QuorumCivic: Congress Tracker

YOUR NOV 3 BALLOT For readers in California, New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, Michigan and the District of Columbia, the District tab now lists the November field for your House seat, your state's Senate race where there is one, and Governor (in DC: Mayor, Council Chair and at-large Council) — from each state's official candidate list, with the party line as the ballot prints it. Candidates who lost a primary leave the section; the race page keeps them in a fold. Your state's official election site is one tap away for registration, polling places and everything else on your ballot — Quorum is a place to start, not the source. Elsewhere the ballot shows the FEC-registered field as before. THE DISTRICT YOU VOTE IN Ten states redrew their House maps for 2026: Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Utah. In those states a ZIP code now resolves to two districts — the one your current representative holds and the one you vote in this November — and the ballot follows the second. If you set your ZIP before this update, the District tab prompts for it again rather than show a race that may be wrong. Missouri's new map is loaded but treated as unchanged; the Census Bureau's own note about the pending referendum is shown as written. TODAY Until Nov 3, the "Your representatives" story closes on your ballot: the races, and the names where the field is entered. When something you follow has unread activity, Today opens with it — one card per update, marked read as you swipe past. The lead card names the office and the date, and each representative's own card has a working Follow. OUTSIDE SPENDING BY RACE The Funders page now opens with the races where committees reported the most independent spending in the latest reported week — money for and money against as two numbers, and the committee that spent the most. Each row opens the race page. BILLS A bill is named by what Congress.gov displays now — H.R. 5334 is the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, not the shell it started as — and its issue tags and analysis follow a name change. Related bills are listed, with a line when one went further than the bill you are reading. A word the plain-language version defines can be tapped for its meaning, at both reading levels. "Bill text" opens in its own sheet. EXPLORE This Week's header shows its dates. A new Rankings row opens the list of questions — who files late, who votes against their party. The week's "tightest vote" is measured against what the vote needed: a cloture vote needs 60, not a majority. NAMES Representatives with two-word surnames read correctly everywhere — McDonald Rivet, Van Hollen, Cortez Masto — including in the Follow button, which names everyone it follows. FIXES • The unread badge on the You tab now also sits on the Following row it stands for. • A list that failed to load says so and offers Try again, instead of showing an empty list. • Dates no longer show a day early. • Every door in the app is a full row with a chevron; a small label is never the thing to tap. • A notification about a representative's vote arrives once per phone and never repeats a vote already announced. If you declined notifications once, the app offers them again the first time you open an alert. • A committee is named by its name, not its full FEC registration. Claims still tap through to the filing they came from. Correlative observation from public records — not evidence of coordination or wrongdoing.