Beta · Nebraska first
We The People of the U.S. of A.

America’s help desk for finding out what your government actually did

Not opinions about your representatives. Their record — the money, the votes, the attendance — with every single number linked back to the government file it came from.

You’ll get your real deadlines, who’s on your ballot, and who paid for their campaign — every number linked to the government file it came from.

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Why this exists

A story about two ZIP codes

90262Lynwood, California
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68105Omaha, Nebraska

I came to Nebraska in 2001. I’d been writing databases for aerospace companies — the kind of work where a decimal in the wrong place matters. Nobody here knew that.

First day at a new job in a downtown building, someone looked at me and said:

“Angel? What kind of name is that? I bet you won’t last long here with a name like that.”

I didn’t argue with him. I built a log instead — every work order, every tenant complaint, every repair, dated and tracked. Months later a tenant reported a knocking radiator that the paperwork swore had been fixed. The log said otherwise. The log was right.

I lasted longer than he said I would.

That’s the whole idea behind this site, twenty-five years later. You don’t win an argument about whether someone is doing their job. You keep a record, you make it public, and you let people check it themselves. That’s what a help desk is. Somebody comes in with a question, and instead of an opinion, they get the file.

Read more: that downtown building was the Rorick, and it’s back in the news →

Show, don’t tell

The proof: two state senators, real money, sourced

State legislators don’t file with the FEC, so for a long time this site couldn’t show them at all — and said so out loud. That changed. Nebraska’s Accountability and Disclosure Commission publishes bulk filings, so we pulled six years of them — 120,162 rows — and matched two real senators.

Where their campaign money came from

Nebraska Legislature · candidate committee receipts as filed with the NADC

SourceSen. Juarez (D5)Sen. Guereca (D7)
Total receipts$105,335$220,447
From individuals14.9%32.8%
From businesses46.5%30.3%
From state PACs26.6%20.1%
From federal PACs0.2%15.0%
From party committees9.2%0.9%

Why “business” gets its own row: the federal model sorts money into individuals, PACs, and parties. Nebraska has a fourth category the federal side doesn’t — businesses giving directly. Folding it into “individual” would have been simpler code and a lie of omission, so it stands on its own. It turns out to be Sen. Juarez’s single largest source — a fact a three-bucket system would have erased entirely.

Source: NADC bulk contribution data, 2021–2026. Itemization threshold is $250 under Nebraska law (federal is $200). Neither senator crosses the 40% PAC line this site uses to flag heavy PAC funding — a checkable fact, not a judgment.

Civics 101 · learn the rules first

Four things nobody taught you

Short lessons with something to click, drag, or toggle. Tap Quick fact to learn something in five seconds — or open the full lesson.

Lesson 1

The door that never closes

The Constitution says how young is too young to hold office. Read it again and try to find the other end.

There is no maximum age for any federal office. None. Anywhere.

Three minimums — 25 for the House, 30 for the Senate, 35 for President. Zero maximums. Federal judges have no age requirement at all.

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Lesson 2

Nobody voted for that

Two chambers of the same Congress. Two completely different rules for how an empty seat gets filled.

A House seat can only be filled by an election. A Senate seat can be filled by one person’s signature.

Article I never allowed House appointments. The 17th Amendment carved out a proviso that lets a governor appoint a senator.

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Lesson 3 · Nebraska

How to vote in Nebraska

Every deadline and every way to register, straight from the Secretary of State.

The deadline isn’t a date. It’s a rule: the third Friday before the election.

For November 3, 2026, that’s October 16 online or by mail — and October 23 in person, by 6 PM.

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Lesson 4 · Nebraska

Who else is in the room?

When somebody’s paid to work a bill, the law makes them say so out loud. Here’s how to read it.

Calling your own senator is not lobbying. You never have to register.

Nebraska law protects speaking for yourself. Registration kicks in when you speak for someone else — or spend over $200 doing it.

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Coming to a ZIP code near you

The wall — every state, no hiding the gaps

Every state has a federal report card built from real FEC filings and roll-call votes, all 51 pulled and audited. Only Nebraska has state-legislature coverage so far. The gap isn’t a failure — it’s the honest map of what’s left, printed on the front page where you can see it.

Federal + state legislature Federal card live
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What the number is. The sum of PAC money reported in each official’s own FEC filing, added up across that state. Not campaign spending, not a ranking of anybody’s character — just what was reported.

