and the actions of our government at home and abroad.
The falsehoods are one part of the record, and not the largest. Alongside them we document 117 incidents of corruption and self-enrichment, from crypto ventures and foreign payments to pardons that tracked donations, and 147 incidents of abuse of official power: federal agencies dismantled without Congress, prosecutors and inspectors general removed and replaced with loyalists, journalists arrested for their reporting, court orders defied, and lethal force used against Americans without accountability. Each entry names what happened, who did it, what the sources are, and what the institutional or judicial outcome was, including where courts have ruled the conduct unlawful.
Taken together, these are not failings of character. They are a method of government. Falsehood is what makes the rest possible: it is the method by which courts are defied and then defamed, by which inspectors and prosecutors are removed and then replaced with loyalists, by which public office becomes an instrument of private enrichment, and by which every institution built to check power is taught that checking power has a price. The name for this method is autocracy, and the record of its application is documented on this site, entry by entry.
No impeachment is coming. No invocation of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is coming. No court, committee, or cabinet will deliver the verdict this record demands, because the officials with the power to act have, in case after documented case, chosen to enable, defend, or excuse the conduct instead. They are on the ballot too.
The Constitution has already scheduled the verdict. On November 3, 2026, every seat in the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate stand for election, alongside governorships and state offices across the country. In April 2026, the voters of Hungary showed what a single election day can do to an entrenched autocracy when an exhausted public converts its anger into participation. Our equivalent moment is on the calendar. This pledge is how we keep it.
"I do not ask any institution to save the republic.
I am the institution the Founders provided for that."
This pledge takes no position on policy. It names no candidate and endorses no candidate. It asks one thing only: that the documented record of this administration's conduct, across all three categories, and of every official's response to that conduct, be answered where the Constitution says it must be answered. At the ballot box. By us.
"Enabler" is not an epithet here. It is a finding you reach by applying three conduct tests to the public record of every incumbent and candidate on your ballot. The three tests correspond to the three parts of The Record: false claims, abuse of power, and self-enrichment. An official of the President's own party who fails none of them has nothing to fear from this pledge; an official of the opposition who fails any of them does. We supply the documented record of the administration's conduct; public voting records, statements, and disclosures supply the rest.
Has the official publicly repeated, amplified, or defended statements that appear in The Record as verified falsehoods (about elections, courts, the economy, or public health), or acted legislatively on the basis of claims they knew or should have known were false?
Has the official defended, excused, or voted to shield conduct that appears in The Record as abuse of official power (courts defied, agencies dismantled, prosecutors and inspectors general purged, critics and journalists targeted, force used against Americans), or voted against the lawful oversight that would examine it: against subpoenas, against protecting inspectors general, against contempt enforcement?
Has the official defended, profited from, or voted to shield from scrutiny the use of public office to enrich the officeholder, his family, or his appointees, including pardons, contracts, and regulatory acts that served private interests over public ones?
Midterm elections are decided by who shows up. In recent midterms, House seats have been decided by a few hundred votes, fewer people than a single high school holds. The second commitment is where this pledge stops being a signature and becomes a turnout operation, one household at a time.
It is party-blind by design. The standard is conduct, documented in the public record. We name no candidate, endorse no candidate, and coordinate with no campaign. Two officials of the same party can be on opposite sides of this standard; many are.
It is verified. Every pledge is confirmed by email and deduplicated. The public count displays only confirmed pledges, with a published counting methodology. We will never show you a number we cannot defend, and the count is independently auditable.
It is lawful and it is yours. The pledge is a personal, individual commitment to participate in an election, the most protected act in American civic life. It binds your conscience, not your ballot; no one will ever know how you voted, and no one should.
It is evidence-based. The pledge rests on The Record, governed by a published methodology with tier classification, named-editor review, a public corrections log, and right of reply. If we get a fact wrong, we correct it in public. That discipline is the point.
By pledging, you join the citizens who have affirmed the three commitments above. Your pledge is verified by email confirmation; your data is never sold.
We sent a confirmation link to your address. Your pledge counts the moment you click it.