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Democrat · Texas House, district 120

Serving since Jan 10, 2017TX 2025–26 session

Portrait of Barbara Gervin-Hawkins, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
25%
of roll calls missed, the lowest attendance of 143 in the Texas House

Attendance 75%; the average within the Texas House is 93.1%. Ranks 143rd of 143, where 1st has the highest attendance. 3,687 roll calls in the TX 2025–26 session.

Attendance is the share of the roll calls Gervin-Hawkins could vote on where a yea, nay or present was recorded, ranked within the Texas House. A missed vote has many causes, from illness to campaigning; the number says how often, not why.

At a glance

6 measures against the Texas House. 100% of Gervin-Hawkins’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Texas, in the top tenth of State House Democrats. 29% of the 59 bills Gervin-Hawkins sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom quarter of the Texas House.

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

Attendance

75%

Texas House average 93.1% · ranks 143rd of 143 · 3,687 roll calls

From Texas, 2026

100%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 195th of 1,983 State House Democrats

Out of committee

29%

Texas House average 49% · ranks 130th of 145

CSIP ideology

−0.39

More conservative than 83% of State House Democrats · ± 0.04

Itemized, 2026

$97.7K

State House Democrats’ median $40.4K · ranks 543rd of 2,082

Party unity

89%

Texas House average 85% · ranks 76th of 143 · 102 votes against the majority of Texas House Democrats

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

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Gervin-Hawkins says

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

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

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

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Ideology

Gervin-Hawkins sits at −0.39 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more conservative than 83% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.43 to −0.35, which understates the uncertainty; from 677 donors and 759 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”.

−0.39

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −0.43 to −0.35. From 677 donors and 759 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Gervin-Hawkins −0.4State House Democrats −0.6Texas House +0.3All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Gervin-Hawkins, 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 Gervin-Hawkins’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 Gervin-Hawkins 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 −0.6Gervin-Hawkins −0.4Texas Housemedian +0.3All State Housemedian +0.1
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Gervin-Hawkins's CSIP score of −0.39 placed against State House Democrats, Texas House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Gervin-Hawkins
State House Democrats2392−0.683%
Texas House148+0.328%
All State House5324+0.138%
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 Gervin-Hawkins 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 Gervin-Hawkins.

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Money

Gervin-Hawkins reported $97.7K in the 2026 cycle, 2.4 times the State House Democrats’ median of $40.4K. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% of itemized individual money came from Texas.

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
$97.7K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 9 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): $4,800 (4.9%)Individuals (itemized): $4,800 (4.9%)Individuals (itemized): $4,800 (4.9%)Individuals (itemized): $4,800 (4.9%)Individuals (itemized): $4,800 (4.9%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)PACs and other committees: $92.9K (95.1%)
  • Individuals (itemized)5 squares$4,800
  • PACs and other committees95 squares$92.9K
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Sources of Gervin-Hawkins's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$4,8004.9%
PACs and other committees$92.9K95.1%
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: $121.2K$121.2K20202022 cycle: $131.9K$131.9K20222024 cycle: $120.0K$120.0K20242026 cycle: $97.7K$97.7K2026State House Democrats median $40.4K
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Gervin-Hawkins's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Democrats median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$121.2K
2022 cycle$131.9K
2024 cycle$120.0K
2026 cycle$97.7K

Top donor states, 2026

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

  1. Texas$4,800

Small donations

State filings report no total for small gifts.

Not reported in state filings.

Where itemized donors live

Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state

Alaska: no dataAKMaine: no dataMEVermont: no dataVTNew Hampshire: no dataNHWashington: no dataWAIdaho: no dataIDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: no dataMNIllinois: no dataILWisconsin: no dataWIMichigan: no dataMINew York: no dataNYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: no dataMAOregon: no dataORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: no dataINOhio: no dataOHPennsylvania: no dataPANew Jersey: no dataNJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: no dataCAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: no dataKYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: $4,800TXFlorida: no dataFL
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Gervin-Hawkins's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Texas$4,800
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo data
IllinoisNo data
WisconsinNo data
MichiganNo data
New YorkNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
MassachusettsNo data
OregonNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
IndianaNo data
OhioNo data
PennsylvaniaNo data
New JerseyNo data
ConnecticutNo data
CaliforniaNo data
UtahNo data
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
KentuckyNo data
West VirginiaNo data
VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
FloridaNo data
9

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

100%

from Texas

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

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. RETIRED$2,300 4 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. TEXAS SANDS PAC$30.0K
  2. TEXAS TRAIL LAWYERS ASSOC PAC$25.0K
  3. LEGACY 44$16.0K
  4. TEXAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOC. PAC$5,000
  5. TREPAC/TEXAS ASSOC OF REALTORS PAC$2,500

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. UNKNOWN$1,000 3 donors

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Gervin-Hawkins voted with the majority of Texas House Democrats on 89% of party-line votes and missed 25% of 3,687 roll calls. Texas House on average: 85% party unity, 93.1% attendance. Across all roll calls, Gervin-Hawkins voted against the majority of Texas House Democrats 102 times.

