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Find your districts, inspect who represents you, then compare how the news frames the race. Everything else supports that path.

Multi-Perspective News

The news, every side

Vote-R pulls political headlines from left, center, and right sources — NPR, Fox, NYT, BBC, PBS, National Review, and more — so you can compare coverage and decide for yourself. And when politics gets heavy, the Good News feed is one click away.

How the labels work

We aggregate; we don't editorialize. Each outlet is tagged left / center / right from published media-bias ratings so you can compare framing. See exactly how in our methodology.

Legislative Feed

Track how bills move through Congress

Official Congress.gov records turned into a readable pipeline with stage tracking, procedural context, and a transparent evidence score.

What the score means

Not a fact-check verdict. It measures how much official legislative evidence exists: summaries, text, actions, committee history, and procedural progress.

Select a bill

Choose a bill from the feed to inspect its latest action, timeline, score, and official summary.

Accountability Tracker

Every member held to a score

Legislative output, bipartisan engagement, years of service, stock trading (STOCK Act), and optional vote participation — all compiled into a transparent accountability grade.

Upcoming Elections

Know the politicians on your ballot

See who represents your area, where their campaign money comes from, how they vote, what bills they sponsor, and their stock trades — everything voters need to stay informed.

2026 General Election

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Who represents your area?

Enter your state and congressional district to see every federal politician who appears on your ballot — senators for your whole state, plus your House representative for your district.

Not sure of your district? Look it up at house.gov ↗

Local Government

Every district that affects you — down to your school board

Federal politics is only part of the picture. Enter your address to resolve your congressional district, state legislature seats, county, city, and school district — then look up the officials at every level.

School district → Washington

Powered by the free U.S. Census geocoder. Your address is sent only to the Census Bureau to resolve boundaries — it is never stored remotely.

Include street number, street, city, and state. Resolves county, city, school district, state house/senate, and congressional district.

Polls

Where to vote — and how the race looks

Find your polling place by ZIP or street address, then check recent public opinion: presidential approval, the 2026 generic ballot, and competitive Senate and governor races.

Two kinds of polls

Places = where you cast a ballot. Opinion = how candidates and parties are doing in surveys. Opinion data via VoteHub (CC BY 4.0).

A 5-digit ZIP works for a quick map pin and state links. Street address is more precise for your assigned precinct. Never stored remotely.

Enter a ZIP or address

We'll show your area on the map and the nearest official voting locations we can find.

Floor Votes

How Congress voted

Recent roll-call votes with party breakdowns. House uses Congress.gov when CONGRESS_API_KEY is set; Senate and fallbacks use GovTrack.us (no extra API key).

Your Ballot

Know every candidate on your ballot

Enter your state and congressional district to see your full federal ballot — both senators plus your House representative — with grades, campaign finance, recent votes, and STOCK Act trades. Optional: take the political compass to see personal match scores.

What the Public Record Score means

A 0–100 measure of how much verifiable public record a member has — vote attendance, legislative output, financial disclosure (stock trades), and tenure. It measures documentation, not honesty. Full methodology.

Not sure of your district? Use Local with your address, or look it up at house.gov ↗.

AI Political Advisor

Understand politics on your terms

A source-cited political tutor designed to present multiple perspectives and separate facts from interpretation — plus a private political compass test. When a local model is available it runs on your device, so your questions stay with you.

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Political Compass Test

20 questions · ~3 minutes · completely private, runs locally · unlocks candidate match scores on Ballot

Discover where you fall on the economic left/right axis and the authoritarian/libertarian axis. No data is sent anywhere — all scoring happens in your browser.

Ask Anything

Ask about any bill, political topic, policy, or how government works. Answers aim to present multiple perspectives and separate facts from interpretation — always verify against the linked official sources. AI can be wrong.

Jobs & Financials

America's economy, live

National hiring, payrolls, wages, and debt from BLS and Treasury — plus every state's unemployment and employment count so local jobs sit next to the national pulse.

