Policy criticism
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22%
of sponsored bills got out of committee, in the bottom quarter of the Oklahoma House
22% of 32 sponsored bills got out of committee; the average for the Oklahoma House is 44%. Ranks 84th of 98, where 1st is the highest share.
The share of bills Pogemiller sponsored that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, ranked within the Oklahoma House. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position as well as effort.
At a glance
6 measures against the Oklahoma House. 85% of Pogemiller’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Oklahoma, in the bottom half of State House Democrats. Pogemiller sits at −0.68 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 59% of State House Democrats.
The measures on which Pogemiller sits furthest from the middle of the Oklahoma House, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
Party unity
95.8%
Oklahoma House average 88% · ranks 3rd of 97 · 53 votes against the majority of Oklahoma House Democrats
Out of committee
22%
Oklahoma House average 44% · ranks 84th of 98
From Oklahoma, 2026
85%
Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 1388th of 1,983 State House Democrats
CSIP ideology
−0.68
More liberal than 59% of State House Democrats · ± 0.10
Itemized, 2026
$53.9K
State House Democrats’ median $40.4K · ranks 876th of 2,082
Attendance
93.5%
Oklahoma House average 90.1% · ranks 49th of 97 · 1,932 roll calls
Peer group: Oklahoma House. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Pogemiller, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Pogemiller is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Pogemiller says
Pogemiller stresses bipartisanship less than 88% of State House Democrats. Bipartisanship in 0% of 30 statements, against 2.9% for the average State House Democrat; 676th of 764.
An AI model reads each of Pogemiller’s 30 statements in the OK 2025–26 session (30 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 House Democrats and ranked among them.
Kinds of statement
Share of statements carrying each label, the OK 2025–26 session
0%80%
Pogemiller
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion15 statements
50%
39%
226th of 764
Policy criticism11 statements
37%
10%
17th of 764
Personal attacks2 statements
7%
3%
95th of 764
Credit claiming1 statements
3%
14%
612th of 764
Bipartisanship0 statements
0%
3%
676th of 764
Show the data
| Row | Pogemiller | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 50% | 39% |
| Policy criticism | 37% | 10% |
| Personal attacks | 7% | 3% |
| Credit claiming | 3% | 14% |
| Bipartisanship | 0% | 3% |
30
statements classified
30 posts on X.
Show the data
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 30 |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is Pogemiller; the thin grey bar is the average State House Democrats. A longer thick bar means Pogemiller does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Extreme labels
Pogemiller used extreme labels in 3.3% of statements, 3.5 times the peer average. 1 statement, most often aimed at woke teachers; peers 1.0%.
- “woke”1
Who gets the labels
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
- woke teachers1
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 OK 2025–26 session
No month in this window has 10 or more statements, too few to chart month by month.
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 OK 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%. 22 months are hatched here; 12 of them have no statements.
In Pogemiller’s words
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Credit claiming
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Jan 16, 2025 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; credit claiming; Education · Source
Extreme label
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Sep 1, 2025 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; Education; extreme label “woke” aimed at woke teachers · 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.
All 30 statements
Newest first, the OK 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: 30 posts on X.
Policy
Education is what Pogemiller talks about most: 47% of policy statements, 3.0 times the peer share. Peers give it 15%. Agreement with legislation needs at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
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 Pogemiller talks about. The bills Pogemiller sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
What Pogemiller talks about
Share of policy statements by area, the OK 2025–26 session
0%51%
Pogemiller
Peers
Education7 statements
47%
15%
Health5 statements
33%
15%
Agriculture and Food2 statements
13%
5%
Economics and Public Finance2 statements
13%
11%
Government Operations and Politics2 statements
13%
15%
Show the data
| Row | Pogemiller | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Education | 47% | 15% |
| Health | 33% | 15% |
| Agriculture and Food | 13% | 5% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 13% | 11% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 13% | 15% |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is the share of Pogemiller’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State House Democrats. 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 51%. Grey ticks are the State House Democrats averages.
Show the data
| Area | Talks about | State House Democrats, talks about | Legislates on | State House Democrats, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 47% | 15% | 34% | 10% |
| Health | 33% | 15% | 9% | 15% |
| Agriculture and Food | 13% | 5% | 6% | 3% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 13% | 11% | 0% | 2% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 13% | 15% | 16% | 8% |
No agreement score.Needs at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills in the window.
