The Red Receipts

What you voted for

684 receiptsEvery line sourced
Jan 20, 2025 – Oct 26, 2026

From January 20, 2025 to October 26, 2026, Republicans held the White House, the House and the Senate. This is what they did with it: 684 documented actions in 645 days, one line each, every line linked to its source. No theory about why. Just the record.

If you voted Republican, you don't have to read all of it. Tap the chart. Find your issue. Then ask whether this is what you voted for.

A note before you scroll. I'm not a journalist. On my best day I'm a cultural satirist, a conversationalist, a storyteller and a photographer. After a few hours at a dinner party this week trying to have a civil debate with Republican voters, I realized that energy would go further with more mass, scale and reach. So I spent a long night vibe coding this, then ran two overnight fact-checks on every line. At this volume, it most certainly contains some minor errors. Every line links to its source so you can check it yourself. But the volume is the point. That's where the concern should rest.

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23 hrsBetween receipts

The categoriesTwenty categories of concern, plus a bonus round

War and the rule of law top the list, then immigration, prices and the Justice Department. The two loudest promises, "drain the swamp" and "no new wars," are where the record runs deepest: corruption and war touch 181 entries.

Project 2025 is counted only where an entry matches a specific recommendation in Heritage's Mandate for Leadership (23). By Heritage's own June 2026 count, 53% of the plan is now policy. The Big Beautiful Bill (13) counts only its own milestones; its effects land under the poor and health care.

Key 00receipts in the category Red bar: longer bar, more receipts

Listed alphabetically. Each receipt carries up to three categories; the bonus round is counted separately.

Bonus roundUnbecoming conduct of the leader of the free world

One row on the chart isn't policy. It's the man. This round logs what Trump personally said, posted and did: the reporter he called "piggy," the governor he called a slur on Thanksgiving, the murdered director he mocked, the AI videos, the lies told on camera. 136 entries, more than any category on the list, and it shows up in all 22 months.

Each one, alone, gets a shrug. That's how it works. A president who calls a reporter stupid on a Friday makes a president who ignores a court order on Monday feel like more of the same. The numbness does the work. We used to hold the people we elect to a floor of basic decency. These are the receipts for where the floor went. In the full record, the 57 B-numbered lines are conduct-only entries; another 79 receipts count in both places.

The outrage calendarHow they showed up, month by month

Each square counts what was done or said that month. Darker means more. Tap any square and its stories open in the panel just below the chart. Tap a month letter for the two stories that defined it. Tap around.

Then ask yourself: is this what you voted for? And more importantly, is it what you’re going to vote for again?

Add it up

Now step back and take the whole thing in at once. Pardons for crooks with connections. A Justice Department run as the President's personal law firm. Opponents called scum, reporters called stupid and ugly, a murdered director mocked while his family grieved. Farmers wrecked by tariffs, drivers gouged by a war Congress never voted on, Medicaid and food aid cut to pay for tax breaks at the top. No-bid contracts went to the well connected. And war has been good for the family business: funds tied to his sons invested in more than a dozen defense tech firms that hold $3.2 billion in federal contracts, and the drone-parts maker that counts Don Jr. as an investor and adviser landed a $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the history of the office that made it. Epstein's friends protected and his victims told it was a hoax. This is the party of your grandparents in name only. The Republicans who used to argue with Democrats about tax rates and the size of government are gone, replaced by an outfit that runs like a family business: loyalty rewarded, dissent punished, the boss paid first and everyone else paid last. Add it up and the choice gets very simple. One party, flaws and all, is still trying to keep elections, courts and a free press standing. The other spent 645 days taking them apart for the benefit of one man and the people who pay him. Ruin and self-preservation. That's the platform. Here are the receipts.

The full recordItemized

Every line is one dated event, linked to its source. Unlabeled lines are documented actions; spoken words are marked (statement), contested reporting (alleged).

▲ Hit their wallet (124): cost right-leaning voters money, benefits, coverage or their farm's market.
◆ Broke their own rules (212): violates something the right says it stands for. Law and order, draining the swamp, fiscal restraint, no new wars, releasing the Epstein files.
B-numbers (57): the bonus round. Unbecoming conduct of the leader of the free world.