Sources

BLS CPS / CES / JOLTS for jobs and hiring. Treasury Fiscal Data for the national debt. BEA for state GDP. No editorial spin — just the numbers.

National jobs & hiring

National financials

Voting Geography

The United States, state by state

Every state scored on voting access, plus BEA GDP, BLS unemployment, and tax-burden context so civic rights and fiscal reality sit on the same map.

Click a state

Select any state on the map to see voting access, GDP, and tax profile.

Rights & Laws

Your Constitution, saved here

The full U.S. Constitution — all seven Articles and twenty-seven Amendments — plus a plain-language rights guide and the Declaration of Independence. Always available, no API key required.

Public domain

Text from the U.S. National Archives. This is civic education, not legal advice — court interpretations change over time.

Voting Equality

Access is not equal

Voter ID rules, registration, mail access, and felony policy — next to state GDP per capita and estimated tax burden.

Trust & Methodology

How Vote-R works — and its limits

Vote-R aggregates official government data and news from across the political spectrum. It makes editorial choices (which outlets to include, how to label them, what to rank first), so we document those choices here instead of claiming to be free of them.

In one line

A multi-perspective civic dashboard — not a fact-checker, not a party, not a government service. Always verify with official sources before you act.

News source labels

Each outlet is tagged left, center, or right based on published, third-party media-bias research (e.g. AllSides, Ad Fontes Media, and Media Bias/Fact Check). Labels describe an outlet's typical editorial lean, not the accuracy of any single story.

We aggregate headlines and summaries; we do not rewrite or editorialize them.
Story order is by recency within each source pool, not by our preference.
Lean is assigned at the outlet level, so an individual article may not match its label.
Think a label is wrong? Request a correction.

Public Record Score (0–100)

This measures how much verifiable public record a member of Congress has — it is not a measure of honesty, character, or whether they tell the truth.

It combines four documented signals:

Vote attendance — share of roll-call votes cast.
Legislative output — bills sponsored, normalized by tenure.
Financial disclosure — STOCK Act stock-trade filings on record.
Tenure consistency — length and continuity of service.

A high score means a member is well-documented and easy to hold accountable — not that we endorse them. A low score often just means a shorter or thinner public record.

Bill Evidence Score

For legislation, the Evidence Score reflects how much official documentation exists — summaries, full text, actions, committee history, and procedural progress. It is not a verdict on whether a bill is good policy.

Candidate match score

If you take the optional, on-device political compass, we estimate an ideological "match" between your answers and a member's party-based position. It's a rough directional guide, not an endorsement, and it never leaves your browser.

Privacy & data handling

Addresses & ZIPs you enter are sent only to the U.S. Census geocoder (and, for polling places, Google Civic) to resolve your districts. Vote-R does not store them on our servers.
The political compass test is scored entirely in your browser and saved on your device (local storage). It is never uploaded.
AI questions stay on your device when a local model is available. If a hosted model is used, that is disclosed in the Advisor panel.
Analytics (when enabled) uses Google Analytics 4 with IP anonymization to understand aggregate traffic. No advertising trackers; we do not sell data.

Data sources

Congress.gov — bills, members, votes
GovTrack.us — roll-call votes
FEC — campaign finance
STOCK Act disclosures — stock trades
U.S. Census Bureau — district geocoding
Google Civic / VIP — polling places
Federal Register — executive actions
BLS, BEA, U.S. Treasury — economy
National Archives — U.S. Constitution
VoteHub — opinion polling

Corrections & appeals

Found a wrong figure, a mislabeled outlet, or a scoring dispute? We treat corrections as a priority. Send the page, the specific claim, and a source, and we'll review and post an update.

Contact: to be published

Ownership & funding

Operator, funding, and any political affiliations will be disclosed here. Vote-R is not affiliated with Vote.gov or Vote.org.

Methodology last updated —. This is civic information, not legal or voting advice — always confirm with your official state or county election authority.