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Democrat · Missouri House, district 23

Serving since Jan 6, 2021MO 2025–26 session

Portrait of Michael Johnson, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
50%
of itemized money from Missouri donors, in the bottom tenth of State House Democrats

50% of the itemized money from individuals in the 2026 cycle came from donors with an address in Missouri. Ranks 1824th of 1,983, 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 Missouri, ranked among State House Democrats. 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

4 measures against State House Democrats. Johnson sits at −0.47 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 71% of State House Democrats. Johnson reported $14.2K in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom half of State House Democrats (median $40.4K).

The measures on which Johnson 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.

From Missouri, 2026

50%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 1824th of 1,983 State House Democrats

CSIP ideology

−0.47

More conservative than 71% of State House Democrats · ± 0.14

Itemized, 2026

$14.2K

State House Democrats’ median $40.4K · ranks 1498th of 2,082

Out of committee

16%

Missouri House average 32% · ranks 102nd of 150

Statements

12

12 posts on X

Bills sponsored

25

and 12 cosponsored

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

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Johnson says

Johnson claims credit less than 95% of State House Democrats. Credit claiming in 0% of 12 statements, against 14% for the average State House Democrat; 729th of 764.

An AI model reads each of Johnson’s 12 statements in the MO 2025–26 session (12 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 MO 2025–26 session

0%80%
Johnson
Peers
Rank
Personal attacks1 statements
8%
3%
65th of 764
Policy discussion1 statements
8%
39%
715th of 764
Policy criticism0 statements
0%
10%
717th of 764
Bipartisanship0 statements
0%
3%
676th of 764
Credit claiming0 statements
0%
14%
729th of 764
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Johnson's share of statements in each category against the State House Democrats average.
RowJohnsonPeers
Personal attacks8%3%
Policy discussion8%39%
Policy criticism0%10%
Bipartisanship0%3%
Credit claiming0%14%
12

statements classified

12 posts on X.

posts on X: 12 (100.0%)posts on X 12
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Johnson's statements by source
PartValue
posts on X12
How to read the bars

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

Extreme labels

Johnson used extreme labels in 8.3% of statements, 8.7 times the peer average. 1 statement, most often aimed at Trump; peers 1.0%.

    Who gets the labels

    Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements

    1. Trump1
    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 MO 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 MO 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; 17 of them have no statements.

    In Johnson’s words

    Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned

    Personal attacks

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    Oct 30, 2025 · Posts on X (state legislators) · personal attacks; target: Allen · Source

    Policy discussion

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    Aug 30, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; Agriculture and Food · Source

    Extreme label

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    Aug 31, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · extreme label “extreme” aimed at Trump · Source

    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.

    1. Posts on X (state legislators)

      The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

      personal attacks · target: AllenSource

    All 12 statements

    Newest first, the MO 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: 12 posts on X.

    Back to topNext: Policy

    Policy

    Agriculture and Food is what Johnson talks about most: 100% of policy statements, 21.7 times the peer share. Peers give it 4.6%. Agreement with legislation needs at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.

    Each policy statement is tagged by the AI model with one or more of 25 policy areas from the Congressional Research Service list, so the shares say what Johnson talks about. The bills Johnson sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.

    What Johnson talks about

    Share of policy statements by area, the MO 2025–26 session

    0%100%
    Johnson
    Peers
    Agriculture and Food1 statements
    100%
    5%
    Armed Forces and National Security0 statements
    0%
    3%
    Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues0 statements
    0%
    10%
    Commerce0 statements
    0%
    3%
    Crime and Law Enforcement0 statements
    0%
    8%
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    Policy areas Johnson talks about, as a share of policy statements, against the State House Democrats average.
    RowJohnsonPeers
    Agriculture and Food100%5%
    Armed Forces and National Security0%3%
    Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues0%10%
    Commerce0%3%
    Crime and Law Enforcement0%8%
    How to read the bars

    The thick bar is the share of Johnson’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State House Democrats. A statement counts once in each of its areas, so shares can add to more than 100%. The five largest areas are shown; the toggle shows the rest.

