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Democrat · Florida House, district 41

Serving since Nov 8, 2022FL 2025–26 session

Portrait of Bruce Antone, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
13%
of sponsored bills got out of committee, in the bottom 5% of the Florida House

13% of 16 sponsored bills got out of committee; the average for the Florida House is 56%. Ranks 107th of 110, where 1st is the highest share.

The share of bills Antone sponsored that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, ranked within the Florida 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 the Florida House. Antone missed 25% of 817 roll calls, attendance in the bottom tenth of the Florida House (average 94.0%). Antone voted against the majority of Florida House Democrats 22 times; party unity 88%, in the bottom quarter of the Florida House (average 94.7%).

The measures on which Antone sits furthest from the middle of the Florida House, 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

13%

Florida House average 56% · ranks 107th of 110

Attendance

75%

Florida House average 94.0% · ranks 110th of 116 · 817 roll calls

Party unity

88%

Florida House average 94.7% · ranks 103rd of 116 · 22 votes against the majority of Florida House Democrats

CSIP ideology

−0.41

More conservative than 80% of State House Democrats · ± 0.04

From Florida, 2024

100%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 30th of 149 State House Democrats

Itemized, 2024

$11.5K

State House Democrats’ median $5,075 · ranks 52nd of 163

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

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What Antone says

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

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

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

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Ideology

Antone sits at −0.41 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more conservative than 80% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.45 to −0.37, which understates the uncertainty; from 9 donors and 378 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”.

−0.41

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −0.45 to −0.37. From 9 donors and 378 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Antone −0.4State House Democrats −0.6Florida House +0.4All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Antone, 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 Antone’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 Antone sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Democratsmedian −0.6Antone −0.4Florida Housemedian +0.4All State Housemedian +0.1
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Antone's CSIP score of −0.41 placed against State House Democrats, Florida House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Antone
State House Democrats2392−0.680%
Florida House116+0.416%
All State House5324+0.136%
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 Antone 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 Antone.

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Money

Antone reported $11.5K in the 2024 cycle, 2.3 times the State House Democrats’ median of $5,075. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% of itemized individual money came from Florida.

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
$11.5K

itemized in the 2024 cycle

From 6 itemized donors. State House Democrats’ median $5,075.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2024 cycle.

Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)Individuals (itemized): $5,500 (47.8%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)PACs and other committees: $6,000 (52.2%)
  • Individuals (itemized)48 squares$5,500
  • PACs and other committees52 squares$6,000
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Sources of Antone's money, 2024 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$5,50047.8%
PACs and other committees$6,00052.2%
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 2024. The grey line is the State House Democrats’ median for 2024.

2022 cycle: $13.0K$13.0K20222024 cycle: $11.5K$11.5K2024State House Democrats median $5,075
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Antone's receipts by cycle against the 2024 State House Democrats median.
ItemValue
2022 cycle$13.0K
2024 cycle$11.5K

Top donor states, 2024

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

  1. Florida$5,500

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: 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: $5,500FL
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Antone's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2024 cycle
StateValue
Florida$5,500
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
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
6

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

100%

from Florida

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

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2024 cycle.

  1. ATTORNEYS$3,000 3 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2024 cycle.

  1. FLORIDA ASSOCIATION FOR BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS PAC$1,000
  2. FLORIDA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$1,000
  3. FLORIDA REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$1,000
  4. NEXT ERA ENERGY PAC$1,000
  5. REALTORS POLITICAL ADVOCACY COMMITTEE$1,000

Top employers

Itemized, 2024 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

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Votes

Antone voted with the majority of Florida House Democrats on 88% of party-line votes and missed 25% of 817 roll calls. Florida House on average: 94.7% party unity, 94.0% attendance. Across all roll calls, Antone voted against the majority of Florida House Democrats 22 times.

817 roll calls Antone could vote on in the FL 2025–26 session, compared with Florida 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 Antone voted with the majority of Florida House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

22

votes against the majority of Florida House Democrats

Party unity 88%, Florida House average 94.7%, ranks 103rd of 116. 817 roll calls in the FL 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Antone, the thin grey bar the Florida House average. The scale runs from 70% to 100% to show the gap.

