Civic intelligence infrastructure for a transparent democracy.
Every vote. Every dollar. Every trade. One platform.
Capitol Trace aggregates 27+ public government data sources into connected, searchable intelligence that any citizen, journalist, or researcher can use — completely free. We track the current congressional roster — how they vote, who funds them, what they trade, who lobbies them — and surface patterns that no single database reveals.
We don't tell you who to vote for. We show you the record. You decide what it means.
Capitol Trace is the record — accountability intelligence on everyone already in power. VoterReady is the moment — the live sprint to November 3rd: 2026 midterm battlegrounds, outside spending, and key election dates, broadcasting 24/7 on YouTube in on-air mode.
Same civic data backbone, two front doors. Part of the Capitol Trace civic data network.
| 📡 | 27+ data sources | Congress.gov, FEC, Senate LDA, CISA, ACLED, GDELT, Census, BLS, and more |
| 👥 | 541 member profiles | Every member of Congress — voting and delegate — with 17 data sections per dossier |
| 📈 | 100,000+ stock trades | Congressional trading monitor with STOCK Act compliance scoring |
| 🌍 | 187 countries monitored | Real-time NatSec dashboard with 7 intelligence feeds |
| ⚙️ | 60+ edge functions | Serverless data pipelines feeding a 12-endpoint public API |
| 🤖 | 12 MCP tools | AI-native access for Claude, GPT, and Gemini |
| 🧪 | 1,900+ tests | Unit + E2E + 31 Checkly health checks running every 15 minutes |
| 🖥️ | 95+ pages | 541 dossiers, Money Map, NatSec, Signal Intelligence, and developer tools |
One normalized civic dataset, three doors in:
- REST API — 12 live endpoints (members, votes, donors, trades, ideology, lobbying, bills, signals, and more). Free tier: 100 requests/day, key in seconds at capitoltrace.com/api.
- MCP Server —
@capitoltrace/mcp-server: 12 tools that let Claude, GPT, and Gemini query the record directly. - Open-source toolkit —
npx @capitoltrace/govwatch checktells you which of 17 government APIs are up right now;@capitoltrace/congress-apiis a typed, zero-dependency Congress.gov client.
Covering the 2026 midterms? The data behind Capitol Trace — trades, money, votes, lobbying — is available free for journalists and academics, with Researcher and Newsroom tiers (CSV exports, webhooks, SLA) when you need volume. Working on a story, a paper, or funding civic infrastructure: support@capitoltrace.com.
| Repo | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 🏛️ | capitoltrace | The platform — React frontend, Supabase backend, 60+ edge functions, 95+ pages (private) |
| 🗳️ | voterready | Sister product — 2026 midterm tracker, live at voterready.com (private) |
| 🖥️ | capitoltrace-ui | Open UI & design reference — curated React components and the design language behind the platform |
| 📦 | congress-api | TypeScript client for the Congress.gov API — typed, auto-paginated, zero deps · @capitoltrace/congress-api |
| 🔍 | govwatch | Health monitor for 17 government APIs — CLI + library · @capitoltrace/govwatch |
| 🛠️ | govwatch-action | govwatch as a GitHub Action — fail CI fast when an upstream API is down |
| 📊 | govwatch-status | status.capitoltrace.com — live public status page for 17 government APIs |
| 🧪 | capitoltrace-labs | Natural-language query over civic data — auth-gated research beta (private) |
Capitol Trace is developed by JSW Legacy Ventures LLC (Saint Clair, Michigan).
📬 support@capitoltrace.com · 🌐 capitoltrace.com · 📊 status.capitoltrace.com
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Democracy deserves transparency.