One price per race. The same price for everyone in it.

Preview your own Town Hall on a dedicated server. Invite questions from screened constituents, record opening remarks, enter questions from the campaign trail, and learn the platform. The preparation stage is available at no cost until your election.

If you stop during preparation, you owe nothing and your hall is never published.

They are deleted, whether or not your hall goes live. A question that is never published does not sit in our database indefinitely — it goes after your election at the latest, and sooner once your hall is finished. Published questions and their answers stay for as long as your hall is hosted, and your complete downloadable copy is yours to keep either way.

Your hall's full payment includes hosting through 31 December 2026. From 1 January 2027, you can keep it online for $50 per month for Tier I and Tier II, or $100 per month for Tier III and Tier IV, invoiced in advance. The rate is the same for every hall of that tier. If you don't renew, your hall goes offline and its public pages stop being served. You keep your downloaded copy and can request it for 90 days after your hall goes offline. The registry keeps its records.

Up to your election. There is no expiration and no deadline, but please know that we are here to help you if you need support setting up and going live. Support is included and there is no limit on it.

Only people you give the password to. It is not linked from our site and it is not listed in any directory while it is in preparation.

Yes. Once your race's published price is paid you can open and publish the same day. You choose which questions to answer, whenever they arrived.

By the most recent Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Total Population, for the electoral jurisdiction. Where that survey does not publish the geography — city council wards, for example — we use the jurisdiction's officially adopted redistricting population. The tier is set when a race opens and does not change.

A published introductory rate for the first ten races to record a full payment: $1,500 for Tier I and Tier II races, and half the standard price for Tier III and Tier IV. Starting preparation at no cost does not reserve a place. Once a race is in the program, every candidate in it pays the founding price, whenever they sign.

No. You pay exactly what they paid. That is true whether you sign the next day, six weeks later, or after the founding program has closed — and it is true if you enter the race after they did.

Yes. Each hall is a separate purchase at the same tier price for that race.

Pricing is per candidate, and every candidate in the race receives the same offer on the same terms.

No. Prices are published, fixed, and identical for every candidate in a race. Founding pricing is the only discount we offer and it is not available on request — a race either falls within the program or it does not.

You do. Your campaign gets curator access and answers questions directly. We never select, reject, or reorder a question, and we never write an answer.

No, and we say so clearly. Questions are submitted through a screening process — a working email, an 18–35 attestation, and a city and ZIP consistent with the district — and are published exactly as written, or not at all. We don't verify identity, residency, or voter registration.

That is a choice, not a shortcut. We could verify more only by collecting more — documents, dates of birth, addresses, a data broker's file on a twenty-two-year-old — and we would rather not hold any of it. The screening is set at the point where it keeps the questions honest without building the sort of dossier young people have every reason to distrust.