Attendance 96.2%; the average within the Virginia House is 98.2%. Ranks 90th of 98, where 1st has the highest attendance. 3,859 roll calls in the VA 2025–26 session.
Attendance is the share of the roll calls Bolling could vote on where a yea, nay or present was recorded, ranked within the Virginia House. A missed vote has many causes, from illness to campaigning; the number says how often, not why.
6 measures against State House Democrats. Bolling sits at −0.93 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 87% of State House Democrats. The policy areas Bolling talks about and legislates on agree at 0.66 on a 0–1 scale, in the top quarter of State House Democrats.
The measures on which Bolling 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.
Attendance
Virginia House average 98.2% · ranks 90th of 98 · 3,859 roll calls
CSIP ideology
More liberal than 87% of State House Democrats · ± 0.06
Talk-to-bills agreement
State House Democrats average 0.54 · ranks 80th of 503
Itemized, 2026
State House Democrats’ median $40.4K · ranks 296th of 2,082
Party unity
Virginia House average 96.5% · ranks 23rd of 98 · 13 votes against the majority of Virginia House Democrats
Out of committee
Virginia House average 84% · ranks 39th of 98
Peer group: State House Democrats. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Bolling, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Bolling is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
Bolling attacks opponents personally less than 76% of State House Democrats. Personal attacks in 0% of 92 statements, against 2.5% for the average State House Democrat; 584th of 764.
An AI model reads each of Bolling’s 92 statements in the VA 2025–26 session (92 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.
Share of statements carrying each label, the VA 2025–26 session
| Row | Bolling | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 40% | 39% |
| Credit claiming | 23% | 14% |
| Policy criticism | 9% | 10% |
| Bipartisanship | 1% | 3% |
| Personal attacks | 0% | 3% |
statements classified
92 posts on X.
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 92 |
The thick bar is Bolling; the thin grey bar is the average State House Democrats. A longer thick bar means Bolling does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Bolling used extreme labels in 2.2% of statements, 2.3 times the peer average. 2 statements, most often aimed at MAGA Republicans; peers 1.0%.
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
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.
Share of statements per month, the VA 2025–26 session
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 9 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Feb ’25 | 9 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Mar ’25 | 4 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Apr ’25 | 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 ’25 | 12 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 41.7% | 0.0% | 16.7% | 0.0% |
| Jun ’25 | 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) |
| Jul ’25 | 4 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Aug ’25 | 5 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Sep ’25 | 5 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Oct ’25 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Nov ’25 | 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) |
| Dec ’25 | 4 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jan ’26 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Feb ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Mar ’26 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Apr ’26 | 7 | — (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 | 4 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jun ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jul ’26 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Aug ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Sep ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Oct ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
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 VA 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%. 21 months are hatched here; 5 of them have no statements.
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Credit claiming
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
Apr 14, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; credit claiming; Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues; Health; Energy; Labor and Employment; Education; Families · Source
Bipartisanship
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
Jan 31, 2025 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; bipartisanship; credit claiming; Health · Source
Extreme label
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
Sep 15, 2025 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy criticism; policy discussion; Health; extreme label “MAGA” aimed at MAGA Republicans, Trump · Source
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.
No statements in this category in this window.
Newest first, the VA 2025–26 session
Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 92 posts on X.
Health is what Bolling talks about most: 35% of policy statements, 2.3 times the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.66 on a 0–1 scale (State House Democrats average 0.54; 80th 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 Bolling talks about. The bills Bolling sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
Share of policy statements by area, the VA 2025–26 session
| Row | Bolling | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Health | 35% | 15% |
| Education | 22% | 15% |
| Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | 19% | 10% |
| Families | 14% | 5% |
| Labor and Employment | 14% | 6% |
The thick bar is the share of Bolling’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.
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 39%. Grey ticks are the State House Democrats averages.
| Area | Talks about | State House Democrats, talks about | Legislates on | State House Democrats, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 35% | 15% | 23% | 15% |
| Education | 22% | 15% | 16% | 10% |
| Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | 19% | 10% | 7% | 4% |
| Families | 14% | 5% | 3% | 3% |
| Labor and Employment | 14% | 6% | 10% | 6% |
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
State House Democrats average 0.54. Ranks 80th of 503.
