UI/UX:
- Bill detail page tab UI (Analysis / Timeline / Votes / Notes)
- Topic tag pills on bill detail and listing pages — filtered to known
topics, clickable, properly labelled via shared lib/topics.ts
- Notes panel always-open in Notes tab; sign-in prompt for guests
- Collapsible sidebar with icon-only mode and localStorage persistence
- Bills page defaults to has-text filter enabled
- Follow mode dropdown transparency fix
- Favicon (Landmark icon, blue background)
Security:
- Fernet encryption for ntfy passwords at rest (app/core/crypto.py)
- Separate ENCRYPTION_SECRET_KEY env var; falls back to JWT derivation
- ntfy_password no longer returned in GET response — replaced with
ntfy_password_set: bool; NotificationSettingsUpdate type for writes
- JWT_SECRET_KEY fail-fast on startup if using default placeholder
- get_optional_user catches (JWTError, ValueError) only, not Exception
Bug fixes & code quality:
- Dashboard N+1 topic query replaced with single OR query
- notification_utils.py topic follower N+1 replaced with batch query
- Note query in bill detail page gated on token (enabled: !!token)
- search.py max_length=500 guard against oversized queries
- CollectionCreate.validate_name wired up with @field_validator
- LLM_RATE_LIMIT_RPM default raised from 10 to 50
Authored by: Jack Levy
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
Phase 3 completion — Personal Workflow feature set is now complete.
Collections / Watchlists:
- New tables: collections (UUID share_token, slug, public/private) and
collection_bills (unique bill-per-collection constraint)
- Full CRUD API at /api/collections with bill add/remove endpoints
- Public share endpoint /api/collections/share/{token} (no auth)
- /collections list page with inline create form and delete
- /collections/[id] detail page: inline rename, public toggle,
copy-share-link, bill search/add/remove
- CollectionPicker bookmark-icon popover on bill detail pages
- Collections nav link in sidebar (auth-required)
Shareable Brief Links:
- share_token UUID column on bill_briefs (backfilled on migration)
- Unified public share router at /api/share (brief + collection)
- /share/brief/[token] — minimal layout, full AIBriefCard, CTAs
- /share/collection/[token] — minimal layout, bill list, CTA
- Share2 button in BriefPanel header row, "Link copied!" flash
AuthGuard: /collections → AUTH_REQUIRED; /share prefix → NO_SHELL_PATHS
Authored-By: Jack Levy
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- bill_notes table (migration 0014): user_id, bill_id, content, pinned,
created_at, updated_at; unique constraint (user_id, bill_id)
- BillNote SQLAlchemy model with back-refs on User and Bill
- GET/PUT/DELETE /api/notes/{bill_id} — auth-required, one note per (user, bill)
- NotesPanel component: collapsible, auto-resize textarea, pin toggle,
save + delete; shows last-saved date and pin indicator in collapsed header
- Pinned notes render above BriefPanel; unpinned render below DraftLetterPanel
- Guests see nothing (token guard in component + query disabled)
Co-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
- Add chamberBadgeColor util: amber/gold for Senate, slate/silver for House
- Apply chamber badge to BillCard and bill detail header
- ActionTimeline: show latest_action_date/text as fallback when full history
not yet fetched, with note that full history loads in background
- Manual Controls: poll task status every 5s after triggering, show spinning
indicator while running, task ID prefix, and completion/failure state
Authored-By: Jack Levy
Backend:
- Add fetch_bill_actions task with pagination and idempotent upsert
- Add fetch_actions_for_active_bills nightly batch (4 AM UTC beat schedule)
- Wire fetch_bill_actions into new-bill creation and _update_bill_if_changed
- Add backfill_brief_citations task: detects pre-citation briefs by JSONB
type check, deletes them, re-queues LLM processing against stored text
(LLM calls only — zero Congress.gov or GovInfo calls)
- Add admin endpoints: POST /bills/{id}/reprocess, /backfill-citations,
/trigger-fetch-actions; add uncited_briefs count to /stats
Frontend:
- New BriefPanel component: wraps AIBriefCard, adds amber "What Changed"
badge for amendment briefs and collapsible version history with
inline brief expansion
- Swap AIBriefCard for BriefPanel on bill detail page
- Admin panel: Backfill Citations + Fetch Bill Actions buttons; amber
warning in stats when uncited briefs remain
- Add feature roadmap document with phased plan through Phase 5
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
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
