Forrest

Everything you need to start following your state legislature on cicada.guide — creating an account, finding bills that matter to you, and contacting your representatives.

Get Started

How to create your cicada.guide account and confirm your email.

Create Account

A plain-English introduction to what cicada.guide does and who it's for.

What is cicada.guide?

Your name, your address, and which emails you want to receive.

Set Up Your Profile

Using your feed, following subjects, and getting recommendations.

Find Bills You Care About

What's on the bill page: status, summaries, Explain This Bill, and subjects.

Read and Understand a Bill

Star bills to keep your own list, and use the thumbs to record where you stand.

Track a Bill and Set Your Position

See who represents you, how they voted, and get help writing to them.

Contact Your Representatives

Feedback

Roadmap

cicada.run

Everything you need to start running a campaign on cicada.run: creating your campaign, drawing turf on the map, pulling verified voter contacts, and getting lists into the field.

A plain-English introduction to what cicada.run does and who it's for.

What is cicada.run?

Signing up, creating a campaign workspace, and inviting your team.

Create Your Account and Campaign

Two ways to select an area: drawing it by hand, or building it from a travel time.

Draw a Turf on the Map

The two ways you get contact data, and how Contact Credits are charged.

Discover and Complete Contacts

Splitting a turf into lists, and getting each list to the right person.

Build Lists and Share Them

What volunteers do: enter a code, work the map, and record what happened at each door.

Canvass with the Mobile App

Searching, tagging, saved searches, and recording every call, text, and conversation.

Find Contacts and Log Outreach

Uploading a CSV, matching your columns to ours, and tagging the import.

Import Contacts You Already Have

cicada.buzz

Everything you need to start listening with cicada.buzz — creating an organization, writing a poll, sharing it by link or QR code, and reading the themes that come back.

A plain-English introduction to what cicada.buzz does and who it's for.

What is cicada.buzz?

Signing up, creating an organization, and inviting the people you work with.

Create Your Account and Organization

Writing a headline and an open-ended question, and choosing who can see the poll.

Create a Poll

The link, the QR code, embedding on your own site, and the public polls directory.

Share Your Poll

What a respondent sees: the conversation, voice answers, picking topics, and submitting.

Answering a Poll

How answers turn into topics and themes, what the leaderboard filters do, and how to build a custom theme.

Read Your Results: Themes and Topics

Using the map and timeline to save a subset of responses you can come back to.

Views: Slice Results by Place and Time

Marking a custom theme resolved so the community can see what you did about it.

Post a Resolution

How plans work per organization, upgrading, and managing payment details.