About Know Your Vote

Nonpartisan, every fact sourced. Know Your Vote does not support or oppose any candidate or party. Every number on the site links to the public record it came from, and candidates in the same race are shown side by side with the same information and the same space.

How donation links work

We never collect or handle money. Where we can confirm that a donation page belongs to the candidate's own campaign, we link to it: ActBlue for Democrats, WinRed for Republicans, and the official campaign website for independents or anyone without a verified page. A page counts only if it lists a single recipient whose name is the candidate or one of their FEC-registered campaign committees, for the right state and office. Campaign websites count only if they link to that verified page or carry the committee's own "Paid for by" line. If we can't confirm a link, we show none rather than guess.

How candidate photos work

We show a photo only when it comes from an official public domain portrait or a freely licensed Wikimedia Commons file, matched to the candidate by an ID number, never by a name search. Each photo carries its credit and license. In any race, photos appear only when every Democratic and Republican candidate on the ballot has one, or, in a race without both, when every candidate has one. Otherwise everyone in that race gets the same plain initials circle, so no candidate looks more prominent than another. We never use campaign photos.

Sources

What	Source
Members of Congress, terms, contact, IDs, committees	unitedstates/congress-legislators
Sponsored and cosponsored bills, latest actions	GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Library of Congress / Congress.gov)
Roll-call votes and positions	Voteview, UCLA (from House Clerk and Senate records)
Fundraising totals, candidate committees	Federal Election Commission bulk candidate and committee files
Ballot candidates' 2026 cycle raised, spent and cash on hand	OpenFEC API, candidate totals
Candidate photos: official portraits of current and former members of Congress (public domain)	unitedstates/images, matched by bioguide ID
Candidate photos: freely licensed images (public domain, CC0, CC BY, CC BY SA), each credited	Wikimedia Commons, via the Wikidata entry that carries the candidate's FEC, bioguide or Ballotpedia ID
ZIP to congressional district	U.S. Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA to 119th CD relationship file
Race ratings	Cook Political Report race ratings
2026 nominees in competitive races	Election Central competitive House table (compiled from Ballotpedia, Cook, FEC)
Earmark requests	House and Senate Appropriations Committees (links only in this draft)
Positions and biographies	Vote Smart, Ballotpedia, Congressional Bioguide (links)

Last data refresh Oct 29, 2026: 539 members, 84 close races, 79 verified ActBlue pages, 73 verified WinRed pages, 187 verified campaign websites. 119th Congress, 2026 election cycle.