About YourGov
YourGov is a free, independent site for following the U.S. government: how Congress votes, every bill, the Supreme Court, and the 2026 elections and the money behind them.
YourGov is not affiliated with the U.S. government, or with any political party, campaign, candidate or advocacy group.
WHO MADE IT
YourGov.io is developed and maintained by me, Dean! I'm a political science sophomore at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, and I'm interested in why people do the things they do. Voters are the only true source of power in American politics, every ad, campaign, and political statement is meant to sway them over. What's most important though, is having accurate, non-partisan information that voters can use to actually see if their government, your government, represents them. That's what this site tries to provide.
I can be reached at ensigndean@gmail.com. Thank you for visiting YourGov!
HOW IT WORKS
- Straight from the source. Votes, bills, rulings, forecasts and campaign filings come from the official records and public datasets listed below, refreshed regularly. Each page names its sources at the bottom and says when its data was last updated.
- Official wording, not ours. Bill summaries are the Congressional Research Service's or the bill's official title; holdings are the Supreme Court's own. Nothing is written by AI.
- Our own math, shown. A few figures are worked out here from those records: how often a member votes with their party, where members stand on an issue, and the measures of how Congress is doing. Each one says how it's calculated where it appears.
- No ads, no tracking. No tracking cookies, no analytics, nothing loaded from other companies. What you tell Your Congress (ZIP code, age and so on) never leaves your browser.
- Nonpartisan. Parties are shown in their usual colors, and every measure is applied the same way to every member, party and side.
SOURCES
Everything on the site comes from these. Government records are public domain; other sources are used under their licenses and credited where they appear.
Congress
- Congress.gov (Library of Congress) and its API: bills up for a vote, laws, amendments, member photos
- GovInfo (Government Publishing Office): every bill's status, actions, cosponsors, CRS summaries and subjects, and bill text
- Office of the Clerk, U.S. House: House roll-call votes and session status
- U.S. Senate: Senate roll-call votes and floor schedule
- House Majority Leader: the weekly House floor schedule
- congress-legislators (public domain): members, parties, districts and contact details
- Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress and members' official websites: portraits not yet on Congress.gov
- Wikidata (CC0): members' places of birth
- Federal Register: executive orders
Supreme Court
- Supreme Court of the United States: opinions and holdings, case dockets, the justices' portraits
- Oyez (Cornell's Legal Information Institute and Justia): each case's question, facts and conclusion, and oral argument audio; used with credit for non-commercial purposes
Elections
- ElectIt by Danny Ebanks, Jonathan N. Katz and Gary King: House and Senate forecasts, polls and past results. Their paper: Ebanks, Katz, and King (2026), “If a Statistical Model Predicts That Common Events Should Occur Only Once in 10,000 Elections, Maybe It’s the Wrong Model” (under review).
- Federal Election Commission: campaign money, outside spending and who funds the groups behind it
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): governor race ratings as compiled there from Cook, Sabato and other forecasters
Maps
- U.S. Census Bureau: congressional district and state boundaries, ZIP code areas
- Natural Earth (public domain): world map outlines