Policy criticism
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31
votes against the majority of California Senate Republicans
Party unity 96.9%, in the bottom quarter of the California Senate (average 98.7%). 3,673 roll calls in the CA 2025–26 session.
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 Grove voted with the majority of California Senate Republicans; it is ranked within the California Senate. The count covers every roll call where Grove voted opposite that majority.
At a glance
6 measures against the California Senate. Grove reported $10.0K in the 2024 cycle, in the bottom quarter of State Senate Republicans (median $28.3K). Grove missed 9.6% of 3,673 roll calls, attendance in the bottom quarter of the California Senate (average 93.8%).
The measures on which Grove sits furthest from the middle of the California Senate, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
Party unity
96.9%
California Senate average 98.7% · ranks 35th of 39 · 31 votes against the majority of California Senate Republicans
Itemized, 2024
$10.0K
State Senate Republicans’ median $28.3K · ranks 93rd of 112
Attendance
90.3%
California Senate average 93.8% · ranks 31st of 39 · 3,673 roll calls
Out of committee
81%
California Senate average 88% · ranks 31st of 39
Talk-to-bills agreement
0.50
State Senate Republicans average 0.52 · ranks 137th of 226
CSIP ideology
+0.42
More conservative than 58% of State Senate Republicans · ± 0.04
Peer group: California Senate. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Grove, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Grove is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Grove says
Grove stresses bipartisanship more than 93% of State Senate Republicans. Bipartisanship in 7.1% of 56 statements, against 2.3% for the average State Senate Republican; 23rd of 354.
An AI model reads each of Grove’s 56 statements in the CA 2025–26 session (56 posts on X) and marks the kinds of statement it contains: a personal attack, criticism of a policy, discussion of policy, bipartisanship, credit claiming, and extreme labels. A statement can carry several. Every rate is compared with the average for State Senate Republicans and ranked among them.
Kinds of statement
Share of statements carrying each label, the CA 2025–26 session
0%80%
Grove
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion41 statements
73%
37%
9th of 354
Credit claiming17 statements
30%
15%
48th of 354
Policy criticism16 statements
29%
9%
21st of 354
Bipartisanship4 statements
7%
2%
23rd of 354
Personal attacks3 statements
5%
2%
55th of 354
Show the data
| Row | Grove | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 73% | 37% |
| Credit claiming | 30% | 15% |
| Policy criticism | 29% | 9% |
| Bipartisanship | 7% | 2% |
| Personal attacks | 5% | 2% |
56
statements classified
56 posts on X.
Show the data
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 56 |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is Grove; the thin grey bar is the average State Senate Republicans. A longer thick bar means Grove does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Extreme labels
Grove used extreme labels in 5.4% of statements, 4.2 times the peer average. 3 statements, most often aimed at Sacramento; peers 1.3%.
- “extreme”2
- “radical”2
Who gets the labels
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
- Sacramento1
What an extreme label is
Calls a politician, a party or a policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who or what the label was aimed at. The lists show the five most used labels and targets; the toggle shows the rest.
Month by month
Share of statements per month, the CA 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 7 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Feb ’25 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Mar ’25 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Apr ’25 | 3 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| May ’25 | 17 | 5.9% | 23.5% | 64.7% | 17.6% | 29.4% | 11.8% |
| Jun ’25 | 3 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jul ’25 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Aug ’25 | 5 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Sep ’25 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Oct ’25 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Nov ’25 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Dec ’25 | 3 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jan ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Feb ’26 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Mar ’26 | 4 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Apr ’26 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| May ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jun ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jul ’26 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Aug ’26 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Sep ’26 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Oct ’26 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
How to read the strips
Each row is one kind of statement; each cell is a month, shaded against that row’s own peak (darker = closer to the peak), with the peak and the latest value written at the right. The top row counts statements. The strip covers every month of the CA 2025–26 session, the same span as the rates above, including months with no statements. A month with fewer than 10 statements is hatched, not shaded: one or two posts would swing its rate to 0% or 100%. 21 months are hatched here; 5 of them have no statements.
In Grove’s words
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Bipartisanship
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May 23, 2025 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; bipartisanship; credit claiming; Education · Source
Extreme label
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Mar 4, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy criticism; policy discussion; Energy; extreme label “radical” aimed at Sacramento · Source
Examples by category
Up to five recent statements in each category
Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.
Posts on X (state legislators)
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · target: Cesar ChavezSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · target: FunstonSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · policy criticism · policy discussion · Crime and Law Enforcement · target: Scott WeinerSource
All 56 statements
Newest first, the CA 2025–26 session
The full feed
Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 56 posts on X.
