Roll-call votes:
- Migration 0017: bill_votes + member_vote_positions tables
- Fetch vote XML directly from House Clerk / Senate LIS URLs
embedded in bill actions recordedVotes objects
- GET /api/bills/{id}/votes triggers background fetch on first view
- VotePanel on bill detail: yea/nay bar, result badge, followed
member positions with Sen./Rep. title, party badge, and state
Alert filter fix:
- _should_dispatch returns True when alert_filters is None so users
who haven't saved filters still receive all notifications
Authored-By: Jack Levy
ZIP lookup (GET /api/members/by-zip/{zip}):
- Two-step geocoding: Nominatim (ZIP → lat/lng) then Census TIGERweb
Legislative identify (lat/lng → congressional district via GEOID)
- Handles at-large states (AK, DE, MT, ND, SD, VT, WY)
- Added rep_lookup health check to admin External API Health panel
congress_api.py fixes:
- parse_member_from_api: normalize state full name → 2-letter code
(Congress.gov returns "Florida", DB expects "FL")
- parse_member_from_api: read district from top-level data field,
not current_term (district is not inside the term object)
Celery beat: schedule sync_members daily at 1 AM UTC so chamber,
district, and contact info stay current without manual triggering
Members page redesign: photo avatars, party/state/chamber chips,
phone + website links, ZIP lookup form to find your reps
Draft letter improvements: pass rep_name from ZIP lookup so letter
opens with "Dear Representative Franklin," instead of generic salutation;
add has_document filter to bills list endpoint
UX additions: HelpTip component, How It Works page, "How it works"
sidebar nav link, collections page description copy
Authored-By: Jack Levy
- Add DraftLetterPanel: collapsible UI below BriefPanel for bills with a
brief; lets users select up to 3 cited points, pick stance/tone, and
generate a plain-text letter via the configured LLM provider
- Stance pre-fills from follow mode (pocket_boost → YES, pocket_veto → NO)
and clears when the user unfollows; recipient derived from bill chamber
- Add POST /api/bills/{bill_id}/draft-letter endpoint with proper LLM
provider/model resolution from AppSetting (respects Settings page choice)
- Add generate_text() to LLMProvider ABC and all four providers
- Expose has_document on BillSchema (list endpoint) via a single batch
query; BillCard shows Brief / Pending / No text indicator per bill
Authored-By: Jack Levy
Notifications:
- New /notifications page accessible to all users (ntfy + RSS config)
- ntfy now supports no-auth, Bearer token, and HTTP Basic auth (for ACL-protected self-hosted servers)
- RSS enabled/disabled independently of ntfy; token auto-generated on first GET
- Notification settings removed from admin-only Settings page; replaced with link card
- Sidebar adds Notifications nav link for all users
- notification_dispatcher.py: fan-out now marks RSS events dispatched independently
Action history:
- Migration 0012: deduplicates existing bill_actions rows and adds UNIQUE(bill_id, action_date, action_text)
- congress_poller.py: replaces existence-check inserts with ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING (race-condition safe)
- Added backfill_all_bill_actions task (no date filter) + admin endpoint POST /backfill-all-actions
Authored-By: Jack Levy
- get_llm_provider() now accepts provider + model args so DB overrides
propagate through to all provider constructors (was always reading
env vars, ignoring the admin UI selection)
- /test-llm replaced with lightweight ping (max_tokens=20) instead of
running a full bill analysis; shows model name + reply, no truncation
- /api/settings/llm-models endpoint fetches available models live from
each provider's API (OpenAI, Anthropic REST, Gemini, Ollama)
- Admin UI model picker dynamically populated from provider API;
falls back to manual text input on error; Custom model name option kept
- Default Gemini model updated: gemini-1.5-pro → gemini-2.0-flash
Co-Authored-By: Jack Levy
- Replace fragile entry.get("link") with _gnews_entry_url() helper that
checks entry.link attribute then falls back to entry.links[].href,
fixing cases where feedparser puts the URL in a non-standard location
- Lazy news re-fetch on bill detail now only triggers when the stored
trend score confirms gnews_count > 0, preventing endless re-queuing
for bills with genuinely no news coverage
Co-Authored-By: Jack Levy
Adds Google Trends, NewsAPI, and Google News RSS scoring for members,
mirroring the existing bill interest pipeline. Member profiles now show
a Public Interest chart (with signal breakdown) and a Related News panel.
Key changes:
- New member_trend_scores + member_news_articles tables (migration 0008)
- fetch_gnews_articles() added to news_service for unlimited RSS article storage
- Bill news fetcher now combines NewsAPI + Google News RSS (more coverage)
- New member_interest Celery worker with scheduled news + trend tasks
- GET /members/{id}/trend and /news API endpoints
- TrendChart redesigned with signal breakdown badges and bar+line combo chart
- NewsPanel accepts generic article shape (bills and members)
Co-Authored-By: Jack Levy
Lazy-enriches member profiles on first view via Congress.gov detail API.
Adds office address, phone, official website, congress.gov link, birth
year, terms history, leadership roles, and sponsored/cosponsored counts.
Includes DB migration 0007 for new member columns.
Co-Authored-By: Jack Levy
LLM prompts updated to output {text, citation, quote} objects for every
key_point and risk. govinfo_url stored on BillBrief (migration 0006) so
the frontend can link directly to the source document without an extra
query. AIBriefCard renders § citation chips that expand inline to show
the verbatim quote and a View source → GovInfo link. Old plain-string
briefs continue to render unchanged.
Authored-By: Jack Levy
