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Democrat · New Hampshire House, district Grafton 8

Serving since Dec 5, 2018NH 2025–26 session

Portrait of Sallie Fellows, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
86%
of State House Democrats score to the left of Fellows on the CSIP scale

CSIP score −0.37 (approximate range −0.40 to −0.34, which understates the uncertainty); negative is left of the scale’s centre, positive right. From 22 donors and 1,183 roll calls.

CSIP places every official on one left–right scale estimated from roll-call votes, campaign donations and the text of statements; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of moderate. The share says where Fellows sits among State House Democrats, not how far from the centre.

At a glance

5 measures against the New Hampshire House. 20% of the 5 bills Fellows sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom quarter of the New Hampshire House. Fellows reported $800 in the 2024 cycle, in the bottom quarter of State House Democrats (median $5,075).

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

CSIP ideology

−0.37

More conservative than 86% of State House Democrats · ± 0.03

Out of committee

20%

New Hampshire House average 48% · ranks 108th of 128

Itemized, 2024

$800

State House Democrats’ median $5,075 · ranks 137th of 163

Party unity

98.4%

New Hampshire House average 95.3% · ranks 101st of 381 · 13 votes against the majority of New Hampshire House Democrats

Attendance

97.6%

New Hampshire House average 89% · ranks 116th of 382 · 557 roll calls

Statements

No statements in this window

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

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What Fellows says

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

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Ideology

Fellows sits at −0.37 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more conservative than 86% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.40 to −0.34, which understates the uncertainty; from 22 donors and 1,183 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”.

−0.37

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −0.40 to −0.34. From 22 donors and 1,183 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Fellows −0.4State House Democrats −0.6New Hampshire House 0.0All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Fellows, 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 Fellows’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 Fellows sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Democratsmedian −0.6Fellows −0.4New Hampshire Housemedian 0.0All State Housemedian +0.1
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Fellows's CSIP score of −0.37 placed against State House Democrats, New Hampshire House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Fellows
State House Democrats2392−0.686%
New Hampshire House3820.027%
All State House5324+0.139%
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 Fellows 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 Fellows.

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Money

Fellows reported $800 in the 2024 cycle, 16% of the State House Democrats’ median of $5,075. 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
$800

itemized in the 2024 cycle

From 0 itemized donors. State House Democrats’ median $5,075.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2024 cycle.

PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)PACs and other committees: $300 (37.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)Party committees: $500 (62.5%)
  • PACs and other committees38 squares$300
  • Party committees62 squares$500
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Sources of Fellows's money, 2024 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
PACs and other committees$30037.5%
Party committees$50062.5%
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 2024. The grey line is the State House Democrats’ median for 2024.

2020 cycle: $2,500$2,50020202022 cycle: $1,245$1,24520222024 cycle: $800$8002024State House Democrats median $5,075
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Fellows's receipts by cycle against the 2024 State House Democrats median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$2,500
2022 cycle$1,245
2024 cycle$800

Top donor states, 2024

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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Fellows's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2024 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 New Hampshire. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2024 cycle.

No occupations reported.

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2024 cycle.

  1. PLYMOUTH AREA DEMOCRATS$500
  2. GRANITE STATE TEAMSTERS DRIVE$300

Top employers

Itemized, 2024 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

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Votes

Fellows voted with the majority of New Hampshire House Democrats on 98.4% of party-line votes and missed 2.3% of 557 roll calls. New Hampshire House on average: 95.3% party unity, 89% attendance. Across all roll calls, Fellows voted against the majority of New Hampshire House Democrats 13 times.

557 roll calls Fellows could vote on in the NH 2025–26 session, compared with New Hampshire House. 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 Fellows voted with the majority of New Hampshire House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

