Policy criticism
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$631.0K
in itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle, in the top tenth of State Senate Democrats
The median for State Senate Democrats is $55.5K. Ranks 38th of 746, where 1st raised the most. 623 itemized donors.
Itemized contributions reported to the state in the 2026 cycle, ranked among State Senate Democrats. State filings leave small gifts out, and totals depend on whether the seat is up this cycle.
At a glance
6 measures against State Senate Democrats. Batch missed 24% of 294 roll calls, attendance in the bottom quarter of the North Carolina Senate (average 87%). Batch sits at −0.94 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 85% of State Senate Democrats.
The measures on which Batch 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.
Itemized, 2026
$631.0K
State Senate Democrats’ median $55.5K · ranks 38th of 746
Attendance
76%
North Carolina Senate average 87% · ranks 43rd of 48 · 294 roll calls
CSIP ideology
−0.94
More liberal than 85% of State Senate Democrats · ± 0.03
Out of committee
0%
North Carolina Senate average 20% · ranks 37th of 44
Talk-to-bills agreement
0.53
State Senate Democrats average 0.56 · ranks 150th of 228
Party unity
98.0%
North Carolina Senate average 93.2% · ranks 27th of 48 · 6 votes against the majority of North Carolina Senate Democrats
Peer group: State Senate Democrats. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Batch, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Batch is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Batch says
Batch attacks opponents personally more than 60% of State Senate Democrats. Personal attacks in 1.1% of 95 statements, against 2.4% for the average State Senate Democrat; 129th of 329.
An AI model reads each of Batch’s 95 statements in the NC 2025–26 session (95 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 NC 2025–26 session
0%80%
Batch
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion38 statements
40%
43%
186th of 329
Policy criticism15 statements
16%
10%
86th of 329
Credit claiming11 statements
12%
16%
185th of 329
Bipartisanship3 statements
3%
3%
138th of 329
Personal attacks1 statements
1%
2%
129th of 329
Show the data
| Row | Batch | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 40% | 43% |
| Policy criticism | 16% | 10% |
| Credit claiming | 12% | 16% |
| Bipartisanship | 3% | 3% |
| Personal attacks | 1% | 2% |
95
statements classified
95 posts on X.
Show the data
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 95 |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is Batch; the thin grey bar is the average State Senate Democrats. A longer thick bar means Batch does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Extreme labels
Batch used extreme labels in 1.1% of statements, above the peer average. 1 statement, most often aimed at Republican; peers 0.8%.
- “extreme”1
Who gets the labels
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
- Republican1
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 NC 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 6 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Feb ’25 | 12 | 0.0% | 16.7% | 50.0% | 8.3% | 41.7% | 0.0% |
| Mar ’25 | 14 | 0.0% | 7.1% | 28.6% | 0.0% | 7.1% | 0.0% |
| Apr ’25 | 11 | 0.0% | 18.2% | 54.5% | 0.0% | 18.2% | 0.0% |
| May ’25 | 7 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jun ’25 | 8 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jul ’25 | 4 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Aug ’25 | 6 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Sep ’25 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Oct ’25 | 10 | 10.0% | 70.0% | 80.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Nov ’25 | 3 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Dec ’25 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jan ’26 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Feb ’26 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Mar ’26 | 3 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Apr ’26 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| May ’26 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jun ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jul ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Aug ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Sep ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Oct ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
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 NC 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%. 18 months are hatched here; 5 of them have no statements.
In Batch’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.
Oct 9, 2025 · Posts on X (state legislators) · personal attacks; target: Brockman · Source
Extreme label
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
Nov 7, 2025 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy criticism; policy discussion; Economics and Public Finance; Health; extreme label “extreme” aimed at Republican · 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.
Posts on X (state legislators)
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · target: BrockmanSource
All 95 statements
Newest first, the NC 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: 95 posts on X.
Policy
Government Operations and Politics is what Batch talks about most: 32% of policy statements, 2.2 times the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.53 on a 0–1 scale (State Senate Democrats average 0.56; 150th of 228).
