Awesome Citizen

A curated list of awesome tools, libraries, and other citizen empowering resources inspired by other awesome awesomeness.

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• Awesome Citizen
  • Elections
    • Voter Registration
      • Vote.org - Register to Vote
      • USA.gov voter registration and confirmation - Register to vote and voting resources
    • Voting Rights: Intimidation
      • ACLU Voter Intimidation resources (PDF)
    • Election Data
      • Federal Election Commission Bulk Data
      • Federal Election Commission Campaign Finance Bulk Data
      • Voting and Registration; Voter Turnout
        • U.S. Census Current Population Survey
      • Federal Elections
        • 270toWin - Maps of electoral college votes back to 1789. Also includes voting history and trends by state.
        • American Presidency Project: Presidential Elections Data - Presidential election data from 1789-present.
        • Official state-by-state vote counts in federal elections from 1920 through 2014 from the U.S. House of Representatives.
        • Electoral College Historical Election Votes
    • Polls and Studies
      • Pew Research Center
      • Gallup
      • American National Election Studies
  • Federal
    • Executative
      • Executative Orders
        • Federal Register - CSV, JSON, and HTML tables available for all orders since 1994.
    • Legislative
      • Find Your Representatives
        • U.S. House of Representatives Lookup - Official House of Representatives Website
        • U.S. Senate - Official Senate Website
      • Communication Tools
        • Contact Congress - Help create an open data format for Congressional contact forms
        • 5 Calls - Calling is the most effective way to influence your representative.
      • Legistration Tracking
        • Congress.gov - Official website for U.S. federal legislative information
        • govtrack - GovTrack helps everyone learn about and track the activities of the United States Congress
        • Tracking Congress In The Age Of Trump - FiveThirtyEight
      • APIs
        • Congress API by ProPublica - Retrieve legislative data from the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Library of Congress
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    • Judicial
      • APIs
        • Supreme Court Data in Bulk and Via a REST API
  • Whistleblowers
    • Leaking Documenets and media
      • How easy is it to securely leak information to some of America's top news organizations? This easy - Contains a list of Tor Addresses and SecureDrop URLs
      • How to Leak to the Internet - Similar to above, but also contains tips on how to protect your own security