70%100%
Antone
Peers
Rank
Attendance
75%
94.0%
110th of 116
Party unity
88%
94.7%
103rd of 116
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Antone's attendance and party unity against Florida House.
RowAntonePeers
Attendance75%94.0%
Party unity88%94.7%
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 FL 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Jun 2, 2026
SB 4F
Property Tax Administration
Passage, Third Reading
NayWith majoritypassD 1–26 · R 74–1Democrats 1 yea, 26 nay; Republicans 74 yea, 1 naybecame law
May 12, 2026
HB 5501E
Documentary Stamp Tax Distributions
Passage, Third Reading
Did not vote—passD 24–3 · R 79–0Democrats 24 yea, 3 nay; Republicans 79 yea, 0 nayparty crossover
May 12, 2026
HB 5001E
General Appropriations Act
Passage, Third Reading
Did not vote—passD 19–8 · R 79–0Democrats 19 yea, 8 nay; Republicans 79 yea, 0 nayparty crossover
May 12, 2026
HB 5003E
Implementing the 2026-2027 General Appropriations Act
Passage, Third Reading
Did not vote—passD 14–12 · R 78–1Democrats 14 yea, 12 nay; Republicans 78 yea, 1 nayparty crossover
May 12, 2026
SB 2508E
State Agency Law Enforcement Radio System
Passage, Third Reading
Did not vote—passD 25–3 · R 78–0Democrats 25 yea, 3 nay; Republicans 78 yea, 0 nayparty 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 Antone most often

  1. LaVon Bracy DavisD292 shared votes97%
  2. Yvonne HinsonD569 shared votes97%
  3. Kevin ChamblissD546 shared votes97%
  4. Joe CaselloD298 shared votes96%
  5. Dianne Hart-LowmanD566 shared votes96%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Antone least often

  1. Brian HodgersR300 shared votes77%
  2. Nathan BoylesR297 shared votes79%
  3. Kiyan MichaelR320 shared votes81%
  4. Susan PlasenciaR397 shared votes81%
  5. Dave SmithR287 shared votes81%
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

FL 2025–26 session, loads in batches

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Legislation

Antone sponsored 16 bills in the FL 2025–26 session; none became law. Cosponsored 7 others. 13% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Florida House average 56%; 107th of 110).

The bills Antone sponsored and cosponsored in the FL 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 FL 2025–26 session

Sponsored16 billsSponsored, Introduced: 1616Sponsored, In committee: 1616Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 11Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Sponsored, Became law: 00Cosponsored7 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 77Cosponsored, In committee: 77Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 33Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 33Cosponsored, Became law: 33IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Antone sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored1616100
Cosponsored77333
How to read the blocks

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

13%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Florida House average 56%. Ranks 107th of 110.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Fentrice Driskell3
  2. Leonard Spencer3
  3. Rita Harris3
  4. Fabián Basabe2
  5. Anna Eskamani2
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 Antone’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
HB 1375Florida Museum of HistorySponsorJan 9, 2026In committeeGovernment Operations and Politics(model)Died in Government Operations Subcommittee Mar 13, 2026
HB 1369Penalties For Late-filed Disclosures or Statements of Financial InterestsSponsorJan 9, 2026In committeeGovernment Operations and Politics(model)Died in Government Operations Subcommittee Mar 13, 2026
HB 1373Pub. Rec./Judicial Qualifications Commission EmployeesSponsorJan 9, 2026In committeeGovernment Operations and Politics(model)Died in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee Mar 13, 2026
HB 1363Towing Undrivable VehiclesSponsorJan 9, 2026In committeeTransportation and Public Works(model)Died in Government Operations Subcommittee Mar 13, 2026
HB 1365Right Turns at Intersections Using Traffic Infraction DetectorsSponsorJan 9, 2026In committeeTransportation and Public Works(model)Died in Government Operations Subcommittee Mar 13, 2026

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Online

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

The lab crawls Antone’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 Antone 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 Antone posted

No images from Antone’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

78 turns, Mar 9, 2020 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 Antone is most unusual among Florida House, 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
617888c1-3369-49cd-a264-18ab663d2e8a
Open States
ocd-person/617888c1-3369-49cd-a264-18ab663d2e8a

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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