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Republican · Iowa House, district 87

Serving since Jan 1, 2023IA 2025–26 session

Portrait of Jeff Shipley, rendered as a two-tone print
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1.0%
of statements claim credit, in the bottom quarter of State House Republicans

1.0% of 1,294 statements claim credit (13 statements); the average for State House Republicans is 13%. Ranks 711th of 791, where 1st is the highest rate.

An AI model reads each of Shipley’s posts on X and marks whether it claims credit for an accomplishment. The rate is the share of statements marked; it is compared with the average among State House Republicans and ranked against the same group.

At a glance

6 measures against State House Republicans. Shipley sits at +0.11 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 86% of State House Republicans. 5.9% of Shipley’s statements contain a personal attack, 2.0 times the State House Republican average of 2.9%.

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

Credit claiming

1.0%

State House Republicans average 13% · ranks 711th of 791

CSIP ideology

+0.11

More liberal than 86% of State House Republicans · ± 0.03

Personal attacks

5.9%

State House Republicans average 2.9% · ranks 135th of 791

Policy discussion

17%

State House Republicans average 32% · ranks 620th of 791

From Iowa, 2026

85%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 1834th of 2,335 State House Republicans

Out of committee

6.4%

Iowa House average 13% · ranks 70th of 98

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

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What Shipley says

Shipley claims credit less than 89% of State House Republicans. Credit claiming in 1.0% of 1,294 statements, against 13% for the average State House Republican; 711th of 791.

An AI model reads each of Shipley’s 1,294 statements in the IA 2025–26 session (1,294 posts on X) and marks the kinds of statement it contains: a personal attack, criticism of a policy, discussion of policy, bipartisanship, credit claiming, and extreme labels. A statement can carry several. Every rate is compared with the average for State House Republicans and ranked among them.

Kinds of statement

Share of statements carrying each label, the IA 2025–26 session

0%80%
Shipley
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion216 statements
17%
32%
620th of 791
Policy criticism87 statements
7%
9%
382nd of 791
Personal attacks76 statements
6%
3%
135th of 791
Credit claiming13 statements
1%
13%
711th of 791
Bipartisanship5 statements
0%
2%
514th of 791
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Shipley's share of statements in each category against the State House Republicans average.
RowShipleyPeers
Policy discussion17%32%
Policy criticism7%9%
Personal attacks6%3%
Credit claiming1%13%
Bipartisanship0%2%
1,294

statements classified

1,294 posts on X.

posts on X: 1,294 (100.0%)posts on X 1,294
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Shipley's statements by source
PartValue
posts on X1,294
How to read the bars

The thick bar is Shipley; the thin grey bar is the average State House Republicans. A longer thick bar means Shipley does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.

Extreme labels

Shipley used extreme labels in 1.3% of statements, close to the peer average. 17 statements, most often aimed at Dems; peers 1.4%.

  1. “radical”4
  2. “communist”2
  3. “fascist”2
  4. “extreme”1
  5. “far left”1

Who gets the labels

Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements

  1. Dems3
  2. DEI1
  3. Dem1
  4. Democrats1
  5. ISU student govt1
What an extreme label is

Calls a politician, a party or a policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who or what the label was aimed at. The lists show the five most used labels and targets; the toggle shows the rest.

