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Republican · Nevada Senate, district 20

Serving since Nov 9, 2022NV 2025–26 session

Portrait of Jeff Stone, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
$7,000
in itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom quarter of State Senate Republicans

The median for State Senate Republicans is $46.2K. Ranks 794th of 936, where 1st raised the most. 0 itemized donors.

Itemized contributions reported to the state in the 2026 cycle, ranked among State Senate Republicans. State filings leave small gifts out, and totals depend on whether the seat is up this cycle.

At a glance

5 measures against the Nevada Senate. 29% of the 52 bills Stone sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom quarter of the Nevada Senate. Stone voted against the majority of Nevada Senate Republicans 8 times; party unity 96.7%, in the bottom half of the Nevada Senate (average 94.6%).

The measures on which Stone sits furthest from the middle of the Nevada Senate, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.

Itemized, 2026

$7,000

State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K · ranks 794th of 936

Out of committee

29%

Nevada Senate average 57% · ranks 17th of 21

Party unity

96.7%

Nevada Senate average 94.6% · ranks 16th of 21 · 8 votes against the majority of Nevada Senate Republicans

CSIP ideology

+0.42

More conservative than 59% of State Senate Republicans · ± 0.06

Attendance

98.8%

Nevada Senate average 98.3% · ranks 13th of 21 · 687 roll calls

Statements

No statements in this window

Peer group: Nevada Senate. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Stone, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Stone is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).

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What Stone says

No statements for the NV 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

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Policy

No policy statements for the NV 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

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Ideology

Stone sits at +0.42 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 59% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.37 to +0.48, which understates the uncertainty; from 35 donors and 477 roll calls.

CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.

+0.42

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.37 to +0.48. From 35 donors and 477 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Stone +0.4State Senate Republicans +0.4Nevada Senate −0.6All State Senate +0.1

The outlined dot is Stone, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Stone’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.

What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.

Where Stone sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State Senate Republicansmedian +0.4Stone +0.4Nevada Senatemedian −0.6All State Senatemedian +0.1
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Stone's CSIP score of +0.42 placed against State Senate Republicans, Nevada Senate, All State Senate.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Stone
State Senate Republicans1083+0.459%
Nevada Senate21−0.676%
All State Senate1909+0.176%
How to read the strips

Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Stone in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Stone.

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Money

Stone reported $7,000 in the 2026 cycle, 15% of the State Senate Republicans’ median of $46.2K. State filings report no small-donation total.

Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.

Election cycle
$7,000

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 0 itemized donors. State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.

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  • PACs and other committees100 squares$7,000
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Sources of Stone's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
PACs and other committees$7,000100.0%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.

Receipts by cycle

Itemized contributions, 2022 to 2026. The grey line is the State Senate Republicans’ median for 2026.

2022 cycle: $149.3K$149.3K20222024 cycle: $16.5K$16.5K20242026 cycle: $7,000$7,0002026State Senate Republicans median $46.2K
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Stone's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State Senate Republicans median.
ItemValue
2022 cycle$149.3K
2024 cycle$16.5K
2026 cycle$7,000

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state.

No itemized donors with an address.

Small donations

State filings report no total for small gifts.

Not reported in state filings.

Where itemized donors live

Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state

Alaska: no dataAKMaine: no dataMEVermont: no dataVTNew Hampshire: no dataNHWashington: no dataWAIdaho: no dataIDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: no dataMNIllinois: no dataILWisconsin: no dataWIMichigan: no dataMINew York: no dataNYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: no dataMAOregon: no dataORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: no dataINOhio: no dataOHPennsylvania: no dataPANew Jersey: no dataNJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: no dataCAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: no dataKYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Stone's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo data
IllinoisNo data
WisconsinNo data
MichiganNo data
New YorkNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
MassachusettsNo data
OregonNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
IndianaNo data
OhioNo data
PennsylvaniaNo data
New JerseyNo data
ConnecticutNo data
CaliforniaNo data
UtahNo data
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
KentuckyNo data
West VirginiaNo data
VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
0

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

No itemized individual money.

How to read the map

Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is Nevada. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No occupations reported.

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. CARRIE BUCK FOR SENATE$1,000
  2. FRIENDS OF GEORGE HARRIS$1,000
  3. MARIA FOR NEVADA$1,000
  4. MARIA THOMPSON FOR NEVADA$1,000
  5. RAFAEL ARROYO FOR SENATE$1,000

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Stone voted with the majority of Nevada Senate Republicans on 96.7% of party-line votes and missed 1.2% of 687 roll calls. Nevada Senate on average: 94.6% party unity, 98.3% attendance. Across all roll calls, Stone voted against the majority of Nevada Senate Republicans 8 times.

687 roll calls Stone could vote on in the NV 2025–26 session, compared with Nevada Senate. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Stone voted with the majority of Nevada Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

8

votes against the majority of Nevada Senate Republicans

Party unity 96.7%, Nevada Senate average 94.6%, ranks 16th of 21. 687 roll calls in the NV 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Stone, the thin grey bar the Nevada Senate average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Stone
Peers
Rank
Attendance
98.8%
98.3%
13th of 21
Party unity
96.7%
94.6%
16th of 21
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Stone's attendance and party unity against Nevada Senate.
RowStonePeers
Attendance98.8%98.3%
Party unity96.7%94.6%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.

