THE COMMUNITY CENTER
The Community Center
This project improves because you speak up — the surveys, the questions, the volunteering, the results. This is where the community gathers, and where your voice becomes the Nation’s data.
Let's figure it out — together
Here's the honest state of this place: it's built by very few hands, and a lot of it is still rough. The menus are crowded. Some pages are cleaner than others. Whole ideas — better tools, a smoother design, ways to connect people to the work — are half-built or just sketched.
We're not hiding that. We're inviting you into it. This site was never meant to be finished by one or two people in a back room — it's meant to be figured out together, by the people it's for.
So here's the real question: do you want to help figure it out? Not a task, not a shift — a seat at the table. We want to know who's interested in getting together, comparing notes, and building this into what it could be.
TAKE ACTION
Count me in — I'd like to help figure this out.
Every submission goes straight to the volunteer team and is reviewed by a person. Nothing publishes automatically. Prefer email? Diné Civic Center works too.
How can I help today?
Five ways, each finishable before your coffee cools:
- Vet something. The to-do list — one call or one search raises a fact from draft to verified.
- Answer today’s question. The Corner — one thought, anonymous.
- Add your experience. The Tactic Tally or The Community Clock — your checkmarks become the Nation’s data.
- Ask what nobody’s answered. The open questions board — or answer one if you know the source.
- Hand this site to one person who hasn’t decided how to vote — the most powerful contribution on this list.
This is the coffeehouse counter: pull up a chair, say what you know, ask what you don’t. Every question, correction, and idea below is read by a volunteer — and the good ones change the site.
Where’s the law? Ask.
Some questions aren’t opinions — they have a citation. Ask, and volunteers research the actual law — the Code section, the statute, the case — and publish verified answers, quoted and linked. If the law is unclear, that gets said too: “it’s unclear” is a finding.
This site talks back
The design, said out loud
Every page here is designed for you to answer - add what you know, correct what is wrong, suggest what is missing. A volunteer reads every submission before anything publishes; nothing posts automatically. House rules: the Coffeehouse Rules.
Candidates: request your interview
61 candidates don’t have an interview on the record yet
If you’re on the ballot and not yet interviewed, that’s a scheduling fact — and it’s fixable. Request an interview → Community members can request to hear a specific candidate there too.
Suggest a Mission
What challenge should the community take on next?
Submit a question for candidates
Have a question you want candidates to answer — one candidate, or all of them?
Submit a correction
Found something wrong, outdated, or missing anywhere on this site? Tell us the page and what needs fixing.
Suggest a resource
Know an official document, report, or resource voters should see?
Suggest an interview or interview question
Want a candidate interviewed, or have a question for the interview series?
Suggest a success metric
Share a story
Help improve a page
Structured feedback that arrives already knowing what it's about.
Direct contact: Diné Civic Center. Please don't include private personal information in submissions.
Lend your voice — Diné Bizaad recordings
Urgent: Diné Bizaad interpreters
Several candidates answered parts of their interviews in Navajo — and those words are missing from the record until a fluent relative interprets them. Automated transcription cannot capture Diné Bizaad. This is a fairness issue: candidates who honored the language should not have a thinner record because of it. If you can interpret — even one interview — use the volunteer form below and say “interpreter.”
A pilot, starting small
Community — help wanted, two roles
The Listen button reads pages in an English robot voice — it will never say our words right. A real Diné voice reading even one page would. We’re starting a small pilot, and there are two ways to help:
Readers: pick one page — a lesson, a mission, even just the Coffeehouse Rules — and record yourself reading it, in Diné Bizaad or bilingually. A phone voice-memo is perfectly fine; clarity matters more than polish. Upload it anywhere you can share a link (Google Drive works) and send the link below.
Reviewers: every recording gets listened to by a fluent speaker before it’s posted — for accuracy and respect, the same standard as everything else here. If you’re a fluent speaker willing to review recordings, that role matters just as much as reading.
Credit given or anonymous — your choice. One page, one voice, is enough to start.
Contact the Civic Center
Contact form family — goes to volunteers; never published
Questions, corrections, removal requests, media, or anything else: use the corrections & questions form above, or write to dineelectioninfo@gmail.com. If you submitted something to any instrument and want it removed, say so here — a volunteer will delete it from the records.
What you can do now → — rights you already have under Navajo Nation law, regardless of the election.
The fastest way to help: answer one of these →
The rooms this site is trying to be
Everything here is an attempt to rebuild, electronically, two rooms the Nation already knows: the coffeehouse, where anyone may pull up a chair and argue about what is true, and the chapter house meeting, where neighbors decide things together, in the open, in both languages, with the minutes kept. Those rooms have rules that this site inherits. Everyone gets heard. Nobody is scored at the door. What is said is recorded so it can be checked later. And the meeting never adjourns — you can come back tomorrow and the record is still there.
That is why this site has no comment section, no voting on each other’s opinions, no ranking of people. Those are features of a different room. What it has instead: surveys whose combined counts publish, questions that go to the people who can answer them, and a record anyone can check against its sources. If you have ever sat through a long chapter meeting and felt it mattered even when nothing was decided, you already understand the design — K’é is a practice, not a slogan, and Hózhó is what a room feels like when the practice is working.
Real rooms still matter more than this one. A chapter meeting, a forum, a kitchen table. If this site is useful, it is because it helps you walk into those rooms knowing what the law says, what the candidates said, and what questions have no answer yet.
The community clock — how long did it take?
Three offices decide what happens to people who have been wronged by their own government: the Office of Navajo Labor Relations, the Labor Commission, and the Ethics and Rules Office. None of them publishes how long its cases take. Those are three of the numbers nobody prints. The people who waited are the only source that exists. If you have been through one of those doors, your experience is the evidence.
Add what you experienced — the community clock (tap to open)
SURVEY
One form, three questions
Tell us what you’ve seen
One channel, six kinds of report. Everything is read by a person. Nothing you send is published until a volunteer verifies it. Tallies appear only as combined counts. Your contact line is optional and is never published.