Month by month

Share of statements per month, the IA 2025–26 session

Statements2025-01: 222025-02: 222025-03: 192025-04: 132025-05: 312025-06: 1762025-07: 572025-08: 82025-09: 602025-10: 392025-11: 1092025-12: 1762026-01: 1022026-02: 502026-03: 442026-04: 122026-05: 342026-06: 2002026-07: 322026-08: 442026-09: 292026-10: 15peak 200 · Jun ’26Personal attackspeak 16.7% · Sep ’25 · latest 13.3%Personal attacks, 2025-01: 4.5% of 22Personal attacks, 2025-02: 9.1% of 22Personal attacks, 2025-03: 10.5% of 19Personal attacks, 2025-04: 0.0% of 13Personal attacks, 2025-05: 3.2% of 31Personal attacks, 2025-06: 6.8% of 176Personal attacks, 2025-07: 3.5% of 57Personal attacks, 2025-08: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Personal attacks, 2025-09: 16.7% of 60Personal attacks, 2025-10: 2.6% of 39Personal attacks, 2025-11: 2.8% of 109Personal attacks, 2025-12: 8.0% of 176Personal attacks, 2026-01: 2.0% of 102Personal attacks, 2026-02: 10.0% of 50Personal attacks, 2026-03: 6.8% of 44Personal attacks, 2026-04: 0.0% of 12Personal attacks, 2026-05: 2.9% of 34Personal attacks, 2026-06: 5.0% of 200Personal attacks, 2026-07: 3.1% of 32Personal attacks, 2026-08: 2.3% of 44Personal attacks, 2026-09: 3.5% of 29Personal attacks, 2026-10: 13.3% of 15Policy criticismpeak 22.7% · Feb ’25 · latest 0.0%Policy criticism, 2025-01: 18.2% of 22Policy criticism, 2025-02: 22.7% of 22Policy criticism, 2025-03: 5.3% of 19Policy criticism, 2025-04: 7.7% of 13Policy criticism, 2025-05: 9.7% of 31Policy criticism, 2025-06: 6.3% of 176Policy criticism, 2025-07: 15.8% of 57Policy criticism, 2025-08: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy criticism, 2025-09: 0.0% of 60Policy criticism, 2025-10: 12.8% of 39Policy criticism, 2025-11: 1.8% of 109Policy criticism, 2025-12: 2.3% of 176Policy criticism, 2026-01: 1.0% of 102Policy criticism, 2026-02: 0.0% of 50Policy criticism, 2026-03: 11.4% of 44Policy criticism, 2026-04: 0.0% of 12Policy criticism, 2026-05: 2.9% of 34Policy criticism, 2026-06: 16.0% of 200Policy criticism, 2026-07: 3.1% of 32Policy criticism, 2026-08: 4.5% of 44Policy criticism, 2026-09: 0.0% of 29Policy criticism, 2026-10: 0.0% of 15Policy discussionpeak 47.7% · Aug ’26 · latest 33.3%Policy discussion, 2025-01: 40.9% of 22Policy discussion, 2025-02: 27.3% of 22Policy discussion, 2025-03: 21.1% of 19Policy discussion, 2025-04: 23.1% of 13Policy discussion, 2025-05: 12.9% of 31Policy discussion, 2025-06: 19.3% of 176Policy discussion, 2025-07: 24.6% of 57Policy discussion, 2025-08: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy discussion, 2025-09: 1.7% of 60Policy discussion, 2025-10: 15.4% of 39Policy discussion, 2025-11: 4.6% of 109Policy discussion, 2025-12: 11.9% of 176Policy discussion, 2026-01: 11.8% of 102Policy discussion, 2026-02: 6.0% of 50Policy discussion, 2026-03: 13.6% of 44Policy discussion, 2026-04: 0.0% of 12Policy discussion, 2026-05: 2.9% of 34Policy discussion, 2026-06: 26.0% of 200Policy discussion, 2026-07: 12.5% of 32Policy discussion, 2026-08: 47.7% of 44Policy discussion, 2026-09: 10.3% of 29Policy discussion, 2026-10: 33.3% of 15Bipartisanshippeak 7.7% · Apr ’25 · latest 0.0%Bipartisanship, 2025-01: 0.0% of 22Bipartisanship, 2025-02: 0.0% of 22Bipartisanship, 2025-03: 0.0% of 19Bipartisanship, 2025-04: 7.7% of 13Bipartisanship, 2025-05: 0.0% of 31Bipartisanship, 2025-06: 0.0% of 176Bipartisanship, 2025-07: 0.0% of 57Bipartisanship, 2025-08: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Bipartisanship, 2025-09: 1.7% of 60Bipartisanship, 2025-10: 0.0% of 39Bipartisanship, 2025-11: 0.0% of 109Bipartisanship, 2025-12: 