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Republican · North Dakota House, district 42

Serving since Dec 1, 2024ND 2025–26 session

Portrait of Doug Osowski, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
99%
of State House Republicans score to the right of Osowski on the CSIP scale

CSIP score −0.19 (approximate range −0.21 to −0.17, which understates the uncertainty); negative is left of the scale’s centre, positive right. From 10 donors and 298 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 Osowski sits among State House Republicans, not how far from the centre.

At a glance

5 measures against State House Republicans. Osowski reported $300 in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom 5% of State House Republicans (median $33.7K). 100% of Osowski’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from North Dakota, in the top quarter of State House Republicans.

The measures on which Osowski 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.

CSIP ideology

−0.19

More liberal than 99% of State House Republicans · ± 0.02

Itemized, 2026

$300

State House Republicans’ median $33.7K · ranks 2493rd of 2,521

From North Dakota, 2026

100%

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

Attendance

99.5%

North Dakota House average 96.7% · ranks 23rd of 88 · 1,171 roll calls

Party unity

79%

North Dakota House average 79% · ranks 50th of 88 · 285 votes against the majority of North Dakota House Republicans

Statements

No statements in this window

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

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What Osowski says

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

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Policy

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

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Ideology

Osowski sits at −0.19 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more liberal than 99% of State House Republicans. Approximate range −0.21 to −0.17, which understates the uncertainty; from 10 donors and 298 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”.

−0.19

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −0.21 to −0.17. From 10 donors and 298 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Osowski −0.2State House Republicans +0.4North Dakota House 0.0All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Osowski, 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 Osowski’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 Osowski 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 +0.4Osowski −0.2North Dakota Housemedian 0.0All State Housemedian +0.1
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Osowski's CSIP score of −0.19 placed against State House Republicans, North Dakota House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Osowski
State House Republicans2917+0.41%
North Dakota House910.09%
All State House5324+0.144%
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 Osowski 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 Osowski.

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Money

Osowski reported $300 in the 2026 cycle, 0.9% of the State House Republicans’ median of $33.7K. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% of itemized individual money came from North Dakota.

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
$300

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 1 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.

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  • Individuals (itemized)100 squares$300
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Sources of Osowski's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$300100.0%
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, 2024 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Republicans’ median for 2026.

2024 cycle: $17.8K$17.8K20242026 cycle: $300$3002026State House Republicans median $33.7K
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Osowski's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Republicans median.
ItemValue
2024 cycle$17.8K
2026 cycle$300

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 100% came from North Dakota.

  1. North Dakota$300

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: $300NDMinnesota: 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: 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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Osowski's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
North Dakota$300
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo 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
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
1

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

100%

from North Dakota

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 North Dakota. 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.

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

Osowski voted with the majority of North Dakota House Republicans on 79% of party-line votes and missed 0.4% of 1,171 roll calls. North Dakota House on average: 79% party unity, 96.7% attendance. Across all roll calls, Osowski voted against the majority of North Dakota House Republicans 285 times.

1,171 roll calls Osowski could vote on in the ND 2025–26 session, compared with North Dakota 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 Osowski voted with the majority of North Dakota House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

285

votes against the majority of North Dakota House Republicans

Party unity 79%, North Dakota House average 79%, ranks 50th of 88. 1,171 roll calls in the ND 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

