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Democrat · Maine House, district 23

Serving since Dec 7, 2022ME 2025–26 session

Portrait of Amy Roeder, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
38%
of itemized money from Maine donors, in the bottom tenth of State House Democrats

38% of the itemized money from individuals in the 2026 cycle came from donors with an address in Maine. Ranks 1858th of 1,983, where 1st is the highest share. 65 itemized donors.

Only donors who give more than $200 are reported with an address, so this is the share of that itemized money from donors living in Maine, ranked among State House Democrats. Small gifts are not counted either way. Candidates running statewide or for federal office often draw more money from out of state.

At a glance

6 measures against State House Democrats. Roeder reported $3,000 in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom tenth of State House Democrats (median $40.4K). 75% of the 24 bills Roeder sponsored got out of committee, in the top half of the Maine House.

The measures on which Roeder 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.

From Maine, 2026

38%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 1858th of 1,983 State House Democrats

Itemized, 2026

$3,000

State House Democrats’ median $40.4K · ranks 1880th of 2,082

Attendance

99.3%

Maine House average 94.9% · ranks 42nd of 149 · 804 roll calls

Out of committee

75%

Maine House average 64% · ranks 33rd of 96

CSIP ideology

−0.70

More liberal than 61% of State House Democrats · ± 0.07

Party unity

97.3%

Maine House average 95.9% · ranks 71st of 149 · 34 votes against the majority of Maine House Democrats

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

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What Roeder says

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

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Ideology

Roeder sits at −0.70 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more liberal than 61% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.76 to −0.63, which understates the uncertainty; from 82 donors and 881 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 −0.63. From 82 donors and 881 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Roeder −0.7State House Democrats −0.6Maine House −0.3All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Roeder, 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 Roeder’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 Roeder 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 −0.6Roeder −0.7Maine Housemedian −0.3All State Housemedian +0.1
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Roeder's CSIP score of −0.70 placed against State House Democrats, Maine House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Roeder
State House Democrats2392−0.638%
Maine House152−0.314%
All State House5324+0.117%
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 Roeder 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 Roeder.

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Money

Roeder reported $3,000 in the 2026 cycle, 7.4% of the State House Democrats’ median of $40.4K. State filings report no small-donation total. 38% of itemized individual money came from Maine.

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
$3,000

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 65 itemized donors. State House Democrats’ median $40.4K.

Where the money came from

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

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  • Individuals (itemized)100 squares$3,000
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Sources of Roeder's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$3,000100.0%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

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

Receipts by cycle

Itemized contributions, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Democrats’ median for 2026.

2020 cycle: $420$42020202022 cycle: $649$64920222024 cycle: $625$62520242026 cycle: $3,000$3,0002026State House Democrats median $40.4K
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Roeder's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Democrats median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$420
2022 cycle$649
2024 cycle$625
2026 cycle$3,000

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 38% came from Maine.

  1. Maine$1,153
  2. Massachusetts$350
  3. Georgia$255
  4. California$230
  5. Minnesota$175

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: $1,153MEVermont: no dataVTNew Hampshire: no dataNHWashington: no dataWAIdaho: no dataIDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: $175MNIllinois: $40ILWisconsin: $50WIMichigan: $75MINew York: $85NYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: $350MAOregon: $50ORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: $25INOhio: $100OHPennsylvania: no dataPANew Jersey: no dataNJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: $230CAUtah: no dataUTColorado: $100CONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: $37KYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: $100SCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: $255GAHawaii: no dataHITexas: $75TXFlorida: $100FL
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Roeder's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Maine$1,153
Massachusetts$350
Georgia$255
California$230
Minnesota$175
Ohio$100
Colorado$100
South Carolina$100
Florida$100
New York$85
Michigan$75
Texas$75
Wisconsin$50
Oregon$50
Illinois$40
Kentucky$37
Indiana$25
AlaskaNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
PennsylvaniaNo data
New JerseyNo data
ConnecticutNo data
UtahNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
West VirginiaNo data
VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
North CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
HawaiiNo data
65

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

38%

from Maine

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

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. GENERAL BUSINESS$353 8 donors
  2. TEACHER EDUCATION$275 7 donors
  3. NOT CURRENTLY EMPLOYED$262 7 donors
  4. WRITER$170 4 donors
  5. HEALTHCARE MEDICAL$160 4 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

No committee contributions this cycle.

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

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Votes

Roeder voted with the majority of Maine House Democrats on 97.3% of party-line votes and missed 0.6% of 804 roll calls. Maine House on average: 95.9% party unity, 94.9% attendance. Across all roll calls, Roeder voted against the majority of Maine House Democrats 34 times.

