About Politically Irritated

Hi, I'm Cristian Paez Jr. I built Politically Irritated to keep track of what politicians promise, on the campaign trail and in office, and whether they actually follow through.

Politics is full of spin, half-truths and flat-out lies, and it comes from every direction. It's exhausting to sort through. So this site sticks to the receipts: what someone said, where they said it, a link to the proof, and what happened next. Everything else here is the same idea applied to the basics: who holds power in Washington, organized clearly and sourced.

What's here

• Seat maps for the Senate, the House, the Supreme Court and the White House, showing who controls each branch.
• A profile for every member of Congress and member-elect, with their term, contact info, voting record score, campaign finance totals where available, and any money AIPAC gave their campaign or spent on ads for or against them.
• Promise tracking for the White House, Congress and individual lawmakers, each promise rated on whether it was kept.
• A bill tracker putting every law this Congress has passed, plus the newest bills, on a timeline: who introduced it, who signed it, which party ran each branch at the time, and who stands to gain or lose.
• A presidents page comparing every recent administration on jobs, inflation, pay, approval and the promises they made.
• A Presidential Timeline of all 47 presidencies, from George Washington to today: what each one did, what people called them, how historians rank them and how popular they were.
• Every governor, serving now and newly elected.
• A news wire of the latest political headlines from outlets across the spectrum.
• The president's Truth Social posts, shown exactly as written, because they often announce real policy before anything official does.

Politically neutral, on purpose

This site doesn't tell you who to vote for, and it isn't run by or for any party, campaign or candidate. Every politician gets held to the same standard, whatever team they're on.

• Same rules for everyone. A broken promise is broken whether it came from a Democrat or a Republican.
• Their words, not mine. Promises are quoted directly from the source whenever possible, so you can judge the wording yourself.
• Balanced news. The news wire pulls from three outlets rated left, three rated center and three rated right by AllSides, so no side dominates. Headlines link to the original articles.
• Colors mean party, not judgment. Blue is Democrat and red is Republican. Supreme Court justices are colored by the party of the president who appointed them, not by how they rule.

How promises are rated

A promise only makes the list if the person said it themselves, on the record, with a link you can check: a campaign website, a speech, a debate, an interview or an official statement. Each one gets one of five ratings:

• Kept: they did what they said.
• Watered down: they delivered part of it, or a weaker version.
• Blocked: they tried, but Congress or the courts stopped it.
• Broken: they didn't do it, or did the opposite.
• Clock is ticking: there hasn't been time or a clear outcome yet.

Any rating besides "Clock is ticking" comes with a short explanation and a source, so you can see exactly why it landed where it did. Ratings change when the facts do.

Where the data comes from

• Members of Congress: the public-domain congress-legislators dataset and official congressional portraits.
• Election results: race calls compiled from Wikipedia's district-by-district results tables, checked for sudden swings before publishing. Results are unofficial until certified.
• Voting record scores: Voteview at UCLA.
• Campaign finance: the Federal Election Commission's OpenFEC data.
• AIPAC money: the same FEC filings since the 2022 elections, covering donations AIPAC's PAC sent to campaigns (including members' donations it passed along) and ads its super PAC, United Democracy Project, ran for or against candidates. The same is shown for every member, whatever their party or position on Israel.
• Bills and laws: the Library of Congress's Congress.gov API, with plain-language summaries from the Congressional Research Service and cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.
• Economy: the Federal Reserve's FRED database, which publishes figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
• Presidential approval: Gallup and the American Presidency Project.
• Presidential promise scorecards: PolitiFact and the Miller Center.
• Bios and other photos: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, credited on each page.

Member data refreshes automatically every week, bills every day, and headlines every 15 minutes.

Spot a mistake?

I'd rather be corrected than wrong. If something here is inaccurate, out of date or unfair, email contactme@iamchrispaezjr.com with a link to a source, and I'll check it and fix it.

Who's behind it

Politically Irritated is an independent project by Cristian Paez Jr, published by Cristian Paez Jr Studios LLC. Any ads or sponsors on the site are always labeled, and they never influence the data or the ratings.

Questions, tips or sponsorship inquiries: contactme@iamchrispaezjr.com