Vol. I · No. 1Spring 2026
ActCivFind my first action
From the editorsBetween electionsMay 25 Edition

Civic,
daily.

Civic participation, made intuitive and continuous — a non-partisan habit for the work between elections.

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  • Non-partisan
  • Privacy-first
  • WCAG 2.1 AA
  • Sourced inline
§ 01
Get started

One real action,
shaped by your district.

Drop your ZIP. We'll surface one Phase-1 action you can finish before your coffee gets cold — under ninety seconds, on your phone, no account required.

  • No account needed to take action.
  • Email only requested after you've finished one.
  • Privacy posture in plain English · /transparency

 

Why we ask: to match you to your federal, state, and local representatives. Stored only if you choose to save your progress later.

Founding principle

Voting is the spark. Everything else — the petitions you sign, the dollars you spend, the neighbors you bring to a meeting — is the fire that keeps democracy warm.

ActCiv, founding principle
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How we work

Three rules that decide every screen, every partnership, every line of copy.

i.

Personalized to where you live.

Matched to your district, your time, your issues. A national call-to-action is a tweet; a call to your representative is leverage.

ii.

Non-partisan, with disclosure where it isn't.

Voter registration, candidate research, learning — rigorously neutral. Partisan actions exist; they're labeled, not buried in a footer.

iii.

Beyond the ballot, every week.

Voting is the floor, not the ceiling. ActCiv surfaces the work that happens between elections — where most of the leverage actually lives.

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The index

Seven kinds of civic action. Thirty-plus moves you can make this week.

The whole project, in one page. Every category opens onto its own section, with the partners we lean on and the order we'll ship them.

  1. I.

    Advocacy

    4 moves

    Influence the people who decide.

  2. II.

    Electoral

    4 moves

    The foundation: register, research, vote.

  3. III.

    Communication

    3 moves

    Amplify what matters.

  4. IV.

    Volunteering

    3 moves

    Get to work, matched to you.

  5. V.

    Financial

    4 moves

    Where money meets values.

  6. VI.

    Workplace

    3 moves

    Build power inside.

  7. VII.

    Learning

    3 moves

    Understand before you act.

✻ Open list

The eighth category is the one you write — early-access members help decide what we ship next, and which actions deserve their own home.

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What this looks like for you

A first session, a first month, a first year.

i. · First session

One real action, finished.

Drop your ZIP, get a Phase-1 action shaped by your district. Letter sent, call made, registration verified — under ninety seconds, no account required.

SUGGESTED · CA-12
Call Sen. Padilla
on HR-2243 · 90s · 5 Calls
─────────────── [ Start the call → ]
ii. · First month

A growing record, not a streak.

Save your progress and /today starts surfacing one suggestion a day. Total count, not consecutive days. No shame, no nag — just the work.

THE EDITION · MAY 25 · No. 004
Today's action
Sign HR-2243 petition · 30s
───────────────
12 actions, 2026 · 4 this week
No streaks — just the count.
iii. · First year

Coverage across the seven sections.

Advocacy, electoral, financial, volunteering — your dashboard maps which categories you've touched and which are still open. Phase 2 actions unlock by behavior, not by date.

COVERAGE
◐ ◐ ◑ ○ ◐ ○ ◐
Adv El Co Vo Fi Wo Le
5 of 7 touched.
───────────────
38 in 94110 acted this week.
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Specifications

Where we stand on the things you have to trust us about.

Published as a specs plate so it's easy to compare us against anything else civic-adjacent on your screen.

Posture
Non-partisan
Voter registration, candidate research and learning stay rigorously neutral. Partisan actions are labeled at the point of use.
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Sourcing
Cited inline
Every empirical claim — every 7×, every 95.9% — carries a footnote that links the original study or report.
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Data
Yours, kept yours
No third-party analytics in donation or voting flows. No ad-network pixels. User-controlled export and delete in under three clicks.
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Access
WCAG 2.1 AA
Keyboard navigable, screen-reader tested, reduced-motion respected. axe-core blocks every release on violation.
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Funding
Pape Enterprises
Privately held. No undisclosed political donors. Annual funding statement starting our first full operating year.
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Spot something we got wrong — a missing citation, a partner we shouldn't be using, a dark pattern we drifted into? hello@actciv.org. We publish corrections.

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