Source: U.S. Census Bureau. This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.
Where our data comes from
Rallybase does not produce civic data. Every figure, boundary, name and date on this site came from somewhere public, and this page says where — including what each source does not cover.
On this page (7)
The short version
Government and open datasets, read directly. We do not buy voter files, we do not derive your location from your IP address, and we do not write the news we link to. Where a source is thin, the product says so on the page where you would have expected the answer — that is a deliberate rule, and it is why some sections of this site tell you what is missing instead of showing you an empty box.
How much we hold — counties, officials, measures and meetings, each counted with the date it was read — is on What Rallybase holds.
What we will not do
We never invent a value to fill a gap. If we have not asked, if we asked and got nothing, or if we asked and the request failed, those are three different states and the page tells you which one you are looking at. A zero is a measurement, not a placeholder.
We take no position. Party affiliation is never colour-coded. Bills carry no recommendation. Where a public statistic is genuinely contested, we show the figure and link the competing readings without supplying the sentence that tells you which one to believe.
What you can write to
Every level below is reachable somewhere, and none of them everywhere. The Action Center will not offer you a recipient we cannot help you reach — it names the gap instead — so this is what to expect before you start. These figures are counted from our database rather than written by hand, and the time each row was counted is beside it. The raw counts are at /api/v1/corpus-status.
Congress — the Senate and the House
Counted from our database; the figures load with the page, each with the time it was counted.
State legislatures and statewide executives
Counted from our database; the figures load with the page, each with the time it was counted.
County officers
Counted from our database; the figures load with the page, each with the time it was counted.
City councils
Counted from our database; the figures load with the page, each with the time it was counted.
School boards
Counted from our database; the figures load with the page, each with the time it was counted.
Governing bodies, by post
Counted from our database; the figures load with the page, each with the time it was counted.
Speaking at a public meeting
Counted from our database; the figures load with the page, each with the time it was counted.
We do not post letters for anyone yet. The printing and mail service is not set up on our side, so nothing here can be bought and every route above is a free one you carry out yourself. We also never submit a public comment, never file a records request, and never sign anyone up to speak at a meeting. Those are all acts a citizen performs under their own name, and a platform standing between you and them is a liability to you rather than a convenience.
Every source, and its limits
Grouped by what it answers. Coverage varies by state — the map and the district panel state their own coverage for the place you are looking at, which is more specific than anything this page can say.
Officials
congress-legislators
congress-legislators ↗
Members of Congress held in the public dataset, with their offices, terms, party and cross-references to other public databases.
What it does not cover: Federal only. It says nothing about your state legislature, your city council or your school board.
Open States
Open States ↗
State legislator records with names, parties and districts where held. Coverage is incomplete; mailing addresses are not stored in our state-legislator records.
What it does not cover: State level only, and a legislator's current role is inferred from a role history that upstream does not always close out cleanly.
County governments’ own pages
County governments’ own pages ↗
Officer rows for counties (not counted yet), each citing the page of the county’s own website that it was read from.
What it does not cover: A county we have not read has no officer rows here, and the coverage page draws it blank: that says we hold none, not that the county has none. Pages that refused our reader are counted there rather than named. Offices the officer table has no key for are not stored at all, and the coverage page lists them. Each row carries the day its page was read, and a page can change after that day.
Statewide directories of county officers
Statewide directories of county officers ↗
Officer rows for counties (not counted yet), read only from a statewide directory — a state’s own, or an association of counties’ — and not from the county’s own page. States, by name: (not counted yet).
What it does not cover: A directory can lag the county: someone who has left office may still be listed there while the county’s page says otherwise, which is why the coverage map draws these counties stippled and not solid. A directory is where we read the officer; it is not offered as the county’s own website or form.
City councils’ own records
City councils’ own records ↗
Roster rows for mayors and council members (not counted yet), each from the city’s own page or its own meeting portal.
What it does not cover: A city we have not read has no roster here, and nothing is implied about its council. A city page that refused our reader, or that we could not read, has no row.
School districts’ pages and the AskTED directory
School districts’ pages and the AskTED directory ↗
Board members, trustees and superintendents: seats (not counted yet), from the Texas Education Agency’s AskTED directory and from districts’ own board pages.
What it does not cover: AskTED rows carry no read time, so the date beside them is the day we loaded the file, never the day a district confirmed it. For Texas board members the file is read for names, offices and terms only: no email or phone was read, so a blank contact field means we did not read it, not that the district publishes none. A district we hold nothing for is not implied to have no board.
