Curators' Note

We're not journalists or political professionals. We're Newport Beach residents who got curious about how to best research the candidates ahead of the November 2026 election. The more we looked, the more we realized we needed to get up to speed on what was already happening in our city, and then keep up with what's ongoing on City Council and beyond.

We use AI tools to help gather and organize what's already public. We're not experts claiming special authority here, we're really just the conduit connecting these tools to our own hometown. Our goal starts with something simple: we want to be genuinely informed voters ourselves. If this makes that a little easier for our neighbors too, even better.

We feel privileged to have the right to vote, and we want to honor and respect everyone who gives their time to serve this city by showing up as smart, informed citizens ourselves.

We see this as an ongoing project, not a finished one. If you see something we've missed, gotten wrong, or would do differently, we'd genuinely love to hear it. Being a good citizen doesn't mean having all the answers, it means being willing to keep looking.

We're not out to evaluate or analyze what's happening in the city ourselves; that's already being done really well, and we have huge respect for that work. We just want to compile what's already being observed and reported so residents can see it in one place: what's currently in front of the City Council, what's already been decided, and how each vote went.

For internet privacy reasons, we don't publish our full names on the site. We're happy to introduce ourselves in a direct conversation. We look forward to hearing from you.