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Democrat · Idaho House, district 17B

Serving since May 7, 2024ID 2025–26 session

Portrait of Megan Egbert, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
2
statements classified

2 posts on X in the ID 2025–26 session. No measure in the ID 2025–26 session stands far from the peer average.

Every post, press release, newsletter and floor speech the lab collected and ran through its classifier.

At a glance

5 measures against State House Democrats. Egbert reported $16.6K in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom half of State House Democrats (median $40.4K). 96% of Egbert’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Idaho, in the top half of State House Democrats. Egbert sits at −0.56 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 60% of State House Democrats.

The measures on which Egbert 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.

Party unity

94.7%

Idaho House average 84% · ranks 15th of 64 · 21 votes against the majority of Idaho House Democrats

Itemized, 2026

$16.6K

State House Democrats’ median $40.4K · ranks 1428th of 2,082

From Idaho, 2026

96%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 741st of 1,983 State House Democrats

CSIP ideology

−0.56

More conservative than 60% of State House Democrats · ± 0.06

Attendance

98.2%

Idaho House average 96.8% · ranks 31st of 64 · 916 roll calls

Statements

2

2 posts on X

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

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What Egbert says

Egbert talks about policy less than 98% of State House Democrats. Policy discussion in 0% of 2 statements, against 39% for the average State House Democrat; 757th of 765.

An AI model reads each of Egbert’s 2 statements in the ID 2025–26 session (2 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.

Kinds of statement

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

0%80%
Egbert
Peers
Rank
Personal attacks0 statements
0%
3%
584th of 765
Policy criticism0 statements
0%
10%
717th of 765
Policy discussion0 statements
0%
39%
757th of 765
Bipartisanship0 statements
0%
3%
676th of 765
Credit claiming0 statements
0%
14%
729th of 765
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Egbert's share of statements in each category against the State House Democrats average.
RowEgbertPeers
Personal attacks0%3%
Policy criticism0%10%
Policy discussion0%39%
Bipartisanship0%3%
Credit claiming0%14%
2

statements classified

2 posts on X.

posts on X: 2 (100.0%)posts on X 2
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Egbert's statements by source
PartValue
posts on X2
How to read the bars

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

Extreme labels

Egbert used no extreme labels in 2 statements. The peer average is 1.0%.

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 ID 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 ID 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 2 statements

Newest first, the ID 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: 2 posts on X.

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Policy

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

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Ideology

Egbert sits at −0.56 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more conservative than 60% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.62 to −0.50, which understates the uncertainty; from 155 donors and 289 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”.

−0.56

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −0.62 to −0.50. From 155 donors and 289 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Egbert −0.6State House Democrats −0.6Idaho House +0.1All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Egbert, 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 Egbert’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 Egbert 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 −0.6Egbert −0.6Idaho Housemedian +0.1All State Housemedian +0.1
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Egbert's CSIP score of −0.56 placed against State House Democrats, Idaho House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Egbert
State House Democrats2392−0.660%
Idaho House70+0.19%
All State House5324+0.127%
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 Egbert 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 Egbert.

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Money

Egbert reported $16.6K in the 2026 cycle, below the State House Democrats’ median of $40.4K. State filings report no small-donation total. 96% of itemized individual money came from Idaho.

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
$16.6K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 116 itemized donors. State House Democrats’ median $40.4K.

Where the money came from

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

Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)Individuals (itemized): $13.9K (83.4%)PACs and other committees: $2,500 (15.0%)PACs and other committees: $2,500 (15.0%)PACs and other committees: $2,500 (15.0%)PACs and other committees: $2,500 (15.0%)PACs and other committees: $2,500 (15.0%)PACs and other committees: $2,500 (15.0%)PACs and other committees: $2,500 (15.0%)PACs and other committees: $2,500 (15.0%)PACs and other committees: $2,500 (15.0%)PACs and other committees: $2,500 (15.0%)PACs and other committees: $2,500 (15.0%)PACs and other committees: $2,500 (15.0%)PACs and other committees: $2,500 (15.0%)PACs and other committees: $2,500 (15.0%)PACs and other committees: $2,500 (15.0%)Party committees: $250 (1.5%)Party committees: $250 (1.5%)
  • Individuals (itemized)83 squares$13.9K
  • PACs and other committees15 squares$2,500
  • Party committees2 squares$250
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Sources of Egbert's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$13.9K83.4%
PACs and other committees$2,50015.0%
Party committees$2501.5%
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, 2024 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Democrats’ median for 2026.

2024 cycle: $14.1K$14.1K20242026 cycle: $16.6K$16.6K2026State House Democrats median $40.4K
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Egbert's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Democrats median.
ItemValue
2024 cycle$14.1K
2026 cycle$16.6K

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 96% came from Idaho.

