THE PEOPLE, LED FROM THE FRONT. Every file in this app was opened by a citizen who refused to look away.

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📲 PUT MY CRUSADER ON YOUR HOME SCREEN

One tap and it lives on your phone like any other app. No store, no download fee, no account. It opens full screen, straight to the files.

This is the main file. Every dossier, one door. Pick your state, pick your city, pick the face of government, and the complete public record opens — built from the government's own paper, free to any citizen, anywhere.

📰 THE FEED

The day's work — cases moving, files posted, evidence landing.

🗺️ PICK YOUR STATE

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⚡ THE WIRE — LATEST

The owl stands for the Crusaders. The lamp is the light.

Files are living documents. When new verified records land, the file grows at the same link. Nothing here costs anything, and it never will. A South Bend Crusader

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The inventory — every face of government in this city, in one place. A drawer opens the day its first file lands.

EVERY FILE — A TO Z

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Know something the record is missing? The button above takes you to the main page, where evidence comes in.

☰ MORE — EVERYTHING ELSE, ONE TAP

The rest of the house, in plain sight. Nothing here needs an account, and nothing costs anything.

🆓 $0 — AND IT STAYS THAT WAY

Nobody is charged anything for access to this app, or to any of the public information on it. Not today, not ever.

Every file here is built from public records — the public's own paper. There is no paywall, no subscription, no account, and no card to enter. If you can open this page, the whole record is yours, because it was always yours. The only thing that ever locked it away was a filing room and a fee schedule, and that ends here.

Free to read. Free to share. Free forever. A South Bend Crusader

💵 SUPPORT THE BUILD

The files are free, and they stay free. Nobody will ever have to pay to read the record. Donations are different: if you choose to give, your money builds the standalone My Crusader app — the version no platform can take down — through My Crusader LLC. Giving is voluntary, never required, and a gift to the LLC is not a charitable donation.

💵 DONATE — CASH APP 💵 DONATE — VENMO

Venmo: @southbendcrusader — or type the handle into the Venmo app.

Pick an amount — Venmo opens with it ready. You always confirm inside the Venmo app itself:

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On a computer? Scan this with your phone camera to open the Venmo profile.

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🔎 SEARCH EVERYTHING

Every file, every name, every city on the board — one box. Type a name and go straight to the record.

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⏰ THE CLOCK — EVERY RECORDS REQUEST, OUT IN THE OPEN

Every records request behind these files is on this board — the agency, the day it was filed, and how long the public has been waiting. Agencies get the same clock the public can see. When they answer, the board says so.

📝 FILE YOUR OWN — THE REQUEST BUILDER

Pick your state, the kind of agency, and what you want — the letter builds itself below, firm and courteous, ready to send. Your name and contact details are typed by you, rendered on this page only, and stored nowhere and sent nowhere: the letter never leaves your phone until you send it yourself.

YOUR STATE KIND OF AGENCY WHAT YOU WANT THE AGENCY'S NAME (AS YOU KNOW IT) DETAILS — DATES, PLACES, NAMES, REPORT NUMBERS YOUR NAME YOUR MAILING ADDRESS YOUR EMAIL YOUR PHONE (OPTIONAL)

YOUR LETTER

THE LITTLE CRUSADER

your guide here

A SOUTH BEND CRUSADER

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PUBLIC COURT RECORDS

The mission is to put the public record of government power into the hands of the public. I pull the records myself — court files, audits, internal reports, public filings — and publish them whole, free, and in one place.

“Not rumor. Not opinion dressed as fact. The government’s own paper, open to the people it governs.”

If you need a hand while you’re here, tap the 🦉 ASK THE LITTLE CRUSADER button on this page — or the owl at the top of the page — and Crusader will show you around.