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Republican · Minnesota Senate, district 22

Serving since Jan 3, 2023MN 2025–26 session

Portrait of Rich Draheim, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
$3,750
in itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom tenth of State Senate Republicans

The median for State Senate Republicans is $46.2K. Ranks 852nd of 936, where 1st raised the most. 0 itemized donors.

Itemized contributions reported to the state in the 2026 cycle, ranked among State Senate Republicans. State filings leave small gifts out, and totals depend on whether the seat is up this cycle.

At a glance

5 measures against the Minnesota Senate. 0% of the 91 bills Draheim sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom quarter of the Minnesota Senate. Draheim voted against the majority of Minnesota Senate Republicans 11 times; party unity 90.1%, in the bottom quarter of the Minnesota Senate (average 93.0%).

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

Itemized, 2026

$3,750

State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K · ranks 852nd of 936

Out of committee

0%

Minnesota Senate average 3.1% · ranks 55th of 67

Party unity

90.1%

Minnesota Senate average 93.0% · ranks 53rd of 67 · 11 votes against the majority of Minnesota Senate Republicans

CSIP ideology

+0.17

More liberal than 77% of State Senate Republicans · ± 0.05

Attendance

100%

Minnesota Senate average 100% · ranks 34th of 67 · 152 roll calls

Statements

No statements in this window

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

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What Draheim says

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

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

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

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Ideology

Draheim sits at +0.17 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 77% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.12 to +0.22, which understates the uncertainty; from 44 donors and 122 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”.

+0.17

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.12 to +0.22. From 44 donors and 122 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Draheim +0.2State Senate Republicans +0.4Minnesota Senate −0.3All State Senate +0.1

The outlined dot is Draheim, 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 Draheim’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 Draheim 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 +0.4Draheim +0.2Minnesota Senatemedian −0.3All State Senatemedian +0.1
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Draheim's CSIP score of +0.17 placed against State Senate Republicans, Minnesota Senate, All State Senate.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Draheim
State Senate Republicans1083+0.423%
Minnesota Senate67−0.367%
All State Senate1909+0.156%
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 Draheim 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 Draheim.

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Money

Draheim reported $3,750 in the 2026 cycle, 8.1% of the State Senate Republicans’ median of $46.2K. State filings report no small-donation total.

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
$3,750

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 0 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.

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  • PACs and other committees100 squares$3,750
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Sources of Draheim's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
PACs and other committees$3,750100.0%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

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

Receipts by cycle

Itemized contributions, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the State Senate Republicans’ median for 2026.

2020 cycle: $42.4K$42.4K20202022 cycle: $20.5K$20.5K20222024 cycle: $3,700$3,70020242026 cycle: $3,750$3,7502026State Senate Republicans median $46.2K
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Draheim's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State Senate Republicans median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$42.4K
2022 cycle$20.5K
2024 cycle$3,700
2026 cycle$3,750

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state.

No itemized donors with an address.

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: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: no dataKYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Draheim's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
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
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
KentuckyNo data
West VirginiaNo data
VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
0

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

No itemized individual money.

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 Minnesota. 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. MN LOCAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE PAC$1,000
  2. MN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE LEADERSHIP FD$500
  3. NORTH MIDWEST STATES CARPENTERS PAC$500
  4. MAFMIC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$250
  5. MESSERLI & KRAMER POLITICAL ACTION COMM$250

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Draheim voted with the majority of Minnesota Senate Republicans on 90.1% of party-line votes and missed none of 152 roll calls. Minnesota Senate on average: 93.0% party unity, 100% attendance. Across all roll calls, Draheim voted against the majority of Minnesota Senate Republicans 11 times.

152 roll calls Draheim could vote on in the MN 2025–26 session, compared with Minnesota 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 Draheim voted with the majority of Minnesota Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

11

votes against the majority of Minnesota Senate Republicans

Party unity 90.1%, Minnesota Senate average 93.0%, ranks 53rd of 67. 152 roll calls in the MN 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

