Credit claiming
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Sep 17, 2025 · Posts on X (state legislators) · credit claiming · Source
0.41
agreement between talk and bills (0 to 1), in the bottom quarter of State Senate Republicans
Agreement 0.41 on a 0–1 scale; the average for State Senate Republicans is 0.52. Ranks 187th of 226, where 1st is the closest match.
How closely the mix of policy areas in Reeves’s statements matches the mix in the bills Reeves sponsors and cosponsors: 1 means the same areas in the same proportions, 0 means no overlap. Ranked among State Senate Republicans.
At a glance
5 measures against the Tennessee Senate. 64% of the 111 bills Reeves sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom half of the Tennessee Senate. Reeves missed 0.2% of 9,039 roll calls, attendance in the bottom half of the Tennessee Senate (average 99.6%).
The measures on which Reeves sits furthest from the middle of the Tennessee Senate, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
Party unity
99.5%
Tennessee Senate average 95.3% · ranks 4th of 33 · 17 votes against the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans
Talk-to-bills agreement
0.41
State Senate Republicans average 0.52 · ranks 187th of 226
Out of committee
64%
Tennessee Senate average 70% · ranks 23rd of 33
Attendance
99.8%
Tennessee Senate average 99.6% · ranks 22nd of 33 · 9,039 roll calls
CSIP ideology
+0.37
More conservative than 52% of State Senate Republicans · ± 0.06
Statements
92
92 posts on X
Peer group: Tennessee Senate. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Reeves, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Reeves is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Reeves says
Reeves criticizes policies less than 93% of State Senate Republicans. Policy criticism in 0% of 92 statements, against 9.5% for the average State Senate Republican; 331st of 354.
An AI model reads each of Reeves’s 92 statements in the TN 2025–26 session (92 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 TN 2025–26 session
0%80%
Reeves
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion24 statements
26%
37%
252nd of 354
Credit claiming14 statements
15%
15%
156th of 354
Personal attacks0 statements
0%
2%
272nd of 354
Policy criticism0 statements
0%
9%
331st of 354
Bipartisanship0 statements
0%
2%
311th of 354
Show the data
| Row | Reeves | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 26% | 37% |
| Credit claiming | 15% | 15% |
| Personal attacks | 0% | 2% |
| Policy criticism | 0% | 9% |
| Bipartisanship | 0% | 2% |
92
statements classified
92 posts on X.
Show the data
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 92 |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is Reeves; the thin grey bar is the average State Senate Republicans. A longer thick bar means Reeves does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Extreme labels
Reeves used no extreme labels in 92 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 TN 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 10 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 10.0% | 0.0% |
| Feb ’25 | 17 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 23.5% | 0.0% | 23.5% | 0.0% |
| Mar ’25 | 17 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 29.4% | 0.0% | 5.9% | 0.0% |
| Apr ’25 | 17 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 17.6% | 0.0% | 17.6% | 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 | 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) |
| Jul ’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) |
| Aug ’25 | 5 | — (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 | 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) |
| Oct ’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) |
| Nov ’25 | 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) |
| Dec ’25 | 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) |
| Jan ’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) |
| Feb ’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) |
| Mar ’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) |
| Apr ’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) |
| May ’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) |
| Jun ’26 | 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) |
| 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 TN 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; 11 of them have no statements.
In Reeves’s words
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Policy discussion
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Aug 18, 2025 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; Agriculture and Food · 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.
No statements in this category in this window.
All 92 statements
Newest first, the TN 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: 92 posts on X.
Policy
Agriculture and Food is what Reeves talks about most: 29% of policy statements, 4.7 times the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.41 on a 0–1 scale (State Senate Republicans average 0.52; 187th of 226).
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 Reeves talks about. The bills Reeves sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
What Reeves talks about
Share of policy statements by area, the TN 2025–26 session
0%39%
Reeves
Peers
Agriculture and Food7 statements
29%
6%
Commerce4 statements
17%
4%
Education4 statements
17%
14%
Energy3 statements
13%
6%
Armed Forces and National Security2 statements
8%
6%
Show the data
| Row | Reeves | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture and Food | 29% | 6% |
| Commerce | 17% | 4% |
| Education | 17% | 14% |
| Energy | 13% | 6% |
| Armed Forces and National Security | 8% | 6% |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is the share of Reeves’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 39%. Grey ticks are the State Senate Republicans averages.
Show the data
| Area | Talks about | State Senate Republicans, talks about | Legislates on | State Senate Republicans, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture and Food | 29% | 6% | 5% | 3% |
| Commerce | 17% | 4% | 4% | 3% |
| Education | 17% | 14% | 6% | 10% |
| Energy | 13% | 6% | 3% | 3% |
| Armed Forces and National Security | 8% | 6% | 0% | 2% |
0.41
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
State Senate Republicans average 0.52. Ranks 187th of 226.
What agreement means, and what it doesn’t
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Reeves legislates on exactly the areas Reeves 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 Reeves sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology
Reeves sits at +0.37 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 52% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.32 to +0.43, which understates the uncertainty; from 0 donors and 1,443 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”.
+0.37
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +0.32 to +0.43. From 0 donors and 1,443 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Reeves, 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 Reeves’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 Reeves sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
State Senate Republicans1,083 · median +0.4
Tennessee Senate33 · median +0.3
All State Senate1,909 · median +0.1
Show the data
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Reeves |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Senate Republicans | 1083 | +0.4 | 52% |
| Tennessee Senate | 33 | +0.3 | 61% |
| All State Senate | 1909 | +0.1 | 73% |
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 Reeves 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 Reeves.
