Credit claiming
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8.8%
of sponsored bills got out of committee, the lowest of 59 in the Oregon House
8.8% of 34 sponsored bills got out of committee; the average for the Oregon House is 50%. Ranks 59th of 59, where 1st is the highest share.
The share of bills Yunker sponsored that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, ranked within the Oregon House. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position as well as effort.
At a glance
6 measures against State House Republicans. 36% of Yunker’s statements criticize a policy, 3.8 times the State House Republican average of 9.3%. 56% of Yunker’s statements discuss policy, 1.8 times the State House Republican average of 32%.
The measures on which Yunker 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.
Out of committee
8.8%
Oregon House average 50% · ranks 59th of 59
Policy criticism
36%
State House Republicans average 9.3% · ranks 21st of 791
Policy discussion
56%
State House Republicans average 32% · ranks 62nd of 791
Talk-to-bills agreement
0.68
State House Republicans average 0.53 · ranks 32nd of 504
CSIP ideology
+0.67
More conservative than 90% of State House Republicans · ± 0.05
Attendance
75%
Oregon House average 88% · ranks 54th of 60 · 1,009 roll calls
Peer group: State House Republicans. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Yunker, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Yunker is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Yunker says
Yunker criticizes policies more than 97% of State House Republicans. Policy criticism in 36% of 2,253 statements, against 9.3% for the average State House Republican; 21st of 791.
An AI model reads each of Yunker’s 2,253 statements in the OR 2025–26 session (2,253 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 Republicans and ranked among them.
Kinds of statement
Share of statements carrying each label, the OR 2025–26 session
0%80%
Yunker
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion1,273 statements
56%
32%
62nd of 791
Policy criticism802 statements
36%
9%
21st of 791
Personal attacks148 statements
7%
3%
114th of 791
Credit claiming92 statements
4%
13%
584th of 791
Bipartisanship17 statements
1%
2%
451st of 791
Show the data
| Row | Yunker | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 56% | 32% |
| Policy criticism | 36% | 9% |
| Personal attacks | 7% | 3% |
| Credit claiming | 4% | 13% |
| Bipartisanship | 1% | 2% |
2,253
statements classified
2,253 posts on X.
Show the data
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 2,253 |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is Yunker; the thin grey bar is the average State House Republicans. A longer thick bar means Yunker does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Extreme labels
Yunker used extreme labels in 4.6% of statements, 3.2 times the peer average. 104 statements, most often aimed at Democrats; peers 1.4%.
- “radical”28
- “extreme”9
- “communist”4
- “far left”4
- “woke”3
Who gets the labels
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
- Democrats17
- left10
- the left5
- Oregon Democrats4
- climate agenda2
What an extreme label is
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.
Month by month
Share of statements per month, the OR 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 65 | 3.1% | 20.0% | 33.9% | 0.0% | 6.2% | 9.2% |
| Feb ’25 | 196 | 12.8% | 42.9% | 55.1% | 0.0% | 6.1% | 2.5% |
| Mar ’25 | 158 | 19.0% | 32.3% | 59.5% | 1.3% | 3.8% | 3.2% |
| Apr ’25 | 107 | 0.9% | 38.3% | 56.1% | 0.9% | 1.9% | 2.8% |
| May ’25 | 143 | 5.6% | 42.0% | 54.5% | 1.4% | 1.4% | 2.1% |
| Jun ’25 | 177 | 6.2% | 34.5% | 48.6% | 0.0% | 2.3% | 4.0% |
| Jul ’25 | 191 | 5.8% | 36.6% | 52.4% | 0.5% | 1.1% | 6.3% |
| Aug ’25 | 156 | 4.5% | 50.0% | 57.0% | 0.0% | 4.5% | 7.7% |
| Sep ’25 | 127 | 8.7% | 39.4% | 44.1% | 2.4% | 0.0% | 9.4% |
| Oct ’25 | 162 | 9.3% | 42.0% | 50.6% | 0.6% | 2.5% | 6.2% |
| Nov ’25 | 189 | 4.2% | 39.1% | 51.8% | 1.1% | 2.6% | 4.8% |
| Dec ’25 | 151 | 2.6% | 23.8% | 66.2% | 0.7% | 6.0% | 2.6% |
| Jan ’26 | 142 | 4.9% | 7.0% | 71.1% | 0.7% | 6.3% | 5.6% |
| Feb ’26 | 69 | 0.0% | 50.7% | 52.2% | 1.5% | 5.8% | 4.3% |
| Mar ’26 | 40 | 5.0% | 32.5% | 60.0% | 0.0% | 17.5% | 5.0% |
| Apr ’26 | 44 | 2.3% | 34.1% | 70.5% | 0.0% | 13.6% | 0.0% |
| May ’26 | 44 | 2.3% | 34.1% | 59.1% | 4.5% | 4.5% | 6.8% |
| Jun ’26 | 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 ’26 | 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) |
| Aug ’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) |
| Sep ’26 | 17 | 5.9% | 17.6% | 82.3% | 0.0% | 11.8% | 0.0% |
| Oct ’26 | 54 | 3.7% | 27.8% | 90.7% | 0.0% | 7.4% | 0.0% |
How to read the strips
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 OR 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%. 3 months are hatched here.