What agreement means, and what it doesn’t
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Pogemiller legislates on exactly the areas Pogemiller 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 Pogemiller sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology
Pogemiller sits at −0.68 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more liberal than 59% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.78 to −0.58, which understates the uncertainty; from 345 donors and 278 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”.
−0.68
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range −0.78 to −0.58. From 345 donors and 278 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Pogemiller, 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 Pogemiller’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 Pogemiller sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
State House Democrats2,392 · median −0.6
Oklahoma House99 · median +0.3
All State House5,324 · median +0.1
Show the data
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Pogemiller |
|---|---|---|---|
| State House Democrats | 2392 | −0.6 | 41% |
| Oklahoma House | 99 | +0.3 | 4% |
| All State House | 5324 | +0.1 | 19% |
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 Pogemiller 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 Pogemiller.
Money
Pogemiller reported $53.9K in the 2026 cycle, above the State House Democrats’ median of $40.4K. State filings report no small-donation total. 85% of itemized individual money came from Oklahoma.
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.
$53.9K
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 102 itemized donors. State House Democrats’ median $40.4K.
Where the money came from
Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.
- Individuals (itemized)79 squares$42.8K
- PACs and other committees21 squares$11.2K
Show the data
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $42.8K | 79.3% |
| PACs and other committees | $11.2K | 20.7% |
What this means, and what it doesn’t
Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.
Receipts by cycle
Itemized contributions, 2024 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Democrats’ median for 2026.
Show the data
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 cycle | $146.5K |
| 2026 cycle | $53.9K |
Top donor states, 2026
Itemized contributions by donor state. 85% came from Oklahoma.
- Oklahoma$36.2K
- Texas$3,600
- Oregon$1,000
- South Dakota$1,000
- Colorado$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
Show the data
| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Oklahoma | $36.2K |
| Texas | $3,600 |
| Oregon | $1,000 |
| South Dakota | $1,000 |
| Colorado | $500 |
| California | $250 |
| District of Columbia | $250 |
| 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 |
| Nevada | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| Iowa | No data |
| Indiana | No data |
| Ohio | No data |
| Pennsylvania | No data |
| New Jersey | No data |
| Connecticut | No data |
| Utah | 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 |
| Louisiana | No data |
| Mississippi | No data |
| Alabama | No data |
| Georgia | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
| Florida | No data |
102
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
85%
from Oklahoma
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 Oklahoma. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Top donor occupations
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- ATTORNEY$8,250 13 donors
- PHYSICIAN$4,188 10 donors
- RETIRED$1,950 3 donors
- LOBBYIST$800 3 donors
- CONSULTANT$550 4 donors
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
- OKLAHOMA CITY RETIRED FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION PAC$1,500
- OKLAHOMA COMMITTEE OF AUTOMOBILE RETAILERS$1,000
- OKLAHOMA'S ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES PAC$1,000
- AMERICAN FIDELITY CORPORATION PAC$750
- OGE ENERGY CORP. EMPLOYEES PAC$750
Top employers
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
No employers reported.
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
Pogemiller voted with the majority of Oklahoma House Democrats on 95.8% of party-line votes and missed 6.4% of 1,932 roll calls. Oklahoma House on average: 88% party unity, 90.1% attendance. Across all roll calls, Pogemiller voted against the majority of Oklahoma House Democrats 53 times.
