About
A civic project, not a campaign.
Americans for Propriety is a civic project advancing public policy that respects democratic limits, serves the common good, and treats public power as a trust — not a tool of private fortune.
What we do
Three things: research, drafting, and record-keeping.
- Research. Short, sourced briefs on policy questions in front of US legislators. Written for constituents.
- Drafting. Letter and testimony templates that constituents can personalize and send. Designed to read like a person, not a campaign.
- Record-keeping. Public summaries of what representatives are doing with their votes, hearings, and rulemaking authority.
Visitors vs. members
We treat anonymous visitors and signed-in members differently — on purpose.
- Visitors get the static research, briefs, and letter templates with no tracking, no analytics that identify individuals, no cookies beyond what's needed to load a page, and no email forms.
- Members opt into a richer toolkit: rep lookup by ZIP, AI-drafted letters tailored to a specific representative and topic, and a private action log. Members give us their email and ZIP. We store the district, the drafts they generate, and the actions they log. Nothing else.
What we don't do — for either
- We don't run mass-email blasts, robocalls, or signature drives.
- We don't send messages on a member's behalf. We generate drafts; members read, edit, and send them.
- We don't sell, rent, or share member data with anyone, ever.
- We don't accept anonymous money. Every dollar that funds this project is publicly disclosed.
- We don't pretend to be neutral on the questions of fact our briefs document. We do try to be fair to the strongest version of opposing views.
Where we sit
On the current US political map, our research and policy positions land more often on the left than on the right. We don't pretend otherwise. We also don't think a republic is well served by treating every policy question as a tribal question. The form of our work — small, public, low-key, allergic to mass mobilization tactics — is deliberate.
The name is deliberate too. Propriety is what was edited out when American politics became a market for private fortune. It means the kind of restraint that allows public institutions to function — power that knows its limits, policy that respects its obligations, conduct that recognizes what is owed to a republic.
How to reach us
We're a small team. We read mail at hello@americansforpropriety.org. We respond when we can.