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Bolling legislates on exactly the areas Bolling 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 Bolling sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Bolling sits at −0.93 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more liberal than 87% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.99 to −0.88, which understates the uncertainty; from 563 donors and 587 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 −0.99 to −0.88. From 563 donors and 587 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Bolling, 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 Bolling’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.
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.
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Bolling |
|---|---|---|---|
| State House Democrats | 2392 | −0.6 | 13% |
| Virginia House | 99 | −0.7 | 20% |
| All State House | 5324 | +0.1 | 6% |
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 Bolling 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 Bolling.
Bolling reported $191.5K in the 2026 cycle, 4.7 times the State House Democrats’ median of $40.4K. State filings report no small-donation total. 93% 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.
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 105 itemized donors. State House Democrats’ median $40.4K.
Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $7,778 | 4.1% |
| PACs and other committees | $175.2K | 91.5% |
| Party committees | $8,500 | 4.4% |
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.
Itemized contributions, 2024 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Democrats’ median for 2026.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 cycle | $227.1K |
| 2026 cycle | $191.5K |
Itemized contributions by donor state. 93% came from Virginia.
State filings report no total for small gifts.
Not reported in state filings.
Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state
| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Virginia | $7,259 |
| California | $500 |
| District of Columbia | $19 |
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| Texas | No data |
| Florida | No data |
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
from Virginia
Of itemized individual dollars
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.
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Bolling voted with the majority of Virginia House Democrats on 99.5% of party-line votes and missed 3.8% of 3,859 roll calls. Virginia House on average: 96.5% party unity, 98.2% attendance. Across all roll calls, Bolling voted against the majority of Virginia House Democrats 13 times.
3,859 roll calls Bolling could vote on in the VA 2025–26 session, compared with 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 Bolling voted with the majority of Virginia House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
votes against the majority of Virginia House Democrats
Party unity 99.5%, Virginia House average 96.5%, ranks 23rd of 98. 3,859 roll calls in the VA 2025–26 session.
The thick bar is Bolling, the thin grey bar the Virginia House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
| Row | Bolling | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 96.2% | 98.2% |
| Party unity | 99.5% | 96.5% |
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.
Roll calls the lab flags as key
No votes in this window met the key-vote rules.
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.
The colleagues who voted the same way as Bolling most often
The colleagues who voted the same way as Bolling least often
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.
VA 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Bolling sponsored 34 bills in the VA 2025–26 session; 19 became law. Cosponsored 355 others. 88% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Virginia House average 84%; 39th of 98).
The bills Bolling 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.
Counts for the VA 2025–26 session
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 34 | 34 | 24 | 22 | 19 |
| Cosponsored | 355 | 355 | 320 | 208 | 129 |
Ink blocks are bills Bolling sponsored, ochre blocks bills Bolling 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
Virginia House average 84%. Ranks 39th of 98.
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Bolling, by number of shared bills in the VA 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
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 Bolling’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| HR 2187 | Commending the Greater Fredericksburg Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. | Cosponsor | Jun 22, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Bill text as passed House (HR2187ER) Jun 30, 2026 |
| HR 2186 | Commending Janice Edwards-Dalton. | Cosponsor | Jun 22, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Bill text as passed House (HR2186ER) Jun 30, 2026 |
| HR 2179 | Commending Grady James, Ph.D. | Cosponsor | Jun 22, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Bill text as passed House (HR2179ER) Jun 30, 2026 |
| HR 2173 | Celebrating the life of Bernard L. Henderson, Jr. | Cosponsor | Jun 21, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Bill text as passed House (HR2173ER) Jun 30, 2026 |
| HR 2164 | Commending the National Black Caucus of State Legislators. | Cosponsor | Jun 21, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Bill text as passed House (HR2164ER) Jun 30, 2026 |
A site that changed 3 times in 90 days. Bolling’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Bolling’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 Bolling posts with a vision model.
pages crawled
changes in 90 days
pages crawled
changes in 90 days
“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.
No images from Bolling’s posts have been described.
Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
127 turns, Jan 29, 2024 to Apr 22, 2026
Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.
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 is the measure on which Bolling 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 …”).
Bulk files with the same data for every official:
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