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Republican · Colorado Senate, district 10

Serving since Jan 13, 2021CO 2025–26 session

Portrait of Larry Liston, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
29%
of itemized money from Colorado donors, in the bottom tenth of State Senate Republicans

29% of the itemized money from individuals in the 2026 cycle came from donors with an address in Colorado. Ranks 800th of 860, where 1st is the highest share. 5 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 Colorado, ranked among State Senate 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 Senate Republicans. 86% of the 37 bills Liston sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom tenth of the Colorado Senate. Liston reported $2,800 in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom tenth of State Senate Republicans (median $46.2K).

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

From Colorado, 2026

29%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 800th of 860 State Senate Republicans

Out of committee

86%

Colorado Senate average 94% · ranks 33rd of 35

Itemized, 2026

$2,800

State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K · ranks 876th of 936

Attendance

93.2%

Colorado Senate average 97.2% · ranks 30th of 35 · 1,666 roll calls

Party unity

91.1%

Colorado Senate average 94.2% · ranks 28th of 35 · 100 votes against the majority of Colorado Senate Republicans

CSIP ideology

+0.26

More liberal than 66% of State Senate Republicans · ± 0.02

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

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Liston says

Liston stresses bipartisanship more than 98% of State Senate Republicans. Bipartisanship in 14% of 22 statements, against 2.3% for the average State Senate Republican; 5th of 354.

An AI model reads each of Liston’s 22 statements in the CO 2025–26 session (22 posts on X) and marks the kinds of statement it contains: a personal attack, criticism of a policy, discussion of policy, bipartisanship, credit claiming, and extreme labels. A statement can carry several. Every rate is compared with the average for State Senate Republicans and ranked among them.

Kinds of statement

Share of statements carrying each label, the CO 2025–26 session

0%80%
Liston
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion10 statements
45%
37%
126th of 354
Credit claiming9 statements
41%
15%
14th of 354
Bipartisanship3 statements
14%
2%
5th of 354
Policy criticism2 statements
9%
9%
138th of 354
Personal attacks1 statements
5%
2%
67th of 354
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Liston's share of statements in each category against the State Senate Republicans average.
RowListonPeers
Policy discussion45%37%
Credit claiming41%15%
Bipartisanship14%2%
Policy criticism9%9%
Personal attacks5%2%
22

statements classified

22 posts on X.

posts on X: 22 (100.0%)posts on X 22
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Liston's statements by source
PartValue
posts on X22
How to read the bars

The thick bar is Liston; the thin grey bar is the average State Senate Republicans. A longer thick bar means Liston does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.

Extreme labels

Liston used no extreme labels in 22 statements. The peer average is 1.3%.

No extreme labels in this window.

Who gets the labels

Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements

No targets recorded.

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 CO 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 CO 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; 15 of them have no statements.

In Liston’s words

Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned

Personal attacks

The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

Jan 28, 2025 · Posts on X (state legislators) · personal attacks; target: Dave Williams · Source

Credit claiming

The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

Apr 29, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; credit claiming; Energy; Education; Labor and Employment · Source

Bipartisanship

The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

Feb 20, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · bipartisanship; credit claiming · Source

Examples by category

Up to five recent statements in each category

Category

Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.

  1. Posts on X (state legislators)

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    personal attacks · target: Dave WilliamsSource

All 22 statements

Newest first, the CO 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: 22 posts on X.

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

Energy is what Liston talks about most: 60% of policy statements, 10.4 times the peer share. Peers give it 5.8%. 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 Liston talks about. The bills Liston sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.

What Liston talks about

Share of policy statements by area, the CO 2025–26 session

0%66%
Liston
Peers
Energy6 statements
60%
6%
Education3 statements
30%
14%
International Affairs2 statements
20%
2%
Armed Forces and National Security1 statements
10%
6%
Finance and Financial Sector1 statements
10%
1%
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Policy areas Liston talks about, as a share of policy statements, against the State Senate Republicans average.
RowListonPeers
Energy60%6%
Education30%14%
International Affairs20%2%
Armed Forces and National Security10%6%
Finance and Financial Sector10%1%
How to read the bars

The thick bar is the share of Liston’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State Senate Republicans. A statement counts once in each of its areas, so shares can add to more than 100%. The five largest areas are shown; the toggle shows the rest.

