About Oravan
Oravan is a free, nonpartisan civic tool. Use it to find your members of Congress, read active bills in plain language and make a 30-second call, in English or Spanish, with no account and no server-side record of your political activity.
Oravan is a coined name — part oration, part caravan: one voice setting out, many arriving together.
Who pays for this?
Oravan is independently run and founder-funded. It costs a few hundred dollars a year to host and maintain, currently paid out of one person's pocket. There are no ads, no sponsors, and no investors — and Oravan sells nothing to readers, because we collect no personal data. The partner embeds have four plans, none open to new sites yet.
Oravan is built and run by Colby Maxwell. The full source code is public: github.com/cm2489/oravan
If Oravan is useful to you, you can contribute to its hosting and upkeep. Contributions are not tax-deductible. Support Oravan
Independence and contact
Oravan is an independent, nonpartisan project. It is not a campaign, a party or a PAC. Its promises are built to be checked: no account, no tracking and nothing about you kept on a server. For a correction, a question or a partnership inquiry, email hello@oravan.org.