About PromiseClock
- Non-partisan
- Global
- Sourced
- Cited
- Ticking
When a politician makes a public commitment, we start a clock. That clock keeps ticking until the promise is kept, broken, or judged unverifiable. Our goal is simple: short political memory shouldn’t be a political strategy.
- United States
- Canada
- United Kingdom
PromiseClock at a glance
Why PromiseClock exists
Politicians make promises. Voters remember them — for a while. Then the news cycle moves on, the deadline passes quietly, and the commitment evaporates without consequence. PromiseClock exists to close that gap.
We track public commitments made by sitting government officials across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Every entry is sourced to a verifiable primary record, editorially reviewed before publication, and updated as events develop. We measure one thing only: did they do what they said they would do?
We are not a news organization. We do not offer political analysis, editorial opinion, or advocacy. We document. The record — kept, broken, or still ticking — speaks for itself.
What we stand for
Non-partisan
We apply identical editorial criteria to every politician, every party, and every country. We do not take sides.
Sourced
Every promise links to a verifiable primary source. No source, no entry.
Transparent
Corrections are logged, not deleted. Our full methodology is published and public.
How PromiseClock works
We find it. A researcher identifies a qualifying public statement by a sitting government official, documented in a primary source.
We verify it. An editor reviews the source, confirms the attribution, and assesses the promise against our four eligibility criteria.
We track it. The promise is published and monitored. Every status change is sourced and logged. We update the record as events develop — until the clock stops.
Get involved
Have a promise we’ve missed? Submit it for editorial review. Want to keep PromiseClock running? Contributions help us stay independent. Spotted an error? We review all correction requests within 48 hours.