Personal attacks
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CSIP score −0.24 (approximate range −0.26 to −0.21, which understates the uncertainty); negative is left of the scale’s centre, positive right. From 408 donors and 864 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 Collins sits among State House Democrats, not how far from the centre.
5 measures against State House Democrats. 60% of Collins’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Arkansas, in the bottom quarter of State House Democrats. The policy areas Collins talks about and legislates on agree at 0.41 on a 0–1 scale, in the bottom quarter of State House Democrats.
The measures on which Collins 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.
CSIP ideology
More conservative than 95% of State House Democrats · ± 0.02
From Arkansas, 2026
Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 1755th of 1,983 State House Democrats
Talk-to-bills agreement
State House Democrats average 0.54 · ranks 435th of 503
Out of committee
Arkansas House average 56% · ranks 21st of 81
Itemized, 2026
State House Democrats’ median $40.4K · ranks 1481st of 2,082
Statements
52 posts on X
Peer group: State House Democrats. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Collins, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Collins is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
Collins claims credit less than 77% of State House Democrats. Credit claiming in 3.9% of 52 statements, against 14% for the average State House Democrat; 593rd of 764.
An AI model reads each of Collins’s 52 statements in the AR 2025–26 session (52 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 AR 2025–26 session
| Row | Collins | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 40% | 39% |
| Policy criticism | 23% | 10% |
| Personal attacks | 4% | 3% |
| Bipartisanship | 4% | 3% |
| Credit claiming | 4% | 14% |
statements classified
52 posts on X.
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 52 |
The thick bar is Collins; the thin grey bar is the average State House Democrats. A longer thick bar means Collins does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Collins used no extreme labels in 52 statements. The peer average is 1.0%.
No extreme labels in this window.
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
No targets recorded.
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 AR 2025–26 session
No month in this window has 10 or more statements, too few to chart month by month.
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 AR 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%. 22 months are hatched here; 5 of them have no statements.
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Personal attacks
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Oct 13, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · personal attacks; target: this guy · Source
Policy criticism
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Aug 14, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy criticism; policy discussion; Health · Source
Credit claiming
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Jul 7, 2025 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; credit claiming; Government Operations and Politics · 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.
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · target: this guySource
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personal attacks · policy discussion · Agriculture and Food · Finance and Financial Sector · target: PilkingtonSource
Newest first, the AR 2025–26 session
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Health is what Collins talks about most: 29% of policy statements, 1.9 times the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.41 on a 0–1 scale (State House Democrats average 0.54; 435th 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 Collins talks about. The bills Collins sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
Share of policy statements by area, the AR 2025–26 session
| Row | Collins | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Health | 29% | 15% |
| Education | 19% | 15% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 19% | 15% |
| Agriculture and Food | 14% | 5% |
| Emergency Management | 10% | 4% |
The thick bar is the share of Collins’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 35%. Grey ticks are the State House Democrats averages.
| Area | Talks about | State House Democrats, talks about | Legislates on | State House Democrats, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 29% | 15% | 5% | 15% |
| Education | 19% | 15% | 20% | 10% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 19% | 15% | 20% | 8% |
| Agriculture and Food | 14% | 5% | 5% | 3% |
| Emergency Management | 10% | 4% | 0% | 1% |
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
State House Democrats average 0.54. Ranks 435th of 503.
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Collins legislates on exactly the areas Collins 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 Collins sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Collins sits at −0.24 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more conservative than 95% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.26 to −0.21, which understates the uncertainty; from 408 donors and 864 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 −0.26 to −0.21. From 408 donors and 864 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Collins, 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 Collins’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 Collins |
|---|---|---|---|
| State House Democrats | 2392 | −0.6 | 95% |
| Arkansas House | 97 | +0.1 | 14% |
| All State House | 5324 | +0.1 | 43% |
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 Collins 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 Collins.
Collins reported $14.6K in the 2026 cycle, 36% of the State House Democrats’ median of $40.4K. State filings report no small-donation total. 60% 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.
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 14 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) | $7,616 | 52.1% |
| PACs and other committees | $7,000 | 47.9% |
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, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Democrats’ median for 2026.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2020 cycle | $45.4K |
| 2022 cycle | $362.3K |
| 2024 cycle | $188.1K |
| 2026 cycle | $14.6K |
Itemized contributions by donor state. 60% came from Arkansas.
State filings report no total for small gifts.
Not reported in state filings.
Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state
| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Arkansas | $4,578 |
| California | $1,000 |
| Wisconsin | $519 |
| New York | $519 |
| Missouri | $500 |
| Texas | $500 |
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itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
from Arkansas
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 Arkansas. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
No employers reported.
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
No roll-call votes for the AR 2025–26 session.No roll-call votes are recorded for this official in this time window.
Collins sponsored 7 bills in the AR 2025–26 session; 4 became law. Cosponsored 20 others. 71% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Arkansas House average 56%; 21st of 81).
The bills Collins 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.
Counts for the AR 2025–26 session
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| Cosponsored | 20 | 20 | 12 | 11 | 11 |
Ink blocks are bills Collins sponsored, ochre blocks bills Collins 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
Arkansas House average 56%. Ranks 21st of 81.
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Collins, by number of shared bills in the AR 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 Collins’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| HB 1994 | TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITIES; AND TO REQUIRE NOTIFICATION BY A SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITY TO AN OCCUPANT WHEN THE OCCUPANT'S LEASED SPACE IS COMPROMISED. | Sponsor | Apr 7, 2025 | Passed one chamber | Commerce(model) | Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment. May 5, 2025 |
| HB 1951 | TO SET FORTH AUTHORIZED DOMAIN EXTENSIONS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT WEBSITES. | Sponsor | Apr 1, 2025 | Became law | Government Operations and Politics(model) | Notification that HB1951 is now Act 929 Apr 21, 2025 |
| HB 1880 | TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS HUMAN LIFE PROTECTION ACT AND THE ARKANSAS UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT TO ADD CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS. | Cosponsor | Mar 20, 2025 | In committee | Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues(model) | Died in House Committee at Sine Die adjournment. May 5, 2025 |
| SB 535 | TO CREATE A SALES AND USE TAX EXEMPTION FOR THE ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS AND THE ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION. | Cosponsor | Mar 20, 2025 | Became law | Taxation(model) | Notification that SB535 is now Act 781 Apr 18, 2025 |
| HB 1833 | TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ADMISSIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COLLEGE OF MEDICINE. | Cosponsor | Mar 18, 2025 | Became law | Education(model) | Notification that HB1833 is now Act 806 Apr 17, 2025 |
A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. Collins’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Collins’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 Collins posts with a vision model.
Official site
www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Legislators/Detail?member=A.+Collins&ddBienniumSession=2021%2F2021RLast crawled Oct 1, 2026
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 Collins’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.
68 turns, Jan 28, 2021 to Apr 27, 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 Collins 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:
America’s Political Pulse · Polarization Research Lab