WanderCivic
Constituent power infrastructure — Brigade failed, ProPublica API retired, 276,500 trans voters lack matching ID, local races decided by 500 votes.
Community & AdvocacyAbout
Brigade (the 2015-era civic app, 5M+ users at peak) failed because it optimized for activation over accountability — users felt heard but saw no outcomes, and engagement collapsed. Countable shut down for the same reason. The ProPublica Congress API was effectively retired in 2024 — apps still citing it have dead data. 276,500 voting-eligible trans adults lack ID matching their name or gender — in strict voter ID states this is disenfranchisement. Virginia school board elections are decided by 1-in-3 with under 500 votes. These are the seats where your 10 neighbors are the margin. WanderCivic is constituency-infrastructure for people who've watched every civic tech app fail at the same point: they tell you to make the call, but they don't tell you what happened after. Rep lookup is just the start — OpenStates + LegiScan provide real-time legislative data, FEC tracks who paid for what vote within 90 days, and the accountability layer documents broken promises in a searchable archive that doesn't reset every election cycle.
Features
- Rep lookup by address: city council → school board → state leg → Congress
- Voting record in plain language — not legislative code — OpenStates + GovTrack + LegiScan (ProPublica API retired, we use what works)
- Donor map: who paid, what votes followed within 90 days — FEC data searchable
- Trans voter readiness: 276,500 voters lack matching ID — state-specific prep and contingency pathways
- Town hall finder + alerts: when they schedule (or cancel) public events
- Call script generator: what to say in 2 minutes that actually lands
- Constituent call surge: coordinate neighbors for maximum pressure at specific windows
- Coalition builder: find the 200 neighbors who care about the same zoning vote
- Broken promise archive: documented, sourced, never memory-holed between election cycles
- Legislator grade cards: transparent methodology, comparable statewide, equally applied to all parties
- Civic education: zoning boards decide gentrification — which elections are decided by under 500 votes
- SMS-first and offline fallback: built for people without stable broadband or English literacy