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Republican · South Dakota House, district 32

Serving since Jan 10, 2023SD 2025–26 session

Portrait of Steve Duffy, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
$59.4K
in itemized contributions in the 2024 cycle, in the top tenth of State House Republicans

The median for State House Republicans is $10.7K. Ranks 19th of 240, where 1st raised the most. 70 itemized donors.

Itemized contributions reported to the state in the 2024 cycle, ranked among State House Republicans. State filings leave small gifts out, and totals depend on whether the seat is up this cycle.

At a glance

6 measures against State House Republicans. Duffy voted against the majority of South Dakota House Republicans 94 times; party unity 54%, in the bottom quarter of the South Dakota House (average 76%). Duffy sits at +0.25 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 68% of State House Republicans.

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

Itemized, 2024

$59.4K

State House Republicans’ median $10.7K · ranks 19th of 240

Party unity

54%

South Dakota House average 76% · ranks 54th of 69 · 94 votes against the majority of South Dakota House Republicans

CSIP ideology

+0.25

More liberal than 68% of State House Republicans · ± 0.03

Attendance

97.4%

South Dakota House average 96.6% · ranks 49th of 70 · 638 roll calls

From South Dakota, 2024

87%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 149th of 214 State House Republicans

Out of committee

86%

South Dakota House average 81% · ranks 28th of 69

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

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What Duffy says

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

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Ideology

Duffy sits at +0.25 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 68% of State House Republicans. Approximate range +0.21 to +0.28, which understates the uncertainty; from 108 donors and 587 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”.

+0.25

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.21 to +0.28. From 108 donors and 587 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Duffy +0.2State House Republicans +0.4South Dakota House +0.1All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Duffy, 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 Duffy’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 Duffy sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Republicansmedian +0.4Duffy +0.2South Dakota Housemedian +0.1All State Housemedian +0.1
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Duffy's CSIP score of +0.25 placed against State House Republicans, South Dakota House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Duffy
State House Republicans2917+0.432%
South Dakota House70+0.169%
All State House5324+0.162%
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 Duffy 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 Duffy.

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Money

Duffy reported $59.4K in the 2024 cycle, 5.6 times the State House Republicans’ median of $10.7K. State filings report no small-donation total. 87% of itemized individual money came from South Dakota.

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
$59.4K

itemized in the 2024 cycle

From 70 itemized donors. State House Republicans’ median $10.7K.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2024 cycle.

Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)Individuals (itemized): $23.6K (39.7%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)PACs and other committees: $35.8K (60.3%)
  • Individuals (itemized)40 squares$23.6K
  • PACs and other committees60 squares$35.8K
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Sources of Duffy's money, 2024 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$23.6K39.7%
PACs and other committees$35.8K60.3%
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 2024. The grey line is the State House Republicans’ median for 2024.

2022 cycle: $45.8K$45.8K20222024 cycle: $59.4K$59.4K2024State House Republicans median $10.7K
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Duffy's receipts by cycle against the 2024 State House Republicans median.
ItemValue
2022 cycle$45.8K
2024 cycle$59.4K

Top donor states, 2024

Itemized contributions by donor state. 87% came from South Dakota.

  1. South Dakota$20.5K
  2. California$2,000
  3. Wyoming$500
  4. Colorado$200
  5. Alaska$200

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: $200AKMaine: 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: $500WYSouth Dakota: $20.5KSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: no dataINOhio: no dataOHPennsylvania: no dataPANew Jersey: no dataNJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: $2,000CAUtah: no dataUTColorado: $200CONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: $100MOKentucky: 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: no dataTXFlorida: $100FL
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Duffy's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2024 cycle
StateValue
South Dakota$20.5K
California$2,000
Wyoming$500
Alaska$200
Colorado$200
Missouri$100
Florida$100
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
IowaNo data
IndianaNo data
OhioNo data
PennsylvaniaNo data
New JerseyNo data
ConnecticutNo data
UtahNo 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
TexasNo data
70

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

87%

from South Dakota

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

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2024 cycle.

No occupations reported.

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2024 cycle.

  1. MORT PAC$4,000
  2. SOUTH DAKOTA REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$3,000
  3. HOUSE GOP PAC$2,750
  4. BUSINESS, INNOVATION, AND GROWTH POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$2,500
  5. SD AG LEADERS PAC$2,000

Top employers

Itemized, 2024 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

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Votes

Duffy voted with the majority of South Dakota House Republicans on 54% of party-line votes and missed 2.5% of 638 roll calls. South Dakota House on average: 76% party unity, 96.6% attendance. Across all roll calls, Duffy voted against the majority of South Dakota House Republicans 94 times.

638 roll calls Duffy could vote on in the SD 2025–26 session, compared with South Dakota 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 Duffy voted with the majority of South Dakota House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

94

votes against the majority of South Dakota House Republicans

Party unity 54%, South Dakota House average 76%, ranks 54th of 69. 638 roll calls in the SD 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Duffy, the thin grey bar the South Dakota House average. The scale runs from 50% to 100% to show the gap.