Why you should sort by average. California has 54 members of Congress; Wyoming has three. Ranking by raw total mostly measures how big a state is. The per-official average is the fair comparison, which is why it’s a button and not a footnote.

Become an Angel Worker

The homework’s done — the filings are pulled, the votes are counted, the math is checked twice. What this needs now is people willing to check it against what they actually see. If a number on your state’s card looks wrong, that is the single most useful thing you could send us.

No experience required. You don’t need to code. You need to be the kind of person who looks something up before believing it.

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Your email is used only to reach you about beta testing. Never sold, never shared.

The part most sites skip

What we can prove, and what we can’t

We can show you
  • How often they showed up to vote — from the official roll call
  • Who funds their campaign — from FEC filings, and NADC in Nebraska
  • Bills they introduced, and which became law
  • Whether they filed required financial paperwork on time
  • Every figure above, linked to the government file it came from
We will not claim
  • That a donation bought a vote — we don’t know that, and neither does anyone else
  • That a missed vote means they’re lazy — it could be a funeral or a flight
  • A single score summing up a whole person’s service
  • That we cover state legislators outside Nebraska — we don’t, yet
  • A zero where we actually mean “we don’t know”
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If you only do one thing on this site

The Walkthrough · all 50 states and DC

From “am I even registered?” to “did my ballot count?”

Seven steps, in the order you actually do them. Pick your state once and every step fills in with your own state’s real deadline — the date your state published, and the link back to where it published it. Your progress lives in the link itself, so you can send it to someone else or print it and take it with you. Nothing is stored on our end.

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Go deeper

Two more doors

The rules, published first

Six subjects, the exact cut lines, and every line we drew ourselves labeled as our choice instead of a fact. Nobody has been graded yet — the rules went up before the grading, on purpose, so they can never be written to fit a person.

Read the methodology →

Build a PAC

Pick a vehicle, add donors, and watch how much of the money stays traceable to a real human being. The fastest way to understand campaign money.

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This is a beta, and we mean it Nebraska is the most complete state. Some records show gaps, and where a number is missing we say “not built yet” instead of printing a zero. If you find something wrong, that’s the most useful thing you can tell us — finding the mistakes is the whole point.
One number, straight from Treasury

The national debt, without the fake clock

Almost every debt counter online ticks upward while you watch it. That number is an extrapolation — Treasury publishes the real figure once a business day, to the penny, and nobody outside Treasury knows what it does in between. So this one shows the published number, the real change since the previous publication, and how many days old that is. Nothing animates, because nothing about it is measured by the second.

Put this on your own site too → Same two lines of HTML as the deadline widget. It calls Treasury from your visitor’s browser, not from us.

Want to understand it rather than just look at it? Move the numbers yourself → A rule you can do in your head — divide 72 by a rate to get its doubling time — pointed at $40 trillion. It explains why saving up only works when your rate beats the rate you are chasing.

The fence

“Who put you there?”

You just watched a governor’s ad where he’s out fixing a fence.

Nice shot. Good boots. And somewhere in the back of your head: who put you there? Not the fence — the office. Who paid for that ad, who signed the paper that gave him the job, and did anybody vote on it at all?

That question has an answer, and it is a public one. It is filed, dated, and free to read. Most people never see it because nobody ever handed them the file — so that is the whole job here. Follow the money → · Read how one Senate seat got filled without an election →

Everything in the help desk

The whole house, one list

Unfinished homework, on purpose — and all of it open. Where a state or a number is missing, you will find a page that says so instead of a page that fakes it.

Start here

If you do one thing before November 3.

Who’s on your ballot

Real candidates, side by side, no verdict on top.

Nebraska New York California Texas Iowa Oregon Kansas South Dakota Wyoming Colorado

Follow the money

Who funded them. Filed, dated, checkable.

The investigations

One question, chased to the actual record.

Learn the rules

Civics 101 — short, and each one has something to click.

How we work

Check us. That is the point.

Unfinished homework — and that is the honest word for it Ten states have a ballot page; forty do not yet. Nebraska is the only state with state-legislature money. Every one of those gaps is printed where you can see it instead of being quietly left out. This is one citizen’s homework for one midterm, built so the next one is easier — and so whoever picks it up after us can see exactly how it was made.