Money
No campaign-finance data.No campaign-finance records are matched to this official.
Votes
Reeves voted with the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans on 99.5% of party-line votes and missed 0.2% of 9,039 roll calls. Tennessee Senate on average: 95.3% party unity, 99.6% attendance. Across all roll calls, Reeves voted against the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans 17 times.
9,039 roll calls Reeves could vote on in the TN 2025–26 session, compared with Tennessee 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 Reeves voted with the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
17
votes against the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans
Party unity 99.5%, Tennessee Senate average 95.3%, ranks 4th of 33. 9,039 roll calls in the TN 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Reeves, the thin grey bar the Tennessee Senate average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
80%100%
Reeves
Peers
Rank
Attendance
99.8%
99.6%
22nd of 33
Party unity
99.5%
95.3%
4th of 33
Show the data
| Row | Reeves | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 99.8% | 99.6% |
| Party unity | 99.5% | 95.3% |
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 TN 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2026 | HJR 8 Memorials, Death - U.S. Senator James Ralph Sasser - FLOOR VOTE: REFER TO COMMITTEE 5/6/2026 Passed | Yea | With majority | pass | D 0–18 · R 66–1Democrats 0 yea, 18 nay; Republicans 66 yea, 1 nay | became law |
| Apr 23, 2026 | HJR 1530 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jordyn Brown, Salutatorian, Gordonsville High School - FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 4/23/2026 Passed | Yea | With majority | pass | D 6–0 · R 27–0Democrats 6 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 27 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| Apr 23, 2026 | SJR 1267 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Liya Rakeshbhai Patel, Valedictorian, Cumberland County High School - FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 4/23/2026 Passed | Yea | With majority | pass | D 5–0 · R 27–0Democrats 5 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 27 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| Apr 23, 2026 | HB 2585 Damages - As introduced, states that the amount of damages awarded as noneconomic damages must not exceed $1 million in a health care liability action arising from obstetric or maternity negligence resulting in the death or permanent injury of a pregnant or postpartum woman. - Amends TCA Section 29- FLOOR VOTE: Third Consideration 4/23/2026 Failed | Nay | With majority | fail | D 6–0 · R 6–19Democrats 6 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 6 yea, 19 nay | party crossover |
| Apr 23, 2026 | HB 2111 Correctional Programs - As enacted, creates the state families of incarcerated individuals advisory board within the department of correction for the purposes of assisting the families of incarcerated individuals. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 41. FLOOR VOTE: MESSAGE CALENDAR 2 CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENT # 4 4/23/2026 Passed | Yea | With majority | pass | D 19–0 · R 75–0Democrats 19 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 75 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 Reeves most often
- Paul RoseR4,421 shared votes100%
- Jack JohnsonR4,504 shared votes100%
- Dawn WhiteR4,494 shared votes100%
- Bill PowersR4,528 shared votes100%
- Ed JacksonR4,503 shared votes100%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Reeves least often
- Heidi CampbellD4,249 shared votes92%
- Jeff YarbroD3,967 shared votes93%
- Charlane OliverD4,098 shared votes93%
- Sara KyleD4,080 shared votes93%
- London LamarD3,746 shared votes94%
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
TN 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Legislation
Reeves sponsored 111 bills in the TN 2025–26 session; 39 became law. Cosponsored 0 others. 64% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Tennessee Senate average 70%; 23rd of 33).
The bills Reeves sponsored and cosponsored in the TN 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 TN 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 111 | 109 | 44 | 39 | 39 |
| Cosponsored | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Reeves sponsored, ochre blocks bills Reeves cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
64%
of sponsored bills got out of committee
Tennessee Senate average 70%. Ranks 23rd of 33.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Reeves, by number of shared bills in the TN 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 Reeves’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| SJR 1145 | Memorials, Recognition - Health Information Technology Week - | Sponsor | Apr 16, 2026 | Became law | Unassigned | Signed by Governor. May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1144 | Memorials, Recognition - Kayla Markwei, 2026 Boys & Girls Club of Rutherford County Youth of the Year - | Sponsor | Apr 15, 2026 | Became law | Unassigned | Signed by Governor. May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1143 | Memorials, Recognition - Rosalie Clement - | Sponsor | Apr 15, 2026 | Became law | Unassigned | Signed by Governor. May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 986 | Memorials, Interns - Alaya Fuqua - | Sponsor | Mar 24, 2026 | Became law | Unassigned | Signed by Governor. Apr 16, 2026 |
| SJR 948 | Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Agricultural Enhancement Program, 20th Anniversary - | Sponsor | Mar 17, 2026 | Became law | Unassigned | Signed by Governor. Apr 16, 2026 |
Online
A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. Reeves’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Reeves’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 Reeves posts with a vision model.
Websites
Official site
wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/legislatorinfo/member.aspx?district=S14&ga=114Last crawled Oct 1, 2026
1pages crawled
1changes in 90 days
- 31
pages crawled
25changes 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 Reeves posted
No images from Reeves’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 Reeves is most unusual among Tennessee 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
- Profile id
- fa4bd8d0-c567-4434-a24a-6d0bf9759f0b
- Open States
- ocd-person/fa4bd8d0-c567-4434-a24a-6d0bf9759f0b
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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