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Republican · Oklahoma Senate, district 26

Serving since Dec 31, 2003OK 2025–26 session

Portrait of Darcy Jech, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
$4,075
in itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom tenth of State Senate Republicans

The median for State Senate Republicans is $46.2K. Ranks 847th of 936, where 1st raised the most. 1 itemized donors.

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

At a glance

6 measures against State Senate Republicans. 100% of Jech’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Oklahoma, in the top quarter of State Senate Republicans. Jech sits at +0.55 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 78% of State Senate Republicans.

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

Itemized, 2026

$4,075

State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K · ranks 847th of 936

From Oklahoma, 2026

100%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 136th of 860 State Senate Republicans

CSIP ideology

+0.55

More conservative than 78% of State Senate Republicans · ± 0.06

Out of committee

74%

Oklahoma Senate average 56% · ranks 16th of 47

Party unity

90.5%

Oklahoma Senate average 90.2% · ranks 28th of 47 · 58 votes against the majority of Oklahoma Senate Republicans

Attendance

94.1%

Oklahoma Senate average 93.7% · ranks 28th of 47 · 1,658 roll calls

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

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Jech says

Jech talks about policy less than 98% of State Senate Republicans. Policy discussion in 0% of 1 statements, against 37% for the average State Senate Republican; 352nd of 355.

An AI model reads each of Jech’s 1 statements in the OK 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 Senate Republicans and ranked among them.

Kinds of statement

Share of statements carrying each label, the OK 2025–26 session

0%80%
Jech
Peers
Rank
Personal attacks0 statements
0%
2%
273rd of 355
Policy criticism0 statements
0%
9%
331st of 355
Policy discussion0 statements
0%
37%
352nd of 355
Bipartisanship0 statements
0%
2%
311th of 355
Credit claiming0 statements
0%
15%
342nd of 355
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Jech's share of statements in each category against the State Senate Republicans average.
RowJechPeers
Personal attacks0%2%
Policy criticism0%9%
Policy discussion0%37%
Bipartisanship0%2%
Credit claiming0%15%
1

statements classified

1 posts on X.

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

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

Extreme labels

Jech used no extreme labels in 1 statements. The peer average is 1.3%.

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

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Jech sits at +0.55 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 78% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.49 to +0.61, which understates the uncertainty; from 195 donors and 874 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”.

+0.55

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.49 to +0.61. From 195 donors and 874 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Jech +0.6State Senate Republicans +0.4Oklahoma Senate +0.4All State Senate +0.1

The outlined dot is Jech, 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 Jech’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 Jech sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State Senate Republicansmedian +0.4Jech +0.6Oklahoma Senatemedian +0.4All State Senatemedian +0.1
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Jech's CSIP score of +0.55 placed against State Senate Republicans, Oklahoma Senate, All State Senate.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Jech
State Senate Republicans1083+0.478%
Oklahoma Senate47+0.466%
All State Senate1909+0.188%
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 Jech 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 Jech.

Back to topNext: Money

Money

Jech reported $4,075 in the 2026 cycle, 8.8% of the State Senate Republicans’ median of $46.2K. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% of itemized individual money came from Oklahoma.

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
$4,075

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 1 itemized donors. State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K.

Where the money came from

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

Individuals (itemized): $75 (1.8%)Individuals (itemized): $75 (1.8%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)PACs and other committees: $4,000 (98.2%)
  • Individuals (itemized)2 squares$75
  • PACs and other committees98 squares$4,000
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Sources of Jech's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$751.8%
PACs and other committees$4,00098.2%
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, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the State Senate Republicans’ median for 2026.

2020 cycle: $9,951$9,95120202022 cycle: $340.8K$340.8K20222024 cycle: $9,000$9,00020242026 cycle: $4,075$4,0752026State Senate Republicans median $46.2K
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Jech's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State Senate Republicans median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$9,951
2022 cycle$340.8K
2024 cycle$9,000
2026 cycle$4,075

Top donor states, 2026

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

  1. Oklahoma$75

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: $75OKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Jech's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Oklahoma$75
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
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
1

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

100%

from Oklahoma

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 Oklahoma. 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. THE WILLIAMS COMPANIES PAC$1,500
  2. HNTB HOLDINGS LTD PAC$1,000
  3. OGE ENERGY CORP. EMPLOYEES PAC$1,000
  4. OKLAHOMA BANKERS PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE$1,000
  5. OKLAHOMA OPTOMETRIC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$500

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Jech voted with the majority of Oklahoma Senate Republicans on 90.5% of party-line votes and missed 5.8% of 1,658 roll calls. Oklahoma Senate on average: 90.2% party unity, 93.7% attendance. Across all roll calls, Jech voted against the majority of Oklahoma Senate Republicans 58 times.

