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Democrat · Arizona House, district 11

Serving since Jan 9, 2023AZ 2025–26 session

Portrait of Oscar De Los Santos, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
20%
of roll calls missed, attendance in the bottom tenth of the Arizona House

Attendance 80%; the average within the Arizona House is 93.0%. Ranks 56th of 60, where 1st has the highest attendance. 1,672 roll calls in the AZ 2025–26 session.

Attendance is the share of the roll calls Santos could vote on where a yea, nay or present was recorded, ranked within the Arizona 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 Arizona House. 0% of the 28 bills Santos sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom tenth of the Arizona House. Santos sits at −1.02 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 91% of State House Democrats.

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

Party unity

99.1%

Arizona House average 93.3% · ranks 1st of 60 · 26 votes against the majority of Arizona House Democrats

Attendance

80%

Arizona House average 93.0% · ranks 56th of 60 · 1,672 roll calls

Out of committee

0%

Arizona House average 34% · ranks 53rd of 56

CSIP ideology

−1.02

More liberal than 91% of State House Democrats · ± 0.04

From Arizona, 2026

60%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 1759th of 1,983 State House Democrats

Itemized, 2026

$83.0K

State House Democrats’ median $40.4K · ranks 633rd of 2,082

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

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What Santos says

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

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Ideology

Santos sits at −1.02 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more liberal than 91% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −1.06 to −0.98, which understates the uncertainty; from 1,851 donors and 522 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”.

−1.02

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −1.06 to −0.98. From 1,851 donors and 522 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Santos −1.0State House Democrats −0.6Arizona House +0.2All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Santos, 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 Santos’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 Santos 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 −0.6Santos −1.0Arizona Housemedian +0.2All State Housemedian +0.1
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Santos's CSIP score of −1.02 placed against State House Democrats, Arizona House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Santos
State House Democrats2392−0.69%
Arizona House60+0.210%
All State House5324+0.14%
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 Santos 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 Santos.

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Money

Santos reported $83.0K in the 2026 cycle, 2.1 times the State House Democrats’ median of $40.4K. State filings report no small-donation total. 60% of itemized individual money came from Arizona.

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
$83.0K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 1,125 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): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)Individuals (itemized): $48.4K (58.3%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)PACs and other committees: $34.6K (41.7%)
  • Individuals (itemized)58 squares$48.4K
  • PACs and other committees42 squares$34.6K
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Sources of Santos's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$48.4K58.3%
PACs and other committees$34.6K41.7%
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, 2022 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Democrats’ median for 2026.

2022 cycle: $5,965$5,96520222024 cycle: $101.2K$101.2K20242026 cycle: $83.0K$83.0K2026State House Democrats median $40.4K
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Santos's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Democrats median.
ItemValue
2022 cycle$5,965
2024 cycle$101.2K
2026 cycle$83.0K

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 60% came from Arizona.

  1. Arizona$28.9K
  2. New York$6,459
  3. California$3,464
  4. New Mexico$2,600
  5. Florida$1,270

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: $35AKMaine: $12MEVermont: $79VTNew Hampshire: $60NHWashington: $704WAIdaho: $36IDMontana: $55MTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: $101MNIllinois: $291ILWisconsin: $208WIMichigan: $123MINew York: $6,459NYRhode Island: $15RIMassachusetts: $200MAOregon: $183ORNevada: $41NVWyoming: $1WYSouth Dakota: $20SDIowa: $110IAIndiana: $150INOhio: $265OHPennsylvania: $278PANew Jersey: $798NJConnecticut: $245CTCalifornia: $3,464CAUtah: $136UTColorado: $123CONebraska: $38NEMissouri: $70MOKentucky: $61KYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: $264VAMaryland: $165MDDelaware: $22DEArizona: $28.9KAZNew Mexico: $2,600NMKansas: $35KSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: $25TNNorth Carolina: $176NCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: $2DCOklahoma: $65OKLouisiana: $25LAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: $20ALGeorgia: $129GAHawaii: $143HITexas: $242TXFlorida: $1,270FL
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Santos's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Arizona$28.9K
New York$6,459
California$3,464
New Mexico$2,600
Florida$1,270
New Jersey$798
Washington$704
Illinois$291
Pennsylvania$278
Ohio$265
Virginia$264
Connecticut$245
Texas$242
Wisconsin$208
Massachusetts$200
Oregon$183
North Carolina$176
Maryland$165
Indiana$150
Hawaii$143
Utah$136
Georgia$129
Michigan$123
Colorado$123
Iowa$110
Minnesota$101
Vermont$79
Missouri$70
Oklahoma$65
Kentucky$61
New Hampshire$60
Montana$55
Nevada$41
Nebraska$38
Idaho$36
Alaska$35
Kansas$35
Tennessee$25
Louisiana$25
Delaware$22
South Dakota$20
Alabama$20
Rhode Island$15
Maine$12
District of Columbia$2
Wyoming$1
North DakotaNo data
West VirginiaNo data
ArkansasNo data
South CarolinaNo data
MississippiNo data
1,125

