You’ll see TaaS and DaaS around this site. Neither one is a product pitch. They’re just names for two halves of the same promise: nothing here is invented.
Every official, every dollar, every vote, every deadline on this site comes from a real government or public-interest database — not a guess, not a model’s memory, not an estimate.
DaaS is just that data layer, built once and reused everywhere: the 50-state officials list, campaign finance totals, attendance records, election deadlines.
You ask a question — who represents me, who funds them, did this actually happen — and you get back a dated, cited answer built from the DaaS layer.
No verdict, no score, no adjective attached to a person’s name. Just the record, and a link so you can check it yourself.
Put together: DaaS is the receipts. TaaS is handing them to you instead of telling you what to think of them.
If a number appears anywhere on this site, it came from one of these. All free. All public. All still updating on their own schedule, not ours.
| Source | What it gives us | Used on |
|---|---|---|
| Congress.gov API | Bills sponsored/enacted, constitutional authority statements, member data | Report cards, homework.html |
| OpenFEC (Federal Election Commission) | Campaign contributions, PAC totals, filing records | Report cards, follow-the-money.html, the-money-board.html |
| U.S. House Clerk roll-call records | Attendance, individual vote positions | Report cards |
| U.S. Senate roll-call records | Attendance, individual vote positions | Report cards |
| Voteview (UCLA) | Historical attendance and voting-pattern data | accountability_snapshot.json |
| U.S. Census Geocoder | Street address → congressional district | ZIP/address lookup |
| Nebraska Unicameral GIS | Address → state legislative district | ZIP/address lookup (NE) |
| Nebraska Accountability & Disclosure Commission | State-level campaign finance filings | Pillen-Ricketts case study, state case studies |
| Nebraska Secretary of State — Elections | Registration rules, deadlines, ID requirements | how-to-vote.html, civics-101-how-to-vote-nebraska.html |
| unitedstates/congress-legislators (open project) | Office addresses, phone numbers, official contact info | the-money-board.html click-to-call |
| House & Senate financial disclosure databases | Stock/asset transaction filings and dates | Report cards — disclosure timeliness |
Missing a source you’d expect to see? That probably means the feature isn’t
built yet, not that we’re hiding where a number came from. methodology.html
tracks what’s not built, honestly, on purpose.
The pages this data actually built. Share whichever one answers the question you were asked.
The rules, published before anyone was graded. Six subjects, every one sourced.
State senators file with the NADC, not the FEC. Different categories, a $250 itemization line, and five subjects rather than six — the sixth does not exist at state level. Published before any Nebraska state page.
All 49 state senators, $14.68M from the state's own filings. Defaults to per-year, because senators have between two and six years of filings and a raw total ranks tenure rather than fundraising.
The Pillen–Ricketts appointment, dated and sourced, unconfirmed numbers flagged as such.
Pick your state, get your real 2026 deadlines and the official link. Nebraska first.
Registration, ID rules, deadlines — straight from the Secretary of State.
A Senate seat just opened. Find out what a governor may actually do — then see what really happened.
Five official .gov links plus the current NE Governor race, side by side, no verdict.
“Dec 10: said his office was ‘looking into’ it. Dec 11: took $1,000 from the company.” is something you can check. “He’s bought and paid for” is something we’d have to invent. We only publish the first kind.
Every source on this page is free, every link goes to the primary record, and nothing on
this site required a paid API to build. If a future version of this page ever adds a source
that isn’t free and public, that’s a rule broken loudly enough that it belongs in
methodology.html’s changelog, not a quiet edit here.