  1. Idaho$13.3K
  2. Oregon$300
  3. Maine$125
  4. District of Columbia$100

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: $125MEVermont: no dataVTNew Hampshire: no dataNHWashington: no dataWAIdaho: $13.3KIDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: no dataMNIllinois: no dataILWisconsin: no dataWIMichigan: no dataMINew York: no dataNYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: no dataMAOregon: $300ORNevada: 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: $100DCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Egbert's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Idaho$13.3K
Oregon$300
Maine$125
District of Columbia$100
AlaskaNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo data
IllinoisNo data
WisconsinNo data
MichiganNo data
New YorkNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
MassachusettsNo 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
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
116

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

96%

from Idaho

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 Idaho. 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. PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF IDAHO POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$500
  2. IDAHO TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION PAC$500
  3. RUBEL, ILANA$500
  4. IDAHO DENTAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$300
  5. DISTRICT 17 DEMOCRATS$250

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

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Votes

Egbert voted with the majority of Idaho House Democrats on 94.7% of party-line votes and missed 1.7% of 916 roll calls. Idaho House on average: 84% party unity, 96.8% attendance. Across all roll calls, Egbert voted against the majority of Idaho House Democrats 21 times.

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

21

votes against the majority of Idaho House Democrats

Party unity 94.7%, Idaho House average 84%, ranks 15th of 64. 916 roll calls in the ID 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

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

80%100%
Egbert
Peers
Rank
Attendance
98.2%
96.8%
31st of 64
Party unity
94.7%
84%
15th of 64
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Egbert's attendance and party unity against Idaho House.
RowEgbertPeers
Attendance98.2%96.8%
Party unity94.7%84%
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 ID 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Apr 2, 2026
H 516
EDUCATION – Amends and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding the prohibition of taxpayer funding of teachers unions.
passage
NayWith majoritypassD 0–9 · R 38–15Democrats 0 yea, 9 nay; Republicans 38 yea, 15 naybecame law · party crossover
Apr 2, 2026
H 978
APPROPRIATIONS – HEALTH AND WELFARE – PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES – Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal year 2027.
Rules Suspended: Ayes 58 Nays 0 Abs/Excd 12, read in full as required –
YeaWith majoritypassD 6–3 · R 27–22Democrats 6 yea, 3 nay; Republicans 27 yea, 22 naybecame law · close vote · party crossover
Apr 2, 2026
H 975
APPROPRIATIONS – Relates to the appropriation and transfer of moneys in the state treasury for fiscal year 2027.
Rules Suspended: Ayes 59 Nays 6 Abs/Excd 5, read in full as required –
NayWith majoritypassD 1–8 · R 39–13Democrats 1 yea, 8 nay; Republicans 39 yea, 13 nayparty crossover
Apr 2, 2026
H 974
APPROPRIATIONS – IDAHO STATE POLICE – Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho State Police for fiscal year 2027.
Rules Suspended: Ayes 58 Nays 0 Abs/Excd 12, read in full as required –
YeaWith majoritypassD 9–0 · R 48–0Democrats 9 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 48 yea, 0 naybecame law
Apr 2, 2026
S 1438
APPROPRIATIONS – PUBLIC SCHOOLS – IDAHO DIGITAL LEARNING ACADEMY DIVISION – Relates to the appropriation to the Public Schools Educational Support Program’s Division of the Idaho Digital Learning Academy for fiscal year 2027.
Rules Suspended: Ayes 59 Nays 6 Abs/Excd 5, read in full as required –
NayWith majoritypassD 0–9 · R 33–19Democrats 0 yea, 9 nay; Republicans 33 yea, 19 naybecame law · party crossover
How key votes are chosen

Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.

Votes most often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Egbert most often

  1. Annie Henderson HawsD410 shared votes96%
  2. Brooke GreenD718 shared votes96%
  3. Todd AchillesD440 shared votes95%
  4. Ilana RubelD830 shared votes95%
  5. Chris MathiasD838 shared votes95%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Egbert least often

  1. Lucas CaylerR888 shared votes52%
  2. Clint HostetlerR896 shared votes53%
  3. Faye ThompsonR881 shared votes54%
  4. David LeavittR890 shared votes54%
  5. Dale HawkinsR892 shared votes55%
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

ID 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

No bills for the ID 2025–26 session.No sponsored or cosponsored bills are recorded for this official in this time window.

Back to topNext: Online

Online

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

The lab crawls Egbert’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 Egbert 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 Egbert posted

No images from Egbert’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

No transcribed state floor speeches are matched to this legislator yet.

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 Egbert 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. That is the case for Egbert in this window. 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
ocd-person/7abc0666-30bd-4e16-ba86-304b1750ac8e

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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