Ask HN: Political activism platform
I've seen quite a few sites that allow people to enter their zip code and find their representative, does anyone know how I can find, or has anyone written and open-sourced this kind of lookup implementation?
Failing that, are there any platforms that this community would recommend that would allow a simple landing page with copy text, facts and info with linked sources, and then a web form to find their representative? Perhaps even a WordPress plugin that I should look at and build on top of?
Ultimately I'm trying to avoid people leaving the page to perform the lookup since I can't guarantee that the receiving site will either handle incoming load, remain online, or even have the most up to date rep info. If someone's leaving the page, I'm hoping it's primarily to read linked sources from the "facts and info" section.
Thanks!
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Open States API for info on state legislators:
https://openstates.org/
City council info for Chicago, Philly and NYC:
https://www.councilmatic.org/
Ha, yeah that's one way to put it
https://www.usa.gov/developer
http://whoismyrepresentative.com/api
There are wordpress plugins:
https://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+plugin+find+my+rep...
This map can be embedded on your website:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/map
Source: In my day job, I've built many one-off issue advocacy pages on both the state and federal levels. Feel free to ping me if you want to talk about it.