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

60%

from Arizona

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

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. NOT EMPLOYED$24.0K 833 donors
  2. ATTORNEY$3,032 16 donors
  3. LAWYER$1,060 3 donors
  4. RETIRED$739 34 donors
  5. CONSULTANT$405 5 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. ARIZONA PIPE TRADES 469$5,500
  2. JANE FONDA CLIMATE PAC$5,000
  3. UNITED FOOD & COMMERCIAL WORKERS UNION LOCAL 99$5,000
  4. ELEVANCE HEALTH, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ELEVANCE HEALTH PAC)$3,500
  5. AEA FUND FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION (FORMERLY) AZ PAC (AZ EDUCATION ASSN PAC)$1,000

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. ME$230 3 donors
  2. UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$131 4 donors
  3. STATE OF ARIZONA$130 3 donors

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

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Votes

Santos voted with the majority of Arizona House Democrats on 99.1% of party-line votes and missed 20% of 1,672 roll calls. Arizona House on average: 93.3% party unity, 93.0% attendance. Across all roll calls, Santos voted against the majority of Arizona House Democrats 26 times.

1,672 roll calls Santos could vote on in the AZ 2025–26 session, compared with Arizona 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 Santos voted with the majority of Arizona House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

26

votes against the majority of Arizona House Democrats

Party unity 99.1%, Arizona House average 93.3%, ranks 1st of 60. 1,672 roll calls in the AZ 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Santos, the thin grey bar the Arizona House average. The scale runs from 70% to 100% to show the gap.

70%100%
Santos
Peers
Rank
Attendance
80%
93.0%
56th of 60
Party unity
99.1%
93.3%
1st of 60
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Santos's attendance and party unity against Arizona House.
RowSantosPeers
Attendance80%93.0%
Party unity99.1%93.3%
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 AZ 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Jun 13, 2026
HCR 2040
minimum wage; exception; homeless
Passed
NayWith majoritypassD 0–22 · R 31–0Democrats 0 yea, 22 nay; Republicans 31 yea, 0 naymuch discussed
Jun 13, 2026
HB 2397
homeowners' associations; property covenants; disclosures
Passed
YeaWith majoritypassD 17–5 · R 30–0Democrats 17 yea, 5 nay; Republicans 30 yea, 0 naybecame law · party crossover
Jun 13, 2026
HB 2321
DCS; credit freeze; consumer reporting
Passed
NayWith majoritypassD 2–20 · R 31–0Democrats 2 yea, 20 nay; Republicans 31 yea, 0 naybecame law
Jun 13, 2026
HB 2398
watercraft; insurance requirements; penalties
failed to pass
NayWith majorityfailD 2–20 · R 19–12Democrats 2 yea, 20 nay; Republicans 19 yea, 12 nayparty crossover
Jun 13, 2026
HB 2406
department of veterans' services; study
Passed
NayWith majoritypassD 5–17 · R 31–0Democrats 5 yea, 17 nay; Republicans 31 yea, 0 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 Santos most often

  1. Lorena AustinD1,334 shared votes96%
  2. Stephanie Stahl HamiltonD1,264 shared votes96%
  3. Chris MathisD1,303 shared votes96%
  4. Stephanie SimacekD1,109 shared votes96%
  5. Nancy GutierrezD1,110 shared votes96%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Santos least often

  1. Joseph ChaplikR746 shared votes35%
  2. Rachel KeshelR1,241 shared votes36%
  3. Michael WayR1,273 shared votes36%
  4. Justin OlsonR1,333 shared votes37%
  5. Alex KolodinR1,323 shared votes37%
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

AZ 2025–26 session, loads in batches

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Legislation

Santos sponsored 28 bills in the AZ 2025–26 session; none became law. Cosponsored 177 others. 0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Arizona House average 34%; 53rd of 56).

The bills Santos sponsored and cosponsored in the AZ 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 AZ 2025–26 session

Sponsored28 billsSponsored, Introduced: 2828Sponsored, In committee: 00Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 00Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Sponsored, Became law: 00Cosponsored177 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 177177Cosponsored, In committee: 1010Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 66Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 22Cosponsored, Became law: 00IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Santos sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored280000
Cosponsored17710620
How to read the blocks

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

0%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Arizona House average 34%. Ranks 53rd of 56.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Nancy Gutierrez125
  2. Betty Villegas118
  3. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton114
  4. Brian Garcia107
  5. Sarah Liguori96
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 Santos’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
HB 2531income tax; subtractions; standard deductionSponsorJun 13, 2026IntroducedTaxation(model)House First Reading. Jun 13, 2026
HCR 2028permanent funds; land trust; distributions.CosponsorJun 13, 2026IntroducedEconomics and Public Finance(model)House First Reading. Jun 13, 2026
HB 4132ESAs; expenditures; enrollment; limitations.CosponsorJun 13, 2026IntroducedEducation(model)House First Reading. Jun 13, 2026
HCR 2063Yvonne Fedderson; death resolutionCosponsorJun 13, 2026IntroducedUnassignedHouse First Reading. Jun 13, 2026
HCR 2062same-sex marriage; constitutional right.CosponsorJun 13, 2026IntroducedCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues(model)House First Reading. Jun 13, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

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

The lab crawls Santos’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 Santos 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 Santos posted

No images from Santos’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

114 turns, Mar 15, 2023 to Jun 11, 2026

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 Santos is most unusual among Arizona 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

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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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