Free Government - Democracy in Your Hands.

The Four Defining Freedoms of Free Government

1. Engage

Freedom to engage in government decision making for any purpose at any time.

2. Understand

Freedom to understand the work of the government transparently.

3. Share

Freedom to share direct control of the government.

4. Improve

Freedom to improve the government for the benefit of all society with the support of others.

FreeGovernment Blog

What Happened? What Next?

We have some unfortunate news: there will be no FreeGov campaign this year.

What Happened?

Shortly after deciding on an applicant who would have made an amazing candidate, we began to organize our team for the next phase, seeking out signatures to get on the ballot. However, it wasn't long before we realized what a time-crunch we were in - less than 10 days to get 2000 valid signatures from voters i...

More details soon.

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As the FreeGov team continues to push further in development, we've been feeling a good share of "blah" moments of exhaustion but balanced by exciting highs which makes this bumpy road worth it. Two of these highs are FreeGov appearing on Slashdot and Wikinomics. Speechless.

Waking up Friday morning (July 11th) and finding FreeGov on the home page of Slashdot was our (nerd) dream come true. We all ...

FreeGovernment.org is now searching for applicants for a candidate to represent the 8th Congressional District of MA, which includes Cambridge, Somerville, Chelsea, and parts of Boston.

This election year, we are looking to test the political waters and make an impact by selecting one qualified applicant to run for Representative of MA's 8th Congressional District.

If elected, you will be bound by c...

It's official, 232 years after the Declaration of Independence, FreeGovernment.org is up. We are very excited (and anxious too) about this release and hope that you will enjoy using this website as much as we have while creating it.

This project has definitely been long in the making. Not 232 years--phew--but still long enough. Foy cooked up the Free Government idea when he was an undergrad studen...