Bipartisanship
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$160.8K
in itemized contributions in the 2024 cycle, in the top 5% of State House Democrats
The median for State House Democrats is $5,075. Ranks 7th of 163, where 1st raised the most. 540 itemized donors.
Itemized contributions reported to the state in the 2024 cycle, ranked among State House Democrats. State filings leave small gifts out, and totals depend on whether the seat is up this cycle.
At a glance
6 measures against State House Democrats. 1.2% of the 170 bills Young sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom tenth of the West Virginia House. 4.2% of Young’s statements claim credit, in the bottom quarter of State House Democrats (average 14%).
The measures on which Young sits furthest from the middle of State House Democrats, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
Itemized, 2024
$160.8K
State House Democrats’ median $5,075 · ranks 7th of 163
Out of committee
1.2%
West Virginia House average 22% · ranks 78th of 84
Credit claiming
4.2%
State House Democrats average 14% · ranks 582nd of 764
Policy discussion
27%
State House Democrats average 39% · ranks 567th of 764
From West Virginia, 2024
81%
Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 110th of 149 State House Democrats
CSIP ideology
−0.70
Left of 0, the centre of the scale · ± 0.06
Peer group: State House Democrats. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Young, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Young is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Young says
Young claims credit less than 76% of State House Democrats. Credit claiming in 4.2% of 789 statements, against 14% for the average State House Democrat; 582nd of 764.
An AI model reads each of Young’s 789 statements in the WV 2025–26 session (789 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 Democrats and ranked among them.
Kinds of statement
Share of statements carrying each label, the WV 2025–26 session
0%80%
Young
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion210 statements
27%
39%
567th of 764
Policy criticism103 statements
13%
10%
244th of 764
Credit claiming33 statements
4%
14%
582nd of 764
Personal attacks18 statements
2%
3%
239th of 764
Bipartisanship8 statements
1%
3%
511th of 764
Show the data
| Row | Young | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 27% | 39% |
| Policy criticism | 13% | 10% |
| Credit claiming | 4% | 14% |
| Personal attacks | 2% | 3% |
| Bipartisanship | 1% | 3% |
789
statements classified
789 posts on X.
Show the data
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 789 |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is Young; the thin grey bar is the average State House Democrats. A longer thick bar means Young does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Extreme labels
Young used extreme labels in 0.4% of statements, 40% of the peer average. 3 statements, most often aimed at GOP; peers 1.0%.
- “MAGA”1
Who gets the labels
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
- GOP2
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 WV 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 54 | 1.8% | 14.8% | 20.4% | 0.0% | 5.6% | 0.0% |
| Feb ’25 | 56 | 0.0% | 12.5% | 26.8% | 0.0% | 3.6% | 0.0% |
| Mar ’25 | 53 | 1.9% | 15.1% | 26.4% | 1.9% | 3.8% | 0.0% |
| Apr ’25 | 48 | 2.1% | 14.6% | 22.9% | 0.0% | 4.2% | 0.0% |
| May ’25 | 26 | 0.0% | 19.2% | 23.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Jun ’25 | 36 | 8.3% | 2.8% | 5.6% | 2.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Jul ’25 | 42 | 4.8% | 16.7% | 23.8% | 0.0% | 7.1% | 0.0% |
| Aug ’25 | 38 | 2.6% | 7.9% | 7.9% | 2.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Sep ’25 | 13 | 0.0% | 7.7% | 30.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Oct ’25 | 30 | 3.3% | 13.3% | 30.0% | 0.0% | 6.7% | 0.0% |
| Nov ’25 | 69 | 1.5% | 14.5% | 27.5% | 4.3% | 7.2% | 2.9% |
| Dec ’25 | 33 | 6.1% | 9.1% | 27.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Jan ’26 | 26 | 0.0% | 19.2% | 61.5% | 0.0% | 11.5% | 0.0% |
| Feb ’26 | 13 | 0.0% | 15.4% | 23.1% | 0.0% | 7.7% | 0.0% |
| Mar ’26 | 11 | 9.1% | 9.1% | 18.2% | 0.0% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| Apr ’26 | 8 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| May ’26 | 62 | 3.2% | 9.7% | 25.8% | 0.0% | 4.8% | 0.0% |
| Jun ’26 | 31 | 0.0% | 16.1% | 16.1% | 3.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Jul ’26 | 21 | 4.8% | 19.1% | 38.1% | 4.8% | 9.5% | 0.0% |
| Aug ’26 | 65 | 0.0% | 15.4% | 46.2% | 0.0% | 1.5% | 0.0% |
| Sep ’26 | 27 | 3.7% | 3.7% | 25.9% | 0.0% | 3.7% | 0.0% |
| Oct ’26 | 27 | 0.0% | 14.8% | 22.2% | 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 WV 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 Young’s words
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Credit claiming
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Sep 28, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; credit claiming; Energy; Economics and Public Finance · Source
Extreme label
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Mar 11, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · extreme label “extreme” · Source
Examples by category
Up to five recent statements in each category
Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · target: Chris ClagettSource
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personal attacks · target: PrittSource
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personal attacks · target: Caiden CowgerSource
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personal attacks · target: royermattwSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · target: Chris PrattSource
All 789 statements
Newest first, the WV 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: 789 posts on X.
