Changelog
Every change to methodology, coverage, product, infrastructure, or trust language lands here. Append-only. The corrections log covers per-record factual fixes; this log covers product-wide changes.
Subscribable feeds for journalists and RSS clients. /feed.xml carries source-anchored civic-record changes; /calendar.ics carries upcoming legislative milestones. Each source connector now has its own page documenting status, freshness, and ingestion requirements.
Every indexed record can carry a plainLanguage callout that translates procedural language into normal English. The translation is labeled as translation only; legal effect remains the official record. This changelog records every methodology or product change in public.
Web app manifest, icons, and theme colors are in place. The site is now installable to the iOS or Android home screen. Three home-screen shortcuts: Ask records, Your reps, Top topics.
/state/[abbr] for all 50 states, DC, and 5 territories. Each hub aggregates federal delegation, indexed state-level bills, indexed local files, and source connectors covering the jurisdiction.
551 indexed entities — all 536 current U.S. Congress members + bills + local files + topic pages + source connectors — are now searchable from anywhere via Cmd/Ctrl+K. Server-rendered full results at /search.
All 536 current members of the U.S. Congress now have source-anchored civic profiles at /federal/[slug] with chamber, district, party, contact information, and Bioguide ID. Voting records, sponsorships, and committee actions are added per profile as ingestion lands.
Place lookup now resolves any US ZIP via a two-stage fallback (zippopotam.us centroid + US Census Geographies congressional-district lookup). Static metro table still hits first for speed.
Each indexed record now has a Share a sourced fact button with auto-generated presets (status, vote count, amendment summary, sponsor). Every share renders a dynamic OG card carrying the official source citation.
Public governance pages: /about (named operators, funding model, allowed and disallowed donors, independence pledge), /corrections (append-only log of factual changes, with Report a correction button on every record page), /privacy, and /terms.
Stakeholder records no longer carry a For/Against/Informational/Not-stated enum, which functioned as partisan tagging by another name. They now render the publicStatement verbatim with a Verbatim from the public record. No partisan tagging applied. label.
Vercel Cron triggers /api/cron/refresh-leginfo daily at 9am UTC. Re-pings every indexed source URL; posts to CORRECTIONS_WEBHOOK_URL when any source returns 4xx or 5xx.
17 endpoints under /api/* return JSON with a citation header. Companion files: /llms.txt for LLM grounding, /.well-known/civic-records.json for tooling discovery. /developers documents every endpoint.
Public launch of bythepeopleforthepeople.com. Source-anchored. Nonpartisan. Missing data labeled missing.