In Yunker’s words
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Policy criticism
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Oct 23, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy criticism; policy discussion; Government Operations and Politics · Source
Extreme label
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May 29, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy criticism; policy discussion; Government Operations and Politics; Families; extreme label “extreme” aimed at Mother PAC · Source
Examples by category
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.
Posts on X (state legislators)
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · policy discussion · Health · Economics and Public Finance · target: Rob NosseSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · policy discussion · Health · target: KotekSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · policy discussion · Energy · Law · target: Tina KotekSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · policy criticism · policy discussion · Economics and Public Finance · target: Tina KotekSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · policy discussion · Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues · target: DrazanSource
All 2,253 statements
Newest first, the OR 2025–26 session
The full feed
Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 2,253 posts on X.
Policy
Economics and Public Finance is what Yunker talks about most: 18% of policy statements, above the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.68 on a 0–1 scale (State House Republicans average 0.53; 32nd of 504).
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 Yunker talks about. The bills Yunker sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
What Yunker talks about
Share of policy statements by area, the OR 2025–26 session
0%35%
Yunker
Peers
Economics and Public Finance224 statements
18%
12%
Government Operations and Politics197 statements
16%
18%
Education190 statements
15%
15%
Taxation177 statements
14%
8%
Health161 statements
13%
10%
Show the data
| Row | Yunker | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Economics and Public Finance | 18% | 12% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 16% | 18% |
| Education | 15% | 15% |
| Taxation | 14% | 8% |
| Health | 13% | 10% |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is the share of Yunker’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State House Republicans. 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.
Talks about · legislates on
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 35%. Grey ticks are the State House Republicans averages.
Show the data
| Area | Talks about | State House Republicans, talks about | Legislates on | State House Republicans, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Public Finance | 18% | 12% | 0% | 2% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 16% | 18% | 19% | 12% |
| Education | 15% | 15% | 12% | 9% |
| Taxation | 14% | 8% | 10% | 11% |
| Health | 13% | 10% | 7% | 10% |
0.68
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
State House Republicans average 0.53. Ranks 32nd of 504.
What agreement means, and what it doesn’t
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Yunker legislates on exactly the areas Yunker 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 Yunker sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology
Yunker sits at +0.67 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 90% of State House Republicans. Approximate range +0.62 to +0.72, which understates the uncertainty; from 45 donors and 257 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”.
+0.67
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +0.62 to +0.72. From 45 donors and 257 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Yunker, 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 Yunker’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 Yunker sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
State House Republicans2,917 · median +0.4
Oregon House60 · median −0.6
All State House5,324 · median +0.1
Show the data
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Yunker |
|---|---|---|---|
| State House Republicans | 2917 | +0.4 | 90% |
| Oregon House | 60 | −0.6 | 93% |
| All State House | 5324 | +0.1 | 94% |
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 Yunker 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 Yunker.
Money
Yunker reported $70.5K in the 2026 cycle, 2.1 times the State House Republicans’ median of $33.7K. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% of itemized individual money came from Oregon.
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.
$70.5K
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 42 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.
- Individuals (itemized)36 squares$25.6K
- PACs and other committees64 squares$44.9K
Show the data
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $25.6K | 36.3% |
| PACs and other committees | $44.9K | 63.7% |
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, 2024 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Republicans’ median for 2026.
Show the data
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 cycle | $5,828 |
| 2026 cycle | $70.5K |
Top donor states, 2026
Itemized contributions by donor state. 100% came from Oregon.
- Oregon$25.6K
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
Show the data
| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Oregon | $25.6K |
| 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 |
| Minnesota | No data |
| Illinois | No data |
| Wisconsin | No data |
| Michigan | No data |
| New York | No data |
| Rhode Island | No data |
| Massachusetts | No data |
| Nevada | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Iowa | No data |
| Indiana | No data |
| Ohio | No data |
| Pennsylvania | No data |
| New Jersey | No data |
| 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 |
| South Carolina | No data |
| District of Columbia | No data |
| Oklahoma | No data |
| Louisiana | No data |
| Mississippi | No data |
| Alabama | No data |
| Georgia | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
| Texas | No data |
| Florida | No data |
42
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
100%
from Oregon
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 Oregon. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Top donor occupations
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- NOT EMPLOYED$21.1K 34 donors
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
- OREGON FIREARMS FEDERATION PAC$15.0K
- OREGON BEVERAGE PAC$9,939
- ALEK FOR OREGON$2,500
- FRIENDS OF VIRGLE OSBORNE$2,500
- OREGON SOFT DRINK PAC$2,500
Top employers
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
No employers reported.
