Civic tools
& systems
Dashboards, indices, and public-interest products for national capacity, local democracy, public finance, and civic memory.
Manufacturing Independence Index
A public, auditable index for whether the United States can make the critical goods and inputs it depends on.
MII is moving from prototype into a methodology-locked beta: canonical indicators, release notes, analyst appendix export, exposure splits, and scenario layers.
The target user is a staffer or analyst who needs the top-line answer quickly, then enough traceability to trust the number under pressure.
Read the MII page · Open current deployment. Final domain coming.
Local Political Elections
A free public information center for who is running, what offices exist, and how ordinary people can file for local office.
The project is built around official source coverage rather than one-off scrapers: counties, municipalities, election boards, candidate lists, filing calendars, and office structures.
Current coverage work is already mapping tens of thousands of jurisdictions and hundreds of thousands of local positions, with ground-truth expansion focused on the sources that can keep the system current.
Open current deployment. Final domain coming.
DC Budget Tracker
A transparency dashboard that turns public audit reports and contract data into a clearer picture of recurring fiscal failures.
The tracker organizes findings from DC Auditor reports, the DC Office of the Inspector General, Open Data DC, and contract records into a public-facing research surface.
The early dataset highlights major findings across affordable housing, COVID relief, education controls, event finances, and health-program oversight. The point is not outrage theater; it is a searchable civic memory for what went wrong, what was recommended, and whether it was fixed.
Open current deployment. Final domain coming.
Building Monuments
A public monument program beginning with The American Hero's Journey, with The American Veterans Monument as the national long path.
The current sequencing is pragmatic: build a privately funded, publicly visitable Hero's Journey monument first, then use that credibility, donor base, renderings, and advisory network toward the larger Veterans Monument.
This belongs on the site because it reveals the same underlying impulse as the tools above: public memory should be built, maintained, and made legible.