    Talks about · legislates on

    Left: share of statements by policy area. Right: share of bills. Areas in order of their share of statements; both sides run from 0 to 100%. Grey ticks are the State House Democrats averages.

    Talks aboutLegislates onAgriculture and FoodAgriculture and Food, talks about: 100% (State House Democrats 5%)100%Agriculture and Food, legislates on: 0% (State House Democrats 3%)0%Armed Forces and NationalSecurityArmed Forces and National Security, talks about: 0% (State House Democrats 3%)0%Armed Forces and National Security, legislates on: 1% (State House Democrats 1%)1%Civil Rights and Liberties,Minority IssuesCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues, talks about: 0% (State House Democrats 10%)0%Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues, legislates on: 4% (State House Democrats 4%)4%Crime and Law EnforcementCrime and Law Enforcement, talks about: 0% (State House Democrats 8%)0%Crime and Law Enforcement, legislates on: 41% (State House Democrats 9%)41%EducationEducation, talks about: 0% (State House Democrats 15%)0%Education, legislates on: 4% (State House Democrats 10%)4%
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    Johnson's share of statements against share of bills in each policy area.
    AreaTalks aboutState House Democrats, talks aboutLegislates onState House Democrats, legislates on
    Agriculture and Food100%5%0%3%
    Armed Forces and National Security0%3%1%1%
    Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues0%10%4%4%
    Crime and Law Enforcement0%8%41%9%
    Education0%15%4%10%

    No agreement score.Needs at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills in the window.

    What agreement means, and what it doesn’t

    Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Johnson legislates on exactly the areas Johnson talks about, in the same proportions; 0 means no overlap. It does not say whether the bills match the positions in the statements, only the subjects. Bills Johnson sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.

    Back to topNext: Ideology

    Ideology

    Johnson sits at −0.47 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more conservative than 71% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.61 to −0.34, which understates the uncertainty; from 49 donors and no 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”.

    −0.47

    CSIP ideal point

    Approximate range −0.61 to −0.34. From 49 donors and no roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

    ← More liberalMore conservative →0Johnson −0.5State House Democrats −0.6Missouri House +0.4All State House +0.1

    The outlined dot is Johnson, 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 Johnson’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 Johnson 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 −0.6Johnson −0.5Missouri Housemedian +0.4All State Housemedian +0.1
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    Johnson's CSIP score of −0.47 placed against State House Democrats, Missouri House, All State House.
    GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Johnson
    State House Democrats2392−0.671%
    Missouri House149+0.426%
    All State House5324+0.132%
    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 Johnson 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 Johnson.

    Back to topNext: Money

    Money

    Johnson reported $14.2K in the 2026 cycle, 35% of the State House Democrats’ median of $40.4K. State filings report no small-donation total. 50% of itemized individual money came from Missouri.

    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
    $14.2K

    itemized in the 2026 cycle

    From 4 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): $650 (4.6%)Individuals (itemized): $650 (4.6%)Individuals (itemized): $650 (4.6%)Individuals (itemized): $650 (4.6%)Individuals (itemized): $650 (4.6%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)PACs and other committees: $13.5K (95.4%)
    • Individuals (itemized)5 squares$650
    • PACs and other committees95 squares$13.5K
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    Sources of Johnson's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
    SourceAmountShare
    Individuals (itemized)$6504.6%
    PACs and other committees$13.5K95.4%
    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 Democrats’ median for 2026.

    2020 cycle: $10.5K$10.5K20202022 cycle: $13.6K$13.6K20222024 cycle: $25.7K$25.7K20242026 cycle: $14.2K$14.2K2026State House Democrats median $40.4K
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    Johnson's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Democrats median.
    ItemValue
    2020 cycle$10.5K
    2022 cycle$13.6K
    2024 cycle$25.7K
    2026 cycle$14.2K

    Top donor states, 2026

    Itemized contributions by donor state. 50% came from Missouri.

