Frequently asked questions

Because voting is how a democracy actually works, and doing it shouldn't require piecing together a dozen different sites or wading through spin to find out what's actually true. Democracy Needs Action started as one place to register, check your registration, request a ballot, see what's on it, and get reminders — free non-biased tools. It grew from there into a hand-kept resource index, a live read on Congress, and a set of pages explaining consequential things plainly, with sources, the same way we'd want them explained to us.

No. Democracy Needs Action doesn't endorse candidates or parties, and it doesn't try to change your mind about who to vote for. Its voter-registration tools are Vote.org's free, publicly embeddable tools — Democracy Needs Action isn't affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Vote.org or any government body either.

We are tired of the current political landscape and lean more towards an Independent party since the polarization between the right and left is dividing our country. We essentially all want the same things, and the discussion should be about who is benefiting from our government and who isn't. Those who are not benefiting are the people of the country. Those who are, are the oligarchs and wealthy.

We need to change how we discuss policies and issues and not get sucked into rage baiting hatred. This site is aimed towards giving as much fact based information, without opinions, as possible in a different format than what we are usually given.

Not neutral on everything — Democracy Needs Action is upfront about a few biases: that elected officials should serve the people who voted for them, that more people should vote, and that voting should be easy. What it doesn't do is take a side on which candidates, parties, or policies are right. Every Hot Topics page ends with the same commitment: here are the sourced facts and the documented disagreement between serious people, plainly — and we're not the ones positioned to settle it.

By the WONKRZ store, not by advertising or by selling data. It currently receives no outside money and doesn't support any special interest; right now it's hosted for free because the creator is a software developer who knows how ;).

Voting tools are still the core of the site, but understanding what's actually happening — to the economy, the climate, the technology reshaping the news, the money moving through elections — is part of being informed enough to participate in one. The Hot Topics pages get the same treatment as everything else here: documented facts, primary sources linked in a "Read more" section, and no stance on the policy argument itself.

Primary sources, cited on the page they're used — government data and filings, court records, peer-reviewed research, and reporting from outlets that disclose their own methodology. Every Hot Topics page ends with a "Read more" section linking exactly where its numbers came from, so you can check them yourself rather than take our word for it.

No. There's no analytics or advertising script running on this site to track what you do here. Why? Because that costs money and we want you to have simple and clean information without bias and links so you can read more.