Be counted.
Counted is a membership of citizens who write down what they believe, vote on every bill that reaches the floor of the House, and put one of us in the seat to carry the result.
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You pay for government every April. You have never once been the one it answers to.
- 10%of Americans approve of Congress.Gallup, April 2026
- 98%of its incumbents were re-elected in 2024.Ballotpedia
- 4hoursa day on the phone with donors, on the party’s own schedule for new members.Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee schedule, Huffington Post
- 1,000+recorded votes in two years. You get one choice, between two bundles.Recorded House votes per Congress
Nothing else in America keeps its job with numbers like that. The fix is not a revolution. It is a subscription.
Two phases. First we tell them. Then we replace them.
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Phase 1
Tell your representative how to vote.
Join, verified once. Write your values once, in your own words. Then every bill that reaches the House floor comes with a short brief and a draft of your vote, written from your values. Confirm it, change it with one tap, or vote before you see it. Do nothing, and your values stand.
The Count is checked by people who do not work for us and published before the House votes, so your representative knows what the people they speak for decided. Then the record shows the Count beside how they actually voted.
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Phase 2
Replace the ones who will not.
A representative who votes against the Count, on the record, week after week, has told you who they work for. When the People’s Seat comes to your district, vote for the seat: one of us, pledged in public to vote the Count on every bill and checked on every vote. Not a politician, and not a political job.
The pledge is a public promise, and that is the point. A politician’s promise is never checked. This one is checked on every vote, and the day it breaks, everyone knows.
- A bill reaches the House floor
- Your vote, drafted from your values, confirmed by you
- The Count, checked and published before the House votes
- The Secretary casts it
- The record shows the Count beside every vote
It drafts. You decide. Every draft shows its reasoning, and changing it takes one tap. Your values are the instruction; the software is the clerk.
A bill on the House floor
Instruction to the seat: YesChecked and published
Your draft, from your values: Yes. Confirm, change it with one tap, or vote before you see it.
An illustration, not a real Count. Your vote stays private. The Count is public, and your district’s own number is published beside the national one.
Then one of us takes the seat.
Not a politician, and not a political job. The Secretary looks at the Count on the bill in front of the House and votes the way the people voted. No positions, no speeches, no campaign of their own.
The Secretary signs one public pledge to do exactly that. Every vote they cast is checked against the Count and published, so the day they break it, everyone knows.
Before anyone asks you to vote for the seat, the Count will have run in public on real House votes, next to how your representative voted, for long enough for you to judge it. The record speaks first.
“I don’t hold positions. Here’s the count.”
What you can hold us to.
- Your vote is private. The Count is public. The Secretary carries it.Those three things never change.
- No corporate money. No advertising. Your data is never sold.Secretaries take a government salary and nothing from us.
- Checked by people who do not work for us.Every Count is published where anyone can recount it.
- Leave any time.A membership, not a party. No platform, no loyalty test.
You will say. We say.
Mob rule. The founders feared the majority.
Every limit stays: the Bill of Rights, the courts, the Senate, the veto, the oath. The Count instructs one seat out of 435, then a few. And the alternative is not wise statesmen. It is rule by whoever paid.
Nobody has time to read a thousand bills.
Neither do congressmen; they are on the phone. You get a brief and a draft, and you decide. Do nothing and your values stand.
So a computer decides.
It drafts. You decide. Every draft shows its reasoning, and changing it takes one tap. Your values are the instruction; the software is the clerk.
It will get hacked.
Every Count is checked by people who do not work for us and published where anyone can recount it. It is built by security engineers who assume everything can be attacked, including this, and who would rather show you the audit than ask for your trust.
The pledge is not legally binding.
Correct. It is a public promise, and every vote the Secretary casts is checked against the Count and published. A politician’s promise is checked never. This one is checked on every vote.
Why should a Texan’s vote instruct an Ohio seat?
Your congressman already answers to donors in every state. The district’s own number is published beside the national one, and the office spends its day on constituents instead of donors.
Third parties always fail.
We are not one. No platform, no loyalty test; a Secretary can run as an independent or inside a major party’s primary. Every past attempt at this died before the pledge was ever tested: people stopped showing up, the membership could not be proven, a vendor owned the platform. Counted was designed around those three failures.
This is a poll with a website.
A count nobody can verify is a poll. A count anyone can verify, cast by a pledged officeholder, is an instruction. That is the whole difference.
Sign up. That is the revolution.
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