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Radical Transparency
Public power should be legible to the public. Concealment is not a privilege of office.
Accountability is not a request. It is a requirement.
The meeting happened. The contract got signed. The vote went through on a consent agenda before anyone could object. They have always counted on you not showing up. That calculation ends here.
Reports
The record does not lie. It just gets buried.
Every decision your local government makes leaves a paper trail. Meeting minutes. Budget approvals. Contract awards. FOIA responses. Most of it never sees daylight — not because it doesn't exist, but because nobody went looking. Catalyst Civic goes looking. Then we publish what we find where it cannot be quietly buried again.
Evidence before narrative
The document comes first. The story follows what the document establishes — not the other way around.
Built to last
Still accurate when the denial comes six months later. Still citable when they say it never happened.
Local power, exposed
The boards, the budgets, the contracts, the votes. The mechanisms of local power that shape your daily life and almost never make the news.
FOIA Fund
Your purchase is a FOIA request.
That is not a metaphor. Every dollar from the store goes directly to the work — filing fees, records retrieval, server costs, and the time it takes to follow a case past the headline and into the document. No ads fund this. No donors with conditions. You do. And when you do, the filings keep coming.
No overhead theater. No donor class. Direct support for the primary record.
Filing fees
Formal records requests cost money to file and fight. Your support keeps them coming without compromise.
Records retrieval
Locating, processing, and preserving the source material the public was never supposed to see in one place.
Sustained pressure
The long fights — the denials, the delays, the appeals — require continuity. Support keeps us in the ring.
Values
We yield to none of it.
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Unyielding Accountability
Familiarity, tenure, and title do not dilute scrutiny. The record is the record.
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Relentless Pressure
Exposure is the beginning, not the end. The work continues until the record is complete.
NULLI CEDIMUS