Democracy Toolkit

The American Leadership & Policy Foundation launched the Democracy Toolkit to be a "one-stop-shop" for citizens to get informed, become engaged, and better participate in our democratic process! Explore below to get started!

You're guide to registering to vote, updating voter registration, and other helpful voting information and tips.

Know Who & What You're Voting For

A good source for federal, state, and local election information, Ballotpedia is the online encyclopedia of American politics and elections with a goal to inform people about politics by providing accurate and objective information about politics at all levels of government.

Latest Polling Trends

RealClearPolitics (RCP) strives to provide readers with better, more insightful analysis of the most important news and policy issues of the day. RCP’s daily editorial curation and original reporting present balanced, non-partisan analysis that empowers readers to stay informed.

Watch Your Government In Action

C-SPAN provides access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated and decided––all without editing, commentary, or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view.

What's Happening at Your U.S. Capitol

Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. It is presented by the Library of Congress (LOC) using data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the Government Publishing Office, Congressional Budget Office, and the LOC's Congressional Research Service.

Making Sense of Complex Laws

The law is a complex and complicated system of knowledge that is more difficult to find and understand than it should be. Cornell develops systems that allow users from outside the legal profession to more easily access and understand the laws that govern them.