CivicBeacon

CivicBeacon LLC

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About this app

DISCLAIMER: CivicBeacon is an independent, privately developed app by CivicBeacon LLC. It is NOT affiliated with, endorsed by, authorized by, or representative of any government entity, and it does not provide government services. All government information in this app comes from the official public sources listed below.

CivicBeacon makes it easy to follow U.S. government activity. Track House and Senate bills, Supreme Court cases, executive orders, and elections, and see who represents you at the federal, state, and local levels, with clear plain-English summaries and smart search.

FEATURES
- Bill Search & Filters: Find U.S. legislation by keyword, bill number, or category, covering Congress sessions 116-119
- Supreme Court Tracking: Follow cases from cert to decision, with justice profiles and opinions
- Executive Orders & Public Laws: Browse presidential documents and enacted laws
- My Representatives: View your federal, state, and local officials with their sponsored bills and activity
- Elections & Voting Tools: See upcoming elections, build a sample ballot, and find your polling place
- AI Summaries & Chat: Plain-English explanations generated from the official sources below
- Non-Partisan & Data-Driven: No editorializing, just the facts

OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT DATA SOURCES
- Bills, amendments, votes, committees, and public laws: U.S. Government Publishing Office (govinfo.gov) and the Congress.gov API (api.congress.gov)
- Congressional Research Service reports: Congress.gov API (api.congress.gov)
- Executive orders and presidential documents: U.S. Federal Register (federalregister.gov)
- Congressional district boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line (census.gov)
- Campaign finance and candidate data: Federal Election Commission (fec.gov)
- Elections, polling places, voter registration info, and state/local officials: Google Civic Information API (developers.google.com/civic-information), which aggregates official state and local election data

NON-GOVERNMENT OPEN DATA SOURCES
- Federal legislator records: unitedstates/congress-legislators open-source project (github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators)
- Supreme Court case data: CourtListener by Free Law Project (courtlistener.com)
- Supreme Court case enrichment: Oyez by Cornell Legal Information Institute (oyez.org)
- Candidate biographies, voting records, and ratings: Vote Smart (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- Candidate research and ballot measures: Ballotpedia (ballotpedia.org)

NEWS SOURCES
Political news aggregated from publicly available RSS feeds: The New York Times (Politics), The Guardian (US Politics), NPR, BBC News, PBS NewsHour, Wall Street Journal, and Roll Call.

ABOUT AI-GENERATED CONTENT
Plain-English summaries and AI chat answers are generated by CivicBeacon from the sources listed above. They are provided for convenience, may contain errors, and are not official government records. Always refer to the official sources listed above for the authoritative text.

DISCLAIMER: CivicBeacon is independently developed by CivicBeacon LLC. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or authorized by any government entity. This app does not provide or facilitate government services. All data is sourced from the publicly available records and open-source projects listed above.

Ratings and reviews

Not perfect, but democracy thanks the devs for not paywalling. AI features require payment, otherwise donation based model.

App doesn't do its job. Overlooks bills, has multiple duplicates, sometimes shows me stuff that is completely irrelevant (e.g. wrong districts), and often is just blank. Gets an extra star purely because it's a good idea, but the implementation is godawful.

Doesn't work. Tried to set it up and it had me enter my email, then asked for my name and zip code, then asks for interests but no matter what you select it just said "An error occured" then went back to it's main screen. closed, rebooted, changed networks, tried 3-4 times but it doesn't work.

What’s new

New in-app Data Sources page listing every official source CivicBeacon uses. Fixes and stability improvements.