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

80%100%
Draheim
Peers
Rank
Attendance
100%
100%
34th of 67
Party unity
90.1%
93.0%
53rd of 67
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Draheim's attendance and party unity against Minnesota Senate.
RowDraheimPeers
Attendance100%100%
Party unity90.1%93.0%
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 MN 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
May 17, 2026
SF 3967
Due date of the pediatric hospital-to-home transition pilot program report modification
Third reading Passed as amended
NayWith majoritypassD 34–0 · R 6–27Democrats 34 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 6 yea, 27 nayparty crossover
May 17, 2026
HF 3629
Program payment withholding provided for credible allegation of fraud, grant management provisions changed, and program integrity reports required.
Third reading Passed as amended
YeaWith majoritypassD 34–0 · R 33–0Democrats 34 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 33 yea, 0 naybecame law
May 17, 2026
HF 719
Safe routes to school grant program funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
Third reading Passed
YeaWith majoritypassD 34–0 · R 26–7Democrats 34 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 26 yea, 7 naybecame law · party crossover
May 17, 2026
HF 4492
Read Act modified, early literacy field experiences required for teacher candidates, high school diploma established for veterans, and rulemaking required.
Third reading Passed as amended
YeaWith majoritypassD 34–0 · R 33–0Democrats 34 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 33 yea, 0 naybecame law
May 17, 2026
HF 2484
Bonding bill; spending authorized to acquire and better land and buildings and for other improvements of a capital nature, new programs established and existing programs modified, report required, prior appropriations modified and canceled, and money appropriated.
Third reading Passed
YeaAgainst majoritypassD 34–0 · R 16–17Democrats 34 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 16 yea, 17 naybecame law · party crossover
How key votes are chosen

Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.

Votes most often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Draheim most often

  1. Gary DahmsR150 shared votes94%
  2. Bill WeberR148 shared votes93%
  3. Andrew LangR141 shared votes92%
  4. John JasinskiR152 shared votes92%
  5. Mark JohnsonR144 shared votes92%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Draheim least often

  1. Sandy PappasD145 shared votes58%
  2. Nicole MitchellD53 shared votes58%
  3. Susan PhaD145 shared votes59%
  4. Ron LatzD151 shared votes59%
  5. Grant HauschildD148 shared votes59%
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

MN 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Draheim sponsored 91 bills in the MN 2025–26 session; none became law. Cosponsored 133 others. 0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Minnesota Senate average 3.1%; 55th of 67).

The bills Draheim sponsored and cosponsored in the MN 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 MN 2025–26 session

Sponsored91 billsSponsored, Introduced: 9191Sponsored, In committee: 9191Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 00Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Sponsored, Became law: 00Cosponsored133 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 133133Cosponsored, In committee: 133133Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 33Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 22Cosponsored, Became law: 22IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Draheim sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored9191000
Cosponsored133133322
How to read the blocks

Ink blocks are bills Draheim sponsored, ochre blocks bills Draheim 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

Minnesota Senate average 3.1%. Ranks 55th of 67.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Eric Lucero28
  2. Bill Lieske25
  3. Karin Housley21
  4. Paul Utke20
  5. Nathan Wesenberg19
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 Draheim’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
SF 5292Disbursement modification of workforce development fundsSponsorMay 14, 2026In committeeLabor and Employment(model)Referred to Jobs and Economic Development May 14, 2026
SF 5259Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities requirement to designate a flagship institutionSponsorMay 5, 2026In committeeEducation(model)Referred to Higher Education May 5, 2026
SF 5255City of Granada clean water and wastewater infrastructure improvements appropriation and bond issuance authorizationSponsorMay 4, 2026In committeeWater Resources Development(model)Referred to Capital Investment May 4, 2026
SF 5161PROMISE grant program prior appropriation terminationSponsorApr 16, 2026In committeeEconomics and Public Finance(model)Referred to Jobs and Economic Development Apr 16, 2026
SF 5127City of Belle Plaine public safety facility improvements appropriation and bond issuance authorizationSponsorApr 14, 2026In committeeEmergency Management(model)Referred to Capital Investment Apr 14, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

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

The lab crawls Draheim’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 Draheim 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 Draheim posted

No images from Draheim’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

269 turns, May 14, 2020 to May 11, 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 Draheim is most unusual among Minnesota Senate, 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

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Bulk files with the same data for every official:

Freshness of this profile’s data

  • What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
  • Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
  • Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
  • Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
  • Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
  • WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
  • State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.

How the measures work

What politicians say
Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
Extreme labels
A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
Policy areas and agreement
Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology (CSIP)
Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
Campaign money
Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
Votes and key votes
Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
Peers and ranks
Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.

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