About ChamberLight
ChamberLight is the free, nonpartisan way to track your representatives: how they vote, who covers them, and everything they’d rather you forgot. Community-sourced coverage of every senator and congressmember, rated by people, not pundits.
What ChamberLight is
ChamberLight is a neutral, nonpartisan platform for civic transparency. Its mission is to help U.S. citizens track the performance and public reception of their elected representatives through community-sourced news, voting records, and public data.
It is a U.S.-based service for U.S. residents, and it covers the U.S. Congress and congressional elections: every member of Congress and every House and Senate candidate. ChamberLight is not a government website and is not affiliated with any political party, campaign, or government entity.
What you can do here
- Find your representatives: enter your ZIP to see your two senators and your representative, what they’re covered for, and their full record.
- Follow every roll-call vote of this Congress, from the official record, in plain English, and track bills and amendments.
- Read every article about a member, grouped into stories, with the left-leaning, center and right-leaning outlets that ran it.
- Rate each story a good or bad look for the member it’s about.
- Submit a story: any outlet, any size. A free account is all it takes.
- See every House and Senate race on the ballot, the incumbent and every challenger, and how much press each one is getting.
- Compare members side by side, and look up the news sources that cover Congress.
How stories and ratings work
Readers rate each story a good or bad look for the member it’s about. Those ratings come from readers; they are not editorial judgments by ChamberLight.
ChamberLight publishes three scores about the news sources that cover Congress: credibility, lean and originality. Votes on articles do not feed any source score, and anyone can challenge a score or a label, with or without an account. Article pages also show each article’s content quality and story neutrality. How source scores work explains each one.
Campaign money comes from reports filed with the Federal Election Commission: How we count campaign money. Presidential nominations to the Senate: How we count nominations.
The Community Guidelines, the Moderation Policy and the AI Disclosure set out the site’s rules and how content is reviewed.
Independence and funding
ChamberLight is built and run independently, with no investors and no advertisers. No advertiser, party or campaign pays to keep the light on. Readers do.
We don’t accept money from campaigns, parties, PACs, lobbyists or government bodies, and we refund any that gets through. Supporters’ votes, comments and submissions count exactly like everyone else’s. ChamberLight is an independent site, not a charity, so contributions aren’t tax-deductible.
ChamberLight does not endorse, support, or oppose any candidate for public office, and it does not use advertising or third-party tracking cookies. Support ChamberLight.
Corrections and contact
Corrections, yes. Erasures, no. We fix errors in public. Nothing comes down for being old or unflattering.
To report an error, open the contact page and choose “Something’s wrong”: tell us the page, what it says and what it should say, with a source if you have one. To challenge a news outlet’s score, use “Challenge this score” on that outlet’s page.
A person reads every message. If you ask for a reply, we write to the address you gave, from support@chamberlight.com.