Boundaries
US Census TIGER/Line
US Census TIGER/Line ↗
Congressional, state legislative, county, city and school district boundaries loaded from TIGER/Line. Other map boundaries come from separate sources.
What it does not cover: City council wards and other sub-city districts are not in TIGER at all. Twelve states run town and township governments that TIGER files separately, and those are not loaded yet.
U.S. Census Geocoder
U.S. Census Geocoder ↗
A server-side address-to-point service. General address entry is not currently connected to the map interface.
What it does not cover: The map currently uses a ZIP code or browser location permission. ZIP results are approximate. The election ballot lookup has a separate address flow; it does not set the map location. We never derive your location from your IP address.
Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas
Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas ↗
Turning a ZIP code into a place on the map, from boundaries we hold ourselves.
What it does not cover: A ZCTA approximates a ZIP delivery area; it is not a government boundary and no official represents one. About one ZIP in twelve — PO-box-only, single-building, and military APO/FPO/DPO ZIPs — has no tabulation area at all, and we say so rather than guessing a nearby point.
OpenFreeMap
OpenFreeMap ↗
The background map tiles — roads, water, labels — that everything else is drawn on top of.
What it does not cover: The basemap is scenery. Every boundary, district, pin and official on the map is our own data drawn over it, from the sources listed above.
Congressional maps for 2026, from each state’s own publisher
Congressional maps for 2026, from each state’s own publisher ↗
Congressional district lines under a state’s 2026 plan, read from the plan’s own state publisher, for each state whose plan we have loaded; the day the new lines take effect is stored on each district.
What it does not cover: A state whose 2026 plan is not loaded is placed under the Census Bureau’s 2025 congressional file, and for a state that redrew, the ballot pages say the lines may differ and name the state. A district number we show can be right while the lines behind it are not.
Public finances
Census State and Local Government Finances
Census State and Local Government Finances ↗
Annual revenue and spending records in Budget, with category breakdowns, fiscal years and the source’s estimation flags.
What it does not cover: These records are not the government’s current adopted budget. Annual samples can omit smaller governments. Budget names the fiscal year and whether amounts were estimated; missing records are not zero spending.
Census School System Finances
Census School System Finances ↗
School-system revenue, spending and enrollment used by the school Budget view, including per-pupil figures where available.
What it does not cover: Not a current school-board appropriation or a measure of school quality. This reader has no per-amount estimation flag for school records; enrollment and residents are different denominators.
Treasury Monthly Treasury Statement
Treasury Monthly Treasury Statement ↗
Federal receipts and outlays reported by Treasury, presented by fiscal year in the federal Budget view.
What it does not cover: Federal accounts only. These are accounting figures, not Census survey estimates, a household tax bill or an assessment of how well money was spent.
Legislation
congress.gov API
congress.gov API ↗
Federal bills, their status, sponsors and full text links.
What it does not cover: Federal only. It carries no state or local legislation.
LegiScan
LegiScan ↗
State legislation across all 50 states.
What it does not cover: No city ordinances or county orders. Most state legislatures sit for only part of the year, so a quiet period is usually the calendar, not a gap.
Elections
Google Civic Information — voterinfo
Google Civic Information — voterinfo ↗
What is on your ballot, your polling place, early voting sites and drop boxes.
What it does not cover: Only loaded in the weeks around an election — the Voting Information Project publishes per election, not year-round. Outside that window there is genuinely nothing to show, and we say which.
MIT Election Data and Science Lab
MIT Election Data and Science Lab ↗
County-level results for past presidential and congressional elections.
What it does not cover: County level, not precinct. Recent elections appear only after certification, which takes weeks.
EAC Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS)
EAC Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS) ↗
How the latest surveyed general election was actually run in local election jurisdictions — registered voters, voters who participated, polling places, and poll workers.
What it does not cover: EAVS is self-reported: it is what local election offices told the EAC, not an audit of what they did. Jurisdictions may skip questions, and where one did we store nothing rather than a zero. It is a snapshot of the general election named above only — nothing more recent, and no other election. Some states report by township, so several EAVS jurisdictions can sit inside one county.
FEC candidate filings
FEC candidate filings ↗
Everyone the FEC lists as a 2026 House or Senate candidate, with no seriousness filter and no fundraising floor. Counting the certified lists below, the candidate table holds candidates (not counted yet).
