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Democrat · Missouri Senate, district 9

Serving since Jan 6, 2021MO 2025–26 session

Portrait of Barbara Washington, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
2.0%
of sponsored bills got out of committee, in the bottom quarter of the Missouri Senate

2.0% of 101 sponsored bills got out of committee; the average for the Missouri Senate is 11%. Ranks 30th of 33, where 1st is the highest share.

The share of bills Washington sponsored that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, ranked within the Missouri Senate. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position as well as effort.

At a glance

4 measures against State Senate Democrats. Washington reported $170.2K in the 2024 cycle, in the top quarter of State Senate Democrats (median $16.2K). Washington sits at −0.43 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 80% of State Senate Democrats.

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

Out of committee

2.0%

Missouri Senate average 11% · ranks 30th of 33

Itemized, 2024

$170.2K

State Senate Democrats’ median $16.2K · ranks 8th of 55

CSIP ideology

−0.43

More conservative than 80% of State Senate Democrats · ± 0.10

From Missouri, 2024

79%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 33rd of 47 State Senate Democrats

Statements

20

20 posts on X

Bills sponsored

101

and 0 cosponsored

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

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Washington says

Washington talks about policy less than 99% of State Senate Democrats. Policy discussion in 0% of 20 statements, against 43% for the average State Senate Democrat; 327th of 329.

An AI model reads each of Washington’s 20 statements in the MO 2025–26 session (20 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 Democrats and ranked among them.

Kinds of statement

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

0%80%
Washington
Peers
Rank
Personal attacks0 statements
0%
2%
248th of 329
Policy criticism0 statements
0%
10%
304th of 329
Policy discussion0 statements
0%
43%
327th of 329
Bipartisanship0 statements
0%
3%
294th of 329
Credit claiming0 statements
0%
16%
321st of 329
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Washington's share of statements in each category against the State Senate Democrats average.
RowWashingtonPeers
Personal attacks0%2%
Policy criticism0%10%
Policy discussion0%43%
Bipartisanship0%3%
Credit claiming0%16%
20

statements classified

20 posts on X.

posts on X: 20 (100.0%)posts on X 20
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Washington's statements by source
PartValue
posts on X20
How to read the bars

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

Extreme labels

Washington used no extreme labels in 20 statements. The peer average is 0.8%.

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 MO 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 MO 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; 14 of them have no statements.

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.

No statements in this category in this window.

All 20 statements

Newest first, the MO 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: 20 posts on X.

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

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

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Washington sits at −0.43 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more conservative than 80% of State Senate Democrats. Approximate range −0.53 to −0.34, which understates the uncertainty; from 285 donors and no 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”.

−0.43

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −0.53 to −0.34. From 285 donors and no roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Washington −0.4State Senate Democrats −0.7Missouri Senate +0.5All State Senate +0.1

The outlined dot is Washington, 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 Washington’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 Washington sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State Senate Democratsmedian −0.7Washington −0.4Missouri Senatemedian +0.5All State Senatemedian +0.1
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Washington's CSIP score of −0.43 placed against State Senate Democrats, Missouri Senate, All State Senate.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Washington
State Senate Democrats825−0.780%
Missouri Senate33+0.521%
All State Senate1909+0.135%
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 Washington 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 Washington.

Back to topNext: Money

Money

Washington reported $170.2K in the 2024 cycle, 10.5 times the State Senate Democrats’ median of $16.2K. State filings report no small-donation total. 79% of itemized individual money came from Missouri.

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
$170.2K

itemized in the 2024 cycle

From 176 itemized donors. State Senate Democrats’ median $16.2K.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2024 cycle.

Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)Individuals (itemized): $56.3K (33.1%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)PACs and other committees: $111.5K (65.5%)Party committees: $2,400 (1.4%)
  • Individuals (itemized)33 squares$56.3K
  • PACs and other committees66 squares$111.5K
  • Party committees1 squares$2,400
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Sources of Washington's money, 2024 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$56.3K33.1%
PACs and other committees$111.5K65.5%
Party committees$2,4001.4%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.

Receipts by cycle

Itemized contributions, 2020 to 2024. The grey line is the State Senate Democrats’ median for 2024.

