CSIP score −1.52 (approximate range −1.57 to −1.48, which understates the uncertainty); negative is left of the scale’s centre, positive right. From 1,325 donors and 195 roll calls.
CSIP places every official on one left–right scale estimated from roll-call votes, campaign donations and the text of statements; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of moderate. The share says where Phelps sits among State House Democrats, not how far from the centre.
At a glance
6 measures against State House Democrats. 7.5% of the 241 bills Phelps sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom tenth of the Wisconsin House. Phelps reported $88.0K in the 2026 cycle, in the top half of State House Democrats (median $40.4K).
The measures on which Phelps 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.
CSIP ideology
More liberal than 100% of State House Democrats · ± 0.04
Out of committee
Wisconsin House average 45% · ranks 91st of 99
Itemized, 2026
State House Democrats’ median $40.4K · ranks 601st of 2,082
From Wisconsin, 2026
Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 1299th of 1,983 State House Democrats
Attendance
Wisconsin House average 97.7% · ranks 59th of 98 · 245 roll calls
Party unity
Wisconsin House average 97.6% · ranks 55th of 98 · 38 votes against the majority of Wisconsin House Democrats
Peer group: State House Democrats. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Phelps, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Phelps is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Phelps says
No statements for the WI 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.
Policy
No policy statements for the WI 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.
Ideology
Phelps sits at −1.52 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more liberal than 100% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −1.57 to −1.48, which understates the uncertainty; from 1,325 donors and 195 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”.
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range −1.57 to −1.48. From 1,325 donors and 195 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Phelps, 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 Phelps’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 Phelps sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
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| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Phelps |
|---|---|---|---|
| State House Democrats | 2392 | −0.6 | 0% |
| Wisconsin House | 99 | +0.5 | 0% |
| All State House | 5324 | +0.1 | 0% |
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 Phelps 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 Phelps.
Money
Phelps reported $88.0K in the 2026 cycle, 2.2 times the State House Democrats’ median of $40.4K. State filings report no small-donation total. 87% of itemized individual money came from Wisconsin.
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.
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 764 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)82 squares$72.0K
- PACs and other committees8 squares$7,450
- Party committees10 squares$8,573
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| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $72.0K | 81.8% |
| PACs and other committees | $7,450 | 8.5% |
| Party committees | $8,573 | 9.7% |
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, 2024 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Democrats’ median for 2026.
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| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 cycle | $219.3K |
| 2026 cycle | $88.0K |
Top donor states, 2026
Itemized contributions by donor state. 87% came from Wisconsin.
- Wisconsin$63.0K
- California$2,188
- Illinois$1,767
- New York$1,186
- Colorado$1,084
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
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| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Wisconsin | $63.0K |
| California | $2,188 |
| Illinois | $1,767 |
| New York | $1,186 |
| Colorado | $1,084 |
| Minnesota | $678 |
| Florida | $580 |
| Massachusetts | $311 |
| Texas | $222 |
| Oregon | $152 |
| Arizona | $144 |
| District of Columbia | $133 |
| Washington | $78 |
| Kansas | $78 |
| Pennsylvania | $59 |
| Maryland | $53 |
| Connecticut | $40 |
| South Carolina | $39 |
| Ohio | $34 |
| Virginia | $33 |
| Louisiana | $24 |
| Michigan | $24 |
| North Carolina | $18 |
| Missouri | $18 |
| Hawaii | $16 |
| Idaho | $13 |
| Kentucky | $11 |
| Nevada | $10 |
| Iowa | $8 |
| New Hampshire | $6 |
| Indiana | $6 |
| Georgia | $3 |
| Nebraska | $3 |
| Alabama | $3 |
| Rhode Island | $3 |
| Tennessee | $1 |
| New Jersey | $1 |
| Alaska | No data |
| Maine | No data |
| Vermont | No data |
| Montana | No data |
| North Dakota | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Utah | No data |
| West Virginia | No data |
| Delaware | No data |
| New Mexico | No data |
| Arkansas | No data |
| Oklahoma | No data |
| Mississippi | No data |
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
from Wisconsin
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 Wisconsin. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Top donor occupations
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- NOT EMPLOYED$32.9K 324 donors
- RETIRED$5,855 35 donors
- UNEMPLOYED$3,403 44 donors
- TEACHER$2,199 38 donors
- PROFESSOR$2,147 18 donors
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
- EAU CLAIRE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY$6,427
- DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF WISCONSIN$1,146
- AFT WISCONSIN COPE$1,000
- DUNN COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY$1,000
- FRIENDS OF CHRIS LARSON$1,000
Top employers
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
No employers reported.
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
Phelps voted with the majority of Wisconsin House Democrats on 99.3% of party-line votes and missed 0.4% of 245 roll calls. Wisconsin House on average: 97.6% party unity, 97.7% attendance. Across all roll calls, Phelps voted against the majority of Wisconsin House Democrats 38 times.