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

70%100%
Osowski
Peers
Rank
Attendance
99.5%
96.7%
23rd of 88
Party unity
79%
79%
50th of 88
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Osowski's attendance and party unity against North Dakota House.
RowOsowskiPeers
Attendance99.5%96.7%
Party unity79%79%
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 ND 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Sep 4, 2026
HB 1628
AN ACT to create and enact a new subdivision to subsection 2 of section 12-60-24, subdivision lll of subsection 3 of section 19-03.1-05, and chapter 51-38 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to criminal history record checks, the scheduling of kratom alkaloid derivatives as a schedule I contr
Motion for Final Passage on HB 1628
YeaWith majoritypassD 10–1 · R 81–0Democrats 10 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 81 yea, 0 naybecame law
Sep 4, 2026
SB 2408
A BILL for an Act to create and enact subdivision lll of subsection 3 of section 19-03.1-05 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the scheduling of kratom alkaloids and kratom alkaloid derivatives as a schedule I controlled substance; to amend and reenact section 19-03.1-22.3 and subsection
Motion for Final Passage on SB 2408
NayWith majorityfailD 7–4 · R 39–42Democrats 7 yea, 4 nay; Republicans 39 yea, 42 nayclose vote · party crossover
Sep 4, 2026
SB 2407
AN ACT to provide an appropriation to the state historical society for the North Dakota military museum project; to amend and reenact section 55-01-02.1 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to jurisdiction of the heritage center; to repeal subsection 3 of section 6 of chapter 17 of the 2025 Se
Motion for Final Passage on SB 2407
NayAgainst majoritypassD 3–8 · R 68–13Democrats 3 yea, 8 nay; Republicans 68 yea, 13 naybecame law · party crossover
Sep 3, 2026
HB 1628
AN ACT to create and enact a new subdivision to subsection 2 of section 12-60-24, subdivision lll of subsection 3 of section 19-03.1-05, and chapter 51-38 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to criminal history record checks, the scheduling of kratom alkaloid derivatives as a schedule I contr
Motion for Final Passage on HB 1628
YeaWith majoritypassD 8–3 · R 78–2Democrats 8 yea, 3 nay; Republicans 78 yea, 2 naybecame law · party crossover
Jan 23, 2026
SB 2402
AN ACT to create and enact two new sections to chapter 43-15 and a new subsection to section 43-48-03 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the prescriptive authority of pharmacists and therapeutic substitution; to amend and reenact subsection 1 of section 26.1-36.11-01 and section 43-15-01
Motion for Final Passage on SB 2402
YeaWith majoritypassD 10–0 · R 81–1Democrats 10 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 81 yea, 1 naybecame 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 Osowski most often

  1. Matt HeilmanR1,161 shared votes87%
  2. Dennis NehringR1,165 shared votes84%
  3. Andrew MarschallR1,108 shared votes84%
  4. Nico RiosR1,116 shared votes84%
  5. Macy BolinskeR1,127 shared votes84%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Osowski least often

  1. Austin FossD1,151 shared votes66%
  2. Karla Rose HansonD1,165 shared votes66%
  3. Jayme DavisD977 shared votes66%
  4. LaurieBeth HagerD1,162 shared votes66%
  5. Zac IstaD1,129 shared votes67%
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

ND 2025–26 session, loads in batches

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Legislation

Osowski sponsored 3 bills in the ND 2025–26 session; 1 became law. Cosponsored 18 others.

The bills Osowski sponsored and cosponsored in the ND 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 ND 2025–26 session

Sponsored3 billsSponsored, Introduced: 33Sponsored, In committee: 33Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 11Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 11Sponsored, Became law: 11Cosponsored18 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 1818Cosponsored, In committee: 1818Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 66Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 44Cosponsored, Became law: 44IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Osowski sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored33111
Cosponsored1818644
How to read the blocks

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

No effectiveness score.Too few sponsored bills to score (at least 5 are needed).

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Roger Maki7
  2. Desiree Morton7
  3. Karen Anderson7
  4. Jeff Hoverson6
  5. Lori VanWinkle6
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 Osowski’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
SCR 4015A concurrent resolution to amend and reenact section 2 of article V of the Constitution of North Dakota, relating to the election of public service commissioners; to provide for application; and to provide an effective date.CosponsorJan 30, 2025In committeeGovernment Operations and Politics(model)Second reading, failed to adopt yeas 9 nays 38 Feb 24, 2025
HCR 3021A concurrent resolution to amend and reenact sections 3 and 13 of article VI of the Constitution of North Dakota, relating to the judicial branch and supreme court.CosponsorJan 30, 2025In committeeLaw(model)Second reading, failed to adopt yeas 13 nays 80 Feb 24, 2025
HB 1620A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 54-11 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the creation of a state fiscal transparency online portal.SponsorJan 20, 2025In committeeGovernment Operations and Politics(model)Second reading, failed to pass, yeas 1 nays 88 Feb 19, 2025
HB 1562AN ACT to amend and reenact section 15.1-07-34 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to training for mandated reporters of suspected child abuse or neglect; and to repeal section 15.1-19-29 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to training for mandated reporters of suspected child abuse orSponsorJan 20, 2025Became lawFamilies(model)Filed with Secretary Of State 04/16 Apr 21, 2025
HB 1548A BILL for an Act to provide an appropriation to the department of health and human services for a fitness center grant at the life skills and transition center.CosponsorJan 20, 2025In committeeHealth(model)Second reading, failed to pass, yeas 16 nays 77 Feb 6, 2025

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Online

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

The lab crawls Osowski’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 Osowski 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 Osowski posted

No images from Osowski’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

3 turns, Jan 14, 2025 to Feb 17, 2025

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 Osowski 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

Profile id
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Open States
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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.

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