Party unity 75%, in the bottom tenth of the Louisiana House (average 89%). 2,668 roll calls in the LA 2025–26 session.
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 Brass voted with the majority of Louisiana House Democrats; it is ranked within the Louisiana House. The count covers every roll call where Brass voted opposite that majority.
At a glance
6 measures against the Louisiana House. 100% of Brass’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Louisiana, in the top tenth of State House Democrats. Brass sits at −0.39 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 82% of State House Democrats.
The measures on which Brass sits furthest from the middle of the Louisiana House, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
Party unity
Louisiana House average 89% · ranks 93rd of 102 · 83 votes against the majority of Louisiana House Democrats
From Louisiana, 2026
Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 195th of 1,983 State House Democrats
Attendance
Louisiana House average 90.7% · ranks 14th of 102 · 2,668 roll calls
CSIP ideology
More conservative than 82% of State House Democrats · ± 0.03
Itemized, 2026
State House Democrats’ median $40.4K · ranks 1182nd of 2,082
Out of committee
Louisiana House average 48% · ranks 49th of 101
Peer group: Louisiana House. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Brass, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Brass is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Brass says
No statements for the LA 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.
Policy
No policy statements for the LA 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.
Ideology
Brass sits at −0.39 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more conservative than 82% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.42 to −0.37, which understates the uncertainty; from 97 donors and 1,149 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”.
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range −0.42 to −0.37. From 97 donors and 1,149 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Brass, 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 Brass’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 Brass sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
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| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Brass |
|---|---|---|---|
| State House Democrats | 2392 | −0.6 | 82% |
| Louisiana House | 103 | +0.2 | 22% |
| All State House | 5324 | +0.1 | 37% |
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 Brass 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 Brass.
Money
Brass reported $30.0K in the 2026 cycle, below the State House Democrats’ median of $40.4K. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% of itemized individual money came from Louisiana.
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.
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 15 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.
- Individuals (itemized)36 squares$10.7K
- PACs and other committees64 squares$19.3K
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| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $10.7K | 35.6% |
| PACs and other committees | $19.3K | 64.4% |
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.
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| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2020 cycle | $55.4K |
| 2022 cycle | $35.2K |
| 2024 cycle | $63.2K |
| 2026 cycle | $30.0K |
Top donor states, 2026
Itemized contributions by donor state. 100% came from Louisiana.
- Louisiana$10.7K
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
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| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Louisiana | $10.7K |
| Alaska | No data |
| Maine | No data |
| Vermont | No data |
| New Hampshire | No data |
| Washington | No data |
| Idaho | No data |
| Montana | No data |
| North Dakota | No data |
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| Michigan | No data |
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| Rhode Island | No data |
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| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Iowa | No data |
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| Ohio | No data |
| Pennsylvania | No data |
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| Connecticut | No data |
| California | No data |
| Utah | No data |
| Colorado | No data |
| Nebraska | No data |
| Missouri | No data |
| Kentucky | No data |
| West Virginia | No data |
| Virginia | No data |
| Maryland | No data |
| Delaware | No data |
| Arizona | No data |
| New Mexico | No data |
| Kansas | No data |
| Arkansas | No data |
| Tennessee | No data |
| North Carolina | No data |
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| District of Columbia | No data |
| Oklahoma | No data |
| Mississippi | No data |
| Alabama | No data |
| Georgia | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
| Texas | No data |
| Florida | No data |
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
from Louisiana
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 Louisiana. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Top donor occupations
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
No occupations reported.
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
- LOUISIANA MANUFACTURERS PAC$2,500
- LOUISIANA BANKERS ASSOCIATION STATE PAC$2,000
- CAJUN PAC$1,000
- COMMITTEE TO EXPAND THE MIDDLE CLASS CANDIDATE COMMITTEE$1,000
- FUTURE PAC LLC$1,000
Top employers
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
No employers reported.
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
Brass voted with the majority of Louisiana House Democrats on 75% of party-line votes and missed 2.6% of 2,668 roll calls. Louisiana House on average: 89% party unity, 90.7% attendance. Across all roll calls, Brass voted against the majority of Louisiana House Democrats 83 times.
2,668 roll calls Brass could vote on in the LA 2025–26 session, compared with Louisiana 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 Brass voted with the majority of Louisiana House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
votes against the majority of Louisiana House Democrats
Party unity 75%, Louisiana House average 89%, ranks 93rd of 102. 2,668 roll calls in the LA 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Brass, the thin grey bar the Louisiana House average. The scale runs from 70% to 100% to show the gap.
