Product Features
The rest of this site makes an argument: that Congress too often works for someone other than the citizens who elected it, and that the way to establish that is to measure it from the official record rather than argue about it. This area is the other half — the machinery that carries the argument out.
There is one page for each capability of the product. Each says what the thing does in plain mechanism, names the political goal it exists to serve, and states the limit it will not cross. If a page here cannot be traced back to something a citizen can check, it does not belong.
What The Movement Publishes About Politicians
The three awards a citizen sees beside any officeholder or challenger, and the two product-wide rules that govern what those marks are allowed to say.
A published award, 0-100 and higher is worse, measuring how much one named person did to put a short, hand-curated list of democracy-damaging laws in place.
GoalMake the accusation arithmetic a stranger can re-derive.The Llama AwardThe counterpart award that counts repair rather than damage — 0-100, higher is better — for work that takes bad laws off the books or fixes the machinery of self-government.
GoalFind the allies, not just the opponents.The Flamingo AwardThe award for everyone outside the voting record — read from a person's own recorded words and sourced background — and the only award with three states instead of a bare number.
GoalJudge a challenger on evidence, and never publish silence as an accusation.The WallA hard separation between two kinds of evidence: what a politician did with the power they held feeds two awards, and everything else feeds a third — and nothing crosses.
GoalKeep the heaviest claim answerable from government records alone.Awards, Not ScoresThe product-wide rule that everything published about a politician is an award, a percentage of one, or the stated absence of one — enforced by a lint that fails the build.
GoalSay something unflattering about a named living person, honestly.Showing The Arithmetic
Every published number comes with the page that derives it, an honest account of how much evidence there was, and a dated re-runnable edition behind it.
Two different derivation pages — the voting-record invoice and the Flamingo math page — each built to be argued with, each reachable by anyone with no sign-in.
GoalMove the argument to the weights, which sit in a public file.Say What We Could SeeEvery calculation publishes its denominator and a typed cause for every blank — plus 'N% known' beside every award, and a public ledger of the data the movement is still missing.
GoalApply the movement's own honesty standard to itself.Your State House, Same InstrumentThe same three awards and the same arithmetic reach state legislators, driven by a separate policy file — because the laws that touch a citizen most are often not federal.
GoalWatch the level of government that touches daily life most.Work You Can WatchThe recomputation is not a black box on a server somewhere — the job queue is visible, a run can be started and followed, and it keeps going if you close the tab.
GoalA number nobody can watch being made has to be taken on faith.The Public Record It Rests On
Where the evidence comes from: every stage of every vote, the votes that were prevented from happening, the law pages, and the rule that a source is the official record or nothing.
Every recorded act a member took at every stage of a bill — committee, procedural, amendment, passage, conference, override — plus what they authored and what they signed on to, each row linked to the official record.
GoalFinal passage is the last and least informative thing that happens to a bill.The Vote That Was Never AllowedThe record of repairs somebody filed and of the people who used a position of power to make sure no vote ever happened — the single most effective way a law dies without anyone being recorded opposing it.
GoalKilling a fix quietly is more effective than voting against it.The Law PageOne page per law: what it does, the rung-by-rung record of every stage where a question was put, and one click to the official source — plus the honest page for a law we hold no record of.
GoalEvery claim one click from the primary source.The Official Record Or NothingEvery claim about a named living person carries a link to the government's own record, and an unsourced row is dropped and the drop reported rather than quietly kept.
GoalArithmetic over the public record is not defamation.Problems, Laws And Fixes
The movement's second pillar: naming precisely what is broken, and writing the legislative language that would fix it.
A numbered, public list of exactly what is wrong with the country, each entry written precisely enough that a law could be drafted to fix it.
GoalGrievance that stays vague cannot be fixed or checked.Fix BillsReal legislative language the movement wrote for each problem — sections a legislator could file tomorrow — including a draft generated from the problem itself and from what citizens voted for.
GoalClose the gap between complaining and legislating.The People
Who holds power near you, who could replace them, and the evidence base the movement builds about people who have never cast a vote.
The one page every link about a person lands on — in three shapes, depending on whether they hold power, are seeking it, or have never held office at all.
GoalWhat your senator actually did, in the first screen.The RostersFour lists of people who hold or seek power — one frozen key each — that any citizen can propose into and only an admin can publish into.
GoalOpen for any citizen to propose into, impossible to quietly write.Your Seats And The Seat MapYou say as much or as little as you like about where you vote — country, state, ZIP, street — and the app tells you live exactly which of your elected seats it can now show you.
GoalYou cannot judge a vote until you know whose vote it was.The Qualification AreasThe public, versioned list of named areas a politician is measured against — with the movement's declared weight for each one, and a slider so you can use your own.
GoalPublish the standard before the verdict.Videos, Transcripts And ProvenanceThe record of a person speaking in their own words — transcripts the app never downloaded itself, each carrying a visible grade for how trustworthy the transcription is.
GoalA challenger has no votes, so their own words are the evidence.Reading Their Own WordsOne dedicated assessor per qualification area reads a transcript against a rubric published in advance, quotes the words behind every judgement, and links each result back to the sentence and the timecode.
GoalRead hundreds of hours with no staff, and show the quote every time.Who Should Run, And WhereThe run that turns a list of recommended people into a plan — one named challenger per seat, published with the arithmetic that put them there, and a reason beside every name that did not get one.
GoalAnswer the hard question — who should run, and where.Worrisome ChallengersThe roster where a citizen can file a sourced worry about somebody running for office — video-first, never anonymously, and published only after a human approves it.
