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Republican · Tennessee House, district 57

Serving since Nov 6, 2012TN 2025–26 session

Portrait of Susan Lynn, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
100%
of itemized money from Tennessee donors, in the top quarter of State House Republicans

100% of the itemized money from individuals in the 2026 cycle came from donors with an address in Tennessee. Ranks 392nd of 2,335, where 1st is the highest share. 3 itemized donors.

Only donors who give more than $200 are reported with an address, so this is the share of that itemized money from donors living in Tennessee, ranked among State House Republicans. Small gifts are not counted either way. Candidates running statewide or for federal office often draw more money from out of state.

At a glance

6 measures against State House Republicans. Lynn missed 1.2% of 3,920 roll calls, attendance in the bottom quarter of the Tennessee House (average 99.1%). 79% of the 39 bills Lynn sponsored got out of committee, in the top half of the Tennessee House.

The measures on which Lynn 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.

From Tennessee, 2026

100%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 392nd of 2,335 State House Republicans

Attendance

98.7%

Tennessee House average 99.1% · ranks 79th of 97 · 3,920 roll calls

Out of committee

79%

Tennessee House average 71% · ranks 37th of 97

CSIP ideology

+0.39

More conservative than 57% of State House Republicans · ± 0.05

Itemized, 2026

$26.8K

State House Republicans’ median $33.7K · ranks 1415th of 2,521

Party unity

98.2%

Tennessee House average 96.3% · ranks 49th of 97 · 22 votes against the majority of Tennessee House Republicans

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

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What Lynn says

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

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Lynn sits at +0.39 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 57% of State House Republicans. Approximate range +0.34 to +0.44, which understates the uncertainty; from 52 donors and 1,099 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”.

+0.39

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.34 to +0.44. From 52 donors and 1,099 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Lynn +0.4State House Republicans +0.4Tennessee House +0.4All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Lynn, 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 Lynn’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 Lynn 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 +0.4Lynn +0.4Tennessee Housemedian +0.4All State Housemedian +0.1
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Lynn's CSIP score of +0.39 placed against State House Republicans, Tennessee House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Lynn
State House Republicans2917+0.457%
Tennessee House97+0.460%
All State House5324+0.176%
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 Lynn 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 Lynn.

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Money

Lynn reported $26.8K in the 2026 cycle, below the State House Republicans’ median of $33.7K. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% of itemized individual money came from Tennessee.

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
$26.8K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 3 itemized donors. State House Republicans’ median $33.7K.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.

Individuals (itemized): $1,500 (5.6%)Individuals (itemized): $1,500 (5.6%)Individuals (itemized): $1,500 (5.6%)Individuals (itemized): $1,500 (5.6%)Individuals (itemized): $1,500 (5.6%)Individuals (itemized): $1,500 (5.6%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)PACs and other committees: $25.3K (94.4%)
  • Individuals (itemized)6 squares$1,500
  • PACs and other committees94 squares$25.3K
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Sources of Lynn's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$1,5005.6%
PACs and other committees$25.3K94.4%
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 2026. The grey line is the State House Republicans’ median for 2026.

2020 cycle: $119.9K$119.9K20202022 cycle: $24.8K$24.8K20222024 cycle: $41.0K$41.0K20242026 cycle: $26.8K$26.8K2026State House Republicans median $33.7K
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Lynn's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Republicans median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$119.9K
2022 cycle$24.8K
2024 cycle$41.0K
2026 cycle$26.8K

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 100% came from Tennessee.

  1. Tennessee$1,500

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: no dataAKMaine: 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: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: no dataINOhio: no dataOHPennsylvania: no dataPANew Jersey: no dataNJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: no dataCAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: no dataKYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: $1,500TNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Lynn's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Tennessee$1,500
AlaskaNo data
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
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
IndianaNo data
OhioNo data
PennsylvaniaNo data
New JerseyNo data
ConnecticutNo data
CaliforniaNo data
UtahNo data
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
KentuckyNo data
West VirginiaNo data
VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo 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
FloridaNo data
3

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

100%

from Tennessee

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

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No occupations reported.

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. TENNESSEE RPAC$2,250
  2. HCA TRISTAR FUND$2,000
  3. TENNESSEE MANUFACTURED HOUSING ASSN PAC$2,000
  4. JOHNSON POSS KIRBY GOVERNMENT RELATIONS$1,250
  5. ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS, INC. PAC$1,000

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Lynn voted with the majority of Tennessee House Republicans on 98.2% of party-line votes and missed 1.2% of 3,920 roll calls. Tennessee House on average: 96.3% party unity, 99.1% attendance. Across all roll calls, Lynn voted against the majority of Tennessee House Republicans 22 times.