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 Batch talks about. The bills Batch sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
What Batch talks about
Share of policy statements by area, the NC 2025–26 session
0%35%
Batch
Peers
Government Operations and Politics12 statements
32%
14%
Economics and Public Finance8 statements
21%
10%
Families8 statements
21%
5%
Health8 statements
21%
17%
Education7 statements
18%
15%
Show the data
| Row | Batch | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Government Operations and Politics | 32% | 14% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 21% | 10% |
| Families | 21% | 5% |
| Health | 21% | 17% |
| Education | 18% | 15% |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is the share of Batch’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State Senate 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 35%. Grey ticks are the State Senate Democrats averages.
Show the data
| Area | Talks about | State Senate Democrats, talks about | Legislates on | State Senate Democrats, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government Operations and Politics | 32% | 14% | 8% | 8% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 21% | 10% | 4% | 3% |
| Families | 21% | 5% | 8% | 3% |
| Health | 21% | 17% | 18% | 15% |
| Education | 18% | 15% | 3% | 9% |
0.53
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
State Senate Democrats average 0.56. Ranks 150th of 228.
What agreement means, and what it doesn’t
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Batch legislates on exactly the areas Batch 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 Batch sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology
Batch sits at −0.94 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more liberal than 85% of State Senate Democrats. Approximate range −0.97 to −0.91, which understates the uncertainty; from 2,691 donors and 357 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”.
−0.94
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range −0.97 to −0.91. From 2,691 donors and 357 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Batch, 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 Batch’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 Batch sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
State Senate Democrats825 · median −0.7
North Carolina Senate50 · median +0.5
All State Senate1,909 · median +0.1
Show the data
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Senate Democrats | 825 | −0.7 | 15% |
| North Carolina Senate | 50 | +0.5 | 8% |
| All State Senate | 1909 | +0.1 | 6% |
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 Batch 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 Batch.
Money
Batch reported $631.0K in the 2026 cycle, 11.4 times the State Senate Democrats’ median of $55.5K. State filings report no small-donation total. 93% of itemized individual money came from North Carolina.
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.
$631.0K
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 623 itemized donors. State Senate Democrats’ median $55.5K.
Where the money came from
Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.
- Individuals (itemized)75 squares$474.7K
- PACs and other committees24 squares$148.1K
- Party committees1 squares$8,200
Show the data
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $474.7K | 75.2% |
| PACs and other committees | $148.1K | 23.5% |
| Party committees | $8,200 | 1.3% |
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 Democrats’ median for 2026.
Show the data
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2020 cycle | $1.1M |
| 2022 cycle | $2.4M |
| 2024 cycle | $427.1K |
| 2026 cycle | $631.0K |
Top donor states, 2026
Itemized contributions by donor state. 93% came from North Carolina.
- North Carolina$442.9K
- California$14.0K
- New York$13.6K
- Texas$1,500
- Massachusetts$1,005
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 |
|---|---|
| North Carolina | $442.9K |
| California | $14.0K |
| New York | $13.6K |
| Texas | $1,500 |
| Massachusetts | $1,005 |
| District of Columbia | $726 |
| Maryland | $603 |
| Ohio | $250 |
| New Mexico | $121 |
| Illinois | $103 |
| 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 |
| Wisconsin | No data |
| Michigan | No data |
| Rhode Island | No data |
| Oregon | No data |
| Nevada | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Iowa | No data |
| Indiana | No data |
| Pennsylvania | No data |
| New Jersey | No data |
| Connecticut | No data |
| Utah | No data |
| Colorado | No data |
| Nebraska | No data |
| Missouri | No data |
| Kentucky | No data |
| West Virginia | No data |
| Virginia | No data |
| Delaware | No data |
| Arizona | No data |
| Kansas | No data |
| Arkansas | No data |
| Tennessee | No data |
| South Carolina | No data |
| Oklahoma | No data |
| Louisiana | No data |
| Mississippi | No data |
| Alabama | No data |
| Georgia | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
| Florida | No data |
623
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
93%
from North Carolina
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 Carolina. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Top donor occupations
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- NONE$248.0K 305 donors
- PHYSICIAN$35.4K 43 donors
- ATTORNEY$32.7K 51 donors
- CEO$17.9K 6 donors
- SCIENTIST$14.6K 5 donors
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
- NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATIC PARTY$8,200
- CATAWBA INDIAN NATION$6,800
- DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION PAC$6,800
- EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE INDIANS$6,800
- NC ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE PAC$6,800
Top employers
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- DUKE UNIVERSITY$15.1K 10 donors
- ASKBIO$7,100 3 donors
- DUKE$6,769 8 donors
- WAKEMED$6,532 6 donors
- UNC$3,142 8 donors
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
Batch voted with the majority of North Carolina Senate Democrats on 98.0% of party-line votes and missed 24% of 294 roll calls. North Carolina Senate on average: 93.2% party unity, 87% attendance. Across all roll calls, Batch voted against the majority of North Carolina Senate Democrats 6 times.