Talks about · legislates on

Left: share of statements by policy area. Right: share of bills. Areas in order of their share of statements; both sides run from 0 to 66%. Grey ticks are the State Senate Republicans averages.

Talks aboutLegislates onEnergyEnergy, talks about: 60% (State Senate Republicans 6%)60%Energy, legislates on: 5% (State Senate Republicans 3%)5%EducationEducation, talks about: 30% (State Senate Republicans 14%)30%Education, legislates on: 9% (State Senate Republicans 10%)9%International AffairsInternational Affairs, talks about: 20% (State Senate Republicans 2%)20%International Affairs, legislates on: 2% (State Senate Republicans 0%)2%Armed Forces and NationalSecurityArmed Forces and National Security, talks about: 10% (State Senate Republicans 6%)10%Armed Forces and National Security, legislates on: 0% (State Senate Republicans 2%)0%Finance and Financial SectorFinance and Financial Sector, talks about: 10% (State Senate Republicans 1%)10%Finance and Financial Sector, legislates on: 5% (State Senate Republicans 3%)5%
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Liston's share of statements against share of bills in each policy area.
AreaTalks aboutState Senate Republicans, talks aboutLegislates onState Senate Republicans, legislates on
Energy60%6%5%3%
Education30%14%9%10%
International Affairs20%2%2%0%
Armed Forces and National Security10%6%0%2%
Finance and Financial Sector10%1%5%3%

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 Liston legislates on exactly the areas Liston 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 Liston sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Liston sits at +0.26 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 66% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.24 to +0.29, which understates the uncertainty; from 436 donors and 1,126 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”.

+0.26

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.24 to +0.29. From 436 donors and 1,126 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Liston +0.3State Senate Republicans +0.4Colorado Senate −0.7All State Senate +0.1

The outlined dot is Liston, 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 Liston’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 Liston sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State Senate Republicansmedian +0.4Liston +0.3Colorado Senatemedian −0.7All State Senatemedian +0.1
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Liston's CSIP score of +0.26 placed against State Senate Republicans, Colorado Senate, All State Senate.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Liston
State Senate Republicans1083+0.434%
Colorado Senate35−0.783%
All State Senate1909+0.162%
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 Liston 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 Liston.

Back to topNext: Money

Money

Liston reported $2,800 in the 2026 cycle, 6.1% of the State Senate Republicans’ median of $46.2K. State filings report no small-donation total. 29% of itemized individual money came from Colorado.

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
$2,800

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 5 itemized donors. State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K.

Where the money came from

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

Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1,900 (67.9%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)PACs and other committees: $900 (32.1%)
  • Individuals (itemized)68 squares$1,900
  • PACs and other committees32 squares$900
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Sources of Liston's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$1,90067.9%
PACs and other committees$90032.1%
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 Senate Republicans’ median for 2026.

2020 cycle: $134.4K$134.4K20202022 cycle: $6,375$6,37520222024 cycle: $137.6K$137.6K20242026 cycle: $2,800$2,8002026State Senate Republicans median $46.2K
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Liston's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State Senate Republicans median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$134.4K
2022 cycle$6,375
2024 cycle$137.6K
2026 cycle$2,800

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 29% came from Colorado.

  1. Colorado$550
  2. North Carolina$450
  3. Louisiana$450
  4. Kentucky$450

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: $550CONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: $450KYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: $450NCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: $450LAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Liston's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Colorado$550
Kentucky$450
North Carolina$450
Louisiana$450
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
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
West VirginiaNo data
VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
5

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

29%

from Colorado

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 Colorado. 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. APARTMENT ASSOCIATION OF METRO DENVER POLITICAL COMMITTEE$450
  2. ONEOK INC. EMPLOYEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$450

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Liston voted with the majority of Colorado Senate Republicans on 91.1% of party-line votes and missed 6.8% of 1,666 roll calls. Colorado Senate on average: 94.2% party unity, 97.2% attendance. Across all roll calls, Liston voted against the majority of Colorado Senate Republicans 100 times.

