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Democrat · Arizona House, district 6

Serving since Jan 9, 2023AZ 2025–26 session

Portrait of Mae Peshlakai, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
23%
of roll calls missed, attendance in the bottom 5% of the Arizona House

Attendance 77%; the average within the Arizona House is 93.0%. Ranks 58th of 60, where 1st has the highest attendance. 1,672 roll calls in the AZ 2025–26 session.

Attendance is the share of the roll calls Peshlakai could vote on where a yea, nay or present was recorded, ranked within the Arizona House. A missed vote has many causes, from illness to campaigning; the number says how often, not why.

At a glance

6 measures against the Arizona House. Peshlakai reported $2,816 in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom tenth of State House Democrats (median $40.4K). 61% of Peshlakai’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Arizona, in the bottom quarter of State House Democrats.

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

Attendance

77%

Arizona House average 93.0% · ranks 58th of 60 · 1,672 roll calls

Itemized, 2026

$2,816

State House Democrats’ median $40.4K · ranks 1889th of 2,082

From Arizona, 2026

61%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 1745th of 1,983 State House Democrats

Out of committee

5.0%

Arizona House average 34% · ranks 42nd of 56

Party unity

96.6%

Arizona House average 93.3% · ranks 17th of 60 · 85 votes against the majority of Arizona House Democrats

CSIP ideology

−0.77

More liberal than 71% of State House Democrats · ± 0.06

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

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What Peshlakai says

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

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Ideology

Peshlakai sits at −0.77 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more liberal than 71% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.82 to −0.71, which understates the uncertainty; from 242 donors and 526 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”.

−0.77

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −0.82 to −0.71. From 242 donors and 526 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Peshlakai −0.8State House Democrats −0.6Arizona House +0.2All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Peshlakai, 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 Peshlakai’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 Peshlakai sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Democratsmedian −0.6Peshlakai −0.8Arizona Housemedian +0.2All State Housemedian +0.1
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Peshlakai's CSIP score of −0.77 placed against State House Democrats, Arizona House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Peshlakai
State House Democrats2392−0.629%
Arizona House60+0.220%
All State House5324+0.113%
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 Peshlakai 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 Peshlakai.

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Money

Peshlakai reported $2,816 in the 2026 cycle, 7.0% of the State House Democrats’ median of $40.4K. State filings report no small-donation total. 61% of itemized individual money came from Arizona.

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
$2,816

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 237 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.

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  • Individuals (itemized)100 squares$2,816
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Sources of Peshlakai's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$2,816100.0%
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, 2022 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Democrats’ median for 2026.

2022 cycle: $6,925$6,92520222024 cycle: $1,000$1,00020242026 cycle: $2,816$2,8162026State House Democrats median $40.4K
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Peshlakai's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Democrats median.
ItemValue
2022 cycle$6,925
2024 cycle$1,000
2026 cycle$2,816

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 61% came from Arizona.

  1. Arizona$1,731
  2. Utah$50
  3. New Mexico$20

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: $50UTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: no dataKYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: $1,731AZNew Mexico: $20NMKansas: 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: no dataFL
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Peshlakai's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Arizona$1,731
Utah$50
New Mexico$20
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
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
KentuckyNo data
West VirginiaNo data
VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo 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
FloridaNo data
237

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

61%

from Arizona

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

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. RETIRED$560 4 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

No committee contributions this cycle.

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

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Votes

Peshlakai voted with the majority of Arizona House Democrats on 96.6% of party-line votes and missed 23% of 1,672 roll calls. Arizona House on average: 93.3% party unity, 93.0% attendance. Across all roll calls, Peshlakai voted against the majority of Arizona House Democrats 85 times.

1,672 roll calls Peshlakai could vote on in the AZ 2025–26 session, compared with Arizona 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 Peshlakai voted with the majority of Arizona House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

85

votes against the majority of Arizona House Democrats

Party unity 96.6%, Arizona House average 93.3%, ranks 17th of 60. 1,672 roll calls in the AZ 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Peshlakai, the thin grey bar the Arizona House average. The scale runs from 70% to 100% to show the gap.

