How to keep your Politician accountable

It is important to remember your politicians are supposed to represent you the voter. It can be hard to tell when a politician is voting if they are voting for you or some lobbyist who paid for their election campaign or gave them other financial incentives.

This is vital to empower the voter and some of these sites are really easy and quick to read. IF Americans get in the habit of checking on their politicians they will find things get better.  This works for you Left or Right, just check up on your politician after a vote your interested in and odds are whomever gave them money will have had an influence on it.

Here are ways to help and empower you the voter.

• Political Party Time A calendar of upcoming campaign fundraisers.  Nice site for tracking who is buying your politician.
• Campaign Money You can check by zip code to see who is funding your politicians.
• Follow The Money this is an example of my Senator Jim Lankford.  Use this site to see who donates to your person.
• Maplight Another site to check on funding.
• Open Secrets Donation tracking combined with news.

Finding your Representative or Senator

• Federal Representaive (House)
• Federal Senators Contact page
• Ballot O Pedia Find ALL your politicains!  Requires full street address but includes Federal, State and local officials.
• Town Halls to see any upcoming town halls

How did they Vote?

Below are some very easy to use sites that let you track important information about your legislatures

• Vote Spoter App
• GovTrack Voting records that can be emailed to you. Also very easy to use website.

Vote Smart A decent way to see various positions, especially as seen by various third party agencies. Also good at seeing policy statements by politician.

• Ballot Pedia Provides more of an overview rather than specific details. However there is a lot of data here.
• Congress.gov

John Kasich interview on Trevor Noah

I like this guy,
Republican or Democrat we need more with that attitude of cooperation and backbone.

Voter Suppression and Party Bullying

The two party system needs to go and not be officially supported. Independents should have an easier time getting on the ballots. Gerrymandering needs to be addressed as well.  Republicans claim they are for a free market environment yet the current situation is the opposite of that. I realize this is a tough sell but Republicans tend to do better with moderates and leftists splitting their vote. Honestly do you feel good knowing that people or so disgusted they choose not to vote because they feel it does not matter?