3,920 roll calls Lynn could vote on in the TN 2025–26 session, compared with Tennessee 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 Lynn voted with the majority of Tennessee House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

22

votes against the majority of Tennessee House Republicans

Party unity 98.2%, Tennessee House average 96.3%, ranks 49th of 97. 3,920 roll calls in the TN 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Lynn, the thin grey bar the Tennessee House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Lynn
Peers
Rank
Attendance
98.7%
99.1%
79th of 97
Party unity
98.2%
96.3%
49th of 97
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Lynn's attendance and party unity against Tennessee House.
RowLynnPeers
Attendance98.7%99.1%
Party unity98.2%96.3%
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 TN 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
May 6, 2026
HJR 8
Memorials, Death - U.S. Senator James Ralph Sasser -
FLOOR VOTE: REFER TO COMMITTEE 5/6/2026 Passed
YeaWith majoritypassD 0–18 · R 66–1Democrats 0 yea, 18 nay; Republicans 66 yea, 1 naybecame law
Apr 21, 2026
SB 2537
Taxes - As enacted, provides that an application for an exemption from property taxation for property owned by a religious, charitable, scientific, or nonprofit educational organization that is filed within 180 days after the exempt use of the property began will be effective as of the date the exem
FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 4/21/2026 Passed
YeaWith majoritypassD 19–1 · R 71–0Democrats 19 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 71 yea, 0 naybecame law
Apr 21, 2026
HB 2514
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, deletes the offense of carrying a firearm or a club with the intent to go armed, prohibits the carrying of a firearm or weapon inside of a K-12 public or private school and on a school bus if the person's intent is to go armed and the school and the bus are p
FLOOR VOTE: MOTION TO RECALL 4/21/2026 Failed
YeaAgainst majorityfailD 4–14 · R 17–36Democrats 4 yea, 14 nay; Republicans 17 yea, 36 nayparty crossover · much discussed
Apr 21, 2026
SB 2085
Victims' Rights - As enacted, authorizes a court clerk to increase the victims assistance assessment from $45 to $125, with the first $15 of each assessment being paid to the court clerk for processing and handling and the remaining amount being transmitted to the county in which the offense occurre
FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR AS AMENDED PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 4/21/2026 Passed
YeaWith majoritypassD 13–4 · R 67–1Democrats 13 yea, 4 nay; Republicans 67 yea, 1 naybecame law · party crossover
Apr 21, 2026
HB 2177
Education - As enacted, makes various changes and additions to present law concerning public education. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49, Chapter 13; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3.
FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR AS AMENDED PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 4/21/2026 Passed
YeaWith majoritypassD 0–20 · R 62–9Democrats 0 yea, 20 nay; Republicans 62 yea, 9 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 Lynn most often

  1. Bill PowersR3,763 shared votes100%
  2. Brock MartinR3,589 shared votes99%
  3. Dave WrightR3,645 shared votes99%
  4. Charlie BaumR3,529 shared votes99%
  5. Rick EldridgeR3,817 shared votes99%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Lynn least often

  1. Justin PearsonD2,173 shared votes70%
  2. Gabby SalinasD3,069 shared votes77%
  3. Shaundelle BrooksD3,685 shared votes81%
  4. Justin JonesD3,272 shared votes81%
  5. Jack JohnsonR3,586 shared votes81%
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

TN 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Lynn sponsored 39 bills in the TN 2025–26 session; 22 became law. Cosponsored 0 others. 79% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Tennessee House average 71%; 37th of 97).

The bills Lynn sponsored and cosponsored in the TN 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 TN 2025–26 session

Sponsored39 billsSponsored, Introduced: 3939Sponsored, In committee: 3939Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 2525Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 2222Sponsored, Became law: 2222Cosponsored0 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 00Cosponsored, In committee: 00Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 00Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Cosponsored, Became law: 00IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Lynn sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored3939252222
Cosponsored00000
How to read the blocks

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

79%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Tennessee House average 71%. Ranks 37th of 97.

Cosponsorship partners

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

No cosponsorship ties in this window.

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 Lynn’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
HJR 1436Memorials, Sports - Mt. Juliet Christian Academy Cheer Team, 2026 GameTime Division 1A National Champions -SponsorApr 14, 2026Became lawUnassignedSigned by Governor. Apr 30, 2026
HJR 1249Memorials, Sports - Green Hill High School Hawks girls' basketball team, Region 4-4A champions -SponsorMar 30, 2026Became lawUnassignedSigned by Governor. Apr 16, 2026
HJR 1157Memorials, Recognition - Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, 225th anniversary -SponsorMar 18, 2026Became lawUnassignedSigned by Governor. Apr 9, 2026
HJR 1092Memorials, Death - Henry Shere Queener, Jr. -SponsorMar 10, 2026Became lawUnassignedSigned by Governor. Mar 31, 2026
HJR 1081Memorials, Recognition - Mt. Juliet Fire Department's Station 3 grand opening -SponsorMar 9, 2026Became lawUnassignedSigned by Governor. Mar 26, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

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

The lab crawls Lynn’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 Lynn 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 Lynn posted

No images from Lynn’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.

Back to topNext: Methods and sources

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 Lynn 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.

America’s Political Pulse · Polarization Research Lab

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