Docs: true entity counts — 37,667 records across five types
README and roadmap had drifted two syncs behind reality: 10,390 jurisdictions (incl. 6,824 state legislative districts), 13,329 people, 11,221 legal sections. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## What's in here today
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19,721 markdown records, every one schema-validated:
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37,667 markdown records, every one schema-validated:
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| Entity | Count | What it is |
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| **Person** | 13,329 | Current officeholders — federal, all 50 state legislatures, and Florida down to the municipal level. Federal members carry their bioguide ID, leadership roles, and committee seats. |
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| **Body** | 233 | The institutions themselves — the U.S. House, the Senate, 49 committees, 181 subcommittees, each with its leadership. |
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| **Candidate** | 2,494 | Everyone running for federal office in 2026, from FEC filings. |
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| **Jurisdiction** | 3,494 | Every U.S. county (3,131) and 363 congressional districts, each carrying Census demographics — the nationwide skeleton, filled with data. |
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| **LegalText** | 171 | U.S. Code Title 52, Voting and Elections, mirrored from the official OLRC XML release current through Public Law 119-100. |
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| **Jurisdiction** | 10,390 | Every U.S. county (3,131), all 435 congressional districts (Census demographics on 363), and every state legislative district — 4,927 house, 1,897 senate — the nationwide skeleton, filled with data. |
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| **LegalText** | 11,221 | U.S. Code Titles 1–11 and 52 — General Provisions through Bankruptcy, plus Voting and Elections — mirrored section-by-section from the official OLRC XML release current through Public Law 119-100. |
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The mirror answers, with receipts: *who holds power, who runs the institution, who's running, what each place is made of,* and now *what legal text governs elections* — and, through git, *what changed.*
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The mirror answers, with receipts: *who holds power, who runs the institution, who's running, what each place is made of,* and *what the law says* — and, through git, *what changed.*
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## How it works
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```bash
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make build # regenerate the entity tree from the raw exports
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make legal-us-code # regenerate the U.S. Code Title 52 legal corpus seed
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make legal-us-code # regenerate the U.S. Code legal corpus (TITLES="1 2 ..." overridable)
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make validate # OKF + schema + link-integrity checks on all records
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make changelog # what changed in the government since the last commit
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make board # rebuild the Board's inlined data from the tree
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## Done
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- **The substrate** — repo-canonical, OKF markdown + YAML frontmatter, JSON-Schema validated, deterministic build (byte-identical on rerun).
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- **Four entity types, 17,506 files** — Person (11,285), Body (233), Candidate (2,494), Jurisdiction (3,494).
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- **Five entity types, 37,667 files** — Person (13,329), Body (233), Candidate (2,494), Jurisdiction (10,390), LegalText (11,221).
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- **The federal government, structurally** — every member of Congress, the chambers, 49 committees and 181 subcommittees with their leadership, and every member's committee seats.
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- **The nationwide county skeleton** — all 3,131 U.S. counties as demographic nodes, plus 363 congressional districts, from Census ACS.
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- **The nationwide county skeleton** — all 3,131 U.S. counties as demographic nodes, plus all 435 congressional districts (Census ACS demographics on 363).
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- **The authority layer** — every state legislative district (4,927 house, 1,897 senate) linked county↔district↔legislator, nationwide.
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- **The legal corpus, seeded wide** — U.S. Code Titles 1–11 and 52 as 11,221 per-section records, mirrored from pinned OLRC XML (release 119-100) with manifests and checksums. Titles 12–54 pending an OLRC XML retry (the GovInfo HTML fallback is not source-quality).
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- **The 2026 federal candidate field** — every FEC filing as a Candidate.
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- **Florida to the ground** — officeholders down to the municipal level across all 67 counties.
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- **The pipeline** — `make build` / `validate` / `changelog` / `check`, standard-library only.
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## Next
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- **Self-updating mirror** — a GitHub Action running `make check` on every push, then a scheduled job that pulls a fresh Atlas export, rebuilds, and commits the changelog automatically. This is the point where the mirror maintains itself and the daily civic changelog becomes real (the first *re-sync* diff, where only genuine government changes surface).
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- **Self-updating mirror** — the `make check` GitHub Action now guards every push; next is the scheduled job that pulls a fresh Atlas export, rebuilds, and commits the changelog automatically. That is the point where the mirror maintains itself and the daily civic changelog becomes real (the first *re-sync* diff, where only genuine government changes surface).
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- **The full U.S. Code** — titles 12–54 as OLRC USLM XML at the same release point (retry in progress on Atlas; the WAF-blocked titles currently exist only as GovInfo HTML, which stays a secondary snapshot).
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- **The demographic choropleth** — the Board already has ACS data for every county; shade the map by population, income, and poverty, turning it from a coverage indicator into an instrument.
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- **State and local bodies** — Bodies currently exist only at the federal level. Mint them for state legislatures and, following the Florida depth, county commissions and city councils.
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- **Graph export** — a loader that walks the tree and builds the relationship graph (Memgraph) as a materialized view, so the repo can rehydrate the graph rather than the reverse.
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