Every week, we check the record.
Voters delivered a mandate in the last election. The question is whether the people sent to Washington are carrying it out — or carrying water for the establishment instead. Starting now, this site answers that question every week, member by member, from the public record.
Every Monday, Watch The Mandate publishes a check-in covering the prior week for every Democratic senator and representative in Congress — all 264 of them, including the Independents who caucus with the Democrats in the Senate and the non-voting delegates. Each member's week is classified one of two ways:
FOLLOWING THE MANDATE — advancing the priorities voters sent them to deliver: protecting healthcare, lowering costs, defending democratic norms, showing up, and using every tool the office has.
ADVANCING THE ESTABLISHMENT — voting with the status quo, trading away leverage, backing leadership deals that give the mandate away, or missing the votes that matter.
Every call is made from primary sources only — the roll-call records at Congress.gov and members' own official statements — and cited, so you can check our work. Absences from significant votes are findings too, and they are named. When a member did nothing relevant in a week, the check-in says exactly that. Nothing is invented, and nothing is padded.
The first check-in posts Monday, November 16, 2026, covering the week of Monday, November 9 through Sunday, November 15, 2026.
Watch The Mandate is a citizen record-keeping project. It is not affiliated with any campaign, candidate, party, or committee.