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Republican · Indiana House, district 56

Serving since Nov 7, 2018IN 2025–26 session

Portrait of Brad Barrett, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
75%
of itemized money from Indiana donors, in the bottom quarter of State House Republicans

75% of the itemized money from individuals in the 2026 cycle came from donors with an address in Indiana. Ranks 2002nd of 2,335, where 1st is the highest share. 4 itemized donors.

Only donors who give more than $200 are reported with an address, so this is the share of that itemized money from donors living in Indiana, ranked among State House Republicans. Small gifts are not counted either way. Candidates running statewide or for federal office often draw more money from out of state.

At a glance

6 measures against the Indiana House. Barrett missed 10% of 908 roll calls, attendance in the bottom quarter of the Indiana House (average 91.6%). 70% of the 27 bills Barrett sponsored got out of committee, in the top quarter of the Indiana House.

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

Party unity

99.6%

Indiana House average 95.2% · ranks 8th of 100 · 4 votes against the majority of Indiana House Republicans

From Indiana, 2026

75%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 2002nd of 2,335 State House Republicans

Attendance

90%

Indiana House average 91.6% · ranks 78th of 100 · 908 roll calls

Out of committee

70%

Indiana House average 46% · ranks 23rd of 99

CSIP ideology

+0.49

More conservative than 73% of State House Republicans · ± 0.07

Itemized, 2026

$40.6K

State House Republicans’ median $33.7K · ranks 1138th of 2,521

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

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Barrett says

Barrett talks about policy less than 98% of State House Republicans. Policy discussion in 0% of 1 statements, against 32% for the average State House Republican; 780th of 792.

An AI model reads each of Barrett’s 1 statements in the IN 2025–26 session (1 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 IN 2025–26 session

0%80%
Barrett
Peers
Rank
Personal attacks0 statements
0%
3%
643rd of 792
Policy criticism0 statements
0%
9%
736th of 792
Policy discussion0 statements
0%
32%
780th of 792
Bipartisanship0 statements
0%
2%
678th of 792
Credit claiming0 statements
0%
13%
764th of 792
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Barrett's share of statements in each category against the State House Republicans average.
RowBarrettPeers
Personal attacks0%3%
Policy criticism0%9%
Policy discussion0%32%
Bipartisanship0%2%
Credit claiming0%13%
1

statements classified

1 posts on X.

posts on X: 1 (100.0%)posts on X 1
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Barrett's statements by source
PartValue
posts on X1
How to read the bars

The thick bar is Barrett; the thin grey bar is the average State House Republicans. A longer thick bar means Barrett does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.

Extreme labels

Barrett used no extreme labels in 1 statements. The peer average is 1.4%.

No extreme labels in this window.

Who gets the labels

Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements

No targets recorded.

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 IN 2025–26 session

No month in this window has 10 or more statements, too few to chart month by month.

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 IN 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; 21 of them have no statements.

Examples by category

Up to five recent statements in each category

Category

Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.

No statements in this category in this window.

All 1 statements

Newest first, the IN 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: 1 posts on X.

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

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

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Barrett sits at +0.49 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 73% of State House Republicans. Approximate range +0.42 to +0.55, which understates the uncertainty; from 123 donors and 564 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”.

+0.49

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.42 to +0.55. From 123 donors and 564 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Barrett +0.5State House Republicans +0.4Indiana House +0.4All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Barrett, 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 Barrett’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 Barrett sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Republicansmedian +0.4Barrett +0.5Indiana Housemedian +0.4All State Housemedian +0.1
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Barrett's CSIP score of +0.49 placed against State House Republicans, Indiana House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Barrett
State House Republicans2917+0.473%
Indiana House100+0.476%
All State House5324+0.185%
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 Barrett 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 Barrett.

Back to topNext: Money

Money

Barrett reported $40.6K in the 2026 cycle, above the State House Republicans’ median of $33.7K. State filings report no small-donation total. 75% of itemized individual money came from Indiana.

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
$40.6K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 4 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): $1,200 (3.0%)Individuals (itemized): $1,200 (3.0%)Individuals (itemized): $1,200 (3.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)PACs and other committees: $39.4K (97.0%)
  • Individuals (itemized)3 squares$1,200
  • PACs and other committees97 squares$39.4K
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Sources of Barrett's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$1,2003.0%
PACs and other committees$39.4K97.0%
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 House Republicans’ median for 2026.

2020 cycle: $28.2K$28.2K20202022 cycle: $126.8K$126.8K20222024 cycle: $103.3K$103.3K20242026 cycle: $40.6K$40.6K2026State House Republicans median $33.7K
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Barrett's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Republicans median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$28.2K
2022 cycle$126.8K
2024 cycle$103.3K
2026 cycle$40.6K

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 75% came from Indiana.

  1. Indiana$900
  2. Illinois$300

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: $300ILWisconsin: no dataWIMichigan: no dataMINew York: no dataNYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: no dataMAOregon: no dataORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: $900INOhio: 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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Barrett's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Indiana$900
Illinois$300
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo data
WisconsinNo data
MichiganNo data
New YorkNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
MassachusettsNo data
OregonNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo 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
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itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

75%

from Indiana

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 Indiana. 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.

