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Republican · Virginia Senate, district 5

Serving since Jan 10, 2024VA 2025–26 session

Portrait of Travis Hackworth, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
11%
of roll calls missed, the lowest attendance of 40 in the Virginia Senate

Attendance 89%; the average within the Virginia Senate is 97.8%. Ranks 40th of 40, where 1st has the highest attendance. 6,566 roll calls in the VA 2025–26 session.

Attendance is the share of the roll calls Hackworth could vote on where a yea, nay or present was recorded, ranked within the Virginia Senate. A missed vote has many causes, from illness to campaigning; the number says how often, not why.

At a glance

6 measures against the Virginia Senate. 96% of the 69 bills Hackworth sponsored got out of committee, in the top quarter of the Virginia Senate. Hackworth voted against the majority of Virginia Senate Republicans 124 times; party unity 92.9%, in the bottom quarter of the Virginia Senate (average 95.7%).

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

Attendance

89%

Virginia Senate average 97.8% · ranks 40th of 40 · 6,566 roll calls

Out of committee

96%

Virginia Senate average 90% · ranks 6th of 40

Party unity

92.9%

Virginia Senate average 95.7% · ranks 31st of 40 · 124 votes against the majority of Virginia Senate Republicans

Itemized, 2026

$125.8K

State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K · ranks 244th of 936

From Virginia, 2026

92%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 538th of 860 State Senate Republicans

CSIP ideology

+0.38

More conservative than 53% of State Senate Republicans · ± 0.04

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

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What Hackworth says

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

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

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

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Ideology

Hackworth sits at +0.38 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 53% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.34 to +0.42, which understates the uncertainty; from 167 donors and 738 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”.

+0.38

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.34 to +0.42. From 167 donors and 738 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Hackworth +0.4State Senate Republicans +0.4Virginia Senate −0.6All State Senate +0.1

The outlined dot is Hackworth, 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 Hackworth’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 Hackworth sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State Senate Republicansmedian +0.4Hackworth +0.4Virginia Senatemedian −0.6All State Senatemedian +0.1
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Hackworth's CSIP score of +0.38 placed against State Senate Republicans, Virginia Senate, All State Senate.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Hackworth
State Senate Republicans1083+0.453%
Virginia Senate40−0.665%
All State Senate1909+0.173%
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 Hackworth 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 Hackworth.

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Money

Hackworth reported $125.8K in the 2026 cycle, 2.7 times the State Senate Republicans’ median of $46.2K. State filings report no small-donation total. 92% of itemized individual money came from 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.

Election cycle
$125.8K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 24 itemized donors. State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K.

Where the money came from

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

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  • Individuals (itemized)24 squares$30.8K
  • PACs and other committees76 squares$95.0K
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Sources of Hackworth's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$30.8K24.5%
PACs and other committees$95.0K75.5%
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, 2022 to 2026. The grey line is the State Senate Republicans’ median for 2026.

2022 cycle: $286.6K$286.6K20222024 cycle: $222.5K$222.5K20242026 cycle: $125.8K$125.8K2026State Senate Republicans median $46.2K
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Hackworth's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State Senate Republicans median.
ItemValue
2022 cycle$286.6K
2024 cycle$222.5K
2026 cycle$125.8K

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 92% came from Virginia.

  1. Virginia$28.3K
  2. North Carolina$2,500

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: $28.3KVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: $2,500NCSouth 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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Hackworth's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Virginia$28.3K
North Carolina$2,500
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
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
24

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

92%

from 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 Virginia. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. EXECUTIVE$14.0K 4 donors
  2. PRESIDENT$4,750 4 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. DOMINION ENERGY INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE VA$50.0K
  2. HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA HBAV BUILD-PAC$10.0K
  3. VIRGINIA AUTOMOBILE AND TRUCK DEALERS PAC$5,500
  4. METALLURGICAL COAL PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION PAC$3,000
  5. HCA FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT PAC$2,500

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

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Votes

Hackworth voted with the majority of Virginia Senate Republicans on 92.9% of party-line votes and missed 11% of 6,566 roll calls. Virginia Senate on average: 95.7% party unity, 97.8% attendance. Across all roll calls, Hackworth voted against the majority of Virginia Senate Republicans 124 times.

6,566 roll calls Hackworth could vote on in the VA 2025–26 session, compared with Virginia Senate. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Hackworth voted with the majority of Virginia Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

124

votes against the majority of Virginia Senate Republicans

Party unity 92.9%, Virginia Senate average 95.7%, ranks 31st of 40. 6,566 roll calls in the VA 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

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

80%100%
Hackworth
Peers
Rank
Attendance
89%
97.8%
40th of 40
Party unity
92.9%
95.7%
31st of 40
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Hackworth's attendance and party unity against Virginia Senate.
RowHackworthPeers
Attendance89%97.8%
Party unity92.9%95.7%
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

Roll calls the lab flags as key

No votes in this window met the key-vote rules.

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 Hackworth most often

  1. Timmy FrenchR5,487 shared votes98%
  2. Todd PillionR5,769 shared votes97%
  3. Chris HeadR5,683 shared votes97%
  4. Tammy MulchiR5,616 shared votes97%
  5. Mark ObenshainR5,569 shared votes97%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Hackworth least often

  1. Elizabeth Bennett-ParkerD2,141 shared votes79%
  2. Mike JonesD3,248 shared votes80%
  3. Louise LucasD5,788 shared votes83%
  4. Danica RoemD5,706 shared votes83%
  5. Stella PekarskyD5,742 shared votes83%
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

VA 2025–26 session, loads in batches

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Legislation

Hackworth sponsored 69 bills in the VA 2025–26 session; 12 became law. Cosponsored 141 others. 96% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Virginia Senate average 90%; 6th of 40).

The bills Hackworth sponsored and cosponsored in the VA 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 VA 2025–26 session

Sponsored69 billsSponsored, Introduced: 6969Sponsored, In committee: 6969Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 5353Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 2929Sponsored, Became law: 1212Cosponsored141 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 141141Cosponsored, In committee: 140140Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 118118Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 4848Cosponsored, Became law: 99IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Hackworth sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored6969532912
Cosponsored141140118489
How to read the blocks

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

96%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Virginia Senate average 90%. Ranks 6th of 40.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Christie Craig33
  2. Tammy Mulchi32
  3. Todd Pillion30
  4. Mark Peake30
  5. Luther Cifers29
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 Hackworth’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

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

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
SR 2080Commending the Reverend Dr. Raymond A. Bell.CosponsorJun 26, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedBill text as passed Senate (SR2080ER) Jul 1, 2026
SR 2079Commending Remington Baptist Church.CosponsorJun 26, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedBill text as passed Senate (SR2079ER) Jul 1, 2026
SR 2039Commending G. Wesley Poole.SponsorJun 16, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedBill text as passed Senate (SR2039ER) Jun 23, 2026
SR 2036Commending Dana G. Schrad.CosponsorJun 15, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedBill text as passed Senate (SR2036ER) Jun 23, 2026
SR 2038Celebrating the life of John Fredrick Reinhart.CosponsorJun 15, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedBill text as passed Senate (SR2038ER) Jun 23, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

A site that changed 2 times in 90 days. Hackworth’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls Hackworth’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 Hackworth 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 Hackworth posted

No images from Hackworth’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 Hackworth is most unusual among Virginia Senate, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.

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

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

Identifiers

Profile id
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Open States
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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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