Contacting the swamp? There’s an app for that
The American people are speaking, but is anyone in Washington listening? A deep and undeniable chasm has grown between the hardworking taxpayers of this nation and the insulated political class that claims to represent them. We send emails, we make calls, and we shout from the cheap seats, but our voices are lost in the D.C. echo chamber, dismissed as noise by an establishment that has long forgotten who they serve.
For years, this has felt like a feature, not a bug, of our modern political system. But a former political insider is betting he has the fix.
“The system isn’t broken; it’s just ignoring you,” says Athan Koutsiouroumbas, a former congressional chief of staff who has seen the inner workings of the swamp firsthand. Having worked on campaigns and in the halls of power, Koutsiouroumbas watched as the voices of everyday Americans were systematically tuned out — either by design or by the sheer bureaucratic inertia that protects the powerful from the people.
“I built Frankly to make elected officials listen,” he said in a recent interview. He describes his new app as a powerful hybrid, a tool for the digital age designed to reclaim the people’s voice. “It’s like texting, social media, and a billboard had a baby; one that Congress can’t ignore.”
Frankly is not just another platform for users to air grievances and shout into the void. It’s a digital battering ram aimed squarely at the doors of the unresponsive. When you send a message, it doesn’t just disappear into the private inbox of a 22-year-old staffer tasked with sending form letters. Instead, your message is posted publicly, creating a permanent, visible record for the whole country to see.
“Frankly delivers your opinion to elected officials and the whole country sees it,” Koutsiouroumbas explains. “When it’s public, it’s pressure… and elected officials bend under pressure.”
That is the crucial difference. In an age of performative politics, public perception is everything. This app weaponizes that reality for the average citizen. Imagine a new tax proposal that will squeeze your family’s budget or a federal overreach that threatens our constitutional rights. With a few clicks, your clear, concise opinion is not only sent to your representative but is added to a growing chorus of public sentiment they can no longer pretend doesn’t exist.
This is the kind of radical sunlight and accountability our republic desperately needs. For too long, politicians have been insulated from the consequences of their votes, making deals behind closed doors and banking on public apathy and a complicit media to cover their tracks.
“Many politicians have no idea what regular people really think,” said Koutsiouroumbas. “Most Americans are too busy to deal with the broken process of sharing their opinions with elected officials, only to get a form letter back a month later.”
Frankly aims to fix that broken process by making civic engagement both simple and impactful.
With the very definition of free speech under assault from Big Tech and government bureaucrats, Koutsiouroumbas says there is no better time for a platform that puts unvarnished expression directly at the feet of the powerful.
The fight for the soul of our nation will not be won in the halls of Congress alone. It will be won by everyday patriots who are willing to speak up, armed with tools that ensure they cannot be ignored. The swamp is deep, and the creatures that inhabit it will not surrender their power easily. But they are about to find out what happens when the American people are truly empowered to have their voices heard.
It’s time for our elected officials to listen. It’s time to speak Frankly.
Learn more at www.Frankly.app.
Publius Pax is a tenth-generation Bucks Countian, political consultant, and author.