Key votes

25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the NV 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Nov 19, 2025
SB 10
Revises provisions relating to real property. (BDR 10-38)
Senate (1st Reprint)
Did not vote—passD 13–0 · R 5–0Democrats 13 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 5 yea, 0 naymuch discussed
Nov 19, 2025
AB 4
Revises provisions relating to public safety. (BDR 15-31)
Senate (4th Reprint)
Did not vote—passD 11–2 · R 5–0Democrats 11 yea, 2 nay; Republicans 5 yea, 0 naybecame law · party crossover
Nov 19, 2025
AB 5
Enacts the Nevada Studio Infrastructure Jobs and Workforce Training Act. (BDR S-13)
Senate (2nd Reprint)
Did not vote—passD 8–5 · R 2–3Democrats 8 yea, 5 nay; Republicans 2 yea, 3 nayparty crossover
Nov 18, 2025
AB 6
Revises provisions governing public safety. (BDR 43-23)
Senate (2nd Reprint)
Did not vote—passD 13–0 · R 5–0Democrats 13 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 5 yea, 0 naybecame law
Nov 18, 2025
AB 4
Revises provisions relating to public safety. (BDR 15-31)
Senate (3rd Reprint)
Did not vote—passD 11–2 · R 5–0Democrats 11 yea, 2 nay; Republicans 5 yea, 0 naybecame law · party crossover
How key votes are chosen

Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.

Votes most often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Stone most often

  1. Lisa KrasnerR679 shared votes95%
  2. Carrie BuckR659 shared votes94%
  3. John EllisonR679 shared votes93%
  4. Ira HansenR652 shared votes92%
  5. Robin TitusR679 shared votes91%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Stone least often

  1. Skip DalyD649 shared votes75%
  2. Dina NealD630 shared votes75%
  3. Edgar FloresD673 shared votes76%
  4. Melanie ScheibleD654 shared votes76%
  5. Fabian DoñateD679 shared votes76%
How to read the agreement lists

The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.

Full voting record

NV 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Stone sponsored 52 bills in the NV 2025–26 session; 10 became law. Cosponsored 19 others. 29% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Nevada Senate average 57%; 17th of 21).

The bills Stone sponsored and cosponsored in the NV 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.

Bills by stage

Counts for the NV 2025–26 session

Sponsored52 billsSponsored, Introduced: 5252Sponsored, In committee: 5252Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 1515Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 1111Sponsored, Became law: 1010Cosponsored19 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 1919Cosponsored, In committee: 1919Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 1515Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 99Cosponsored, Became law: 99IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Stone sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored5252151110
Cosponsored19191599
How to read the blocks

Ink blocks are bills Stone sponsored, ochre blocks bills Stone cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.

29%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Nevada Senate average 57%. Ranks 17th of 21.

Cosponsorship partners

Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Stone, by number of shared bills in the NV 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.

  1. Lisa Krasner34
  2. Carrie Buck25
  3. John Steinbeck23
  4. John Ellison23
  5. Ira Hansen20
What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Stone’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
SR 6Inducts Joyce Woodhouse into the Senate Hall of Fame. (BDR R-1168)CosponsorMay 7, 2025Passed one chamberUnassignedEnrolled and delivered to Secretary of State. File No. 15. May 12, 2025
SR 5Inducts Pete Goicoechea into the Senate Hall of Fame. (BDR R-1169)CosponsorMay 7, 2025Passed one chamberUnassignedEnrolled and delivered to Secretary of State. File No. 14. May 12, 2025
ACR 3Expresses gratitude to the National Conference of State Legislatures for 50 years of service. (BDR R-986)CosponsorMar 25, 2025Passed one chamberUnassignedEnrolled and delivered to Secretary of State. File No. 11. Apr 1, 2025
SB 435Revises provisions relating to nicotine products. (BDR 32-989)CosponsorMar 24, 2025Passed one chamberHealth(model)(No further action taken.) Jun 3, 2025
AB 442Revises provisions relating to grants. (BDR 31-589)CosponsorMar 17, 2025Became lawGovernment Operations and Politics(model)Chapter 474. Jun 11, 2025

Back to topNext: Online

Online

A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. Stone’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls Stone’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Stone posts with a vision model.

Websites

How to read the counts

“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.

Images Stone posted

No images from Stone’s posts have been described.

About the descriptions

Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.

State floor speeches

82 turns, Feb 13, 2023 to Jun 2, 2025

Floor speeches

Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.

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Methods and sources

How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.

The headline

The headline is the measure on which Stone is most unusual among Nevada Senate, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.

The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.

A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).

Identifiers

Profile id
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Open States
ocd-person/00ad1837-b472-4ce8-872d-e1eac1c1c6db

Bulk files with the same data for every official:

Freshness of this profile’s data

  • What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
  • Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
  • Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
  • Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
  • Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
  • WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
  • State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.

How the measures work

What politicians say
Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
Extreme labels
A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
Policy areas and agreement
Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology (CSIP)
Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
Campaign money
Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
Votes and key votes
Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
Peers and ranks
Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.

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