0.0% of 176Bipartisanship, 2026-01: 0.0% of 102Bipartisanship, 2026-02: 0.0% of 50Bipartisanship, 2026-03: 0.0% of 44Bipartisanship, 2026-04: 0.0% of 12Bipartisanship, 2026-05: 0.0% of 34Bipartisanship, 2026-06: 1.5% of 200Bipartisanship, 2026-07: 0.0% of 32Bipartisanship, 2026-08: 0.0% of 44Bipartisanship, 2026-09: 0.0% of 29Bipartisanship, 2026-10: 0.0% of 15Credit claimingpeak 5.3% · Mar ’25 · latest 0.0%Credit claiming, 2025-01: 4.5% of 22Credit claiming, 2025-02: 0.0% of 22Credit claiming, 2025-03: 5.3% of 19Credit claiming, 2025-04: 0.0% of 13Credit claiming, 2025-05: 3.2% of 31Credit claiming, 2025-06: 0.6% of 176Credit claiming, 2025-07: 0.0% of 57Credit claiming, 2025-08: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Credit claiming, 2025-09: 0.0% of 60Credit claiming, 2025-10: 0.0% of 39Credit claiming, 2025-11: 0.0% of 109Credit claiming, 2025-12: 0.0% of 176Credit claiming, 2026-01: 0.0% of 102Credit claiming, 2026-02: 0.0% of 50Credit claiming, 2026-03: 0.0% of 44Credit claiming, 2026-04: 0.0% of 12Credit claiming, 2026-05: 0.0% of 34Credit claiming, 2026-06: 4.5% of 200Credit claiming, 2026-07: 0.0% of 32Credit claiming, 2026-08: 0.0% of 44Credit claiming, 2026-09: 0.0% of 29Credit claiming, 2026-10: 0.0% of 15Extreme labelspeak 9.1% · Feb ’25 · latest 0.0%Extreme labels, 2025-01: 0.0% of 22Extreme labels, 2025-02: 9.1% of 22Extreme labels, 2025-03: 0.0% of 19Extreme labels, 2025-04: 7.7% of 13Extreme labels, 2025-05: 0.0% of 31Extreme labels, 2025-06: 0.6% of 176Extreme labels, 2025-07: 1.8% of 57Extreme labels, 2025-08: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Extreme labels, 2025-09: 0.0% of 60Extreme labels, 2025-10: 0.0% of 39Extreme labels, 2025-11: 3.7% of 109Extreme labels, 2025-12: 0.6% of 176Extreme labels, 2026-01: 0.0% of 102Extreme labels, 2026-02: 0.0% of 50Extreme labels, 2026-03: 2.3% of 44Extreme labels, 2026-04: 0.0% of 12Extreme labels, 2026-05: 0.0% of 34Extreme labels, 2026-06: 3.0% of 200Extreme labels, 2026-07: 0.0% of 32Extreme labels, 2026-08: 0.0% of 44Extreme labels, 2026-09: 0.0% of 29Extreme labels, 2026-10: 0.0% of 15Jan ’25Jul ’25Jan ’26Jul ’26Oct ’26
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Monthly rates for Shipley, each row shaded against its own peak, with statement volume. Months with fewer than 10 statements are left blank.
ColumnStatementsPersonal attacksPolicy criticismPolicy discussionBipartisanshipCredit claimingExtreme labels
Jan ’25224.5%18.2%40.9%0.0%4.5%0.0%
Feb ’25229.1%22.7%27.3%0.0%0.0%9.1%
Mar ’251910.5%5.3%21.1%0.0%5.3%0.0%
Apr ’25130.0%7.7%23.1%7.7%0.0%7.7%
May ’25313.2%9.7%12.9%0.0%3.2%0.0%
Jun ’251766.8%6.3%19.3%0.0%0.6%0.6%
Jul ’25573.5%15.8%24.6%0.0%0.0%1.8%
Aug ’258— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)
Sep ’256016.7%0.0%1.7%1.7%0.0%0.0%
Oct ’25392.6%12.8%15.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Nov ’251092.8%1.8%4.6%0.0%0.0%3.7%
Dec ’251768.0%2.3%11.9%0.0%0.0%0.6%
Jan ’261022.0%1.0%11.8%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Feb ’265010.0%0.0%6.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Mar ’26446.8%11.4%13.6%0.0%0.0%2.3%
Apr ’26120.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
May ’26342.9%2.9%2.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Jun ’262005.0%16.0%26.0%1.5%4.5%3.0%
Jul ’26323.1%3.1%12.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Aug ’26442.3%4.5%47.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Sep ’26293.5%0.0%10.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Oct ’261513.3%0.0%33.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%
How to read the strips

