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GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SOURCES

Congressional members, bills, public laws and House votes: U.S. Congress.
https://api.congress.gov/
Senate votes: U.S. Senate.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/votes_new.htm
Federal candidate registrations and campaign finance: Federal Election Commission.
https://www.fec.gov/data/
https://api.open.fec.gov/

Address-to-district matching, district/state/county boundaries and county identifiers: U.S. Census Bureau.
https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/
https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/Legislative/MapServer
https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/State_County/MapServer
https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/codes/files/national_county.txt

Montana candidate filings and election results: Montana Secretary of State.
https://candidatefiling.mt.gov/candidatefiling/CandidateHomepage.aspx
https://electionresults.mt.gov/ResultsList.aspx
https://sosmt.gov/elections/results/
California election results: California Secretary of State.
https://media.sos.ca.gov/media/json-endpoints.csv
https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/prior-elections/statewide-election-results
Iowa election results: Iowa's official results portal.
https://electionresults.iowa.gov/IA/

POLICY QUESTIONS: EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND CHARTS

Public-land sale rules and FY2024 land changes: U.S. Code, 43 USC 1713, and Bureau of Land Management.
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=%28title%3A43+section%3A1713+edition%3Aprelim%29
https://www.blm.gov/programs/lands-and-realty/sales-and-exchanges
https://www.blm.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2025-07/BLM-Public-Land-Statistics-2024.pdf

Pell Grant award history and amounts: Congressional Research Service and Department of Education, Federal Student Aid.
https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R45418/R45418.8.pdf
https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center/library/dear-colleague-letters/2025-01-31/2025-2026-federal-pell-grant-maximum-and-minimum-award-amounts-updated-may-29-2025
https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center/library/dear-colleague-letters/2026-01-30/2026-27-federal-pell-grant-maximum-and-minimum-award-amounts

Mental-health facility inpatient counts: SAMHSA, 2020 National Mental Health Services Survey, Table 5.1a.
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/reports/rpt35336/2020_NMHSS_final.pdf

State election-deepfake law counts: Utah Legislature briefing, reporting NCSL's June 2026 tally.
https://le.utah.gov/interim/2026/pdf/00003016.pdf

Stablecoin law: U.S. Government Publishing Office, GENIUS Act.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ27/html/PLAW-119publ27.htm
Tether reserve composition: Federal Reserve, FEDS Notes, Figure 1 (June 30, 2025 data).
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/banks-in-the-age-of-stablecoins-implications-for-deposits-credit-and-financial-intermediation-accessible-20251217.htm

Independent, non-government research: NCSL's state-law inventory and KFF's April 2019 Medicare-for-All polling.
https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/artificial-intelligence-ai-in-elections-and-campaigns
https://files.kff.org/attachment/Topline-KFF-Health-Tracking-Poll-April-2019

Election-result coverage is limited to supported contests in Montana, California and Iowa. Live totals are preliminary. Check the election authority for official results. Educational charts are dated historical data, not current guarantees. User posts, statements, polls and internal organization votes are not government statements or public-election ballots.

Detailed citations: https://polisapp.io/government-information-sources
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