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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. Local is where most civic power actually lives.
About ActCivactciv.org
Democracy doesn't end at the ballot box.
ActCiv connects people to meaningful civic action every day — making it easy to advocate, volunteer, spend, invest, and vote in alignment with your values.
Mission
Vision
Vision
Give every person personalized, accessible tools to participate in democracy beyond the ballot box.
A world where civic participation is intuitive, continuous, and embedded in everyday life — where trust in democratic institutions is rebuilt one action at a time.
- Vote
- Advocate
- Communicate
- Volunteer
- Invest
The vision
A world where every citizen feels the agency and confidence to shape the issues that matter most to them.
Why it works
The evidence
The evidence
7×
the weight
A personalized message to a legislator carries roughly seven times the weight of a form letter.[1]
1 in 8
voters
is purged from the rolls or moves without realizing their registration no longer holds.[2]
2×
more impact
A get-out-the-vote ask from a friend carries up to twice the impact of a cold call, text, or door-knock from a stranger.[3]
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
How we work
Three rules that decide every screen, every partnership, every line of copy.
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Built around your interests, not ours.
ActCiv has no political bias — that principle is the foundation of this entire platform. We don't push an agenda. Instead, we help you act on the issues you already care about, drafting content shaped by your priorities and your point of view. Whatever your convictions, the tools work the same way and serve you the same way.
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Beyond the ballot, every week.
Voting is the floor, not the ceiling. ActCiv surfaces the work that happens between elections, and turns one action into the next — a petition into a letter, a letter into a habit.
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The index
The index
Nine civic actions. Every one you can start this week.
The whole project, in one page. Every action opens onto its own page, with the partners we lean on and the order we’ll ship them.
- 01
Write Your Rep
LiveSend a personalized message to the people who decide.
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Call Your Rep
LiveCall your officials with a script that fits the moment.
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Sign a Petition
LiveAdd your name to a vetted, active petition.
- 04
Join a Protest
Phase 2Show up in person at a demonstration near you.
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Register to Vote
LiveCheck, update, or start your registration.
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Find Your Polling Location
LiveYour polling place, the hours, and what's on your ballot.
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Connect with Credible Sources
Phase 2See the full picture, across the spectrum.
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Find Volunteer Opportunities
Phase 2Match with vetted orgs by issue, skill, and time.
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Donate
LiveGive to a vetted cause, with impact transparency.
✻ Open list
The tenth action 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
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
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[ 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
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12 actions, 2026 · 4 this week
No streaks — just the count.
iii. · First year
Coverage across all nine actions.
Write, call, sign, register, donate — your dashboard maps which actions you've taken and which are still open. Phase 2 actions unlock by behavior, not by date.
COVERAGE
● ● ● ○ ● ● ○ ○ ●
Wr Ca Si Pr Re Po Cr Vo Do
6 of 9 taken.
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38 in 94110 acted this week.
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Specifications
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.
- 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.