Policy
Crime and Law Enforcement is what Grove talks about most: 22% of policy statements, 1.9 times the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.50 on a 0–1 scale (State Senate Republicans average 0.52; 137th of 226).
Each policy statement is tagged by the AI model with one or more of 25 policy areas from the Congressional Research Service list, so the shares say what Grove talks about. The bills Grove sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
What Grove talks about
Share of policy statements by area, the CA 2025–26 session
0%35%
Grove
Peers
Crime and Law Enforcement9 statements
22%
12%
Energy9 statements
22%
6%
Transportation and Public Works7 statements
17%
6%
Education5 statements
12%
14%
Families5 statements
12%
4%
Show the data
| Row | Grove | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Crime and Law Enforcement | 22% | 12% |
| Energy | 22% | 6% |
| Transportation and Public Works | 17% | 6% |
| Education | 12% | 14% |
| Families | 12% | 4% |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is the share of Grove’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State Senate Republicans. A statement counts once in each of its areas, so shares can add to more than 100%. The five largest areas are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
Talks about · legislates on
Left: share of statements by policy area. Right: share of bills. Areas in order of their share of statements; both sides run from 0 to 35%. Grey ticks are the State Senate Republicans averages.
Show the data
| Area | Talks about | State Senate Republicans, talks about | Legislates on | State Senate Republicans, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crime and Law Enforcement | 22% | 12% | 20% | 10% |
| Energy | 22% | 6% | 3% | 3% |
| Transportation and Public Works | 17% | 6% | 3% | 6% |
| Education | 12% | 14% | 11% | 10% |
| Families | 12% | 4% | 5% | 2% |
0.50
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
State Senate Republicans average 0.52. Ranks 137th of 226.
What agreement means, and what it doesn’t
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Grove legislates on exactly the areas Grove talks about, in the same proportions; 0 means no overlap. It does not say whether the bills match the positions in the statements, only the subjects. Bills Grove sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology
Grove sits at +0.42 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 58% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.38 to +0.46, which understates the uncertainty; from 395 donors and 1,034 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”.
+0.42
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +0.38 to +0.46. From 395 donors and 1,034 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Grove, 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 Grove’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 Grove sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
State Senate Republicans1,083 · median +0.4
California Senate39 · median −0.7
All State Senate1,909 · median +0.1
Show the data
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Grove |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Senate Republicans | 1083 | +0.4 | 58% |
| California Senate | 39 | −0.7 | 90% |
| All State Senate | 1909 | +0.1 | 76% |
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 Grove 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 Grove.
Money
Grove reported $10.0K in the 2024 cycle, 35% of the State Senate Republicans’ median of $28.3K. State filings report no small-donation total.
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.
$10.0K
itemized in the 2024 cycle
From 0 itemized donors. State Senate Republicans’ median $28.3K.
Where the money came from
Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2024 cycle.
- PACs and other committees100 squares$10.0K
Show the data
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| PACs and other committees | $10.0K | 100.0% |
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 2024. The grey line is the State Senate Republicans’ median for 2024.
Show the data
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2020 cycle | $712.4K |
| 2022 cycle | $512.2K |
| 2024 cycle | $10.0K |
Top donor states, 2024
Itemized contributions by donor state.
No itemized donors with an address.
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
Show the data
| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Alaska | No data |
| Maine | No data |
| Vermont | No data |
| New Hampshire | No data |
| Washington | No data |
| Idaho | No data |
| Montana | No data |
| North Dakota | No data |
| Minnesota | No data |
| Illinois | No data |
| Wisconsin | No data |
| Michigan | No data |
| New York | No data |
| Rhode Island | No data |
| Massachusetts | No data |
| Oregon | No data |
| Nevada | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Iowa | No data |
| Indiana | No data |
| Ohio | No data |
| Pennsylvania | No data |
| New Jersey | No data |
| Connecticut | No data |
| California | No data |
| Utah | No data |
| Colorado | No data |
| Nebraska | No data |
| Missouri | No data |
| Kentucky | No data |
| West Virginia | No data |
| Virginia | No data |
| Maryland | No data |
| Delaware | No data |
| Arizona | No data |
| New Mexico | No data |
| Kansas | No data |
| Arkansas | No data |
| Tennessee | No data |
| North Carolina | No data |
| South Carolina | No data |
| District of Columbia | No data |
| Oklahoma | No data |
| Louisiana | No data |
| Mississippi | No data |
| Alabama | No data |
| Georgia | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
| Texas | No data |
| Florida | No data |
0
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
No itemized individual money.
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 California. 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.