Each row is one kind of statement; each cell is a month, shaded against that row’s own peak (darker = closer to the peak), with the peak and the latest value written at the right. The top row counts statements. The strip covers every month of the IA 2025–26 session, the same span as the rates above, including months with no statements. A month with fewer than 10 statements is hatched, not shaded: one or two posts would swing its rate to 0% or 100%. One month is hatched here.

In Shipley’s words

Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned

Bipartisanship

The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

Jun 26, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · bipartisanship · Source

Credit claiming

The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

Jun 30, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · credit claiming · Source

Extreme label

The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

Jun 15, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · extreme label “radical” aimed at Marxist theory · Source

Examples by category

Up to five recent statements in each category

Category

Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.

  1. Posts on X (state legislators)

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    personal attacks · target: Philip ReichertSource

  2. Posts on X (state legislators)

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    personal attacks · target: shamanSource

  3. Posts on X (state legislators)

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    personal attacksSource

  4. Posts on X (state legislators)

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    personal attacks · policy discussion · Health · target: FauciSource

  5. Posts on X (state legislators)

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    personal attacks · target: Rob SandSource

All 1,294 statements

Newest first, the IA 2025–26 session

The full feed

Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 1,294 posts on X.

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Policy

Health is what Shipley talks about most: 25% of policy statements, 2.5 times the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.49 on a 0–1 scale (State House Republicans average 0.53; 334th of 504).

Each policy statement is tagged by the AI model with one or more of 25 policy areas from the Congressional Research Service list, so the shares say what Shipley talks about. The bills Shipley sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.

What Shipley talks about

Share of policy statements by area, the IA 2025–26 session

0%35%
Shipley
Peers
Health55 statements
25%
10%
International Affairs39 statements
18%
2%
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues36 statements
17%
6%
Armed Forces and National Security26 statements
12%
5%
Economics and Public Finance19 statements
9%
12%
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Policy areas Shipley talks about, as a share of policy statements, against the State House Republicans average.
RowShipleyPeers
Health25%10%
International Affairs18%2%
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues17%6%
Armed Forces and National Security12%5%
Economics and Public Finance9%12%
How to read the bars

The thick bar is the share of Shipley’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State House Republicans. A statement counts once in each of its areas, so shares can add to more than 100%. The five largest areas are shown; the toggle shows the rest.

Talks about · legislates on

Left: share of statements by policy area. Right: share of bills. Areas in order of their share of statements; both sides run from 0 to 35%. Grey ticks are the State House Republicans averages.

Talks aboutLegislates onHealthHealth, talks about: 25% (State House Republicans 10%)25%Health, legislates on: 11% (State House Republicans 10%)11%International AffairsInternational Affairs, talks about: 18% (State House Republicans 2%)18%International Affairs, legislates on: 0% (State House Republicans 1%)0%Civil Rights and Liberties,Minority IssuesCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues, talks about: 17% (State House Republicans 6%)17%Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues, legislates on: 16% (State House Republicans 4%)16%Armed Forces and NationalSecurityArmed Forces and National Security, talks about: 12% (State House Republicans 5%)12%Armed Forces and National Security, legislates on: 7% (State House Republicans 2%)7%Economics and Public FinanceEconomics and Public Finance, talks about: 9% (State House Republicans 12%)9%Economics and Public Finance, legislates on: 2% (State House Republicans 2%)2%
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Shipley's share of statements against share of bills in each policy area.
AreaTalks aboutState House Republicans, talks aboutLegislates onState House Republicans, legislates on
Health25%10%11%10%
International Affairs18%2%0%1%
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues17%6%16%4%
Armed Forces and National Security12%5%7%2%
Economics and Public Finance9%12%2%2%
0.49

talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1

State House Republicans average 0.53. Ranks 334th of 504.

What agreement means, and what it doesn’t

Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Shipley legislates on exactly the areas Shipley talks about, in the same proportions; 0 means no overlap. It does not say whether the bills match the positions in the statements, only the subjects. Bills Shipley sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.

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Ideology

Shipley sits at +0.11 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 86% of State House Republicans. Approximate range +0.08 to +0.14, which understates the uncertainty; from 284 donors and 522 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”.

+0.11

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.08 to +0.14. From 284 donors and 522 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Shipley +0.1State House Republicans +0.4Iowa House +0.4All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Shipley, 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 Shipley’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 Shipley sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Republicansmedian +0.4Shipley +0.1Iowa Housemedian +0.4All State Housemedian +0.1
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Shipley's CSIP score of +0.11 placed against State House Republicans, Iowa House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Shipley
State House Republicans2917+0.414%
Iowa House99+0.433%
All State House5324+0.152%
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 Shipley 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 Shipley.

