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Democrat · Vermont Senate, district Windham

Serving since Jan 4, 2023VT 2025–26 session

Portrait of Nader Hashim, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
$855
in itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom 5% of State Senate Democrats

The median for State Senate Democrats is $55.5K. Ranks 733rd of 746, where 1st raised the most. 2 itemized donors.

Itemized contributions reported to the state in the 2026 cycle, ranked among State Senate Democrats. State filings leave small gifts out, and totals depend on whether the seat is up this cycle.

At a glance

4 measures against State Senate Democrats. 100% of Hashim’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Vermont, in the top quarter of State Senate Democrats. 67% of the 70 bills Hashim sponsored got out of committee, in the top quarter of the Vermont Senate.

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

Itemized, 2026

$855

State Senate Democrats’ median $55.5K · ranks 733rd of 746

From Vermont, 2026

100%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 73rd of 714 State Senate Democrats

Out of committee

67%

Vermont Senate average 55% · ranks 4th of 30

CSIP ideology

−0.67

More liberal than 53% of State Senate Democrats · ± 0.11

Statements

No statements in this window

Roll calls

75

Compared with Vermont Senate

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

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What Hashim says

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

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Hashim sits at −0.67 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more liberal than 53% of State Senate Democrats. Approximate range −0.77 to −0.56, which understates the uncertainty; from 31 donors and 241 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 −0.77 to −0.56. From 31 donors and 241 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Hashim −0.7State Senate Democrats −0.7Vermont Senate −0.4All State Senate +0.1

The outlined dot is Hashim, 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 Hashim’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 Hashim sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State Senate Democratsmedian −0.7Hashim −0.7Vermont Senatemedian −0.4All State Senatemedian +0.1
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Hashim's CSIP score of −0.67 placed against State Senate Democrats, Vermont Senate, All State Senate.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Hashim
State Senate Democrats825−0.747%
Vermont Senate30−0.417%
All State Senate1909+0.120%
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 Hashim 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 Hashim.

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Money

Hashim reported $855 in the 2026 cycle, 1.5% of the State Senate Democrats’ median of $55.5K. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% of itemized individual money came from Vermont.

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
$855

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 2 itemized donors. State Senate Democrats’ median $55.5K.

Where the money came from

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

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  • Individuals (itemized)100 squares$855
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Sources of Hashim's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$855100.0%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

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

Receipts by cycle

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

2020 cycle: $250$25020202022 cycle: $14.5K$14.5K20222024 cycle: $1,485$1,48520242026 cycle: $855$8552026State Senate Democrats median $55.5K
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Hashim's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State Senate Democrats median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$250
2022 cycle$14.5K
2024 cycle$1,485
2026 cycle$855

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 100% came from Vermont.

  1. Vermont$855

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: $855VTNew 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: no dataVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Hashim's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Vermont$855
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo 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
VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
2

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

100%

from Vermont

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 Vermont. 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.

No committee contributions this cycle.

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Hashim voted with the majority of Vermont Senate Democrats on 100% of party-line votes and missed 2.7% of 75 roll calls. Vermont Senate on average: 94.5% party unity, 98.0% attendance. Across all roll calls, Hashim voted against the majority of Vermont Senate Democrats 1 time.

75 roll calls Hashim could vote on in the VT 2025–26 session, compared with Vermont Senate. 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 Hashim voted with the majority of Vermont Senate Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