- AERA ENERGY LLC EMPLOYEE PAC$2,500
- AT&T SERVICES INC. AND ITS AFFILIATES$2,000
- CALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$2,000
- DOCTORS' COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, THE AKA 'DOCPAC'$1,500
- CALIFORNIA PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION SMALL CONTRIBUTOR COMMITTEE$1,000
Top employers
Itemized, 2024 cycle.
No employers reported.
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
Grove voted with the majority of California Senate Republicans on 96.9% of party-line votes and missed 9.6% of 3,673 roll calls. California Senate on average: 98.7% party unity, 93.8% attendance. Across all roll calls, Grove voted against the majority of California Senate Republicans 31 times.
3,673 roll calls Grove could vote on in the CA 2025–26 session, compared with California Senate. 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 Grove voted with the majority of California Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
31
votes against the majority of California Senate Republicans
Party unity 96.9%, California Senate average 98.7%, ranks 35th of 39. 3,673 roll calls in the CA 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Grove, the thin grey bar the California Senate average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
80%100%
Grove
Peers
Rank
Attendance
90.3%
93.8%
31st of 39
Party unity
96.9%
98.7%
35th of 39
Show the data
| Row | Grove | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 90.3% | 93.8% |
| Party unity | 96.9% | 98.7% |
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 CA 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Nay | With majority | pass | D 29–0 · R 0–4Democrats 29 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 0 yea, 4 nay | became law | |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Nay | With majority | pass | D 22–5 · R 0–9Democrats 22 yea, 5 nay; Republicans 0 yea, 9 nay | party crossover | |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Yea | — | pass | D 25–1 · R 4–4Democrats 25 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 4 yea, 4 nay | became law | |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 30–0 · R 10–0Democrats 30 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 10 yea, 0 nay | became law | |
| Aug 31, 2026 | AB 2694 Public postsecondary education: community colleges: statewide baccalaureate degree program. 3rd Reading AB2694 Alvarez et al. By Cabaldon | Yea | With majority | pass | D 27–0 · R 6–1Democrats 27 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 6 yea, 1 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 Grove most often
- Steve ChoiR3,068 shared votes99%
- Kelly SeyartoR3,183 shared votes99%
- Suzette ValladaresR2,984 shared votes99%
- Tony StricklandR3,162 shared votes99%
- Brian JonesR3,047 shared votes99%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Grove least often
- Steve PadillaD3,101 shared votes75%
- Sasha PérezD3,173 shared votes75%
- Josh BeckerD3,168 shared votes76%
- Caroline MenjivarD3,209 shared votes76%
- Monique LimónD3,119 shared votes76%
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
CA 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Legislation
Grove sponsored 47 bills in the CA 2025–26 session; 20 became law. Cosponsored 86 others. 81% of sponsored bills got out of committee (California Senate average 88%; 31st of 39).
The bills Grove sponsored and cosponsored in the CA 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 CA 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 47 | 47 | 26 | 20 | 20 |
| Cosponsored | 86 | 86 | 64 | 45 | 41 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Grove sponsored, ochre blocks bills Grove cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
81%
of sponsored bills got out of committee
California Senate average 88%. Ranks 31st of 39.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Grove, by number of shared bills in the CA 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
- Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh47
- Suzette Valladares43
- Steve Choi42
- Marie Alvarado-Gil39
- Kelly Seyarto39
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 Grove’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| SR 138 | Relative to the Democratic Socialists of America. | Cosponsor | Aug 11, 2026 | In committee | Unassigned | Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. Aug 11, 2026 |
| SR 135 | Relative to 40th Infantry Division of the California National Guard. | Cosponsor | Aug 6, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Read. Adopted. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5352.) Aug 13, 2026 |
| SR 133 | Relative to National Tutor Appreciation Week. | Sponsor | Aug 5, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Read. Adopted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5594.) Aug 20, 2026 |
| SR 128 | Relative to California Neuroblastoma Awareness Day. | Cosponsor | Aug 3, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Read. Adopted. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5350.) Aug 13, 2026 |
| SR 129 | Relative to Women's Equality Day. | Cosponsor | Aug 3, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Read. Adopted. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5359.) Aug 13, 2026 |
Online
A site that has not changed in 90 days. Grove’s official site had 2 pages when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Grove’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 Grove posts with a vision model.
Websites
- 2
pages crawled
0changes in 90 days
- 1
pages crawled
0changes 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 Grove posted
No images from Grove’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
508 turns, Jan 27, 2020 to Sep 1, 2026
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 Grove is most unusual among California Senate, 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
- b4b8e8fb-831b-4cae-9081-b8f75477fcd0
- Open States
- ocd-person/b4b8e8fb-831b-4cae-9081-b8f75477fcd0
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