What it does not cover: A filing is not a place on the ballot: someone can file and never appear on one, and the FEC takes a Senate filing from anyone, including in a state with no Senate race this year. Whether a candidate holds the seat is not the FEC’s word; we say “holds this seat, per the congressional member list” and nothing more.
State certified candidate lists
State certified candidate lists ↗
The names a state’s Secretary of State certified for the general-election ballot, held beside the FEC filings for each state whose list we have read.
What it does not cover: Only a state whose certified list we have read has one here; for every other state the FEC filings alone are shown, and a filing is not a place on the ballot. A list is the state’s certification on the date it carries, and anyone added or withdrawn afterwards is not in it until we read it again. Names are kept as the state prints them.
State election offices’ registration deadlines
State election offices’ registration deadlines ↗
Each state’s voter-registration deadline for the 2026 general election, quoted word for word from the state’s own election office, with the page it was read on and the day we read it.
What it does not cover: A state whose page we could not reach or could not read has no deadline here; that is a gap in our reading and not a state without one. Nothing is computed from a statute or a weekend rule, and county-specific hours and local deadlines are not covered.
Meetings
Legistar
Legistar ↗
City council agendas and meeting schedules for cities that use this vendor.
What it does not cover: Only bodies that publish through Legistar’s API. Bodies on the other portals are in the meeting-portals row below, and a body on none of them is curated by hand.
Meeting portals
Meeting portals ↗
Meeting schedules and agenda links: meetings (not counted yet). They come mostly from Legistar, in the row above, and from the portals CivicClerk, PrimeGov, DocsPublished and BoardBook, each read by its own loader. Bodies on none of these are curated by hand.
What it does not cover: BoardDocs and Diligent CivicWeb meetings were read once, by loaders we ran by hand on August 29, 2026. Their robots and terms are under review, so we do not re-read them on a schedule: those meetings are held as last read and are not refreshed. A body on a portal we do not read is listed only if it was curated by hand. Public-comment instructions are held for bodies (not counted yet); for any other body the page says we have not read them, never that comment is closed.
Demographics
American Community Survey (ACS)
American Community Survey (ACS) ↗
Population, income, poverty and education estimates for places with published values.
What it does not cover: A rolling five-year survey estimate with a margin of error, not a headcount. Small places are sometimes suppressed for privacy, and we show nothing rather than a substitute.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics ↗
Union density and wage figures on the state labour panel.
What it does not cover: State level only, and union density is an annual estimate from a household sample survey — it carries a margin of error and lags the current year. There is no city or county figure.
Eviction Lab
Eviction Lab ↗
Modelled county-level eviction filing estimates with 95% confidence intervals, for the counties in the release we load.
What it does not cover: These estimates end in 2018 and begin in 2000 — they describe the past, not the present, and nothing here reflects the pandemic-era moratoria or anything since. They are modelled estimates with confidence intervals, not counts of evictions, and the interval is part of the number rather than a footnote. County level only: no city, tract or block-group figures are loaded, and no information about individual cases or addresses exists here at all.
USDA Food Environment Atlas
USDA Food Environment Atlas ↗
County-level food access for the counties in the release we load — how many people live far from a supermarket, how many of those are low-income or have no car, grocery and convenience store counts, SNAP-authorized stores and SNAP benefits per head.
What it does not cover: The Atlas is a compilation, not a survey: each indicator comes from its own underlying source with its own vintage, so nothing here shares a single date. In this release low access is 2019, store counts are 2020, SNAP-authorized stores are 2023 and SNAP benefits are 2022 — a county has changed since, and the Atlas will not show it. Household food insecurity is published by USDA only at STATE level and as a three-year average, so it is not a county figure and is not stored as one. Nothing here is about an individual household or address.
Organizations
IRS Form 990 annual extracts (SOI Tax Stats)
IRS Form 990 annual extracts (SOI Tax Stats) ↗
The revenue and expense lines a nonprofit reported to the IRS on its most recent Form 990.
What it does not cover: Only organisations large enough to file a full 990 or 990-EZ appear. The smallest charities file the 990-N e-Postcard, which reports no figures at all — so a blank here means "not required to report", not "spent nothing". Figures are the organisation’s own filing; the IRS does not audit them before publishing.
IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File
IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File ↗
Registered nonprofit organizations, their addresses and their stated purpose.
What it does not cover: Being registered is not an endorsement and says nothing about whether an organization is active or well run. Organizations are matched to cities by name, so a spelling difference can leave a real charity unlisted — which is why nothing on this site is ranked by that count.
