Your personal dashboard

With a free account you can build your own Polling Desk page: the races, polls, politicians, bills, campaign money and news you care about, wherever you want them and at the size you want. It updates on its own.

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1. Create your account

• Press the person icon at the top of any page, or the button above.
• Choose "Continue with Google", or enter your email and a password (at least 10 characters). If you use your email, we'll send you a link to confirm it.
• Your dashboard starts with five widgets: Trump's approval, the generic ballot, this week's outside money, the latest news and updates on what you follow.

2. Add what you care about

There are two ways:

• "Add widget" on your dashboard. Pick a tab, search for a race or a politician by name, or choose a state or a bill from the list, and press Add.
• "Add to my dashboard" on the site's pages. Race, politician, delegation, state, bill and money-group pages, plus approval, the generic ballot and the 2028 primaries, all have this button.

The widgets you can add:

Races & polls

• A race: Polling average, odds and results for one race.
• Senate & House control: Seats won by each party, with the majority line.
• Results map: The national results map.
• A state's district map: House districts and results in one state.
• Trump approval: The approval average and how it's moved.
• Generic ballot: Which party voters prefer for the House.
• 2028 primary polls: The 2028 Democratic or Republican primary average.
• Any poll topic: The average for any subject we track, like a governor's approval or an issue.
• Latest polls: The newest polls as they come in.
• Special elections: Upcoming special elections for Congress and the latest results.

Politicians & bills

• A politician: Office, record and latest votes.
• A state's delegation: A state's senators, representatives and governor.
• A bill: Where a bill stands and its latest action.
• This week in Congress: The House floor schedule and this week's votes.
• Latest votes in Congress: The newest House and Senate roll calls and how they went.

Campaign money

• A super PAC or group: What one group raised and who it spent for and against.
• Outside money in a race: The big groups' spending in one Senate or House race.
• This week in outside money: The week's biggest new outside spending.

News, videos & updates

• Latest news: Headlines from the news outlets.
• Latest videos: New videos from the channels we follow, played right here.
• Updates on what you follow: Votes, bill actions and news on the politicians and bills you follow.

3. Arrange it your way

• Move: drag a widget by its title bar and drop it wherever you like.
• Resize: drag the bottom-right corner, or use Wider, Taller and the rest in the widget's ⋯ menu.
• With a keyboard: Tab to a title bar and use the arrow keys to move it; Shift + arrows resize it.
• Rename or remove: in the widget's ⋯ menu. "Rename" next to the heading renames the whole dashboard.
• Tidy up: moves every widget up to close the gaps.
• Open the full page: the ↗ arrow on each widget goes to its page.

Everything saves on its own. On a phone the dashboard shows as one column in the same order; to rearrange it, use a wider screen.

4. Follow your politicians

Press Follow on a politician's, bill's or money group's page. Their votes, progress and new spending show up in the "Updates on what you follow" widget, and you can ask for email or notification alerts on What I follow. When you sign in, what you followed on that browser joins your account and goes with you to every device.

Privacy

Your dashboard is private. We keep only what the account and dashboard need, and you can delete everything at any time. Privacy policy · Terms of use

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