This site collects, in one place, the public record of the people who currently hold elected office — how they vote and, where the law makes it public, how their campaigns are funded. Every figure and every vote links to the government record it came from. The record shows each official's own reported numbers and votes.
Federal — who serves: the unitedstates/congress-legislators public roster (current members of the 119th Congress).
Federal — votes: roll-call records published by the Clerk of the U.S. House (clerk.house.gov) and the U.S. Senate (senate.gov), loaded back through the earliest year each member has on record and refreshed daily. Each vote links to its official roll-call file.
Federal — money: the Federal Election Commission bulk data for the 2026 cycle (candidate summary totals). Each member's totals link to their FEC candidate page. Individual contributors who gave more than $200 are itemized from the FEC individual-contributions file and aggregated by contributor to each member's own authorized campaign committees; contributions to party committees and joint fundraising committees are not attributed to the member, and small-dollar giving is not itemized by law.
State — who serves: the Open States current-officeholder roster (7,453 seats across 50 states plus DC and Puerto Rico), last modified 2026-07-02.
State — votes: vary by state. Washington publishes machine-readable member-level roll-call votes through an open web service; many states gate vote data behind a registered key or do not publish it in machine-readable form. Each state page states its own status plainly.
State — money: there is no single national source; state campaign finance is published state by state under differing licenses. It is not yet loaded here.
Local — who votes: officeholders identified from recorded roll-call votes in public meetings, compiled through open agenda. This is not a complete roster of local officials — it covers only those who appear in the meeting records gathered so far, and grows as more governments are added. Each official's votes link to the meeting record they came from.
Elected officeholders — Washington (first state): current officeholders across every Washington election tier — the statewide executives, all counties (sheriff, prosecuting attorney, assessor, auditor, treasurer, commissioners, coroner), the cities and towns (mayors and councils), school boards, and the fire, port, hospital, utility, and other special districts — derived from the certified general-election results the Washington Secretary of State publishes in bulk (the 2022 through 2025 generals; the most recent win holds each seat). Every record links to the certified results export it was read from. Mid-term appointments and resignations are not yet tracked. Other states follow through the same pipeline.
County sheriffs, mayors, district attorneys, county commissioners, assessors, clerks, and other elected local executives are not yet listed nationwide. There is no single national registry of these offices — the United States elects them across roughly 90,000 overlapping local governments — so this record builds them state by state from each state's own certified election results. Washington is loaded first: its sheriffs, county officers, mayors, councils, school directors, and special-district commissioners are all here. If you searched for a local official outside Washington and found nothing, that state is queued, not missing in error.
This record does not assign scores, grades, rankings, or labels. It shows what the official records say and links to them. A vote is shown with the question, the bill if any, the result, and the official's own recorded position — no interpretation added. Procedural votes are marked as procedural.
Campaign-finance figures come from Federal Election Commission records. Under 52 U.S.C. §30111(a)(4) and 11 CFR §104.15, information from FEC individual-contributor records may not be sold or used to solicit contributions or for any commercial purpose. These figures are presented here solely as factual public information about candidates.
If a figure or vote does not match the government record it links to, write to lighthouse_actual@proton.me and it will be fixed. Where an underlying government record itself contains an error, the correction path is with the body that publishes it — this site follows the official records.
We count days, not people. If a record page says it was opened on 12 separate days, that means 12 days on which at least one person opened it — one person or two hundred, we cannot tell, so we do not claim to. Refreshing the page adds nothing: a page can add at most one day per day.
We store the date a page was opened and nothing else — no address, no browser fingerprint, no identifier of any kind. There is nothing here that could be traced back to a reader. We do not count our own visits while we build and check the site, and anyone can stop their own visits being counted. The count is updated once a day and does not include today.
Two things this number is not. It is not a measure of how many people read a page, because a day read by five hundred people and a day read by one look identical. And it undercounts real use: readers who take the data files or follow a feed are never counted at all, because those carry no page to count.
Built and maintained by The Lighthouse Project, a civic-data initiative that unencloses public records.