Policy
Government Operations and Politics is what Young talks about most: 27% of policy statements, 1.8 times the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.61 on a 0–1 scale (State House Democrats average 0.54; 135th of 503).
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 Young talks about. The bills Young sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
What Young talks about
Share of policy statements by area, the WV 2025–26 session
0%35%
Young
Peers
Government Operations and Politics57 statements
27%
15%
Economics and Public Finance29 statements
14%
11%
Health27 statements
13%
15%
Education22 statements
11%
15%
Energy21 statements
10%
4%
Show the data
| Row | Young | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Government Operations and Politics | 27% | 15% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 14% | 11% |
| Health | 13% | 15% |
| Education | 11% | 15% |
| Energy | 10% | 4% |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is the share of Young’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State House Democrats. 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 Democrats averages.
Show the data
| Area | Talks about | State House Democrats, talks about | Legislates on | State House Democrats, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government Operations and Politics | 27% | 15% | 6% | 8% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 14% | 11% | 1% | 2% |
| Health | 13% | 15% | 15% | 15% |
| Education | 11% | 15% | 10% | 10% |
| Energy | 10% | 4% | 3% | 3% |
0.61
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
State House Democrats average 0.54. Ranks 135th of 503.
What agreement means, and what it doesn’t
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Young legislates on exactly the areas Young 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 Young sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology
Young sits at −0.70 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more liberal than 62% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.76 to −0.64, which understates the uncertainty; from 1,031 donors and 576 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”.
−0.70
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range −0.76 to −0.64. From 1,031 donors and 576 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Young, 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 Young’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 Young sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
State House Democrats2,392 · median −0.6
West Virginia House97 · median +0.3
All State House5,324 · median +0.1
Show the data
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Young |
|---|---|---|---|
| State House Democrats | 2392 | −0.6 | 38% |
| West Virginia House | 97 | +0.3 | 3% |
| All State House | 5324 | +0.1 | 17% |
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 Young 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 Young.
Money
Young reported $160.8K in the 2024 cycle, 31.7 times the State House Democrats’ median of $5,075. State filings report no small-donation total. 81% of itemized individual money came from West Virginia.
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.
$160.8K
itemized in the 2024 cycle
From 540 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.
- Individuals (itemized)67 squares$107.3K
- PACs and other committees33 squares$53.5K
Show the data
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $107.3K | 66.7% |
| PACs and other committees | $53.5K | 33.3% |
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.
Show the data
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2020 cycle | $50.7K |
| 2022 cycle | $109.1K |
| 2024 cycle | $160.8K |
Top donor states, 2024
Itemized contributions by donor state. 81% came from West Virginia.
- West Virginia$87.1K
- California$3,812
- District of Columbia$1,674
- Ohio$1,378
- Illinois$1,242
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
Show the data
| State | Value |
|---|---|
| West Virginia | $87.1K |
| California | $3,812 |
| District of Columbia | $1,674 |
| Ohio | $1,378 |
| Illinois | $1,242 |
| Georgia | $1,060 |
| Massachusetts | $550 |
| North Carolina | $445 |
| Virginia | $417 |
| Pennsylvania | $390 |
| Michigan | $336 |
| New Mexico | $200 |
| Tennessee | $175 |
| Colorado | $151 |
| Florida | $146 |
| Texas | $122 |
| New York | $108 |
| Maryland | $81 |
| South Carolina | $50 |
| Kentucky | $40 |
| Connecticut | $25 |
| Arizona | $25 |
| New Jersey | $24 |
| Iowa | $20 |
| Washington | $5 |
| Alaska | No data |
| Maine | No data |
| Vermont | No data |
| New Hampshire | No data |
| Idaho | No data |
| Montana | No data |
| North Dakota | No data |
| Minnesota | No data |
| Wisconsin | No data |
| Rhode Island | No data |
| Oregon | No data |
| Nevada | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Indiana | No data |
| Utah | No data |
| Nebraska | No data |
| Missouri | No data |
| Delaware | No data |
| Kansas | No data |
| Arkansas | No data |
| Oklahoma | No data |
| Louisiana | No data |
| Mississippi | No data |
| Alabama | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
540
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
81%
from West Virginia
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 West Virginia. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Top donor occupations
Itemized, 2024 cycle.
- RETIRED$9,185 9 donors
- ATTORNEY/LEGAL$5,075 11 donors
- GENERAL BUSINESS$3,327 3 donors
- CONSULTANT$2,677 4 donors
- HEALTHCARE/MEDICAL$1,980 6 donors
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2024 cycle.
- WEST VIRGINIA BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES PAC$5,600
- WEST VIRGINIA LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL PAC$5,600
- WEST VIRGINIA TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION (LAWPAC)$5,600
- AFT KANAWHA$3,800
- IRONWORKERS LOCAL 549 IPAL$2,800
Top employers
Itemized, 2024 cycle.
