Civic Forecast

Civic Forecast is an independent news and information app. It is NOT a government application. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any government agency, department, or official body, and it does not represent any government entity.

Follow the influence. Understand the impact. Forecast the future. Track the policies, money, and power shaping your community — in plain language. Every item in the app links back to its original, official source.

WHERE THE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION COMES FROM
All U.S. government information in Civic Forecast is drawn only from these official, publicly available government sources:
• Congress.gov (Library of Congress) — https://www.congress.gov
• GovInfo (U.S. Government Publishing Office) — https://www.govinfo.gov
• Data.gov — https://www.data.gov
• Federal Register — https://www.federalregister.gov
• eCFR (Code of Federal Regulations) — https://www.ecfr.gov
• Federal Election Commission — https://www.fec.gov
• Lobbying Disclosure Act database — https://lda.senate.gov
• Federal budget (MAX.gov) — https://max.gov
• Federal Judicial Center — https://www.fjc.gov
• U.S. Census Bureau — https://www.census.gov
• Bureau of Labor Statistics — https://www.bls.gov
• Bureau of Economic Analysis — https://www.bea.gov
• U.S. Department of Labor — https://www.dol.gov
• Federal Reserve Board — https://www.federalreserve.gov
• FRED / ALFRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) — https://fred.stlouisfed.org
• FEMA / OpenFEMA — https://www.fema.gov
• U.S. Energy Information Administration — https://www.eia.gov
• U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development — https://data.hud.gov
• U.S. Department of Agriculture — https://www.usda.gov
• Federal Aviation Administration — https://www.faa.gov
• Federal Trade Commission (open data) — https://catalog.data.gov
• NASA Earthdata — https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov
• National Institutes of Health (PubMed Central) — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc
• U.S. Department of Defense (DVIDS) — https://www.dvidshub.net
• U.S. House Committee on Oversight — https://oversight.house.gov

Civic Forecast also adds context from independent, nonpartisan, non-government research, civic-data, and news organizations (for example Open States, GovTrack, Ballotpedia, OpenSecrets, ProPublica, Pew Research Center, and the Associated Press). These are clearly labeled and are NOT government sources.

A complete, searchable directory of every source — government and non-government — is built into the app under Explore → Sources, and every story links to its original source with a "View source" button.

Civic Forecast provides general information only. It is not a government entity and does not provide official government services. For official information, always consult the original government sources above.