1,932 roll calls Pogemiller could vote on in the OK 2025–26 session, compared with Oklahoma 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 Pogemiller voted with the majority of Oklahoma House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
53
votes against the majority of Oklahoma House Democrats
Party unity 95.8%, Oklahoma House average 88%, ranks 3rd of 97. 1,932 roll calls in the OK 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Pogemiller, the thin grey bar the Oklahoma House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
80%100%
Pogemiller
Peers
Rank
Attendance
93.5%
90.1%
49th of 97
Party unity
95.8%
88%
3rd of 97
Show the data
| Row | Pogemiller | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 93.5% | 90.1% |
| Party unity | 95.8% | 88% |
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 OK 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2026 | SB 2 Wind energy; providing setback requirements for certain affected counties; waiver; referral of question to eligible voters; zoning; construction; exemptions; database. Fourth Reading | Yea | Against majority | fail | D 4–10 · R 15–57Democrats 4 yea, 10 nay; Republicans 15 yea, 57 nay | party crossover · much discussed |
| May 14, 2026 | SB 1589 Crimes and punishments; modifying scope of certain offense related to gambling. Effective date. Veto Override Without Emer. | Yea | With majority | pass | D 15–0 · R 52–19Democrats 15 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 52 yea, 19 nay | became law · party crossover |
| May 14, 2026 | HB 1370 Motor Fuel Tax Code; repealer; reduction in federal excise tax on gasoline or diesel fuel; emergency. Fourth Reading | Yea | With majority | pass | D 15–1 · R 73–0Democrats 15 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 73 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| May 14, 2026 | SB 893 Property and critical infrastructure; creating the Military Installation and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2025. Effective date. Fourth Reading | Yea | With majority | pass | D 16–0 · R 72–0Democrats 16 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 72 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| May 7, 2026 | SB 1209 Forcible entry and detainer; modifying time period for certain trial. Effective date. Reconsider Measure | Yea | With majority | pass | D 16–0 · R 34–40Democrats 16 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 34 yea, 40 nay | 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 Pogemiller most often
- Trish RansonD1,723 shared votes96%
- Cyndi MunsonD1,574 shared votes95%
- Meloyde BlancettD1,544 shared votes95%
- Forrest BennettD856 shared votes95%
- Jack StewartR875 shared votes95%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Pogemiller least often
- Tom GannR1,804 shared votes42%
- Molly JenkinsR1,804 shared votes43%
- Rick WestR1,741 shared votes49%
- Jim ShawR1,808 shared votes51%
- Jim OlsenR1,749 shared votes57%
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
OK 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Legislation
Pogemiller sponsored 32 bills in the OK 2025–26 session; 1 became law. Cosponsored 0 others. 22% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Oklahoma House average 44%; 84th of 98).
The bills Pogemiller sponsored and cosponsored in the OK 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 OK 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 32 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Cosponsored | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Pogemiller sponsored, ochre blocks bills Pogemiller cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
22%
of sponsored bills got out of committee
Oklahoma House average 44%. Ranks 84th of 98.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Pogemiller, by number of shared bills in the OK 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
- Bill Coleman3
- Dave Rader2
- Ally Seifried1
- Julia Kirt1
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 Pogemiller’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| HB 3698 | Unstable housing; Student Eviction Assistance Revolving Fund; Oklahoma State Department of Education; indigent defense; forcible entry and detainer; requirements; report; audit; effective date. | Sponsor | Feb 2, 2026 | In committee | Housing and Community Development(model) | Authored by Senator Kirt (principal Senate author) Mar 5, 2026 |
| HB 3844 | Labor; state minimum wage; effective date. | Sponsor | Feb 2, 2026 | In committee | Labor and Employment(model) | Second Reading referred to Rules Feb 3, 2026 |
| HB 3009 | Schools; Oklahoma Parental Choice Tax Credit Program; credit amount; notice; effective date; emergency. | Sponsor | Feb 2, 2026 | In committee | Education(model) | Referred to Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee Feb 3, 2026 |
| HB 3010 | Education; adjunct teachers; limiting grades which adjunct teachers without a valid certificate to teach can teach; effective date; emergency. | Sponsor | Feb 2, 2026 | In committee | Education(model) | Referred to Common Education Feb 3, 2026 |
| HB 3065 | Revenue and taxation; sales tax; excise tax; electronic cigarette and vapor products; effective date. | Sponsor | Feb 2, 2026 | In committee | Taxation(model) | Referred to Appropriations and Budget Finance Subcommittee Feb 3, 2026 |
Online
A site that has not changed in 90 days. Pogemiller’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Pogemiller’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 Pogemiller posts with a vision model.
Websites
- 1
pages crawled
0changes in 90 days
- 5
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 Pogemiller posted
No images from Pogemiller’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
114 turns, Feb 27, 2025 to May 7, 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 Pogemiller is most unusual among Oklahoma 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
- c63ddc9a-5f9d-4cb5-b152-4828f4870682
- Open States
- ocd-person/c63ddc9a-5f9d-4cb5-b152-4828f4870682
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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