🧩 BND Motif Index · M1807
The check is in the mail
A leader promises voters a cash payment, then another, a dividend, a rebate, a bonus if his side wins, and none ever arrives; voters tally what they are owed and mock the checks as imaginary.
📜 Plots🗂️ Accountability🗂️ Pocketbook
- 6claims filed under it
- 5left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 2claims retold online
⚠️ 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
🪜 rests on 🧩 Politicians' empty promises
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Bribing voters
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (5 left-leaning, 1 center, 0 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
"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, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 3
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-10-17 “Trump is a lifelong con man who makes fake promises to voters.” 3
- 2026-10-14 “Donald Trump's promise to give citizens $5,000 is a fraudulent pitch to voters.” 5
- 2026-10-05 “Donald Trump's promise of a $5,000 dividend is an empty bribe intended to influence voters.” 5
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Retold online 2
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-05 “Republicans lost, so Americans won't be getting the $5,000 checks Trump promised for a Republican win.”
- 2026-11-04 “People are not going to receive the $5,000 checks from Trump.”
Said by voters 1
claims voters made in The Focus Group
- 2026-09-19 “A Michigan Republican Trump voter believes they are owed $22,200 from the $5,000 promise if Republicans win.”
M1807 · first seen 2026-11-09 · what this is · how the index works