Clock is ticking for us to shut down this shitshow.
What are you doing, reading, thinking on this topic?
We don't have much time.
Let's be part of ending this national nightmare together.
And this is how he will try his coup d’état this time.
I've been building LegisTrack — a tool for following legislation across all 50 states and Congress — and wanted to share it here since this community actually cares about the guts of civic tech.
The problem I kept hitting: state legislation is impossibly fragmented. 50 sites, 50 data formats, dense bill text, and no easy way to see the bigger patterns. So I tried to fix a few things at once:
- Bill DNA (the part I'm most proud of): it detects when a near-identical bill turns up in 5+ statehouses — the tell-tale sign of model legislation drafted once and introduced everywhere. You get a map of where a bill is "spreading." Genuinely eye-opening to watch.
- Follow the Money: pulls top donor industries for a bill's sponsor straight from official campaign-finance disclosures (20+ states + FEC so far).
- AI summaries + Q&A: plain-language explanations of dense bills, and you can ask any bill a question.
- A personalized "For You" feed: describe who you are, and it surfaces the bills that actually affect you with a one-line reason why — then drafts a message to your legislators you review and send.
- Real-time alerts on status changes, hearings, and votes.
Data comes from OpenStates + LegiScan; cross-state similarity is done with Postgres full-text + trigram matching (pg_trgm/tsvector) rather than anything fancy, which has held up surprisingly well. Stack is React/Node/Postgres, self-hosted.
It's live on the web (legis-track.com) and an iOS app is in App Store review now.
I'd genuinely love feedback from people who work in/around gov tech — especially on the model-legislation detection (false positives, edge cases) and what data sources or features would make this actually useful in your work. Happy to answer anything about how it's built.
REJECT THE BILLIONAIRES. VOTE IN EVERY LOCAL ELECTION.
https://www.lydiafortexas.com/
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Our democracy is fake.
The same government groups—the CIA and the Pentagon—that lied to create propaganda to lead us into wars and ran human experiments like Project MKUltra on regular people are still in charge.
Top politicians and elites run protected networks that shield predators and war criminals from ever going to jail.
The whole system is rigged because these politicians are in bed with giant Wall Street banks like JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, which make billions of dollars funding both sides of wars and have done so for hundreds of years.
To keep us distracted, the TV and news are controlled by huge companies like Disney and Comcast. They fill our screens with nepo babies that are sponsored by the exact corporations that are making massive profits off of global genocide and violence right now.
We are forced to watch massacre of vulnerable people and unable to do anything to stop these atrocities.
We do not live in a functional democracy.
I don't think a decade is long enough, and I want Pedolf to face consequences while still on earth.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s. In 1972, my second-grade teacher had us do a mock election between Nixon and McGovern. We couldn't just pick a name; we had to look her in the eye and explain why we chose them based on their platforms. My dad—a 50s Army vet—reinforced this by handing me a newspaper to read up on the debates. In 1980, my whole family drove to the polls together to vote for Reagan. We didn't all agree, but we respected the process.
Today, things look like a Facebook gang fight. The word "patriot" is thrown around like code for racism, and younger generations seem completely apathetic to the principles of "consent of the governed" and individual liberty.
I wrote an article breaking down how the intentional decline of K-12 civics education over the last 30 years created a vacuum filled by toxic social media algorithms. As Teddy Roosevelt once said, true patriotism means standing by the country, not a political party or a president. Our nation is an unstoppable, powerful force when we unite, but we can't do that until we reclaim our shared civic vocabulary.
Read the full piece here: https://substack.com/@patriciaoshierstepp/note/p-211380917?r=1sr6sh&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
I'd love to hear your thoughts: Do you think bringing back robust civics classes can fix our modern political divisions? How did your family handle political disagreements growing up?
I'll be honest; I don't think I can do it anymore. I always try to be magnanimous, and I always try to see the best in people.
But there is really no reason to be a MAGA supporter in 2026. To me, it indicates two things. First, it telegraphs an extreme lack of intelligence. Second, it telegraphs an extreme lack of empathy. Both are huge red flags in a person.
He is now trapped in a hospital bed in a cervical neck brace, with an ICE agent stationed right at his feet keeping him in custody. His face is completely covered in blood and his teeth are damaged from the assault.
https://www.EyesOnICE.net/p/atlanta-metro-area-ice-surge
Listen to his own words from the hospital room. He can barely speak, warning that "my neck hurts a lot," "I can barely breathe," and "I can't move it much."
We cannot turn a blind eye to this violence happening directly in our communities. Read the full report and see the breakdown of the regional surge here: