The Myth of Safe Seats: Rethinking Louisiana’s Senate Races
It all started with a phone call. As a data guy by nature, it’s difficult to answer an opinion question like which state Senators may be out of sync with their districts. However, thanks to the data-driven approach to everything we do here at Citizens for a New...
Oklahoma Joins NewLouisiana Movement: Expanding Transparency Beyond Louisiana
In the spring of 2025, Louisiana citizens witnessed something revolutionary: a public, data-driven legislative dashboard that gave everyday people the same access to bill tracking, committee data, and vote analysis once reserved for insiders. First developed for the...
We’re Changing Everything… AGAIN!
Too many bills, not enough time—that’s what we kept hearing. So we built a solution: Louisiana’s first real-time public dashboard for tracking state legislation — sortable, clickable, and constantly updated. It’s built for the public but powerful enough that lawmakers...
The Transgender… Hoax?
On this, the International Trans Day of Visibility, let us consider: Could large-scale social movements like transgenderism be nothing more than social experiments designed to test society’s willingness to accept ideas detached from objective reality? Several...
Wait, SPLC Thinks Exposing Taxpayer Waste is… Racist?
If you haven’t heard of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), consider yourself lucky. Their purpose (at least as I understand it) is to label people and organizations as “hate groups” so that others feel morally justified in viciously attacking...
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Critical Acclaim
John Guilbeau
The success we're seeing in Lafayette Parish would not be possible without vital organizations like Citizens for a New Louisiana.
Antigravity
the group known as Citizens for a New Louisiana (CFNL)... wants to take over every single library board in the state.
Acadiana Advocate
It was not until the question was raised by the Citizens for a New Louisiana that a runoff election was held.
National Public Radio
Citizens for a New Louisiana [is] the same group behind the conservative takeover of the Lafayette library board.
Susie Labry
[Citizens for a New Louisiana’s] grading system is comprehensive and superior.
