truthinpolling/tip-civic-data

TIP Civic Data — U.S. Government Accountability Dataset

Nonpartisan civic accountability data from Truth In Polling (501(c)(3) nonprofit).

Includes federal and state legislation, official voting records, citizen approval ratings, campaign finance industry funding, multi-factor vote predictions, and donor-to-vote-to-contract money trail analysis.

Datasets

File	Description	Rows
federal_bills	Federal legislation (119th Congress)	17,943
state_bills	State legislation across 49 states	8,422
federal_officials	Current members of Congress	540
state_officials	State legislators across 49 states	7,912
federal_floor_votes	Congressional roll call votes	240,129
state_floor_votes	State legislative roll call votes	69,473
citizen_approval	Aggregated citizen approval ratings (no PII)	5
bill_vote_distributions	Aggregated citizen bill votes (no PII)	63
federal_industry_funding	PAC industry funding per official (FEC)	16,361
pfp_predictions	Multi-factor vote predictions per official per bill	75,657
money_trail	Donor→vote→contract industry triangles	109,438
industry_taxonomy	CRP/OpenSecrets industry classification codes	93
state_campaign_finance	State campaign finance contributions ($200+ threshold, 18 states)	0

Update Frequency

Weekly (Sundays). Last refreshed: 2026-08-02.

License

CC BY 4.0 — free to use with attribution.

Citation

@misc{tip_civic_data_2026,
  title={TIP Civic Data: U.S. Government Accountability Dataset},
  author={Truth In Polling, Inc.},
  year={2026},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/truthinpolling/tip-civic-data},
  note={Weekly updated civic accountability data}
}

Methodology

See How It Works for scoring methodology.

API Access

For real-time queries, use the TIP Public API — 18 REST endpoints, 17 MCP tools.

Data Notes

• All citizen-facing data (approval ratings, bill votes) is aggregated — no individual voter data is included.
• Campaign finance data is from FEC bulk filings (1.6M federal contributions).
• Money trail triangles correlate donations, votes, and contracts — correlation does not imply causation.
• The United States is a Constitutional Republic.