70%100%
Peshlakai
Peers
Rank
Attendance
77%
93.0%
58th of 60
Party unity
96.6%
93.3%
17th of 60
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Peshlakai's attendance and party unity against Arizona House.
RowPeshlakaiPeers
Attendance77%93.0%
Party unity96.6%93.3%
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 AZ 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Jun 13, 2026
HCR 2040
minimum wage; exception; homeless
Passed
Did not vote—passD 0–22 · R 31–0Democrats 0 yea, 22 nay; Republicans 31 yea, 0 naymuch discussed
Jun 13, 2026
HB 2397
homeowners' associations; property covenants; disclosures
Passed
Did not vote—passD 17–5 · R 30–0Democrats 17 yea, 5 nay; Republicans 30 yea, 0 naybecame law · party crossover
Jun 13, 2026
HB 2321
DCS; credit freeze; consumer reporting
Passed
Did not vote—passD 2–20 · R 31–0Democrats 2 yea, 20 nay; Republicans 31 yea, 0 naybecame law
Jun 13, 2026
HB 2398
watercraft; insurance requirements; penalties
failed to pass
Did not vote—failD 2–20 · R 19–12Democrats 2 yea, 20 nay; Republicans 19 yea, 12 nayparty crossover
Jun 13, 2026
HB 2406
department of veterans' services; study
Passed
Did not vote—passD 5–17 · R 31–0Democrats 5 yea, 17 nay; Republicans 31 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 Peshlakai most often

  1. Stephanie SimacekD1,149 shared votes93%
  2. Stephanie Stahl HamiltonD1,227 shared votes93%
  3. Nancy GutierrezD1,099 shared votes93%
  4. Oscar De Los SantosD1,152 shared votes93%
  5. Chris MathisD1,251 shared votes93%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Peshlakai least often

  1. Joseph ChaplikR666 shared votes33%
  2. Michael WayR1,215 shared votes34%
  3. Rachel KeshelR1,191 shared votes34%
  4. Justin OlsonR1,282 shared votes34%
  5. Alex KolodinR1,273 shared votes35%
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

AZ 2025–26 session, loads in batches

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Legislation

Peshlakai sponsored 20 bills in the AZ 2025–26 session; none became law. Cosponsored 157 others. 5.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Arizona House average 34%; 42nd of 56).

The bills Peshlakai sponsored and cosponsored in the AZ 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 AZ 2025–26 session

Sponsored20 billsSponsored, Introduced: 2020Sponsored, In committee: 11Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 11Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 11Sponsored, Became law: 00Cosponsored157 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 157157Cosponsored, In committee: 1010Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 99Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 44Cosponsored, Became law: 33IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Peshlakai sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored201110
Cosponsored15710943
How to read the blocks

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

5.0%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Arizona House average 34%. Ranks 42nd of 56.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Betty Villegas124
  2. Lorena Austin114
  3. Sarah Liguori113
  4. Cesar Aguilar111
  5. Stephanie Simacek111
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 Peshlakai’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
HCR 2028permanent funds; land trust; distributions.CosponsorJun 13, 2026IntroducedEconomics and Public Finance(model)House First Reading. Jun 13, 2026
HCR 2029marijuana; unincorporated areas; reservations; prohibitionSponsorJun 13, 2026IntroducedCrime and Law Enforcement(model)House First Reading. Jun 13, 2026
HCR 2063Yvonne Fedderson; death resolutionCosponsorJun 13, 2026IntroducedUnassignedHouse First Reading. Jun 13, 2026
HCR 2065Alfredo Gutierrez death resolutionCosponsorApr 29, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedTransmit to Senate Apr 30, 2026
HR 2006Yvonne Fedderson; death resolutionCosponsorFeb 18, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedTransmit to Secretary of State Feb 18, 2026

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Online

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

The lab crawls Peshlakai’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 Peshlakai 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 Peshlakai posted

No images from Peshlakai’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

20 turns, Apr 25, 2023 to Jun 2, 2026

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 Peshlakai is most unusual among Arizona House, 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
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Open States
ocd-person/bcc217f5-fe08-4213-b8a5-78d1e4d64184

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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