Because someone has to keep the receipts.
Politicians make promises. Lots of them. On debate stages, in rallies, on social media, in press conferences. Then they get elected and the promises get quietly shelved, watered down, or forgotten entirely.
NoKool exists to track the gap between what they say and what they do. We pull real voting records from Congress, real campaign finance data from the FEC, and real executive actions from the Federal Register — then put it all in one place so you can see the full picture.
We don't pick sides. We pick facts.
NoKool doesn't use a simple pass/fail system. Our grade factors in three things:
Not all promises are created equal. Pledging to “end a war” is fundamentally different from pledging to “make generators tax-deductible.” We rate each promise from 1 (trivial) to 5 (cornerstone — a defining campaign pledge).
Based on voter priority data from Pew Research Center, promises in categories that voters care about most (like the economy) carry more weight than niche issues. This reflects what actually matters to the electorate.
Each promise gets one of five statuses: Kept (100), Fighting (80), Stalled (30), Nothing (0), or Broke (−150). The status reflects what the politician has actually done — not what they said they'd do.
The formula: Severity × Issue Weight × Status Value, normalized to a 0–100 scale.
Promise delivered. Bill signed into law, executive order implemented, goal achieved.
Actively working on it. Introducing bills, voting consistently, pushing hard.
Made some effort but stopped. Early effort then nothing recent.
Zero effort. Never introduced a bill, never voted on it, no public action.
Actively contradicted the promise. Voted against their own promise, reversed their own action.
clerk.house.gov (House) and senate.gov (Senate) — official Congressional roll call data.
FEC.gov (Federal Election Commission) — real donation and committee filings.
Federal Register — executive orders, memorandums, proclamations.
Manually researched and editorially verified. Every promise includes a source.
NoKool is a solo project built by a political science student who got tired of politicians saying one thing and doing another. This isn't funded by any party, PAC, or interest group. It's funded by stubbornness and caffeine.
NoKool is the sibling project of AnTinfoil — a blog dedicated to busting political myths and misconceptions with facts, not theories. Different lens, same mission: truth over BS.
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