1,666 roll calls Liston could vote on in the CO 2025–26 session, compared with Colorado Senate. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Liston voted with the majority of Colorado Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

100

votes against the majority of Colorado Senate Republicans

Party unity 91.1%, Colorado Senate average 94.2%, ranks 28th of 35. 1,666 roll calls in the CO 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Liston, the thin grey bar the Colorado Senate average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Liston
Peers
Rank
Attendance
93.2%
97.2%
30th of 35
Party unity
91.1%
94.2%
28th of 35
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Liston's attendance and party unity against Colorado Senate.
RowListonPeers
Attendance93.2%97.2%
Party unity91.1%94.2%
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 CO 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
May 13, 2026
SB 187
Establishing Commission on Medicaid
CONCUR
YeaWith majoritypassD 23–0 · R 12–0Democrats 23 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 12 yea, 0 naybecame law
May 13, 2026
HB 1425
Applied Behavior Analysis Services
BILL
YeaWith majoritypassD 23–0 · R 9–3Democrats 23 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 9 yea, 3 naybecame law · party crossover
May 13, 2026
SB 42
Revenue Classification Taxpayers Bill of Rights
REPASS
NayWith majoritypassD 23–0 · R 0–12Democrats 23 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 0 yea, 12 naybecame law
May 13, 2026
HB 1141
Discriminatory Practices in Public Schools
BILL
NayWith majoritypassD 23–0 · R 0–12Democrats 23 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 0 yea, 12 naybecame law
May 13, 2026
SB 78
Changes to Institutions of Higher Education Statutes
CONCUR
YeaWith majoritypassD 23–0 · R 12–0Democrats 23 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 12 yea, 0 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 Liston most often

  1. Marc CatlinR1,494 shared votes91%
  2. Rod PeltonR1,545 shared votes91%
  3. Scott BrightR1,553 shared votes90%
  4. Byron PeltonR1,540 shared votes90%
  5. Lisa FrizellR1,445 shared votes90%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Liston least often

  1. Faith WinterD860 shared votes66%
  2. Tom SullivanD1,513 shared votes66%
  3. Julie GonzalesD1,510 shared votes67%
  4. Iman JodehD1,426 shared votes67%
  5. Jessie DanielsonD1,306 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

CO 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Liston sponsored 37 bills in the CO 2025–26 session; 14 became law. Cosponsored 191 others. 86% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Colorado Senate average 94%; 33rd of 35).

The bills Liston sponsored and cosponsored in the CO 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 CO 2025–26 session

Sponsored37 billsSponsored, Introduced: 3737Sponsored, In committee: 3333Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 2626Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 2020Sponsored, Became law: 1414Cosponsored191 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 191191Cosponsored, In committee: 186186Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 185185Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 165165Cosponsored, Became law: 9090IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Liston sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored3733262014
Cosponsored19118618516590
How to read the blocks

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

86%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Colorado Senate average 94%. Ranks 33rd of 35.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Barbara Kirkmeyer22
  2. Rod Pelton19
  3. Monica Duran19
  4. Byron Pelton18
  5. John Carson17
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 Liston’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
SJR 26Adjourn Sine DieCosponsorMay 12, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedIntroduced In House - Assigned to May 20, 2026
SR 9Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness MonthCosponsorMay 1, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedSenate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments May 7, 2026
SJR 25Colorado Mining Association's 150th AnniversaryCosponsorApr 30, 2026Passed both chambersUnassignedSigned by the President of the Senate May 13, 2026
HJR 1030Mono & Matt Road DesignationCosponsorApr 30, 2026Passed both chambersUnassignedSigned by the Speaker of the House Jun 3, 2026
SB 182Updated Clean Energy Plan Municipally Owned UtilityCosponsorApr 28, 2026Became lawEnergy(model)Governor Signed May 21, 2026

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Online

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

The lab crawls Liston’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 Liston 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 Liston posted

No images from Liston’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

110 turns, Mar 2, 2023 to May 12, 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 Liston is most unusual among State Senate 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
c9fd6b10-91a3-44ec-ac6a-48f73eee3ed1
Open States
ocd-person/c9fd6b10-91a3-44ec-ac6a-48f73eee3ed1

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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