# Joe Nicola

Joe Nicola is a Republican member of the Missouri Senate for district 11.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Missouri Senate, district 11
- Serving since: 2025-01-08
- Current term: MO 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/a93088fa-ad80-49de-aa94-d03da0add0bc

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a93088fa-ad80-49de-aa94-d03da0add0bc (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

Nicola has 421 classified statements in the MO 2025–26 session.

## What Nicola says (MO 2025–26 session)

421 classified statements: 421 posts on X. Each rate is the share of statements with the label, against the State Senate Republicans average; rank 1 is the highest rate.

| Label | Nicola | State Senate Republicans average | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal attacks | 1.9% | 2.3% | 124 of 354 |
| Policy criticism | 6.4% | 9.5% | 180 of 354 |
| Policy discussion | 35.4% | 37.3% | 191 of 354 |
| Bipartisanship | 0.7% | 2.3% | 227 of 354 |
| Credit claiming | 8.8% | 15.4% | 223 of 354 |
| Extreme labels | 0.5% | 1.3% | 141 of 354 |

Most discussed policy areas: Government Operations and Politics 27% (State Senate Republicans 17%); Taxation 24% (State Senate Republicans 7.1%); Law 21% (State Senate Republicans 3.7%); Economics and Public Finance 10% (State Senate Republicans 12%); Health 9.4% (State Senate Republicans 9.1%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.40 (standard error 0.04), from 297 donors and 0 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 57% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (MO 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 66 bills: 64 reached committee, 5 passed one chamber, 1 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 3. 7.6% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Missouri Senate 11.0%; rank 16 of 33).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SB 1643: Modifies the conditions under which a child support order shall terminate (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/SB1643/
- SB 1619: Modifies provisions relating to leaves of absence for public employees and members of the National Guard and Armed Forces Reserves (in committee, 2026-03-24) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/SB1619/
- SB 1534: Modifies provisions relating to the exclusion of certain transactions from sales tax (passed one chamber, 2026-05-15) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/SB1534/
- SB 1255: Modifies provisions relating to licensing for mobile food units (in committee, 2026-03-30) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/SB1255/
- SB 1351: Creates and modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education and establishes the "Student Screen-Time Standards Act", "Framework on… (passed one chamber, 2026-05-14) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/SB1351/
- SB 1474: Creates provisions relating to artificial intelligence (in committee, 2026-02-05) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/SB1474/
- SB 920: Creates new provisions relating to the acquisition of real property by certain business entities (in committee, 2026-03-24) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/SB920/
- SB 1256: Modifies provisions relating to the Uniform Commercial Code (in committee, 2026-01-27) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/SB1256/
- SJR 113: Modifies provisions relating to property tax assessments (in committee, 2026-02-05) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/SJR113/
- SB 1295: Establishes filing fees for certain initiative petitions (in committee, 2026-01-27) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/SB1295/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $71.7K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 91% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Recent statements

Newest first. Posts on X are listed by date and link only.

- 2026-10-25 · Post on X · https://x.com/JoeNicola/status/2114293219521712509
- 2026-10-25 · Post on X · https://x.com/JoeNicola/status/2114293547260109079
- 2026-10-22 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/JoeNicola/status/2113220369217982603
- 2026-10-22 · Post on X · https://x.com/JoeNicola/status/2113221386856546391
- 2026-10-22 · Post on X · https://x.com/JoeNicola/status/2113221395790573825
- 2026-10-22 · Post on X · https://x.com/JoeNicola/status/2113239136727650810
- 2026-10-21 · Post on X · https://x.com/JoeNicola/status/2112860367781028314
- 2026-10-19 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion, credit claiming · https://x.com/JoeNicola/status/2112278149228577188
- 2026-10-17 · Post on X · https://x.com/JoeNicola/status/2111579967192785359
- 2026-10-16 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/JoeNicola/status/2111178236197748849

## Links

- Official site: https://www.senate.mo.gov/Senators/Member/11
- Campaign site: https://nicolaformo.com/
- X: https://x.com/JoeNicola
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NicolaForMo/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joernicola/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nicolaformo
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-nicola-b2a6017a/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a93088fa-ad80-49de-aa94-d03da0add0bc