November 2026 · An open letter to the new majority
Congratulations, Democrats.
On a sweeping win in the House and the Senate. You earned it. We put you there.
Now it’s time to get real about where things are heading.
We can be red or we can be blue, but at the end of the day we’re all human. You work for us.
Most of us want the same few things: a life we can afford, and leaders who answer to us.
This page is about holding you to that, starting on day one.
Here’s the honest part. Voters didn’t hand you Congress because they fell in love with a party.
In a survey of 1,119 adults a month before the election, only 4 in 10 voters had a favorable view of the Democratic Party,
and only 36% said the same of the Republican Party.
But 8 in 10 said the country needs substantial change, or a complete upheaval, in how it’s run.1
That isn’t a mandate for a party. It’s a mandate to fix things.
You work for us, and every two years we decide whether you keep the job.
Accountability is how we’ll know whether you did it.
What accountability looks like
Say what you’ll do, in plain English.
Put a date on it.
Vote in the open, and explain your vote.
When it doesn’t happen, say so, and say why.
Three things that can’t wait
These aren’t about left or right. They’re about whether the law applies to everyone,
and whether Congress does the job the Constitution gives it. Every poll number shows how many people were
actually asked. Here’s how to read them.
Release the Epstein files. All of them.
3 in 4 of the 1,477 adults surveyed want all of the Epstein files released.
The law requiring their release passed the House 427–1 and the Senate unanimously in November 2025.2
The Justice Department has released more than 3 million pages and says that’s everything the law requires.
It collected more than 6 million, and the Government Accountability Office has opened an investigation into its redactions.3
You now hold the oversight power. Get the rest released, protect the survivors, and follow the evidence
wherever it leads, whatever anyone’s party or status. Prove to us that no one is truly above the law.
Where do you stand?
All of the Epstein files should be released.
Counted on this site only. It doesn’t change the national poll number above.
The war began in February 2026, and Congress has never voted to authorize it. Congress has voted on ending it
several times, but nothing binding has passed. Supporters in Congress call it a response to years of Iranian attacks
on Americans. Opponents say it has no clear mission. U.S. troops have been killed, and hundreds wounded.5
In a survey of 1,119 adults, 64% of voters called the war one of the most important issues in their vote.1
The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, under any president. Hold public hearings.
Give the public the full cost in lives and dollars. Then take a real vote: authorize it or end it.
Where do you stand?
A president should get Congress’s approval before taking military action against another country.
Counted on this site only. It doesn’t change the national poll number above.
Federal judges have repeatedly found that ICE broke the law or ignored court orders.
In January 2026, Minnesota’s chief federal judge listed 96 orders ICE had violated in 74 cases that month alone,
writing that “ICE is not a law unto itself.”7
In November 2026, a federal judge in Oregon found that ICE kept making warrantless arrests in violation of his order,
and that one officer “lied in an official record.” The government had denied the claims.8
By April, more people had died in ICE custody this fiscal year than in any full year on record.
The Department of Homeland Security says that reflects record detention numbers, not a higher death rate.9
Enforcing immigration law and obeying the law aren’t opposites. Hold hearings on every documented violation.
Put body cameras on every agent; both parties and the White House have said they support it.
Publish the numbers on arrests, detentions and deaths. When a court finds the law was broken, make sure there are consequences.
No agency is above the law, under any administration.
Where do you stand?
ICE agents should be required to wear body cameras.
Counted on this site only. It doesn’t change the national poll number above.
This fall, a stock-trading ban stalled in the Senate, 53–47, along party lines.
Republicans called it common sense. Every Democrat voted no, saying it had loopholes and objecting to the voter ID bill attached to it.
Now Democrats run the Senate. If that bill wasn’t the right one, write the one that is.12
Where do you stand?
Members of Congress shouldn’t be allowed to trade stocks.
Counted on this site only. It doesn’t change the national poll number above.
75% of the 1,036 registered voters surveyed said unlimited spending in elections makes our democracy weaker. Just 13% said it makes democracy stronger by protecting free speech.
Since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, corporations and unions have had a First Amendment
right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. 63% of the voters surveyed disagreed with that decision,
including a majority of every party.
Make big political spending visible and limited, and apply the same rules to every party’s donors.
Where do you stand?
Unlimited spending in elections makes our democracy weaker.
Counted on this site only. It doesn’t change the national poll number above.
YouGov poll commissioned by Issue One, a campaign-finance reform group, October 202514
Answer all five to see your common ground with the rest of the country.
That’s the list. It’s not complicated, and it’s not partisan.
You’ve got two years.
How to read these numbers
Every poll number on this page comes from asking a sample of real people. No poll asks every American,
so here’s what these numbers can and can’t tell you.
1,000 to 3,000
people are asked in a typical national poll. Each card above shows exactly how many.
±3 points
is roughly how close a random sample of 1,000 people lands to asking everyone, 19 times out of 20.
With 2,000 people it’s about ±2.2. That’s the margin of error on each card.
Why a sample can work: pollsters try to reach a randomly chosen group that looks like the whole
country. Like tasting a well-stirred pot of soup, a spoonful can tell you a lot about the pot.
Where it can go wrong: the margin of error only covers the luck of the draw. It doesn’t cover
people who refuse to answer, questions worded in a leading way, or minds that change after the poll.
Those can push a result further off. Treat every poll as an estimate, never as a count of every American.
Party numbers are less precise: each party is a smaller group inside the poll, so its margin of
error is bigger than the overall one.
This site’s votes aren’t a poll at all: anyone can vote and nobody is picked at random.
They show what visitors here think, not what the country thinks.
Specific promises from the new majority, in their own words, with a link to where they said it.
Each one gets a status as the term goes on.
Nothing on the record yet.
When the new majority makes a specific, checkable commitment, it lands here with their exact words
and a source. “We’ll fight for working families” doesn’t count.
“We’ll pass a stock-trading ban by April” does.
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Do you agree?
Affordability and accountability should come before party, and this majority should be held to it.
The more people weigh in, the harder this is to ignore.
Live count of votes on this site, updates on its own. Not a scientific survey: one vote per browser, and you can change yours.
Your vote
Your vote is how we hold them to it.
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