- BOWLES RICE LLP$1,500 3 donors
- WVU MEDICINE$936 5 donors
- CAMC$661 6 donors
- TC ENERGY$426 3 donors
- WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY$286 4 donors
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
Young voted with the majority of West Virginia House Democrats on 90.3% of party-line votes and missed 2.6% of 1,396 roll calls. West Virginia House on average: 86% party unity, 95.6% attendance. Across all roll calls, Young voted against the majority of West Virginia House Democrats 50 times.
1,396 roll calls Young could vote on in the WV 2025–26 session, compared with West Virginia 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 Young voted with the majority of West Virginia House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
50
votes against the majority of West Virginia House Democrats
Party unity 90.3%, West Virginia House average 86%, ranks 32nd of 96. 1,396 roll calls in the WV 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Young, the thin grey bar the West Virginia House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
80%100%
Young
Peers
Rank
Attendance
97.4%
95.6%
53rd of 96
Party unity
90.3%
86%
32nd of 96
Show the data
| Row | Young | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 97.4% | 95.6% |
| Party unity | 90.3% | 86% |
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 WV 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 9–0 · R 85–0Democrats 9 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 85 yea, 0 nay | became law | |
| Mar 14, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 9–0 · R 88–0Democrats 9 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 88 yea, 0 nay | became law | |
| Mar 14, 2026 | Nay | With majority | pass | D 0–9 · R 86–2Democrats 0 yea, 9 nay; Republicans 86 yea, 2 nay | became law | |
| Mar 14, 2026 | Yea | Against majority | pass | D 3–6 · R 71–17Democrats 3 yea, 6 nay; Republicans 71 yea, 17 nay | became law · party crossover | |
| Mar 14, 2026 | HB 5381 Relating to developing a comprehensive energy development policy and plan for the Office of Energy PREVIOUS QUESTION | Yea | With majority | pass | D 9–0 · R 47–34Democrats 9 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 47 yea, 34 nay | became 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 Young most often
- John WilliamsD1,317 shared votes97%
- Anitra HamiltonD1,355 shared votes96%
- Evan HansenD1,354 shared votes95%
- Sean HornbuckleD1,251 shared votes95%
- Rick GarciaD1,351 shared votes95%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Young least often
- Chris AndersR1,324 shared votes66%
- Corby DillonR1,327 shared votes69%
- Laura KimbleR1,352 shared votes74%
- Brandon SteeleR480 shared votes74%
- Elías Coop-GonzálezR1,341 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
WV 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Legislation
Young sponsored 170 bills in the WV 2025–26 session; 1 became law. Cosponsored 105 others. 1.2% of sponsored bills got out of committee (West Virginia House average 22%; 78th of 84).
The bills Young sponsored and cosponsored in the WV 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 WV 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 170 | 170 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Cosponsored | 105 | 104 | 15 | 7 | 5 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Young sponsored, ochre blocks bills Young cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
1.2%
of sponsored bills got out of committee
West Virginia House average 22%. Ranks 78th of 84.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Young, by number of shared bills in the WV 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
- Hollis Lewis62
- Evan Hansen47
- Anitra Hamilton45
- Mike Pushkin43
- Sean Hornbuckle35
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 Young’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| HCR 33 | Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to study women’s collegiate sports programs in West Virginia | Cosponsor | Mar 14, 2026 | In committee | Education(model) | To House Rules Mar 14, 2026 |
| HCR 32 | Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to direct an early childhood care and education cost estimation study to enable the state to model actual costs of early childhood care and education | Cosponsor | Mar 10, 2026 | In committee | Education(model) | To House Rules Mar 10, 2026 |
| HCR 25 | Requesting a Study on Reducing Non Revenue Water Through Leak Detection, Infrastructure Improvements, and Performance Based Incentives to Stabilize Water Rates | Cosponsor | Mar 3, 2026 | In committee | Water Resources Development(model) | To House Rules Mar 3, 2026 |
| HCR 26 | Requesting a Study on Energy Recovery and Micro-Hydropower Opportunities in Public Water Systems to Reduce Operating Costs and Stabilize Water Rates | Cosponsor | Mar 3, 2026 | In committee | Energy(model) | To House Rules Mar 3, 2026 |
| HR 20 | Memoralizing the life of the Honorable Larry D. Kump; dedicated public servant, principled legislator, and devoted family man. | Cosponsor | Mar 2, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Completed legislative action Mar 2, 2026 |
Online
A site that changed 2 times in 90 days. Young’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Young’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 Young posts with a vision model.
Websites
Official site
www.wvlegislature.gov/House/lawmaker.cfm?member=Delegate%20YoungLast crawled Oct 1, 2026
1pages crawled
2changes in 90 days
- 1
pages crawled
0changes in 90 days
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 Young posted
No images from Young’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.
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 Young is most unusual among State House Democrats, 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
- 3317959e-9fbd-40dc-aa7a-0f0a9cc06c3f
- Open States
- ocd-person/3317959e-9fbd-40dc-aa7a-0f0a9cc06c3f
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.
America’s Political Pulse · Polarization Research Lab