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Republican · Arkansas House, district 53

Serving since Jan 9, 2023AR 2025–26 session

Portrait of Matt Duffield, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
94%
of State House Republicans score to the right of Duffield on the CSIP scale

CSIP score +0.03 (approximate range −0.02 to +0.09, which understates the uncertainty); negative is left of the scale’s centre, positive right. From 422 donors and 285 roll calls.

CSIP places every official on one left–right scale estimated from roll-call votes, campaign donations and the text of statements; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of moderate. The share says where Duffield sits among State House Republicans, not how far from the centre.

At a glance

4 measures against State House Republicans. 15% of the 27 bills Duffield sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom tenth of the Arkansas House. Duffield reported $62.8K in the 2026 cycle, in the top half of State House Republicans (median $33.7K).

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

CSIP ideology

+0.03

More liberal than 94% of State House Republicans · ± 0.05

Out of committee

15%

Arkansas House average 56% · ranks 74th of 81

Itemized, 2026

$62.8K

State House Republicans’ median $33.7K · ranks 824th of 2,521

From Arkansas, 2026

98%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 1080th of 2,335 State House Republicans

Statements

No statements in this window

Bills sponsored

27

and 28 cosponsored

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

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What Duffield says

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

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Policy

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

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Ideology

Duffield sits at +0.03 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 94% of State House Republicans. Approximate range −0.02 to +0.09, which understates the uncertainty; from 422 donors and 285 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”.

+0.03

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −0.02 to +0.09. From 422 donors and 285 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Duffield 0.0State House Republicans +0.4Arkansas House +0.1All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Duffield, 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 Duffield’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 Duffield sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Republicansmedian +0.4Duffield 0.0Arkansas Housemedian +0.1All State Housemedian +0.1
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Duffield's CSIP score of +0.03 placed against State House Republicans, Arkansas House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Duffield
State House Republicans2917+0.46%
Arkansas House97+0.128%
All State House5324+0.148%
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 Duffield 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 Duffield.

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Money

Duffield reported $62.8K in the 2026 cycle, 1.9 times the State House Republicans’ median of $33.7K. State filings report no small-donation total. 98% of itemized individual money came from Arkansas.

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
$62.8K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 96 itemized donors. State House Republicans’ median $33.7K.

Where the money came from

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

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  • Individuals (itemized)66 squares$41.4K
  • PACs and other committees34 squares$21.4K
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Sources of Duffield's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$41.4K66.0%
PACs and other committees$21.4K34.0%
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, 2022 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Republicans’ median for 2026.

2022 cycle: $102.2K$102.2K20222024 cycle: $618.4K$618.4K20242026 cycle: $62.8K$62.8K2026State House Republicans median $33.7K
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Duffield's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Republicans median.
ItemValue
2022 cycle$102.2K
2024 cycle$618.4K
2026 cycle$62.8K

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 98% came from Arkansas.

  1. Arkansas$40.5K
  2. Oklahoma$500
  3. Virginia$200
  4. Alabama$100
  5. Mississippi$100

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: $200VAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: $40.5KARTennessee: $75TNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: $500OKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: $100MSAlabama: $100ALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Duffield's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Arkansas$40.5K
Oklahoma$500
Virginia$200
Mississippi$100
Alabama$100
Tennessee$75
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
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
LouisianaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
96

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

98%

from Arkansas

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

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING$12.4K 11 donors
  2. RETIRED$7,395 38 donors
  3. GENERAL BUSINESS$4,850 10 donors
  4. HEALTHCARE / MEDICAL$3,950 8 donors
  5. FOOD SERVICES$3,050 3 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. ARKANSAS REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$2,500
  2. JUSTICE PAC$2,000
  3. LEGENDS TOURISM$2,000
  4. AGC BETTER ROADS PAC$1,000
  5. ARKANSAS VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION PAC$1,000

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. BLACKSTONE CONSTRUCTION$7,500 3 donors
  2. DUFFIELD GRAVEL COMPANY$3,700 4 donors

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

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Votes

No roll-call votes for the AR 2025–26 session.No roll-call votes are recorded for this official in this time window.

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Legislation

Duffield sponsored 27 bills in the AR 2025–26 session; 3 became law. Cosponsored 28 others. 15% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Arkansas House average 56%; 74th of 81).

The bills Duffield sponsored and cosponsored in the AR 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 AR 2025–26 session

Sponsored27 billsSponsored, Introduced: 2727Sponsored, In committee: 2626Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 44Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 33Sponsored, Became law: 33Cosponsored28 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 2828Cosponsored, In committee: 2828Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 1818Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 1616Cosponsored, Became law: 1515IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Duffield sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored2726433
Cosponsored2828181615
How to read the blocks

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

15%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Arkansas House average 56%. Ranks 74th of 81.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Aaron Pilkington10
  2. Scott Richardson7
  3. Clint Penzo6
  4. Julie Mayberry5
  5. Matt Brown4
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 Duffield’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
HR 1046TO RECOGNIZE THE ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY GOLDEN SUNS CROSS COUNTRY TEAM FOR WINNING THE GREAT AMERICAN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP.SponsorApr 23, 2026In committeeUnassignedDied in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. Apr 29, 2026
HR 1048TO RECOGNIZE THE ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY GOLDEN SUNS CROSS COUNTRY TEAM FOR WINNING THE GREAT AMERICAN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP.SponsorApr 23, 2026In committeeUnassignedREAD AND ADOPTED. Apr 29, 2026
HR 1047TO RECOGNIZE THE MANY ACHIEVEMENTS OF COACH DAVE WILBERS OF THE ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY GOLDEN SUNS AND TO CONGRATULATE COACH WILBERS ON HIS RETIREMENT.SponsorApr 23, 2026In committeeUnassignedREAD AND ADOPTED. Apr 29, 2026
HB 1103TO INCREASE THE HOMESTEAD PROPERTY TAX CREDIT.CosponsorApr 21, 2026Passed both chambersTaxation(model)Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office. Apr 28, 2026
HR 1119REQUESTING THAT SENATOR KING BE AUTHORIZED TO PURSUE THE CONSIDERATION OF SJR 6 AS A THIRD PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.SponsorApr 10, 2025IntroducedUnassignedDied on House Calendar at Sine Die adjournment. May 5, 2025

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Online

A site that changed 3 times in 90 days. Duffield’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls Duffield’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 Duffield 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 Duffield posted

No images from Duffield’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

24 turns, Mar 1, 2023 to Apr 16, 2025

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 Duffield is most unusual among State House Republicans, 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
487bf09e-e78f-467c-b671-3b4c881f4341
Open States
ocd-person/487bf09e-e78f-467c-b671-3b4c881f4341

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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