1,658 roll calls Jech could vote on in the OK 2025–26 session, compared with Oklahoma 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 Jech voted with the majority of Oklahoma Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

58

votes against the majority of Oklahoma Senate Republicans

Party unity 90.5%, Oklahoma Senate average 90.2%, ranks 28th of 47. 1,658 roll calls in the OK 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

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

80%100%
Jech
Peers
Rank
Attendance
94.1%
93.7%
28th of 47
Party unity
90.5%
90.2%
28th of 47
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Jech's attendance and party unity against Oklahoma Senate.
RowJechPeers
Attendance94.1%93.7%
Party unity90.5%90.2%
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 OK 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
May 14, 2026
SB 1360
Mathematics instruction; Oklahoma Math Achievement and Proficiency Act; teacher training; creating the Office of Mathematics Improvement; Director; screening instrument; funding. Effective date. Emergency.
Fourth Reading
YeaWith majoritypassD 9–0 · R 35–0Democrats 9 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 35 yea, 0 naybecame law
May 14, 2026
SJR 52
Joint resolution; approving certain proposed permanent rules of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority.
Fourth Reading
YeaWith majoritypassD 8–0 · R 28–8Democrats 8 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 28 yea, 8 naybecame law · party crossover
May 14, 2026
HB 3004
Professions and occupations; Board of Examiners in Optometry; sunset; effective date; emergency.
Veto Override With Emergency
YeaWith majoritypassD 9–0 · R 38–0Democrats 9 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 38 yea, 0 naybecame law
May 14, 2026
HJR 1092
Joint Resolution; Oklahoma Uniform Building Code Commission; approving certain proposed permanent rule changes; directing distribution.
Third Reading
YeaWith majoritypassD 8–1 · R 29–9Democrats 8 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 29 yea, 9 naybecame law · party crossover
May 14, 2026
SB 2071
Agriculture; Oklahoma Milk and Milk Products Act; clarifying jurisdictional authority of dairy inspection and grading programs. Effective date.
House Amendments
YeaAgainst majorityfailD 1–7 · R 16–20Democrats 1 yea, 7 nay; Republicans 16 yea, 20 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 Jech most often

  1. Aaron ReinhardtR1,500 shared votes96%
  2. Lonnie PaxtonR1,350 shared votes96%
  3. John HasteR1,445 shared votes96%
  4. Bill ColemanR1,512 shared votes96%
  5. Grant GreenR1,462 shared votes96%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Jech least often

  1. Shane JettR1,491 shared votes65%
  2. Dusty DeeversR1,514 shared votes67%
  3. Regina GoodwinD1,474 shared votes73%
  4. Kendal SacchieriR1,511 shared votes73%
  5. Nikki NiceD1,532 shared votes73%
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

OK 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Jech sponsored 86 bills in the OK 2025–26 session; 27 became law. Cosponsored 0 others. 74% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Oklahoma Senate average 56%; 16th of 47).

The bills Jech sponsored and cosponsored in the OK 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 OK 2025–26 session

Sponsored86 billsSponsored, Introduced: 8686Sponsored, In committee: 8686Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 5353Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 3838Sponsored, Became law: 2727Cosponsored0 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 00Cosponsored, In committee: 00Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 00Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Cosponsored, Became law: 00IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Jech sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored8686533827
Cosponsored00000
How to read the blocks

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

74%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Oklahoma Senate average 56%. Ranks 16th of 47.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Carl Newton36
  2. Ronny Johns10
  3. Mike Dobrinski6
  4. Anthony Moore4
  5. Chad Caldwell4
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 Jech’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
SB 1429Schools; allowing public school foundations to expend funds for certain purposes. Effective date. Emergency.SponsorFeb 2, 2026In committeeEducation(model)Coauthored by Representative Newton (principal House author) Feb 11, 2026
SB 1410Agriculture; requiring operation of an Ag in the Classroom Education Program; requiring development of curriculum for K-12 programs. Effective date.SponsorFeb 2, 2026Became lawAgriculture and Food(model)Approved by Governor 05/12/2026 May 13, 2026
SB 1372Probation; permitting certain offenders to receive completion and education credits under certain circumstances. Effective date.SponsorFeb 2, 2026In committeeCrime and Law Enforcement(model)Placed on General Order Feb 26, 2026
SB 1871Social media; requiring certain age verification; mandating the segregation of certain user data; requiring certain parental consent. Emergency.SponsorFeb 2, 2026In committeeCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues(model)Coauthored by Representative Newton (principal House author) Feb 12, 2026
SB 1509Groundwater use; modifying provisions related to spacing of wells. Effective date.SponsorFeb 2, 2026Became lawWater Resources Development(model)Approved by Governor 05/07/2026 May 11, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

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

The lab crawls Jech’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 Jech 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 Jech posted

No images from Jech’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

185 turns, Feb 24, 2020 to May 14, 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 Jech is most unusual among State Senate Republicans, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.

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

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

Identifiers

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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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