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| Row | Brass | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 97.3% | 90.7% |
| Party unity | 75% | 89% |
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 LA 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2026 | SB 237 CHILDREN: Provides relative to child welfare. (8/1/26) (EN NO IMPACT See Note) FINAL PASSAGE (#1848) | Yea | With majority | pass | D 28–2 · R 68–0Democrats 28 yea, 2 nay; Republicans 68 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| May 29, 2026 | SB 132 SCHOOLS: Provides that each public school board is to install exterior master key boxes to allow for rapid entry, response, and rescue by law enforcement and first responders during a school crisis. (8/1/26) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note) FINAL PASSAGE (#1650) | Yea | With majority | pass | D 28–0 · R 65–0Democrats 28 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 65 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| May 29, 2026 | SB 228 LOCAL FINANCE: Constitutional amendment to allow for the use of public funds to replace drinking water utility service lines located on private property. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX) FINAL PASSAGE (#1647) | Yea | With majority | pass | D 27–0 · R 52–13Democrats 27 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 52 yea, 13 nay | became law · party crossover |
| May 29, 2026 | SB 202 ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT: Provides for the increase of parish board of election supervisor meetings in certain parishes for certain races. (8/1/26) (EN +$192,000 GF EX See Note) FINAL PASSAGE (#1634) | Yea | With majority | pass | D 25–0 · R 68–0Democrats 25 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 68 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| May 29, 2026 | SB 513 PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides for public works project delivery methods. (8/1/26) FINAL PASSAGE (#1644) | Nay | With majority | pass | D 5–20 · R 66–2Democrats 5 yea, 20 nay; Republicans 66 yea, 2 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 Brass most often
- Rashid YoungD1,736 shared votes98%
- Alonzo KnoxD2,424 shared votes98%
- Travis JohnsonD2,229 shared votes97%
- Tehmi ChassionD2,244 shared votes97%
- Adrian FisherD2,348 shared votes97%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Brass least often
- Danny McCormickR2,320 shared votes79%
- Beryl AmedéeR2,468 shared votes80%
- Rodney SchamerhornR2,516 shared votes82%
- Raymond CrewsR2,380 shared votes84%
- Phil TarverR1,862 shared votes84%
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
LA 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Legislation
Brass sponsored 29 bills in the LA 2025–26 session; 9 became law. Cosponsored 93 others. 48% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Louisiana House average 48%; 49th of 101).
The bills Brass sponsored and cosponsored in the LA 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 LA 2025–26 session
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| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 29 | 23 | 14 | 10 | 9 |
| Cosponsored | 93 | 79 | 75 | 58 | 52 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Brass sponsored, ochre blocks bills Brass cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
of sponsored bills got out of committee
Louisiana House average 48%. Ranks 49th of 101.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Brass, by number of shared bills in the LA 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
- Sylvia Taylor14
- Tehmi Chassion13
- Joy Walters11
- Adrian Fisher11
- Ed Larvadain11
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 Brass’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| SCR 87 | CONDOLENCES: Expresses condolences on the passing of Walter "Wally" Taillon, "Mr. Jambalaya", a beloved community leader, master cook, mentor, and longtime champion of the Gonzales Jambalaya Festival. | Cosponsor | May 27, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2026. Jun 1, 2026 |
| SCR 80 | SCHOOLS: Creates and provides for a task force to study the minimum foundation program formula and recommend permanent, predictable funding for pay raises for teachers and support staff. | Cosponsor | May 26, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Education(model) | Read by title, concurred in by vote of 94 yeas, 0 nays. Jun 1, 2026 |
| SCR 74 | CONDOLENCES: Expresses condolences upon the passing of former Senator Louis J. Lambert Jr. | Cosponsor | May 19, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Sent to the Secretary of State by the Secretary of the Senate. May 28, 2026 |
| HR 285 | LOCAL OFFICIALS: Requests the legislative auditor to conduct a study of compensation authorized for parish assessors and clerks of court | Sponsor | May 13, 2026 | In committee | Government Operations and Politics(model) | Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. May 18, 2026 |
| HR 270 | SPECIAL DAY/WEEK/MONTH: Designates May 13, 2026, as Alpha Phi Alpha, Incorporated, Day at the state capitol | Cosponsor | May 12, 2026 | Introduced | Unassigned | Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. May 21, 2026 |
Online
A site that has not changed in 90 days. Brass’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Brass’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 Brass posts with a vision model.
Websites
- 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
- Facebookwww.facebook.com/ken.brass.5/
- Instagramrepresentative58brass
- Emailbrassk@legis.la.gov
Images Brass posted
No images from Brass’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 Brass is most unusual among Louisiana 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
- Profile id
- 43a80737-e614-475d-aace-2d1324cb516a
- Open States
- ocd-person/43a80737-e614-475d-aace-2d1324cb516a
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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