294 roll calls Batch could vote on in the NC 2025–26 session, compared with North Carolina 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 Batch voted with the majority of North Carolina Senate Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
6
votes against the majority of North Carolina Senate Democrats
Party unity 98.0%, North Carolina Senate average 93.2%, ranks 27th of 48. 294 roll calls in the NC 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Batch, the thin grey bar the North Carolina Senate average. The scale runs from 70% to 100% to show the gap.
70%100%
Batch
Peers
Rank
Attendance
76%
87%
43rd of 48
Party unity
98.0%
93.2%
27th of 48
Show the data
| Row | Batch | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 76% | 87% |
| Party unity | 98.0% | 93.2% |
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 NC 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 15–0 · R 26–0Democrats 15 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 26 yea, 0 nay | became law | |
| Oct 7, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 15–0 · R 26–0Democrats 15 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 26 yea, 0 nay | became law | |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Did not vote | — | pass | D 8–3 · R 26–0Democrats 8 yea, 3 nay; Republicans 26 yea, 0 nay | became law · party crossover | |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Did not vote | — | pass | D 11–0 · R 26–0Democrats 11 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 26 yea, 0 nay | became law | |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Did not vote | — | pass | D 11–1 · R 28–0Democrats 11 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 28 yea, 0 nay | became 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 Batch most often
- Jay ChaudhuriD175 shared votes98%
- Michael GarrettD178 shared votes97%
- Mujtaba MohammedD181 shared votes97%
- Lisa GrafsteinD217 shared votes96%
- DeAndrea SalvadorD133 shared votes96%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Batch least often
- Joyce KrawiecR98 shared votes62%
- Paul NewtonR107 shared votes64%
- Kelly AlexanderD88 shared votes64%
- Jim PerryR86 shared votes65%
- Dean ProctorR86 shared votes66%
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
NC 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Legislation
Batch sponsored 17 bills in the NC 2025–26 session; none became law. Cosponsored 54 others. 0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (North Carolina Senate average 20%; 37th of 44).
The bills Batch sponsored and cosponsored in the NC 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 NC 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cosponsored | 54 | 54 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Batch sponsored, ochre blocks bills Batch cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
0%
of sponsored bills got out of committee
North Carolina Senate average 20%. Ranks 37th of 44.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Batch, by number of shared bills in the NC 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
- Kandie Smith55
- Joyce Waddell53
- DeAndrea Salvador48
- Natalie Murdock43
- Mujtaba Mohammed40
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 Batch’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| SB 949 | Fully Fund School Psychologists and Counselors. | Cosponsor | Apr 30, 2026 | In committee | Education(model) | Passed 1st Reading May 4, 2026 |
| SB 1004 | Family Support for Those Who Serve Act. | Cosponsor | Apr 30, 2026 | In committee | Education(model) | Passed 1st Reading May 4, 2026 |
| SB 1026 | Power Bill Protection/Large Load Tariff. | Cosponsor | Apr 30, 2026 | In committee | Energy(model) | Withdrawn From Com May 5, 2026 |
| SB 1020 | Affordable Housing Efficiency Grant Program. | Cosponsor | Apr 30, 2026 | In committee | Housing and Community Development(model) | Withdrawn From Com May 5, 2026 |
| SB 1019 | Grid Utilization. | Cosponsor | Apr 30, 2026 | In committee | Energy(model) | Passed 1st Reading May 4, 2026 |
Online
A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. Batch’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Batch’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 Batch posts with a vision model.
Websites
- 1
pages crawled
1changes in 90 days
Campaign site
sydneybatch.com/#,http://batchwilliams.com/attorney/sydney-j-batchLast crawled Oct 1, 2026
4pages crawled
1changes 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 Batch posted
No images from Batch’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.
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 Batch 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
- f29f268e-5a29-4f49-8c5e-3fa19688f4a2
- 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.
America’s Political Pulse · Polarization Research Lab