  1. ICE PAC$2,500
  2. IMPAC$2,500
  3. IN HEALTHCARE PAC$2,500
  4. INDIANA MERIT CONSTRUCTION PAC$2,500
  5. IN CRNA DREAM PAC$2,000

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Barrett voted with the majority of Indiana House Republicans on 99.6% of party-line votes and missed 10% of 908 roll calls. Indiana House on average: 95.2% party unity, 91.6% attendance. Across all roll calls, Barrett voted against the majority of Indiana House Republicans 4 times.

908 roll calls Barrett could vote on in the IN 2025–26 session, compared with Indiana 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 Barrett voted with the majority of Indiana House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

4

votes against the majority of Indiana House Republicans

Party unity 99.6%, Indiana House average 95.2%, ranks 8th of 100. 908 roll calls in the IN 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Barrett, the thin grey bar the Indiana House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Barrett
Peers
Rank
Attendance
90%
91.6%
78th of 100
Party unity
99.6%
95.2%
8th of 100
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Barrett's attendance and party unity against Indiana House.
RowBarrettPeers
Attendance90%91.6%
Party unity99.6%95.2%
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 IN 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Feb 27, 2026
SB 199
Various education matters.
SB 199 - Behning
YeaWith majoritypassD 0–29 · R 62–2 · I 0–1Democrats 0 yea, 29 nay; Republicans 62 yea, 2 nay; Independents 0 yea, 1 naybecame law
Feb 27, 2026
SB 14
Pension matters.
SB 14 - Teshka
YeaWith majoritypassD 29–0 · R 65–0 · I 1–0Democrats 29 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 65 yea, 0 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 naybecame law
Feb 27, 2026
SB 140
Public safety.
SB 140 - Zimmerman
YeaWith majoritypassD 30–0 · R 65–0 · I 1–0Democrats 30 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 65 yea, 0 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 naybecame law
Feb 27, 2026
HB 1200
Bureau of motor vehicles.
HB 1200 - Pressel
YeaWith majoritypassD 26–3 · R 65–0 · I 1–0Democrats 26 yea, 3 nay; Republicans 65 yea, 0 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 naybecame law · party crossover
Feb 27, 2026
SB 144
Tobacco, e-liquid, and vapor devices.
SB 144 - Rowray
YeaWith majoritypassD 30–0 · R 65–0 · I 1–0Democrats 30 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 65 yea, 0 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 naybecame law
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 Barrett most often

  1. Tim O'BrienR812 shared votes99%
  2. Jeff ThompsonR758 shared votes99%
  3. Craig SnowR747 shared votes99%
  4. Ed SolidayR725 shared votes99%
  5. Bob HeatonR803 shared votes99%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Barrett least often

  1. Ryan DvorakD711 shared votes55%
  2. Reneé PackD364 shared votes56%
  3. Ragen HatcherD632 shared votes57%
  4. Gregory PorterD759 shared votes58%
  5. John BartlettD783 shared votes58%
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

IN 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Barrett sponsored 27 bills in the IN 2025–26 session; 17 became law. Cosponsored 43 others. 70% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Indiana House average 46%; 23rd of 99).

The bills Barrett sponsored and cosponsored in the IN 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 IN 2025–26 session

Sponsored27 billsSponsored, Introduced: 2727Sponsored, In committee: 2727Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 1919Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 1818Sponsored, Became law: 1717Cosponsored43 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 4343Cosponsored, In committee: 4343Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 2929Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 1717Cosponsored, Became law: 1414IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Barrett sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored2727191817
Cosponsored4343291714
How to read the blocks

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

70%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Indiana House average 46%. Ranks 23rd of 99.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Ed Charbonneau25
  2. Lonnie Randolph21
  3. Lori Goss-Reaves13
  4. Tyler Johnson13
  5. Julie McGuire12
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 Barrett’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
HR 51Honoring Officer Brian ElliottCosponsorFeb 25, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedFirst reading: adopted Feb 25, 2026
HCR 15Recognizing Wednesday, February 4, 2026, as a day to honor the work and mission of the Indiana Region of the American Red Cross.CosponsorFeb 2, 2026Passed both chambersUnassignedReturned to the House Feb 6, 2026
HR 13Recognizing the 250th anniversary of the United States of America and the Irish ties to the historical event.CosponsorJan 27, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedFirst reading: adopted Jan 27, 2026
SB 293Pharmacist licensure.CosponsorJan 12, 2026Became lawHealth(model)Public Law 140 Mar 5, 2026
SB 282Compounding drugs; registration of medical spas.SponsorJan 12, 2026Became lawHealth(model)Public Law 136 Mar 5, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

A site that has not changed in 90 days. Barrett’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls Barrett’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 Barrett 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 Barrett posted

No images from Barrett’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

124 turns, Jan 13, 2020 to Feb 25, 2026

Floor speeches

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

Back to topNext: Methods and sources

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 Barrett is most unusual among Indiana 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
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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.

America’s Political Pulse · Polarization Research Lab

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