THE RECORDEvidence · context · accountability
Updated October 2, 2026
The Record is the broad narrative accountability layer. Independent archives add raw statements, confirmed policy actions, immigration expertise, primary documents, contradictions, sequences, and revision history. The intake system connects those strengths and requires every canonically published promotion to meet The Record’s evidence and reasoning structure—including Maybe / Therefore—without pretending unlike record types can be added into one grand total.
4,731 active canonical historical records plus 333 current national records, organized by date, topic, person, evidence, significance, and response. 11 retired duplicate IDs remain available only as audit redirects.
Open The RecordThe district archive covers votes, candidates, appropriations, district data, and representation accountability without inflating the national Trump-archive total.
Open IN-6 archiveCounts are snapshots, always shown with their own unit and scope.
A public, searchable and open-source archive of Donald Trump's public statements, speeches, interviews, press conferences, social posts, executive documents, and White House material.
Archive unit: one public statement, social post, speech/transcript, executive order, or White House document
Stated primary period: 2025-01-20–present
Best used for: Full Text Search · Date Browse · Topic Analytics · Raw Statements · Primary Source Links
Coverage caveat: The project describes its complete daily coverage as beginning in 2025, while the monthly index also contains a small number of older transcripts. Do not treat the older span as complete coverage.
Registry check: 2026-10-02T22:02:20Z
A searchable tracker of confirmed executive orders, memoranda, enacted regulations, agency policy changes, personnel actions, and court rulings across both Trump presidencies.
Archive unit: one confirmed policy action
Stated primary period: 2017-01-20–present
Best used for: Full Text Search · Date Browse · Topic Filters · Term Filters · Policy Lifecycle Status · Court Status
Registry check: 2026-10-02T22:02:20Z
A searchable compilation of Trump 1.0 and 2.0 immigration policies with underlying documents and continuing implementation, litigation, predecessor-policy, and status updates.
Archive unit: one immigration policy action
Stated primary period: 2017-01-20–present
Best used for: Full Text Search · Date Browse · Subject Filters · Agency Filters · Action Type Filters · Term Filters
Registry check: 2026-10-02T22:02:20Z
A source-first archive of executive actions, statements, promises, reversals, contradictions, and consequences built from primary sources and verified reporting.
Archive unit: one curated executive-conduct entry, with separately counted source documents, social posts, contradiction records, and sequences
Stated primary period: 2015-06–present
Best used for: Full Text Search · Fielded Search · Regex Search · Claim Verification Endpoint · Date Browse · Controlled Taxonomy
Registry check: 2026-10-02T22:02:20Z
External records enter a normalized research-lead queue, not the published count. Promotion requires a stable origin ID, source review, evidence and confidence states, facts, significance, goalpost / response, Maybe / Therefore, consequences, revision provenance, and a duplicate/lifecycle decision. Matching records are crosslinked to one canonical event rather than copied. Counts from different comparability groups are never summed.
Status is explicit. Raw staged JSON is public for auditability, but its substantive fields remain unreviewed, unauthorized for canonical publication, uncounted, and not findings. Accepted links reuse an existing canonical ID when the underlying event is already present, so one event remains one count.
Count disposition: Not Counted Unpublished · Evidence: Corroborated / High · Human reviewed: no
The raw normalized JSON is deliberately public for auditability and contains substantive draft Facts / Significance / Goalpost / Maybe / Therefore fields. Those fields are unreviewed, unauthorized for canonical publication, excluded from every canonical total, and not presented as a finding. This page exposes origin and workflow metadata without rendering the draft as accepted analysis.
Created 2026-08-25T13:50:19Z · last modified 2026-08-25T14:40:23Z · human reviewed: no · publication authorized: no · canonical count: excluded.
Each feature keeps its own evidence and lifecycle controls.
Keep raw posts, speeches, and documents in a separate artifact layer, then link them to verified events rather than counting each utterance as an event.
Add proposed, implemented, in litigation, partially blocked, reversed, expired, restored, and outcome-measured states with dated transitions.
Connect a policy to the rule or directive it replaced, later implementation, litigation, court actions, rescission, replacement, and continuing effect.
Add normalized evidence tiers, confidence and dispute states, human-review state, source preservation, official responses, contradiction arcs, consequence chains, and revision history.
Treat external archives as discovery and provenance inputs. Every record that advances beyond research lead must be rewritten from inspected sources into facts, significance, goalpost/response, maybe_therefore, evidence/confidence, provenance, consequences, and revisions, with no copied bulk prose.
Search The Record first and show separately labeled external results by unit. A public-statement result, policy action, immigration policy, and executive-conduct entry must retain different badges and never collapse into an undifferentiated count.
data/legacy_entries.json is now the canonical historical body. The root and docs/ HTML custody representations retain active rows and superseded tombstones so retired permalinks keep working; the generated entries_array.js compatibility view contains active rows only so downstream consumers cannot double-count retired records. Companion DOCX/PDF files remain dated snapshots until their separate rebuild path is restored.