13

votes against the majority of New Hampshire House Democrats

Party unity 98.4%, New Hampshire House average 95.3%, ranks 101st of 381. 557 roll calls in the NH 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Fellows, the thin grey bar the New Hampshire House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Fellows
Peers
Rank
Attendance
97.6%
89%
116th of 382
Party unity
98.4%
95.3%
101st of 381
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Fellows's attendance and party unity against New Hampshire House.
RowFellowsPeers
Attendance97.6%89%
Party unity98.4%95.3%
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 NH 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Aug 19, 2026
HB 2026
relative to the state 10-year transportation improvement plan; relative to toll rate adjustments and periodic toll reviews for the New Hampshire turnpike system to support the 2027-2036 ten-year transportation plan; and relative to reconstruction of the Gregg Mill Road Bridge in the town of New Bost
Veto Override
YeaWith majoritypassD 143–0 · R 148–25 · I 1–0Democrats 143 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 148 yea, 25 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nayparty crossover
Aug 19, 2026
HB 1358
establishing a commission to study transitioning all public schools to public charter schools.
Veto Override
NayWith majorityfailD 0–143 · R 149–23 · I 1–0Democrats 0 yea, 143 nay; Republicans 149 yea, 23 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nayclose vote · party crossover
Aug 19, 2026
HB 1610
allowing school districts to annually retain year-end unassigned general funds.
Veto Override
NayWith majoritypassD 0–139 · R 161–9 · I 1–0Democrats 0 yea, 139 nay; Republicans 161 yea, 9 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nayclose vote
Aug 19, 2026
HB 1336
relative to regulated conditional deposits.
Veto Override
NayWith majoritypassD 0–142 · R 158–13 · I 1–0Democrats 0 yea, 142 nay; Republicans 158 yea, 13 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nayclose vote
Aug 19, 2026
HB 1726
relative to the sale of surplus state-owned land and establishing a commission to study the sale of state-owned property.
Veto Override
NayWith majorityfailD 2–135 · R 98–71 · I 1–0Democrats 2 yea, 135 nay; Republicans 98 yea, 71 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nayparty 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 Fellows most often

  1. Beth RichardsD328 shared votes98%
  2. Susan AlmyD544 shared votes98%
  3. Karen EbelD500 shared votes98%
  4. Mary Jane WallnerD528 shared votes98%
  5. Bill PalmerD527 shared votes98%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Fellows least often

  1. John LeavittR314 shared votes5.4%
  2. Robley HallR377 shared votes6.4%
  3. Jim KofaltR446 shared votes7.0%
  4. Darrell LouisR441 shared votes7.3%
  5. John SuiterR302 shared votes7.3%
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

NH 2025–26 session, loads in batches

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Legislation

Fellows sponsored 5 bills in the NH 2025–26 session; none became law. Cosponsored 13 others. 20% of sponsored bills got out of committee (New Hampshire House average 48%; 108th of 128).

The bills Fellows sponsored and cosponsored in the NH 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 NH 2025–26 session

Sponsored5 billsSponsored, Introduced: 55Sponsored, In committee: 55Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 11Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Sponsored, Became law: 00Cosponsored13 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 1313Cosponsored, In committee: 1313Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 55Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 22Cosponsored, Became law: 11IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Fellows sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored55100
Cosponsored1313521
How to read the blocks

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

20%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

New Hampshire House average 48%. Ranks 108th of 128.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Hope Damon8
  2. David Luneau6
  3. Donovan Fenton5
  4. Tracy Bricchi5
  5. Patricia Cornell4
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 Fellows’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
HB 1823requiring every school, school district, and school administrative unit to produce independent audits and financial reports to be posted publicly and sent to the department of education and the department of revenue administration.CosponsorDec 18, 2025In committeeEducation(model)Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-0397h (NT) Feb 25, 2026
HB 1820requiring the department of education to administer the education freedom account program.CosponsorDec 18, 2025Passed one chamberEducation(model)Died on Table, Session ended 08/19/2026 HJ 16 Aug 20, 2026
HB 1803rendering a recipient of an education tax credit scholarship ineligible to receive education freedom account funds in the same program year.SponsorDec 18, 2025Passed one chamberEducation(model)Inexpedient to Legislate: MA RC 191-157 02/19/2026 HJ 5 P. 50 Feb 19, 2026
HB 1679establishing a beverage container redemption program.CosponsorDec 12, 2025In committeeEnvironmental Protection(model)Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 02/19/2026 HJ 5 P. 7 Feb 19, 2026
HB 1716relative to the academic accountability of education freedom accounts.CosponsorDec 12, 2025Passed one chamberEducation(model)Inexpedient to Legislate: MA RC 194-166 02/12/2026 HJ 4 P. 24 Feb 12, 2026

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Online

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

The lab crawls Fellows’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 Fellows 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.

Social accounts

Images Fellows posted

No images from Fellows’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

No transcribed state floor speeches are matched to this legislator yet.

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 Fellows is most unusual among New Hampshire House, 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

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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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