POPVOX Foundation Welcomes Ashley Nagel
Ashley Nagel brings engineering expertise and firsthand Senate experience to her role as Senior Manager for Government Innovation at POPVOX Foundation, where she leads Congressional engagement, advances institutional modernization, and bridges the policy-technology divide through training, relationship-building, and hands-on demos of emerging technologies for Hill staff.
Highway to Hill: An artificially intelligent Congress?
Congress faces a growing capacity crisis, and AI could help — but adoption remains uneven. On Highway to Hill, POPVOX Foundation’s Managing Director, Aubrey Wilson, breaks down the barriers to safe, effective AI use on Capitol Hill, from staff training gaps and hallucination risks to privacy concerns and the case for custom-built Congressional tools.
Modernization Without AI?
One year on, the UK House of Commons Modernization Committee has advanced coordination and institutional reform — but largely sidesteps AI and digital transformation. The gap highlights growing tension between modernization efforts and rapidly evolving technologies reshaping legislative workflows, decision-making, and institutional capacity worldwide.
POPVOX Foundation Names Aubrey Wilson Managing Director
POPVOX Foundation announces Aubrey Wilson as Managing Director, elevating a leading voice in AI, legislative modernization, and global parliamentary innovation. Wilson will guide the organization’s next phase, advancing responsible technology adoption and strengthening connections between Congress and modern digital infrastructure worldwide.
Keeping Pace
Keeping Pace delivers practical, nonpartisan AI and technology insights for Congressional Members and staff. Each monthly issue breaks down fast-moving developments, explains real-world impacts on Congress, and offers actionable tips to build fluency — no vendor bias, no politics, just clear guidance to help institutions keep up.
Building the Future of Parliaments, Together: Digital Parliaments Project 2026 Q1 Convening Progress Report
Explore how the Digital Parliaments Project is modernizing legislatures through shared learning, open-source tools like ParlLink, and AI-powered digitization. This Q1 2026 progress report highlights global collaboration, field insights, and practical innovations helping parliaments streamline workflows, manage data, and accelerate digital transformation.
Departing Civil Servants Spent Decades Implementing Federal Laws. Here's What They Want Congress to Know.
A new Departure Dialogues report from POPVOX Foundation reveals how federal laws break down in practice due to a broken interbranch feedback loop. Drawing on decades of civil servant experience, it offers actionable recommendations to help Congress improve program effectiveness and oversight.
“Without Haste, but Without Pause”: How Uruguay’s Parliament Is Approaching AI
At the IPU Assembly, Rodrigo Goñi Reyes, Speaker of Uruguay’s Chamber of Deputies, outlines Uruguay’s AI strategy, emphasizing regulation as an “enabling condition” for adoption. The approach highlights sequencing, institutional trust, and global coordination, offering a model for balancing innovation, risk management, and parliamentary modernization in the AI era.
From Use Cases to Institutional Choices
At the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly, parliamentary leaders examined how legislatures are moving from isolated AI use cases to coordinated institutional strategies. Insights from Germany and the UK highlight challenges in governance, capacity-building, and aligning AI adoption with long-term transformation and legislative effectiveness.
Staff Remote Work in Parliaments: Uneven Starting Points
Insights from the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly reveal how parliaments approach remote staff work, from advanced frameworks in the UK and Canada to infrastructure constraints in developing legislatures. The debate highlights trade-offs in flexibility, cybersecurity, productivity, and institutional resilience across uneven global starting points.
POPVOX Foundation Senate Appropriations Requests: Supporting Constituent Services, Investing in Future Congress, and Strengthening Security
POPVOX Foundation outlines FY2027 Senate appropriations priorities to strengthen constituent casework, modernize congressional capacity, and enhance security. Proposals include a casework liaison office, improved agency coordination, AI experimentation funding, continuity planning, and expanded training—aimed at boosting efficiency, oversight, and resilience across Congress.
If you were queen or king for a day…
Congressional caseworkers get a front-row seat to broken federal systems — immigration backlogs, PSLF delays, Medicare Advantage gaps, DHS shutdown fallout, and more. Explore the latest agency updates, constituent pain points, and an upcoming USCIS listening session where caseworkers finally get to ask: what would I fix?
Where the Pacing Problem Becomes Visible
New research on UK MPs’ offices reveals how capacity constraints, fragmented systems, and rising expectations strain day-to-day representation. The findings highlight a growing “pacing problem,” where institutional support lags behind technological and civic demands.
Who Shapes the First Interpretation? A Fork in the Logic of Legislative Work
As large language models enter legislative workflows, a critical question emerges: who shapes the first interpretation of policy issues? AI may either centralize agenda-setting power or expand committees’ in-house analytical capacity, reshaping deliberation, transparency, and the balance between lawmakers and external influence.
What the Pacing Problem Means for Parliaments Around the World
Parliaments worldwide face a growing “pacing problem” as rapid technological change outstrips democratic processes. This analysis breaks down external, interbranch, and internal challenges, and explores how tools like AI can help legislatures modernize, strengthen oversight, and keep pace with the evolving demands of governance.
"How well we serve our constituents"
A timely look at the pressures shaping Congressional casework, from Middle East evacuations to agency delays and system breakdowns. Highlights real-world cases, policy recommendations, and emerging reforms to strengthen constituent services, improve agency responsiveness, and better equip caseworkers navigating complex, high-stakes situations across government systems.
POPVOX Foundation Team Submits Public Witness Testimony for FY 2027 Legislative Branch Appropriations
POPVOX Foundation lays out practical FY2027 funding ideas to help Congress work smarter — boosting AI capacity, strengthening casework support, improving Member security, and modernizing operations. The proposals focus on faster tech adoption, better coordination with agencies, and stronger internal support systems so offices can serve constituents more effectively in a rapidly changing landscape.
How Institutional Practices Foster Personality-driven Politics
Small institutional design choices can shape how people experience democracy. A closer look at Congressional website URLs reveals how technical practices reinforce personality-driven politics, center representation on individual Members rather than districts, and subtly shape how constituents engage with Congress and understand who government institutions ultimately serve.
What’s happening with AI and why should I care?
Congressional staff face a rapidly evolving AI landscape. This overview breaks down the Senate’s approval of tools like Copilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT Enterprise, explains emerging concepts such as agentic AI, and examines how AI is shaping campaigns, workflows, and constituent services.
Modernization by Experiment
An informal cross-party network of Members of the European Parliament is experimenting with new ways to make parliamentary debate more interactive. Through small procedural pilots, these MEPs are testing how institutional culture can evolve.