diff --git a/packages/app-democracy/src/Overview/Externals.tsx b/packages/app-democracy/src/Overview/Externals.tsx
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index 0000000000..8fddf40a4f
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+++ b/packages/app-democracy/src/Overview/Externals.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2019 @polkadot/app-democracy authors & contributors
+// This software may be modified and distributed under the terms
+// of the Apache-2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.
+
+import { AccountId, Balance, BlockNumber, Hash, Proposal, VoteThreshold } from '@polkadot/types/interfaces';
+import { ITuple } from '@polkadot/types/types';
+import { I18nProps as Props } from '@polkadot/react-components/types';
+
+import React, { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
+import { AddressSmall, Table } from '@polkadot/react-components';
+import { useApi, trackStream } from '@polkadot/react-hooks';
+import { FormatBalance } from '@polkadot/react-query';
+import { Bytes, Option } from '@polkadot/types';
+
+import translate from '../translate';
+import ProposalCell from './ProposalCell';
+
+function Externals ({ className, t }: Props): React.ReactElement<Props> | null {
+  const { api } = useApi();
+  const external = trackStream<Option<ITuple<[Hash, VoteThreshold]>>>(api.query.democracy.nextExternal, []);
+  const [hash, setHash] = useState<Hash | null>(null);
+  const [expanded, setExpanded] = useState<{ at: BlockNumber; balance: Balance; proposer: AccountId; proposal: Proposal } | null>(null);
+  const preimage = trackStream<Option<ITuple<[Bytes, AccountId, Balance, BlockNumber]>>>(api.query.democracy.preimages, [hash]);
+
+  useEffect((): void => {
+    setHash(
+      external?.isSome
+        ? external.unwrap()[0]
+        : null
+    );
+  }, [external]);
+
+  useEffect((): void => {
+    if (preimage?.isSome) {
+      const preImage = preimage.unwrap();
+
+      setExpanded({
+        at: preImage[3],
+        balance: preImage[2],
+        proposer: preImage[1],
+        proposal: api.createType('Proposal', preImage[0].toU8a(true))
+      });
+    } else {
+      setExpanded(null);
+    }
+  }, [preimage]);
+
+  if (!hash) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <div className={`proposalSection ${className}`}>
+      <h1>{t('externals')}</h1>
+      <Table>
+        <Table.Body>
+          <tr className={className}>
+            <td className='top'>
+              {expanded && <AddressSmall value={expanded.proposer} />}
+            </td>
+            <td className='number together top'>
+              {expanded && <FormatBalance label={<label>{t('locked')}</label>} value={expanded.balance} />}
+            </td>
+            <ProposalCell className='top' proposalHash={hash} proposal={expanded?.proposal} />
+          </tr>
+        </Table.Body>
+      </Table>
+    </div>
+  );
+}
+
+export default translate(Externals);
diff --git a/packages/app-democracy/src/Overview/index.tsx b/packages/app-democracy/src/Overview/index.tsx
index b9b298bce0..0d6ce9ab05 100644
--- a/packages/app-democracy/src/Overview/index.tsx
+++ b/packages/app-democracy/src/Overview/index.tsx
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import styled from 'styled-components';
 import { Button } from '@polkadot/react-components';
 
 import translate from '../translate';
+import Externals from './Externals';
 import Proposals from './Proposals';
 import Referendums from './Referendums';
 import Summary from './Summary';
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ function Overview ({ className, t }: Props): React.ReactElement {
       )}
       <Referendums />
       <Proposals />
+      <Externals />
     </div>
   );
 }