Tomer Rozenberg

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Tomer Rozenberg

I believe people should have a real voice in the decisions made in their name, not only on election day.

That’s why I co-founded Agora, a non-partisan channel between people and the officials who represent them, for the years between elections.

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Tomer Rozenberg

A four-year term is 1,461 days. Election day is one of them. Most decisions are made in the other 1,460.

Between elections, people and the officials who represent them have few reliable ways to hear each other.

People want a say. A budget passes. A bus route changes. A school board votes on a closure. It happens in meetings few people can attend, and by the time most of us hear about it, it’s done.

Officials want to listen. Many do want to know what the people they represent think. But calls, emails and petitions arrive from everywhere, and it’s hard to tell who actually lives in the district.

Here is what Agora does about it.

  1. Officials share what they’re deciding. Bills, questions and town halls, from the offices that represent you.
  2. You answer as a constituent. Your input is counted in your own district, separate from outside noise.
  3. The office can answer in public. So what you said doesn’t just disappear.
  4. Every official, of every party, gets the same tools. Agora is non-partisan by design.
Rows of empty cane chairs facing a raised table and lectern in a marble hearing room
Hearing room, Tennessee State Capitol, Nashville. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress (public domain).

The first eight weeks after the vote

In Between Votes, my letter on Substack, I’m walking through them in Walking the Gap: eight short letters, one each Tuesday, from the election to the first day of the new Congress. Each stop shows who decides what next, and where you can still get in.

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  1. 10 NovThe count

    Station 1 of 8: who decides when a vote becomes official.

  2. 17 NovThe new Congress

    Station 2 of 8: the rooms you can’t enter, and the inbox you can.

  3. 24 NovThe lame duck

    Station 3 of 8: what the outgoing Congress decides before January.

All eight stops

For the rest of the term, there’s Agora

It’s live in alpha in the US, with the public record of New York City, New York State and Congress. If you’re in the US, you can see who represents you today, and join the early testers.

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Agora’s weekly brief for the week of 10 November: how the reader’s representatives voted, topics the reader follows, a comment period closing soon and meetings coming up
Real screen from Agora, 10 November 2026: the weekly brief.

We mistake the label for the thing.

If you think you already know what democracy is, The Civic Gap is written for you. It’s the book I’m writing about the gap between the ideal and the machinery we built to reach for it, and what keeping it running actually costs. It’s my own work, separate from Agora.

About the book

A four-year term ends on day 1,461. What gets decided before then depends on who speaks up in between.

Let’s talk

  • You work in or with a government office. I’ll show you Agora from your side, and I want to hear what your inbox is really like.
  • You build, study or fund civic tech. Let’s compare notes on what worked before and what didn’t.
  • You’re a journalist or you book speakers. I’ll send what you need.
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Press and speaking

Outside the US? Agora isn’t there yet, but the problem is everywhere, and I’m happy to compare notes.