245 roll calls Phelps could vote on in the WI 2025–26 session, compared with Wisconsin 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 Phelps voted with the majority of Wisconsin House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
votes against the majority of Wisconsin House Democrats
Party unity 99.3%, Wisconsin House average 97.6%, ranks 55th of 98. 245 roll calls in the WI 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Phelps, the thin grey bar the Wisconsin House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
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| Row | Phelps | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 99.5% | 97.7% |
| Party unity | 99.3% | 97.6% |
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 WI 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2026 | AB 1 Relating to: an income tax subtraction for qualified tips and for qualified overtime compensation; state aid for school districts; surplus refund payments; increasing funding for special education and school age parents programs; state aid to technical colleges and the technical college district rev PASSAGE | Nay | With majority | pass | D 10–32 · R 50–0Democrats 10 yea, 32 nay; Republicans 50 yea, 0 nay | party crossover · much discussed |
| Feb 19, 2026 | SB 181 Relating to: a levy limit exemption for regional emergency medical systems and eligibility for the expenditure restraint incentive program. (FE) CONCURRENCE | Yea | With majority | pass | D 40–0 · R 51–1Democrats 40 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 51 yea, 1 nay | became law |
| Feb 19, 2026 | AB 659 Relating to: tuition and fee remission or grants for certain veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System, a technical college, or a private nonprofit institution of higher education; and the University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption for certain vet PASSAGE | Yea | With majority | pass | D 40–2 · R 53–0Democrats 40 yea, 2 nay; Republicans 53 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| Feb 19, 2026 | AB 997 Relating to: funding for the Department of Financial Institutions for contributions to Trump accounts and making an appropriation. (FE) PASSAGE | Nay | With majority | pass | D 9–34 · R 52–1Democrats 9 yea, 34 nay; Republicans 52 yea, 1 nay | party crossover |
| Feb 19, 2026 | SB 439 Relating to: levy increase limit for the village of Oregon and the towns of Oregon and Rutland. (FE) CONCURRENCE | Yea | With majority | pass | D 42–0 · R 53–0Democrats 42 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 53 yea, 0 nay | became law |
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 Phelps most often
- Ryan ClancyD235 shared votes100%
- Darrin MadisonD244 shared votes99%
- Francesca HongD241 shared votes98%
- Angelito TenorioD240 shared votes95%
- Angelina CruzD234 shared votes94%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Phelps least often
- Brent JacobsonR239 shared votes21%
- Jim PiwowarczykR242 shared votes21%
- Calvin CallahanR241 shared votes22%
- Jessie RodriguezR240 shared votes22%
- Elijah BehnkeR244 shared votes22%
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
WI 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Legislation
Phelps sponsored 241 bills in the WI 2025–26 session; 1 became law. Cosponsored 0 others. 7.5% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Wisconsin House average 45%; 91st of 99).
The bills Phelps sponsored and cosponsored in the WI 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 WI 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 241 | 241 | 16 | 1 | 1 |
| Cosponsored | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Phelps sponsored, ochre blocks bills Phelps cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
of sponsored bills got out of committee
Wisconsin House average 45%. Ranks 91st of 99.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Phelps, by number of shared bills in the WI 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
- Ryan Clancy102
- Darrin Madison99
- Margaret Arney77
- Angelito Tenorio73
- Vinnie Miresse72
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 Phelps’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| AB 1232 | Relating to: a University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption. (FE) | Sponsor | Mar 19, 2026 | In committee | Education(model) | Fiscal estimate received Apr 17, 2026 |
| AB 1209 | Relating to: modifying the income and franchise tax rate structure for individuals and corporations, creating a school aid fund, supplemental school aid, school district revenue limits, and making an appropriation. (FE) | Sponsor | Mar 19, 2026 | In committee | Taxation(model) | Fiscal estimate received Apr 16, 2026 |
| AB 1221 | Relating to: creating the Wisconsin Public Food Administration Authority and making an appropriation. (FE) | Sponsor | Mar 19, 2026 | In committee | Agriculture and Food(model) | Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1 Mar 23, 2026 |
| AB 1203 | Relating to: net zero emissions, carbon-free and renewable energy standards, and creating an office of sustainability and clean energy, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) | Sponsor | Mar 19, 2026 | In committee | Energy(model) | Fiscal estimate received Apr 9, 2026 |
| AB 1197 | Relating to: the definition of tenant at will. | Sponsor | Mar 19, 2026 | In committee | Housing and Community Development(model) | Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1 Mar 23, 2026 |
Online
A site that changed 38 times in 90 days. Phelps’s campaign site had 29 pages when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Phelps’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 Phelps posts with a vision model.
Websites
- 29
pages crawled
38changes in 90 days
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.
Social accounts
Images Phelps posted
No images from Phelps’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.
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 Phelps 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
- ad79773d-d349-4adf-9e3c-00d2b38a90b2
- Open States
- ocd-person/ad79773d-d349-4adf-9e3c-00d2b38a90b2
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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