A curated list of awesome tools, libraries, and other citizen empowering resources.
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- US Constitution
- US Elections
- US Federal
- Whistleblowers
- Open Government & Transparency
- Money in Politics
- Census & Demographics
- Police Accountability
- Civic Tech & Tools
- The National Constitution Center - Interactive Constitution, learn about the text, history, and meaning of the U.S. Constitution from leading scholars.
- The National Archives: The Constitution of the United States - Transcription of the Constitution as it was inscribed by Jacob Shallus on parchment.
- Vote.org - Register to vote.
- USA.gov voter registration and confirmation - Register to vote and access voting resources.
- Federal Election Commission Bulk Data
- Federal Election Commission Campaign Finance Bulk Data
- MIT Election Data + Science Lab - Academic datasets on elections.
- OpenElections - Certified election results for all 50 states.
- 270toWin - Maps of electoral college votes back to 1789. Also includes voting history and trends by state.
- American Presidency Project: Presidential Elections Data - Presidential election data from 1789-present.
- Official state-by-state vote counts in federal elections from 1920 through 2014 from the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Electoral College Historical Election Votes
- Ballotpedia - Nonpartisan, nonprofit encyclopedia of American politics and elections.
- Vote411 - Election information (ballots, registration, and more) by The League of Women Voters Education Fund.
- Pew Research Center - Nonpartisan fact tank on issues, attitudes, and trends shaping America and the world.
- Gallup - Polling and analytics company tracking public opinion on politics.
- American National Election Studies - Data from the American National Election Studies.
- Google Civic Information API - Election and voter information for U.S. addresses.
- US Vote Foundation Civic Data API - Comprehensive voting methods and election official data.
- Federal Register - CSV, JSON, and HTML tables available for all orders since 1994.
- U.S. House of Representatives Lookup - Official House of Representatives website.
- U.S. Senate - Official Senate website.
- Contact Congress - Open data format for Congressional contact forms.
- 5 Calls - Calling is the most effective way to influence your representative.
- Resistbot - Turns your texts into faxes, postal mail, or emails to your representatives–delivered in minutes.
- Congress.gov - Official website for U.S. federal legislative information.
- GovTrack - Track bills, votes, and activities of the United States Congress.
- Congress.gov API - Official API for bills, members, votes, and Congressional Record.
- Voteview - Congressional roll-call votes and ideology scores since 1789.
- List of Congressional Committees - Committees of the U.S. Congress.
- CourtListener RECAP Archive - Free searchable archive of PACER documents.
- Free.Law - Free legal research tools including Supreme Court data.
- PACER - Public Access to Court Electronic Records for federal courts.
- Supreme Court Data in Bulk and Via a REST API - Access Supreme Court decisions and metadata in bulk or via REST API.
- How easy is it to securely leak information to some of America's top news organizations? This easy - Contains a list of Tor Addresses and SecureDrop URLs.
- How to Leak to the Intercept - Similar to above, but also contains tips on how to protect your own security.
- Send a confidential news tip to the New York Times
- Data.gov - Federal government's central open data portal with datasets from all agencies.
- Federal Register - Daily journal of the US Government with proposed rules and notices.
- FOIA.gov - Central portal for Freedom of Information Act requests to federal agencies.
- MuckRock - Platform to file, track, and share public records requests.
- Office of Government Ethics - Executive branch ethics guidance and financial disclosures.
- Oversight.gov - Federal Inspector General reports, audits, and investigations.
- Regulations.gov - Search and comment on federal regulations and proposed rules.
- USAspending.gov - Official source for federal spending data including contracts, grants, and loans.
- OpenSecrets - Tracks money in US politics, campaign finance, and lobbying data.
- OpenSecrets Lobbying Data - Federal lobbying spending and lobbyist information.
- ProPublica Campaign Finance API - Real-time campaign finance data.
- ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer - IRS Form 990 data on tax-exempt organizations.
- American Community Survey - Detailed demographic data updated annually.
- Census Data API - APIs for population, demographics, economic, and housing data.
- data.census.gov - Explore and download Census Bureau statistics.
- Mapping Police Violence - Database of police killings in the US.
- The Policing Project - Resources on police accountability and transparency.
- Vera Institute Police Transparency Index - Rates police data transparency by jurisdiction.
- awesome-civic - Curated list of civic tech tools and libraries.
- Code for America - Network building government technology.
- Decidim - Participatory democracy platform used by governments worldwide.