Questions, answered

A set of live channels for the public record. Civicdesk follows Congress, Courtdesk the Supreme Court and the federal appeals courts, and Execdesk the White House and the Federal Register. Each one runs full screen, changes scenes on its own and takes over the screen when something big happens. Elections (presidential, Senate, House and governor races), the economy, the news and technology are on the way.

Yes. No account, no subscription, no ads. Open a channel and leave it on.

StateSig.tv is independent. It isn’t part of any news organization, government agency, campaign or party. It started as a wall of screens for one home office, and every channel is designed and written from scratch. More about how it’s built.

No. Nothing is rated, ranked or scored. Votes are shown as cast, documents in their own words and numbers as published, and every party, member, justice and president goes through the same code.

Public sources only: the House Clerk, Congress.gov, Voteview, the Supreme Court, CourtListener, the White House, the Federal Register and others. The Sources page lists every one, what it provides and how often it’s read.

Each source is read on its own schedule, from every 90 seconds (Supreme Court opinion mornings) to once a day (member lists). The Status page shows when each source was last read.

Only one thing: when the Congressional Research Service hasn’t summarized a bill yet, Civicdesk may show a plain-language summary written by an AI model from the bill’s text. It’s always labelled as AI-written and is replaced by the official summary once there is one.

The channels show what their sources publish, so a mistake at the source shows up here too. Each channel names its sources, and the Sources page links to every one so you can check the original. If a channel looks stuck or wrong, report a problem.

Email admin@statesig.tv. Questions, ideas, corrections and a source you’d like added are all welcome.

Anything with a web browser: a smart TV, a Fire TV or Google TV, a tablet, a phone, a laptop on an HDMI cable or a Raspberry Pi. It looks best on a tablet or a TV turned sideways. Here’s how to set each one up.

Up and down change the channel: the arrow keys, Page Up and Down, a remote’s channel buttons, a game controller’s d-pad or stick, or a swipe up or down. Left and right step through the channel’s scenes. Tap or move the mouse to show a bar with every channel and full screen.

Yes: the wall shows every channel on one screen and lights up the one with big news.

On a big screen, scan the QR code in the corner with your phone’s camera to open the same channel. You can also add a channel to your home screen so it opens like an app.

Big moments, like a decision or a signing, play a short chime once the page has been tapped or clicked (browsers don’t allow sound before that). Add ?sound=0 to the address to keep it silent. The wall and the previews on this site are always silent.

Yes. That’s what it’s made for. Put it on the screen and leave it running.

Yes. Add your state and district to the channel’s address, like civic.statesig.tv/tv?state=CA&cd=12, and it follows your own senators and representative. Without them it shows Congress nationwide.

Yes. Each channel publishes a calendar of what’s coming: Supreme Court arguments, congressional hearings and federal rule deadlines. Subscribe here.

No. There are no accounts and no tracking cookies. We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and doesn’t identify you. A channel remembers a few settings, like which big moments you’ve already seen, in your own browser, and they never leave it.