Gov Archive — preserving publicly funded government data for research and public access.

Why this archive exists

Democracy runs on information. Every budget, every law, every measurement of our air, water, health, and history was paid for by the public — and it belongs to the public. When that record is taken offline, citizens lose the ability to check claims against facts, researchers lose decades of evidence, and the story of this country becomes easier to rewrite.

Preservation is not a partisan act. The datasets, documents, and decisions kept here are preserved exactly as the government published them — with sources, checksums, and full provenance — so that anyone, of any persuasion, can read them and decide for themselves. That is the habit self-government depends on, and it only survives if the record does.

As America marks 250 years of self-government, keeping the public record public is a small way of keeping faith with the idea that started it: that a free people, well informed, can govern themselves.

— The Gov Glance Foundation