Psyched to to see this! For those who are interested, there's some background here via Daniel Schuman and the Congressional Data Coalition: https://congressionaldata.org/library-of-congress-launches-c...

https://govtrack.us – mentioned there – is an amazing resource for federal legislative data and continues to evolve.

There are a number of sites for tracking donations if you are concerned about money and politics. https://www.opensecrets.org is the one I check the most often – but I find that the journalists tend to make it more sensible. e.g. https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/08/15/kyrsten-sinema-has-m...

https://www.ballotpedia.org has great election related information as well as a bit of analysis around state trifectas in particular.

Likewise https://openstates.org/ has a ton of well indexed state legislative data as mentioned in a separate comment.

And after years of effort by the Free Law Project https://free.law/ big changes are a foot with PACER for legal dockets: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/fed-judiciary-says-...

As for the Federal Register, where the federal executive rules live, they have a decent site: https://www.federalregister.gov/ an API https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/documentation/api... and someone made this handy quick view as well https://ofr.report/

Now, regarding municipal legislative data, many municipalities use a tool called Legistar which is a bit of pain for regular users – bad layouts, unintuitive search, many clicks to view the matters, links in PDFs – but lucky for us there's an API for read access. https://www.documenters.org out of Chicago has been scraping it and crowd-sourcing meeting coverage – pretty awesome to see, though I'm concerned about how they are managing their infrastructure tbh. A repo per city seems like it'll be a pain to manage.

So I've been working on a tool for browsing recent agenda and matters that makes it much easier to keep tabs on what's happening at council. I'm making weekly updates – not sure where it will lead but we've got 17 cities on it so far... https://www.legigram.com and if you have an in at the SF or Phila city clerk's office, please reach out to me. No donations so far but some very happy users. TBD whether there will be paid product on top of the free view or we will win any grant support.

From what I've learned, the SaaS ecosystem for municipalities is screwy. There's the lock-in, absurd upcharges, widening attack surfaces, stakeholder decay, etc – and now private equity entities like Vista Equity seem to be milking our cities without much of a fight. And it just feels a bi...