QuorumCivic: Congress Tracker

WHEN SOMETHING YOU FOLLOW MOVES, YOU'LL KNOW Follow a bill or a representative and Quorum notifies you when it moves — a chamber vote, a passage, a signature, or a notable roll call your representative took part in. At most two notifications a day, usually fewer. The ask appears the first time you follow something, never at launch, and everything in the app works the same if you decline. YOUR DISTRICT IS NOW A TAB District moved out of a settings row into the main navigation, rebuilt in the order people read it: who represents you — three tappable portraits — then what's on your ballot, then how the district is doing, then what those representatives have done about it. A REPORT CARD YOU CAN OPEN Economy, health and safety each carry a plain-language grade, the measure driving it, and the share of districts doing worse. Tapping a row opens every measure in that category, number first, each ranked against a named group of districts. YOUR BALLOT, AND THE RACE BEHIND IT Your district tab lists the 2026 races you can vote in. Tapping one opens the November field: every candidate as a block carrying the same facts — their primary result and vote share, what they raised from PACs, what outside groups spent for and against them with the largest committee named rather than totalled, and a door into their record. Challengers with no congressional record show their statehouse voting record where one exists. Michigan's August 4 primary results are in, marked projected until the state certifies. Money with no filing reads as "None recorded", never as zero. MONEY FROM PEOPLE, NOT JUST PACS A representative's funding section leads with money given by people rather than committees: the cycle total, roughly how many donors it came from, the share that arrived in gifts under $200, and how it compares to their PAC money. It covers the 2024 and 2026 cycles and says which — a cycle that isn't loaded reads as unloaded, never as zero. Bundled money — individual checks an advocacy PAC collected and forwarded — has its own bucket, kept out of that PAC's direct giving. Money spent against their opponents is its own bucket too. MORE OF CONGRESS, FEWER DEAD ENDS • Explore is a fixed grid with every destination visible: House, Senate, Bills, Votes, PAC $, Companies, Committees. Both rosters are searchable by name or state. • A Votes screen lists what both chambers voted on in plain language rather than clerk shorthand, and each row opens the bill it belongs to. • Bills filter by where they stand: still moving, passed one chamber, awaiting the President, became law, or failed. • Ask leads with individual donors on funding questions, and answers bundling and closest-vote questions at all. ACCURACY FIXES • Members with hundreds of disclosures showed 30. They now show their real count. • A representative who disclosed no trading now says exactly that — the old comparison counted the congressional salary as trading. • District rankings name the group each measure was actually scored against, instead of one figure reused for all of them. • "Traded in this issue's companies" counted a member's whole record. It now counts the sectors an issue concerns, and names them. • A signed bill could report its last action as "introduced". 2,419 bills had theirs picked arbitrarily among same-day events. • A bill with 62 cosponsors was told it had no sponsor; 613 dropped sponsorship records were restored. • The directory listed 16 members who have already left Congress. It lists sitting members only. • Bill analysis: 217 bills were re-read where a verdict read net-positive while the findings named a concrete public cost. 15 verdicts changed. • Shared links open the page they name, arrows and symbols render as text rather than emoji, and changing your ZIP updates every screen without a restart. Claims still tap through to the filing they came from. Correlative observation from public records — not evidence of coordination or wrongdoing.