ACF benefit program state directories (TANF, LIHEAP)
ACF benefit program state directories (TANF, LIHEAP) ↗
Which state agency administers TANF and LIHEAP in each of the 50 states and DC, its official application page, and the public enquiries phone number the agency itself designates.
What it does not cover: TWO PROGRAMS ONLY. The other fifteen programs in the registry have no state row here: USDA resets the connection to our identifying client, so SNAP and WIC state directories are unread; Medicaid, CHIP and the unemployment-insurance finder publish their state lists through client-rendered pages with no links in the HTML; and HUD's public-housing-agency directory is behind a form. Those are recorded as `unread` and rendered as our gap, never as an absence in the reader's state. Nothing here is an eligibility rule, an income limit or a benefit amount — this layer records where to apply, never whether you qualify. County-level administration is not loaded at all.
DOL state minimum wage laws, tipped wages, and state labor offices
DOL state minimum wage laws, tipped wages, and state labor offices ↗
The published minimum wage in each of the 50 states and DC as the U.S. Department of Labor prints it — including the four states that publish more than one rate — the tipped cash wage and tip credit, the indexation mechanism where a state has one, and the state labor agency that takes wage claims, with its official complaint page and public phone number.
What it does not cover: A RATE, NOT A RULE. Nothing here says who is covered by a minimum wage law, which exemptions apply to an occupation, or whether any particular job is owed any particular figure — every state exempts occupations and industries, and DOL's own table says so. Nothing here assesses whether a law was broken: that is the agency's and the courts' decision. Statutory citations are absent for 50 of 51 states because DOL prints none; only Texas's was read at the primary source. NEXT SCHEDULED CHANGES are absent for 50 of 51 because DOL states only Michigan's — an indexed state carries its mechanism quoted, never a computed future number. Local floors cover 67 named cities and counties only, and the surface does not resolve which one an address falls in. Whether a state preempts local floors is established for 7 states at their own statutes and is `unread` for the other 44 — rendered as our gap, never as permission.
News
GDELT Document API
GDELT Document API ↗
Local news coverage for an area, from published journalism.
What it does not cover: Rallybase never writes news and never ranks it by viewpoint. Coverage is genuinely thin outside larger metros, and we say so in the place the articles would have been rather than showing an empty box.
Attribution
Some of these sources ask to be credited in particular words, and two of them require it as a condition of the licence. Those exact words are below. Where a source asks us to state what we are not claiming — that they have not reviewed or endorsed Rallybase — that sentence is here too, because it is true and because a reader should not mistake public data for a government blessing.
Legislative data from LegiScan, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
© OpenStreetMap contributors
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles · Data from OpenStreetMap
Gromis, Ashley, Ian Fellows, James R. Hendrickson, Lavar Edmonds, Lillian Leung, Adam Porton, and Matthew Desmond. Estimating Eviction Prevalence across the United States. Princeton University Eviction Lab. https://data-downloads.evictionlab.org/#estimating-eviction-prevalance-across-us/. Deposited May 13, 2022.
Other credits and non-endorsement statements (6)
News coverage indexed by The GDELT Project.
Labor statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, retrieval date not recorded. BLS has not endorsed Rallybase and is not responsible for any figure derived here.
Protected area boundaries from the USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Q9LQ4B.
Nonprofit financial figures from IRS Form 990 annual extracts (SOI Tax Stats).
Election administration data from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS), Version 2.0. Figures are self-reported by election jurisdictions. The EAC has not reviewed or endorsed Rallybase.
Food environment data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Food Environment Atlas (July 2025 release). The Atlas compiles indicators from many underlying sources, each with its own vintage. USDA has not reviewed or endorsed Rallybase.
External research
Not a source — nothing on this site is derived from it. Research about the civic information landscape, for readers who want the comparative view we deliberately do not build.
Civic Information Index
Civic Information Index ↗
A foundation-funded dashboard scoring civic health for every US county across 27 indicators — local news presence, participation, library use, and more.
Why we link it and do not use it: its scores blend editorial weighting with estimated values for counties missing data. That is a reasonable choice for comparative research and the wrong one for a record; this site shows only what a source actually published. Read their methodology alongside any score.
Found something wrong?
Civic data goes out of date, and some of it was wrong when it was published. If a name, a district or a date on this site does not match the official record, tell us at support@rallybase.org and say what you expected to see. Corrections are made against the official source, not against the report. What we have changed, and when, is on the updates page.