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Money

Shipley reported $22.4K in the 2026 cycle, below the State House Republicans’ median of $33.7K. State filings report no small-donation total. 85% of itemized individual money came from Iowa.

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
$22.4K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 21 itemized donors. State House Republicans’ median $33.7K.

Where the money came from

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

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  • Individuals (itemized)75 squares$16.9K
  • PACs and other committees25 squares$5,550
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Sources of Shipley's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$16.9K75.2%
PACs and other committees$5,55024.8%
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, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Republicans’ median for 2026.

2020 cycle: $153.2K$153.2K20202022 cycle: $73.1K$73.1K20222024 cycle: $32.9K$32.9K20242026 cycle: $22.4K$22.4K2026State House Republicans median $33.7K
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Shipley's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Republicans median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$153.2K
2022 cycle$73.1K
2024 cycle$32.9K
2026 cycle$22.4K

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 85% came from Iowa.

  1. Iowa$14.3K
  2. Missouri$2,500
  3. Illinois$100

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: $100ILWisconsin: no dataWIMichigan: no dataMINew York: no dataNYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: no dataMAOregon: no dataORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: $14.3KIAIndiana: no dataINOhio: no dataOHPennsylvania: no dataPANew Jersey: no dataNJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: no dataCAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: $2,500MOKentucky: 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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Shipley's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Iowa$14.3K
Missouri$2,500
Illinois$100
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo data
WisconsinNo data
MichiganNo data
New YorkNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
MassachusettsNo data
OregonNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IndianaNo data
OhioNo data
PennsylvaniaNo data
New JerseyNo data
ConnecticutNo data
CaliforniaNo data
UtahNo data
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo 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
21

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

85%

from Iowa

Of itemized individual dollars

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 Iowa. 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. IOWA HEALTH PAC$1,250
  2. BANKERS UNITE IN LEGISLATIVE DECISIONS AKA: BUILD$1,000
  3. IOWA INDUSTRY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE OR IIPAC$1,000
  4. PAC MANAGEMENT SERVICES$600
  5. CREDIT UNION PAC$500

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

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Votes

No roll-call votes for the IA 2025–26 session.No roll-call votes are recorded for this official in this time window.

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Legislation

Shipley sponsored 47 bills in the IA 2025–26 session; none became law. Cosponsored 0 others. 6.4% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Iowa House average 13%; 70th of 98).

The bills Shipley sponsored and cosponsored in the IA 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 IA 2025–26 session

Sponsored47 billsSponsored, Introduced: 4747Sponsored, In committee: 4747Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 33Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Sponsored, Became law: 00Cosponsored0 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 00Cosponsored, In committee: 00Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 00Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Cosponsored, Became law: 00IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Shipley sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored4747300
Cosponsored00000
How to read the blocks

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

6.4%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Iowa House average 13%. Ranks 70th of 98.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Mark Thompson18
  2. Sam Wengryn16
  3. Tom Gerhold15
  4. Cindy Golding15
  5. Samantha Fett14
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 Shipley’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
HR 108A resolution honoring the enduring special relationship between the state of Iowa and Taiwan.SponsorFeb 23, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedResolution adopted. Feb 25, 2026
HF 2465A bill for an act relating to commemorative coins.SponsorFeb 16, 2026In committeeFinance and Financial Sector(model)Introduced, referred to State Government. Feb 16, 2026
HF 2462A bill for an act relating to circumstances necessary prior to deployment of state military units.SponsorFeb 16, 2026In committeeArmed Forces and National Security(model)Introduced, referred to State Government. Feb 16, 2026
HF 2414A bill for an act relating to the investment of public funds in precious metals, oil, and natural gas.SponsorFeb 11, 2026In committeeEconomics and Public Finance(model)Introduced, referred to State Government. Feb 11, 2026
HF 2395A bill for an act relating to the use of fluoride-based additives in private and public water supply systems.SponsorFeb 11, 2026In committeeHealth(model)Introduced, referred to Health and Human Services. Feb 11, 2026

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Online

A site that has not changed in 90 days. Shipley’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls Shipley’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 Shipley 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 Shipley posted

No images from Shipley’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

5 turns, Feb 25, 2026 to Apr 14, 2026

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 Shipley is most unusual among State House Republicans, 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
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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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