
While big tech and defense contractors like Google and Palantir build tools to hunt immigrants and monitor activists, Arsenal PAC is forging the digital tools that the movement to defend our democracy needs to fight back and win.
In 1940, FDR called on America to become the "Arsenal of Democracy" - building the weapons to defeat fascism abroad. Today, we're building the digital arsenal to defeat authoritarianism at home.
We're technologists and organizers creating what no venture-backed company ever will: technology that puts power back in the hands of the people. Protection tools for communities under threat. World-class campaign technology for progressive and Democratic candidates. Filling the gaps in the digital infrastructure our movements need - built by us, owned by the movement, free forever.
PRIORITY PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
1️⃣ >> ResistMap - LIVE
When communities are under attack, information becomes armor. ResistMap transforms thousands of eyes into an early warning network. Anyone can report ICE raids, hate crimes, and extremist activity. Our trained volunteer analysts verify every report. Communities receive real-time alerts that help keep families together and neighbors safe. This is neighbors protecting neighbors in the digital age. Together, we have the watch.
2️⃣ >> January 6th Tracker - IN DEVELOPMENT
After the perpetrators of the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol were pardoned by Donald Trump, many of the worst are continuing to act as MAGA's foot soldiers, from conducting violence to forming militias. Our January 6th Tracker uses custom technology to track their movements, aggregating press and social media sources to keep a watchful eye and make sure they are held accountable for their crimes.
COMING NEXT
3️⃣ >> Arsenal Innovation Corps
Here's the hard truth: The right wing is running circles around us technologically. They have Musk, Thiel, and an army of tech billionaires building their infrastructure. We have companies charging progressive campaigns $10,000/month for basic voter files and some of our main vendors are owned by overseas private equity firms.
The gaps in our movement's technology aren't accidents, they're market failures. No venture-backed company will build the unglamorous tools that down-ballot progressives desperately need. There's no profit in democratizing political technology. No IPO potential in free organizing platforms. No Series B funding for protecting vulnerable communities.
That's where Arsenal comes in. We're recruiting volunteer software developers, designers, and technologists who understand that code is power - and that power belongs to the people. Together, we're identifying the critical gaps that keep progressives and Democrats losing winnable races.
Our innovation corps isn't going to build vanity projects: we'll be creating the foundational tools that will determine whether democracy survives the next decade.
Whatever the movement needs but the market won't provide - we'll build it, perfect it, and help people use it effectively.
The right has billionaires. We can build something better: Thousands of technologists who believe democracy is worth defending.
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Monthly donors are the backbone of our independence. While one-time gifts help us respond to crises, monthly sustainers let us build. Plan. Deploy. Win.
No billionaire backers. No corporate strings. Just thousands of monthly donors building democracy's digital infrastructure, $25 at a time.
They have unlimited dark money. We have each other. That's how we'll win.