GoalHold our own side to the same standard as everyone else.How A Citizen Takes Part
The working surfaces: reasoning through a question, casting votes, proposing records, doing real-world work, and finding your way around without an account.
The workspace where a citizen works out one question for themselves — their position, their evidence, and what is missing and why — inside shared areas a group can own.
GoalReach a defensible conclusion when proof is withheld on purpose.The First-Principles AI CheckAsk the app to re-check a decision's reasoning using only the background material you gave it, and get back a step-by-step chain you can audit line by line.
GoalCheck the logic, never supply a new unaccountable authority.Value Systems And Policy PacketsWrite down your own this-versus-that rules as structured ethics the software can apply, then publish them for others to import — or import somebody else's.
GoalThe answer to being told what to think.Citizen VotesStars, yes-or-no ballots and plan answers — one voting system pointed at problems, laws, people and the movement itself, sealed daily into a number anyone can recompute.
GoalAnswerable by the people the movement claims to speak for.The Movement PlanThe movement's written statement of what it is going to do, published as a numbered document a citizen reads end to end — with a vote button inside every item.
GoalTell a citizen who just decided to help what happens next.Proposals And ReviewThe one place a citizen who is not an admin can change what the movement says — and the review side, which on your own laptop is you.
GoalA movement that drops citizen contributions stops receiving them.Actions You Can Actually TakeA wall of action cards, each opening a step-by-step walkthrough that ends in an 'I did it' button and a form for logging what you did, with evidence a stranger can check.
GoalSay what to do on Saturday morning, not just what is wrong.Karma And The History BookRecognition a citizen earns for real-world work that other citizens verified, shown on public boards titled the History Book of Citizens Fixing Democracy — and itemised line by line.
GoalMake the movement's scarce resource countable.Search The RecordOne search box in the header of every page finds a politician or a law by name and takes you straight to its page — ungated, and logging nothing.
GoalEvidence nobody can find is worthless.The AI AssistantA chat box beside every record that answers questions about what is on the screen, cites what it read, and refuses to hold a political opinion of its own.
GoalAnswer the question without ever supplying the opinion.Open To Read, Gated To ActA stranger reads the entire movement with no account, every control they cannot use yet is still on screen, and clicking one keeps their draft and hands it back afterwards.
GoalA sign-in wall makes the argument invisible to everyone outside it.Your Settings, Your DataThe controls a citizen actually holds: what the AI is allowed to do, what gets published, a full export of everything at any time, and closing the account.
GoalLeaving costs nothing, so this never becomes something you are inside.Trust Between Citizens
How the movement weighs whose input counts without letting anyone buy standing, and without ever requiring a real name.
The rungs a citizen climbs by doing verifiable work, which decide what their input can do — climbable under a pseudonym, and impossible to buy.
GoalSurvive astroturf without putting a login wall at the door.Where You StandA skippable, resumable walk that shows you real people two at a time and one at a time, and works out where you actually stand from your answers rather than from a label.
GoalWhere you actually stand, not how you describe yourself.Groups And Values BlocksNamed communities built around written positions, where your claim to belong is checked against your own answers and — if you volunteer it — your own public record.
GoalTell a real public from manufactured accounts.Your Profile, Your AnonymityTake part under a pseudonym, your real name, or both — with a one-click switch that removes you from public view without costing you your standing or your work.
GoalPseudonymity as a safety feature, not a convenience toggle.Verification LayersA dashboard of independent layers a citizen may choose to prove — each one proving control of something and nothing more, and none of them a gate on reading or taking part.
GoalProve control of something without proving who you are.Yours To Run, Yours To Check
The software is a tool a citizen holds, the evidence is a public repository anyone can clone, and the rules the movement promises to follow are enforced by things that fail loudly.
The whole product is a program you run on your own machine with no account, no database and no network — and the hosted copy is the same code with one driver swapped.
GoalA tool you own cannot be switched off or quietly changed.The Public Data RepositoryEverything the movement asserts about laws, votes and politicians lives in a separate public git repository anyone can clone and diff — and a file being in it is the approval record.
GoalDo not ask for the deference the movement exists to refuse.The Citizen Mining NetworkThe movement publishes the list of videos it has no transcript for, and volunteers run the work on their own computers into public repositories they own — with independent copies cross-checked before anything is quoted.
GoalAn impossible bill for one server, an afternoon for thirty citizens.Nothing Fails QuietlyLoading, empty and broken are never confused for one another on any page — and the rules the movement promises to follow are enforced by build-failing checks rather than by anyone remembering.
GoalA named gap beats a quiet one — turned inward on the software.Paid SupporterA voluntary monthly membership at an amount you choose, buying exactly one thing — a room showing where the money went — and never a louder vote.
GoalPay for it without advertising, paywalls, or selling citizens out.The Four Party Front DoorsFour additional websites — for Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and Democratic Socialists — running the same software and publishing the same numbers as this one.
GoalIn-party persuasion is fast; cross-party persuasion is not.Publishing To The Social NetworkA finished piece of reasoning can be cast outward as a structured post that other citizens can evaluate and build on, rather than an opinion shouted into a feed.
GoalExchange the reasoning, not the conclusion.Where to go next
- Start Here — what the movement is, in sixty seconds, with no vocabulary you have not met.
- How It Works — the core loop these features serve, end to end.
- The Problem — why a product like this exists at all.
- Get Started — run it on your own computer, or use the hosted copy.
- Open the app — do it for real, on your own seats.