50%100%
Duffy
Peers
Rank
Attendance
97.4%
96.6%
49th of 70
Party unity
54%
76%
54th of 69
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Duffy's attendance and party unity against South Dakota House.
RowDuffyPeers
Attendance97.4%96.6%
Party unity54%76%
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 SD 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Mar 12, 2026
SB 78
revise the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2026.
Do Pass Amended
YeaWith majoritypassD 5–0 · R 46–15 · O 1–0Democrats 5 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 46 yea, 15 nay; Others 1 yea, 0 naybecame law · party crossover
Mar 12, 2026
HB 1051
revise property tax levies for school districts and to revise the state aid to general and special education formulas.
Do Pass Amended
YeaWith majoritypassD 5–0 · R 60–1 · O 1–0Democrats 5 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 60 yea, 1 nay; Others 1 yea, 0 naybecame law
Mar 12, 2026
HB 1326
appropriate money for the ordinary expenses of the legislative, judicial, and executive departments of the state, the current expenses of state institutions, interest on the public debt, and common schools.
Do Pass
YeaWith majoritypassD 5–0 · R 44–17 · O 1–0Democrats 5 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 44 yea, 17 nay; Others 1 yea, 0 naybecame law · party crossover
Mar 9, 2026
SB 219
require that a state agency consult with the Aeronautics Commission prior to purchasing, transferring, or disposing of a state owned and operated aircraft.
Do Pass Amended
YeaWith majoritypassD 5–0 · R 61–2 · O 1–0Democrats 5 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 61 yea, 2 nay; Others 1 yea, 0 naybecame law
Mar 9, 2026
SB 245
create the homeowner property tax reduction fund, and to transfer moneys to the homeowner property tax reduction fund.
Do Pass Amended
NayAgainst majoritypassD 1–4 · R 40–23 · O 1–0Democrats 1 yea, 4 nay; Republicans 40 yea, 23 nay; Others 1 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 Duffy most often

  1. Nick FosnessR307 shared votes96%
  2. Amber ArlintR617 shared votes95%
  3. Tim CzmowskiR433 shared votes95%
  4. Mike WeisgramR612 shared votes95%
  5. Kevin Van DiepenR617 shared votes94%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Duffy least often

  1. Tina MulallyR550 shared votes46%
  2. Phil JensenR618 shared votes49%
  3. Dylan JordanR614 shared votes50%
  4. Tony RandolphR590 shared votes51%
  5. Aaron AylwardR572 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

SD 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Duffy sponsored 28 bills in the SD 2025–26 session; 15 became law. Cosponsored 0 others. 86% of sponsored bills got out of committee (South Dakota House average 81%; 28th of 69).

The bills Duffy sponsored and cosponsored in the SD 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 SD 2025–26 session

Sponsored28 billsSponsored, Introduced: 2828Sponsored, In committee: 2626Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 2020Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 1919Sponsored, Became law: 1515Cosponsored0 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 00Cosponsored, In committee: 00Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 00Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Cosponsored, Became law: 00IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Duffy sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored2826201915
Cosponsored00000
How to read the blocks

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

86%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

South Dakota House average 81%. Ranks 28th of 69.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Eric Emery15
  2. Carl Perry11
  3. Erik Muckey11
  4. Tim Goodwin11
  5. Helene Duhamel10
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 Duffy’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
SB 231create the water infrastructure development fund, to provide an appropriation, to provide for the awarding of grants and loans from the fund for certain rural water projects and to declare an emergency.SponsorFeb 4, 2026Became lawWater Resources Development(model)Signed by the Governor on 2026-03-30 S.J. 550 Mar 30, 2026
HB 1308reduce certain property taxes for owner-occupied property, and to increase the rates for certain gross receipts taxes and use taxes.SponsorFeb 4, 2026In committeeTaxation(model)House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 24, NAYS 42 H.J. 424 Feb 24, 2026
HB 1215authorize counties and municipalities to issue a license for a cigar bar.SponsorJan 29, 2026Became lawHealth(model)Signed by the Governor on 2026-03-30 H.J. 578 Mar 30, 2026
SB 197modify the administration of the South Dakota-Ireland trade fund.SponsorJan 29, 2026Became lawForeign Trade and International Finance(model)Signed by the Governor on 2026-03-10 S.J. 514 Mar 10, 2026
HB 1238protect financial institutions taking action to prevent the financial exploitation of consenting, senior, or vulnerable adults.SponsorJan 29, 2026Became lawFinance and Financial Sector(model)Signed by the Governor on 2026-03-12 H.J. 562 Mar 12, 2026

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Online

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

The lab crawls Duffy’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 Duffy 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 Duffy posted

No images from Duffy’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 Duffy is most unusual among State House Republicans, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.

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

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

Identifiers

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Bulk files with the same data for every official:

Freshness of this profile’s data

  • What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
  • Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
  • Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
  • Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
  • Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
  • WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
  • State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.

How the measures work

What politicians say
Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
Extreme labels
A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
Policy areas and agreement
Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology (CSIP)
Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
Campaign money
Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
Votes and key votes
Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
Peers and ranks
Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.

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