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
Yunker voted with the majority of Oregon House Republicans on 98.2% of party-line votes and missed 25% of 1,009 roll calls. Oregon House on average: 91.6% party unity, 88% attendance. Across all roll calls, Yunker voted against the majority of Oregon House Republicans 77 times.
1,009 roll calls Yunker could vote on in the OR 2025–26 session, compared with Oregon 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 Yunker voted with the majority of Oregon House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
77
votes against the majority of Oregon House Republicans
Party unity 98.2%, Oregon House average 91.6%, ranks 22nd of 60. 1,009 roll calls in the OR 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Yunker, the thin grey bar the Oregon House average. The scale runs from 70% to 100% to show the gap.
70%100%
Yunker
Peers
Rank
Attendance
75%
88%
54th of 60
Party unity
98.2%
91.6%
22nd of 60
Show the data
| Row | Yunker | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 75% | 88% |
| Party unity | 98.2% | 91.6% |
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 OR 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 2026 | HB 4075 Relating to hospital finance; and declaring an emergency. Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Wright, Nosse. Passed. | Yea | With majority | pass | D 20–15 · R 21–0Democrats 20 yea, 15 nay; Republicans 21 yea, 0 nay | became law · party crossover |
| Mar 6, 2026 | SB 5701 Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency. Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Nosse. Passed. | Yea | With majority | pass | D 33–0 · R 15–4Democrats 33 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 15 yea, 4 nay | became law · party crossover |
| Mar 6, 2026 | SB 1502 Relating to proposed legislative measures to be filed by the Secretary of State; and prescribing an effective date. Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Elmer. Passed. | Yea | With majority | pass | D 32–1 · R 18–0Democrats 32 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 18 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| Mar 6, 2026 | HB 5204 Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency. Third reading. Carried by Sanchez. Passed. | Nay | With majority | pass | D 35–0 · R 3–16Democrats 35 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 3 yea, 16 nay | became law · party crossover |
| Mar 6, 2026 | SB 5702 Relating to state financial administration; and declaring an emergency. Third reading. Carried by Nosse. Passed. | Yea | With majority | pass | D 33–0 · R 16–2Democrats 33 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 16 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 Yunker most often
- Alek SkarlatosR717 shared votes92%
- Virgle OsborneR660 shared votes91%
- Court BoiceR731 shared votes91%
- Darin HarbickR683 shared votes90%
- Shelly DavisR571 shared votes90%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Yunker least often
- Sue Rieke SmithD227 shared votes56%
- Julie FaheyD620 shared votes56%
- Andrea ValderramaD525 shared votes58%
- Farrah ChaichiD715 shared votes59%
- Willy ChotzenD737 shared votes59%
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
OR 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Legislation
Yunker sponsored 34 bills in the OR 2025–26 session; 1 became law. Cosponsored 82 others. 8.8% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Oregon House average 50%; 59th of 59).
The bills Yunker sponsored and cosponsored in the OR 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 OR 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 34 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Cosponsored | 82 | 82 | 19 | 17 | 14 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Yunker sponsored, ochre blocks bills Yunker cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
8.8%
of sponsored bills got out of committee
Oregon House average 50%. Ranks 59th of 59.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Yunker, by number of shared bills in the OR 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
- Boomer Wright64
- Bobby Levy57
- Court Boice57
- Ed Diehl52
- Werner Reschke51
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 Yunker’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| HB 4063 | Relating to Kei trucks. | Cosponsor | Feb 2, 2026 | In committee | Transportation and Public Works(model) | In committee upon adjournment. Mar 7, 2026 |
| HB 4120 | Relating to smoking policies in residential tenancies. | Cosponsor | Feb 2, 2026 | Became law | Housing and Community Development(model) | Chapter 60, (2026 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2027. Apr 6, 2026 |
| HB 4099 | Relating to a task force on veterans in crisis; and prescribing an effective date. | Cosponsor | Feb 2, 2026 | Became law | Armed Forces and National Security(model) | Chapter 19, (2026 Laws): Effective date June 5, 2026. Mar 17, 2026 |
| HB 4078 | Relating to an income tax subtraction allowed for plaintiffs in wildfire litigation; prescribing an effective date. | Cosponsor | Feb 2, 2026 | In committee | Taxation(model) | In committee upon adjournment. Mar 7, 2026 |
| HB 4056 | Relating to fire protection costs; declaring an emergency. | Cosponsor | Feb 2, 2026 | In committee | Emergency Management(model) | In committee upon adjournment. Mar 7, 2026 |
Online
A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. Yunker’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Yunker’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 Yunker posts with a vision model.
Websites
- 1
pages crawled
1changes in 90 days
- 1
pages crawled
2changes 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
Images Yunker posted
No images from Yunker’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 Yunker 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
- 497f7e2e-b1d8-4803-8fb8-22dc045bc0b0
- Open States
- ocd-person/497f7e2e-b1d8-4803-8fb8-22dc045bc0b0
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.
America’s Political Pulse · Polarization Research Lab