804 roll calls Roeder could vote on in the ME 2025–26 session, compared with Maine 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 Roeder voted with the majority of Maine House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

34

votes against the majority of Maine House Democrats

Party unity 97.3%, Maine House average 95.9%, ranks 71st of 149. 804 roll calls in the ME 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

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

80%100%
Roeder
Peers
Rank
Attendance
99.3%
94.9%
42nd of 149
Party unity
97.3%
95.9%
71st of 149
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Roeder's attendance and party unity against Maine House.
RowRoederPeers
Attendance99.3%94.9%
Party unity97.3%95.9%
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 ME 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Apr 29, 2026
LD 307
An Act Regarding Energy, Utilities And Technology
reconsideration-veto
YeaWith majorityfailD 64–6 · R 7–59 · I 1–0Democrats 64 yea, 6 nay; Republicans 7 yea, 59 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nayclose vote · party crossover
Apr 29, 2026
LD 307
An Act Regarding Energy, Utilities And Technology
Move the Previous Question
NayWith majorityfailD 11–57 · R 54–12 · I 0–1Democrats 11 yea, 57 nay; Republicans 54 yea, 12 nay; Independents 0 yea, 1 nayclose vote · party crossover
Apr 14, 2026
LD 555
An Act To Create A Separate Department Of Child And Family Services
Acc Maj Ought Not to Pass Rep
YeaWith majoritypassD 71–4 · R 2–67 · I 2–1Democrats 71 yea, 4 nay; Republicans 2 yea, 67 nay; Independents 2 yea, 1 nayclose vote
Apr 14, 2026
LD 299
An Act To Support Investment In Agriculture
Enactment - Bond Issue
YeaWith majorityfailD 74–1 · R 13–54 · I 3–0Democrats 74 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 13 yea, 54 nay; Independents 3 yea, 0 nayparty crossover
Apr 14, 2026
LD 127
An Act To Strengthen Legislative Oversight Of Government Agencies And Programs By Reaffirming The Legislature'S Access To Confidential Records
suspension of house rule 515
NayWith majorityfailD 6–69 · R 67–0 · I 1–2Democrats 6 yea, 69 nay; Republicans 67 yea, 0 nay; Independents 1 yea, 2 nayclose vote
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 Roeder most often

  1. Dylan PughD778 shared votes96%
  2. Charles SkoldD719 shared votes96%
  3. Kristi MathiesonD763 shared votes96%
  4. Ellie SatoD794 shared votes96%
  5. Julie McCabeD794 shared votes96%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Roeder least often

  1. Marygrace CiminoR799 shared votes8.4%
  2. Mike LanceR753 shared votes8.5%
  3. Barbara BagshawR796 shared votes8.7%
  4. Kim HagganR796 shared votes8.9%
  5. Quentin ChapmanR756 shared votes9.1%
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

ME 2025–26 session, loads in batches

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Legislation

Roeder sponsored 24 bills in the ME 2025–26 session; 14 became law. Cosponsored 99 others. 75% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Maine House average 64%; 33rd of 96).

The bills Roeder sponsored and cosponsored in the ME 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 ME 2025–26 session

Sponsored24 billsSponsored, Introduced: 2424Sponsored, In committee: 2424Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 1818Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 1616Sponsored, Became law: 1414Cosponsored99 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 9999Cosponsored, In committee: 9999Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 6161Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 4545Cosponsored, Became law: 3333IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Roeder sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored2424181614
Cosponsored9999614533
How to read the blocks

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

75%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Maine House average 64%. Ranks 33rd of 96.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Mike Tipping49
  2. Rafael Macias19
  3. Rachel Talbot Ross17
  4. Ambureen Rana16
  5. Ryan Fecteau16
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 Roeder’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
LD 2067An Act To Include Certain Community Mental Health Workers Under The 1998 Special Plan For RetirementCosponsorApr 6, 2026Passed both chambersLabor and Employment(model)Died in Possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was PLACED IN THE LEGISLATIVE FILES. (DEAD) Apr 29, 2026
LD 2168An Act To Increase Accountability For Persons Engaged In Commercial Sexual Exploitation And Human Trafficking And To Support VictimsCosponsorApr 2, 2026Became lawCrime and Law Enforcement(model)Signed by Governor Apr 13, 2026
LD 2119An Act To Expand Reimbursement For Treatment In Place, Community Paramedicine And Alternate Destination TransportCosponsorApr 2, 2026Passed one chamberHealth(model)Died in Possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was PLACED IN THE LEGISLATIVE FILES. (DEAD) Apr 29, 2026
LD 669An Act Regarding LaborSponsorMar 26, 2026Became lawLabor and Employment(model)Signed by Governor Apr 16, 2026
LD 1957An Act To Promote Film Production In MaineCosponsorMar 26, 2026Passed one chamberTaxation(model)Died in Possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was PLACED IN THE LEGISLATIVE FILES. (DEAD) Apr 29, 2026

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Online

A site that has not changed in 90 days. Roeder’s official site had 0 pages when last crawled.

The lab crawls Roeder’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 Roeder 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 Roeder posted

No images from Roeder’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

164 turns, May 19, 2021 to Mar 19, 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 Roeder 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
42c79801-802e-4f3d-8917-f3f956766e50
Open States
ocd-person/42c79801-802e-4f3d-8917-f3f956766e50

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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