1

votes against the majority of Vermont Senate Democrats

Party unity 100%, Vermont Senate average 94.5%, ranks 6th of 30. 75 roll calls in the VT 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Hashim, the thin grey bar the Vermont Senate average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Hashim
Peers
Rank
Attendance
97.3%
98.0%
20th of 30
Party unity
100%
94.5%
6th of 30
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Hashim's attendance and party unity against Vermont Senate.
RowHashimPeers
Attendance97.3%98.0%
Party unity100%94.5%
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 VT 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
May 28, 2026
S 193
An act relating to establishing a forensic facility for certain criminal justice-involved persons
Roll Call, requested by Senator Hashim, Passed -- Needed 15 of 30 to Pass -- Yeas = 29, Nays = 1
YeaWith majoritypassD 16–1 · R 11–0Democrats 16 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 11 yea, 0 naybecame law
May 27, 2026
S 325
An act relating to regional planning and Act 250 Tier jurisdiction
Roll Call, requested by Senator Watson, Passed -- Needed 15 of 30 to Pass -- Yeas = 27, Nays = 3
YeaWith majoritypassD 15–2 · R 10–1Democrats 15 yea, 2 nay; Republicans 10 yea, 1 naybecame law · party crossover
May 27, 2026
H 772
An act relating to residential rental agreements, eviction procedures, and the creation of the positive rental payment credit reporting pilot program
3rd reading refused on roll call, requested by Senator Ram Hinsdale, Failed -- Needed 16 of 30 to Pass -- Yeas = 15, Nays = 16
YeaWith majorityfailD 14–3 · R 1–10Democrats 14 yea, 3 nay; Republicans 1 yea, 10 nayclose vote · party crossover
May 27, 2026
S 325
An act relating to regional planning and Act 250 Tier jurisdiction
Roll Call, requested by Senator Watson, Passed -- Needed 15 of 30 to Pass -- Yeas = 28, Nays = 2
YeaWith majoritypassD 15–2 · R 11–0Democrats 15 yea, 2 nay; Republicans 11 yea, 0 naybecame law · party crossover
May 26, 2026
H 955
An act relating to next steps in transforming Vermont’s education system
3rd reading ordered on roll call Passed -- Needed 15 of 29 to Pass -- Yeas = 27, Nays = 2
YeaWith majoritypassD 17–0 · R 8–2Democrats 17 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 8 yea, 2 naybecame 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 Hashim most often

  1. Joe MajorD73 shared votes100%
  2. Andrew PerchlikD73 shared votes97%
  3. Seth BongartzD72 shared votes97%
  4. Ginny LyonsD72 shared votes97%
  5. Rob PlunkettD72 shared votes97%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Hashim least often

  1. Russ IngallsR73 shared votes33%
  2. Terry WilliamsR71 shared votes35%
  3. Bob NorrisR69 shared votes38%
  4. Steven HeffernanR70 shared votes43%
  5. Dave WeeksR73 shared votes48%
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

VT 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Hashim sponsored 70 bills in the VT 2025–26 session; 16 became law. Cosponsored 0 others. 67% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Vermont Senate average 55%; 4th of 30).

The bills Hashim sponsored and cosponsored in the VT 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 VT 2025–26 session

Sponsored70 billsSponsored, Introduced: 7070Sponsored, In committee: 6666Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 4747Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 1818Sponsored, Became law: 1616Cosponsored0 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 00Cosponsored, In committee: 00Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 00Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Cosponsored, Became law: 00IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Hashim sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored7066471816
Cosponsored00000
How to read the blocks

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

67%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Vermont Senate average 55%. Ranks 4th of 30.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Wendy Harrison34
  2. Becca White19
  3. Martine Gulick14
  4. Mollie Burke13
  5. Ginny Lyons13
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 Hashim’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
SCR 13Senate concurrent resolution honoring Middlebury College Professor Jessica Holmes for her exemplary public service as a member and interim chair of the Green Mountain Care BoardSponsorMay 14, 2026IntroducedUnassignedAs adopted by Senate and House May 19, 2026
HCR 288House concurrent resolution celebrating the 75th anniversary of Marlboro Music, a premier chamber music educational institution, performance venue, and incubatorSponsorMay 7, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedAdopted pursuant to Joint Rule 16b May 8, 2026
HCR 289House concurrent resolution congratulating the 2026 Brattleboro Union High School championship mock trial teamSponsorMay 7, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedCeremonial Reading May 15, 2026
HCR 282House concurrent resolution honoring General Assembly Doorkeeper Dennis Miles for his superb dedication to serving the General Assembly and all VermontersSponsorApr 30, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedCeremonial Reading May 7, 2026
HCR 279House concurrent resolution honoring General Assembly Head Doorkeeper Michael G. Wiater and his wife, Sergeant at Arms Administrative Assistant Donna Wiater, for their dedicated State public service and extending future best wishesSponsorApr 30, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedCeremonial Reading May 7, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

A site that changed 2 times in 90 days. Hashim’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls Hashim’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 Hashim 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 Hashim posted

No images from Hashim’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

157 turns, Jun 16, 2025 to May 29, 2026

Floor speeches

Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.

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Methods and sources

How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.

The headline

The headline is the measure on which Hashim is most unusual among State Senate Democrats, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.

The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.

A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).

Identifiers

Profile id
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Open States
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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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