🧩 BND Motif Index · M078
Political accountability
Politicians are judged by their record: whether they show up, vote, keep their promises and deliver.
- 13claims filed under it
- 4left shows it came up on
- 3center shows it came up on
- 4right shows it came up on
- 1fact-checker
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Work horse not a show horse 🧩 Proven record 🧩 Empty suit 🧩 Does the work 🧩 Promises made, promises kept
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Corporate accountability 🧩 Falls on his sword 🧩 Gets stuff done 🧩 Politicians' empty promises
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “It doesn't matter who Troy Jackson is with in his personal life if he does his job.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-10-22 “The Biden administration failed to secure the southern border.”
🎙️ The Michael Berry Show 🎙️ Top Story with Tom Llamas (NBC) 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) - 2026-10-11 “Donald Trump has failed to fulfill many of the promises made during his campaign.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ WSJ What's News 🎙️ CNN 5 Things 🎙️ The Daily (NYT) - 2026-10-09 “One of the voters said Husted voted 'to kick 490,000 Ohioans off their healthcare.'” 🔎 PolitiFact
- 2026-10-09 “Ken Paxton has a significant record of performance as Attorney General and in the legislature.”
🎙️ The Michael Berry Show 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-05 “Trump failed to deliver on campaign promises regarding electricity prices, gas prices, housing affordability, and healthcare.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ WSJ What's News 🎙️ CNN 5 Things 🎙️ The Daily (NYT) - 2026-10-03 “The voter respects Sharice Davids for being active in rural communities and showing up.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-10-03 “The Trump administration secured the border and stopped illegal entries.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show - 2026-10-02 “A Democratic ad says Ashley Hinson's top donors appear in the Epstein files and that she voted against releasing the files; she in fact voted for their release.” 🔎 PolitiFact
- 2026-09-30 “Iowa Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Josh Turek 'skipped 58% of the votes at the Statehouse this year.'” 🔎 PolitiFact
- 2026-09-05 “Josh Stein has improved DMV wait times” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-08-22 “Voters are said to wave off Democrats' impeachment credentials: look how far that got us, Trump is still president.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-07-25 “Trump did not keep his promise to lower prices” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M078 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works