Where We're Headed

This is a long build. Here's where it's headed.

We're not there yet — and we'll say so plainly. These are goals, in the order we intend to earn them.

Near term — a voice in every district.

Participating voices in all 435 congressional districts, then deeper coverage district by district. Ten per district is 4,350 participating voices, the scale where a report starts to mean something. Participation comes first; everything else follows from it.

Next — a Legislative Participation Report.

When participation is broad enough, and our methodology supports meaningful reporting, we'll publish the first AmericanVoters Legislative Participation Report — a transparent, aggregate account of how participating voices engaged with the legislation before Congress, built from official legislative sources and set alongside nonpartisan facts, with no opinion of our own. Never a poll. Never a claim to speak for the country. A documented record of the people who took part.

Long term — a trusted civic institution.

Our long-term goal is to become a trusted civic institution that helps Americans understand legislation, take part in the legislative process, and see that participation transparently documented — for the benefit of Congress and the nation.

That's also why we ask a little about you. The optional details in your profile are used only in aggregate, never to identify you — they're what lets a participation report describe who took part.

Our hope is simple: that over time, AmericanVoters becomes a genuinely useful public resource — one that helps participating Americans understand Congress, and gives Congress a transparent record of how participating voices engaged with the legislation before them.