Creator kit.
If you make election maps, threads, explainers, or newsletters, Akashic is built to be your source material. Every place in America has a page with 148 years of results, demographics, and the places that vote most like it — all named, dated, and sourced. Pull what you need, credit the page, and we will put your work in front of our audience.
Why this is for you
You already do the work — the maps, the swing tables, the realignment threads. Akashic exists to cut the time between a question and a sourced answer from thirty minutes of querying to thirty seconds. The data is the public record: MIT Election Lab and ICPSR for results, Census ACS for demographics, the 2020 US Religion Census, VEST for precincts. We have composed it into a page per place and made the whole thing free to cite, embed, and screenshot.
There is no catch and no paywall. We are not paying for posts — buying placements would compromise the neutrality that makes the reference worth citing. What we offer instead is good raw material and real amplification.
What you can pull
- A page for every place. Every county, state, congressional district, state-legislative district, metro, and media market has its own page — 11,376 of them. Each carries every presidential result from 1876 to 2024, the current Census profile, religious adherence, a precinct map where one exists, and a typology label.
- The most-similar places. Every place page lists the ten places whose voting pattern most closely resembles it across the long history. It is a built-in "what rhymes with this" index — a thread starter on its own.
- Embeddable widgets. Any county, state, CBSA, CD, or DMA page drops into your site or newsletter via oEmbed. It renders the result lockup and history inline, links back, and injects no analytics on your readers.
- Per-place OG cards. Every page ships a 1200×630 share card — brand-dark, the place name, the latest margin, a headline. Drop one straight into a post, or screenshot the page itself.
- Named, dated, sourced figures. Every number on every page carries a year and a federal or academic source — MIT Election Lab and ICPSR for results, Census ACS for demographics, the 2020 US Religion Census, VEST for precincts. Cite with confidence; the provenance is on the page.
- Compare any two places. The /compare surface puts two places side by side across the full history. Pair a county with its closest match, or with itself a century apart, and the divergence is the post.
Ready-made angles
Five posts you could build today. Each links to the page that carries the receipts.
- McDowell County, WV — 64 years, then the floor fell out
Voted Democratic every cycle from 1932 through 1996 — seventeen straight. By 2024 it was 79 points Republican, the widest margin in the county’s recorded history. The coalfield collapse, in one vote line. - Cobb County, GA — the Gingrich county that flipped
Republican every cycle from 1972 through 2012; Newt Gingrich’s home district. Then Clinton +2 in 2016, Biden +14 in 2020, Harris +11 in 2024 — as its non-Hispanic-white share fell from 75% to 47%. - Macomb County, MI — where the Reagan Democrats went
The original Reagan-Democrat county voted for Kennedy and Humphrey first. A 12-point swing in 2016, then Trump +8 and +11 — with the auto plants still running and the population stable. A swing about who, not what. - Tour a single typology
Pull every county in one type — Appalachian Realigners, Diversifying Metro, Florida Surge — and map the pattern. The typology is the index; the thread is the walk through it. - Find the rhymes
Start from any place and follow its ten most-similar places across the country. The chain itself is the content: a Detroit auto suburb and a Florida retiree county can land in the same type for the same reason.
Figures drawn from the place pages and the realigners essay. Both parties are represented because the record runs both ways.
Embed a live widget
Any county, state, CBSA, congressional-district, or DMA page can be embedded as a live widget. Paste the place URL into your platform's embed field, or call the oEmbed endpoint directly:
https://akashic.app/api/oembed?url=https://akashic.app/county/54047/
The widget renders the result lockup and presidential history inline, links back to the full page, and adds no tracking to your readers.
How to credit
Original editorial copy, the typology, and the derived data are published under CC BY 4.0. Use any of it. The only ask is a credit that lets your audience find the page:
- On a map or graphic. “Source: Akashic (akashic.app)” in the corner is plenty.
- In a thread or post. Link the specific place page you pulled from and tag @akashicapp on X or @akashic.app on Bluesky.
- In a video or podcast. A spoken “data from Akashic” and a link in the description does it.
We will amplify your work
Tag us and we will see it. Posts that use Akashic well get reshared to our audience, and the best recurring work we will feature on the site and in the newsletter. If you want to coordinate a release — a map series, a deep-dive, an election-night thread — email press@akashic.app and we will line up data, custom pulls, and timing with you.
Assets & links
- Logos & colors
- On the press kit — brand marks, palette, typography.
- Share cards
- Every page has one at
akashic.app/og/<id>.png— e.g. /og/54047.png. - Methodology
- How every figure is built — worth a read before you cite.
Get in touch
- press@akashic.app
- Bluesky
- @akashic.app
- X / Twitter
- @akashicapp
Tell us what you make and where you post it. We answer everyone.