3,687 roll calls Gervin-Hawkins could vote on in the TX 2025–26 session, compared with Texas 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 Gervin-Hawkins voted with the majority of Texas House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

102

votes against the majority of Texas House Democrats

Party unity 89%, Texas House average 85%, ranks 76th of 143. 3,687 roll calls in the TX 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Gervin-Hawkins, the thin grey bar the Texas House average. The scale runs from 70% to 100% to show the gap.

70%100%
Gervin-Hawkins
Peers
Rank
Attendance
75%
93.1%
143rd of 143
Party unity
89%
85%
76th of 143
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Gervin-Hawkins's attendance and party unity against Texas House.
RowGervin-HawkinsPeers
Attendance75%93.1%
Party unity89%85%
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 TX 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Sep 3, 2025
HB 1
Relating to youth camp emergency plans and preparedness; authorizing penalties.
passage
YeaWith majoritypassD 44–1 · R 46–37Democrats 44 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 46 yea, 37 naybecame law · party crossover · much discussed
Sep 3, 2025
SB 1
Relating to campground and youth camp safety.
passage
YeaWith majoritypassD 45–0 · R 76–8Democrats 45 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 76 yea, 8 naybecame law · much discussed
Sep 3, 2025
HB 8
Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions
passage
NayWith majoritypassD 1–40 · R 78–7Democrats 1 yea, 40 nay; Republicans 78 yea, 7 naybecame law · much discussed
Sep 3, 2025
SB 5
Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and preparedness and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations.
adopt the conference committee report on SB 5.
YeaWith majoritypassD 43–0 · R 86–0Democrats 43 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 86 yea, 0 naybecame law · much discussed
Sep 3, 2025
HB 8
Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions
passage
YeaWith majoritypassD 45–1 · R 41–41Democrats 45 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 41 yea, 41 naybecame law · party crossover · much discussed
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 Gervin-Hawkins most often

  1. Senfronia ThompsonD2,654 shared votes96%
  2. Josey GarciaD2,406 shared votes96%
  3. Vince PerezD2,694 shared votes96%
  4. Alma AllenD2,400 shared votes96%
  5. Liz CamposD2,301 shared votes96%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Gervin-Hawkins least often

  1. Brian HarrisonR2,674 shared votes51%
  2. Briscoe CainR2,536 shared votes52%
  3. David LoweR2,694 shared votes52%
  4. Mike OlcottR2,609 shared votes52%
  5. Steve TothR2,649 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

TX 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Gervin-Hawkins sponsored 59 bills in the TX 2025–26 session; 8 became law. Cosponsored 24 others. 29% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Texas House average 49%; 130th of 145).

The bills Gervin-Hawkins sponsored and cosponsored in the TX 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 TX 2025–26 session

Sponsored59 billsSponsored, Introduced: 5959Sponsored, In committee: 5050Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 1717Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 88Sponsored, Became law: 88Cosponsored24 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 2424Cosponsored, In committee: 2424Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 1717Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 1010Cosponsored, Became law: 77IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Gervin-Hawkins sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored59501788
Cosponsored242417107
How to read the blocks

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

29%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Texas House average 49%. Ranks 130th of 145.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. John Lujan7
  2. Lulu Flores5
  3. Trey Martinez Fischer4
  4. Giovanni Capriglione4
  5. Salman Bhojani4
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 Gervin-Hawkins’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 86In memory of the 13 victims of catastrophic flooding that occurred in San Antonio on June 11 and 12, 2025.SponsorAug 27, 2025Passed one chamberUnassignedReported enrolled Sep 2, 2025
HB 294Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the amount of the appraised value of certain residential real property that arises from the installation in the property of certain energy efficiency-related improvements.SponsorAug 25, 2025IntroducedTaxation(model)Filed Aug 25, 2025
HJR 38Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the amount of the market value of residential real property that arises from the installation in the property of certain energy efficiency-related improvements.SponsorAug 25, 2025IntroducedTaxation(model)Filed Aug 25, 2025
HB 71Relating to emergency preparedness requirements for youth camps, camps, and entities that provide high-risk activities for minors; authorizing a civil penalty.SponsorAug 15, 2025In committeeEmergency Management(model)Left pending in committee Aug 22, 2025
HB 65Relating to memorial plaques for the victims of the 2025 Hill Country flood.SponsorAug 15, 2025IntroducedUnassignedFiled Aug 15, 2025

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Online

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

The lab crawls Gervin-Hawkins’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 Gervin-Hawkins 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 Gervin-Hawkins posted

No images from Gervin-Hawkins’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.

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Methods and sources

How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.

The headline

The headline is the measure on which Gervin-Hawkins is most unusual among Texas 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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