    1. Missouri$325
    2. Ohio$300
    3. Texas$25

    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: $300OHPennsylvania: no dataPANew Jersey: no dataNJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: no dataCAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: $325MOKentucky: 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: $25TXFlorida: no dataFL
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    Johnson's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
    StateValue
    Missouri$325
    Ohio$300
    Texas$25
    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
    PennsylvaniaNo data
    New JerseyNo data
    ConnecticutNo data
    CaliforniaNo data
    UtahNo data
    ColoradoNo data
    NebraskaNo 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
    FloridaNo data
    4

    itemized donors

    People who gave more than $200

    50%

    from Missouri

    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 Missouri. 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. PALADIN PAC$2,000
    2. THE ROWDY PAC$2,000
    3. CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS INC MO PAC$1,000
    4. CN-MO PAC$1,000
    5. FCA PAC$1,000

    Top employers

    Itemized, 2026 cycle.

    No employers reported.

    Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

    Back to topNext: Votes

    Votes

    No roll-call votes for the MO 2025–26 session.No roll-call votes are recorded for this official in this time window.

    Back to topNext: Legislation

    Legislation

    Johnson sponsored 25 bills in the MO 2025–26 session; none became law. Cosponsored 12 others. 16% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Missouri House average 32%; 102nd of 150).

    The bills Johnson sponsored and cosponsored in the MO 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 MO 2025–26 session

    Sponsored25 billsSponsored, Introduced: 2525Sponsored, In committee: 2525Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 00Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Sponsored, Became law: 00Cosponsored12 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 1212Cosponsored, In committee: 1212Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 22Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 11Cosponsored, Became law: 11IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
    Show the data
    Bills Johnson sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
    RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
    Sponsored2525000
    Cosponsored1212211
    How to read the blocks

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

    16%

    of sponsored bills got out of committee

    Missouri House average 32%. Ranks 102nd of 150.

    Cosponsorship partners

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

    1. Kem Smith8
    2. Donna Barnes4
    3. Yolonda Fountain-Henderson4
    4. Marla Smith4
    5. Bill Irwin3
    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 Johnson’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
    HJR 115Proposes a constitutional amendment authorizing a disabled veteran homestead exemptionCosponsorApr 20, 2026Passed one chamberTaxation(model)Second read and referred: Select Committee on Property Taxes and the State Tax Commission(S) Apr 21, 2026
    HB 3543Authorizes counties to adopt a real property homestead tax exemption for certain disabled veteransSponsorFeb 27, 2026In committeeTaxation(model)Referred: Emerging Issues(H) May 15, 2026
    HB 3542Establishes the "Community Safety and Law Enforcement Integrity Act"SponsorFeb 27, 2026In committeeCrime and Law Enforcement(model)Referred: Emerging Issues(H) May 15, 2026
    HB 3265Eliminates fines and fees for cases in juvenile courtSponsorFeb 10, 2026In committeeCrime and Law Enforcement(model)Referred: Emerging Issues(H) May 15, 2026
    HB 3264Designates the city of Kansas City as the "Barbecue Capital" of the state of MissouriSponsorFeb 10, 2026In committeeUnassignedReported Do Pass (H) - AYES: 10 NOES: 0 PRESENT: 0 Mar 12, 2026

    Back to topNext: Online

    Online

    A site that has not changed in 90 days. Johnson’s official site had 0 pages when last crawled.

    The lab crawls Johnson’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 Johnson 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 Johnson posted

    No images from Johnson’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

    3 turns, Mar 20, 2023 to Apr 5, 2023

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

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

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

    Identifiers

    Profile id
    8014964b-117f-40a4-a466-ac597dd70983
    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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