2020 cycle: $171.5K$171.5K20202022 cycle: $60.5K$60.5K20222024 cycle: $170.2K$170.2K2024State Senate Democrats median $16.2K
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Washington's receipts by cycle against the 2024 State Senate Democrats median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$171.5K
2022 cycle$60.5K
2024 cycle$170.2K

Top donor states, 2024

Itemized contributions by donor state. 79% came from Missouri.

  1. Missouri$44.6K
  2. Kansas$7,500
  3. Georgia$1,750
  4. Texas$1,000
  5. Illinois$500

Small donations

State filings report no total for small gifts.

Not reported in state filings.

Where itemized donors live

Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state

Alaska: no dataAKMaine: no dataMEVermont: no dataVTNew Hampshire: no dataNHWashington: no dataWAIdaho: no dataIDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: no dataMNIllinois: $500ILWisconsin: 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: $100CTCalifornia: $250CAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: $44.6KMOKentucky: no dataKYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: $100VAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: $7,500KSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: $500OKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: $1,750GAHawaii: no dataHITexas: $1,000TXFlorida: no dataFL
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Washington's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2024 cycle
StateValue
Missouri$44.6K
Kansas$7,500
Georgia$1,750
Texas$1,000
Illinois$500
Oklahoma$500
California$250
Connecticut$100
Virginia$100
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo 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
UtahNo data
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
KentuckyNo data
West VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
HawaiiNo data
FloridaNo data
176

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

79%

from Missouri

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

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2024 cycle.

  1. ATTORNEY$9,612 20 donors
  2. CEO$5,407 4 donors
  3. CONSULTANT$2,557 7 donors
  4. REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER$1,100 4 donors
  5. REAL ESTATE INVESTOR$1,025 4 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2024 cycle.

  1. TAXPAYERS UNLIMITED INC$4,800
  2. DOWNTOWN COUNCIL PAC$4,000
  3. KC BIZPAC$3,400
  4. EVERGY POWER PAC$2,500
  5. ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS$2,400

Top employers

Itemized, 2024 cycle.

  1. UNITED WAY$475 3 donors

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

No roll-call votes for the MO 2025–26 session.No roll-call votes are recorded for this official in this time window.

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Washington sponsored 101 bills in the MO 2025–26 session; none became law. Cosponsored 0 others. 2.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Missouri Senate average 11%; 30th of 33).

The bills Washington sponsored and cosponsored in the MO 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 MO 2025–26 session

Sponsored101 billsSponsored, Introduced: 101101Sponsored, In committee: 101101Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 22Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Sponsored, Became law: 00Cosponsored0 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 00Cosponsored, In committee: 00Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 00Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Cosponsored, Became law: 00IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Washington sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored101101200
Cosponsored00000
How to read the blocks

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

2.0%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Missouri Senate average 11%. Ranks 30th of 33.

Cosponsorship partners

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

No cosponsorship ties in this window.

What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Washington’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
SB 1807Modifies provisions relating to automated expungementSponsorFeb 26, 2026In committeeCrime and Law Enforcement(model)Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee May 7, 2026
SB 1806Preempts local regulation of intoxicating liquor in original packagesSponsorFeb 26, 2026In committeeCommerce(model)Second Read and Referred S Emerging Issues and Professional Registration Committee May 7, 2026
SB 1738Creates the offense of tampering with an election officialSponsorFeb 25, 2026In committeeCrime and Law Enforcement(model)Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee May 7, 2026
SB 1736Modifies the calculation of state aid for certain school districtsSponsorFeb 25, 2026In committeeEducation(model)Second Read and Referred S Education Committee May 7, 2026
SB 1740Creates a mobile device pilot project implemented by the Department of Social ServicesSponsorFeb 25, 2026In committeeFamilies(model)Second Read and Referred S Families, Seniors and Health Committee May 7, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

A site that has not changed in 90 days. Washington’s official site had 0 pages when last crawled.

The lab crawls Washington’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 Washington 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 Washington posted

No images from Washington’s posts have been described.

About the descriptions

Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.

State floor speeches

No transcribed state floor speeches are matched to this legislator yet.

Floor speeches

Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.

Back to topNext: Methods and sources

Methods and sources

How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.

The headline

The headline is the measure on which Washington is most unusual among State Senate Democrats, 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/de8806cc-fa03-4745-ae1e-198c56492f9a

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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