By state
Who has a voting rights record
States are shaded by the share of their delegation with a documented record on federal voting rights legislation: a vote, a cosponsorship or a sourced public position. Select a state to see its members.
State-by-state table (same data as the map)
| State | Members | With a record | Share | Action |
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Issue explorer
Records on the issues Black voters rank highly
Choose an issue to see which members have a documented record on it, in one sentence each.
In their own words
On voting rights and Black communities
Verbatim, from both parties and both chambers, each linked to where it was said.
Gavels
Who is projected to hold the gavels that decide
Projected chairs of the committees that decide the issues Black voters rank highly: voting rights, criminal justice, jobs, housing, small business, health, schools, food and the environment, and federal spending. Each card shows the chair's record on that committee's issue. Chairs are not final until each party organizes in January.
Member by member
Every member, grouped by record
Each tag describes a documented record, not a person. Open a card for every field and its sources.
What this means
For people who work with these offices
Keep going
Know your members. Then hold the line.
Records change as votes are cast. This map is updated as races are called and as members act on what they said.
Methodology and sources
How this map was built
The same checks for everyone
Every member is checked against the same roll-call votes and 119th Congress bills, regardless of party, chamber or race. On voting rights: the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, the For the People Act and Freedom to Vote Act, and the SAVE Act and SAVE America Act. On criminal justice and policing: the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act (vote and current cosponsors), the Invest to Protect Act, the DC CRIMES Act and the Senate JUSTICE Act. Votes come from clerk.house.gov and senate.gov; cosponsorships from congress.gov and GovInfo. On other issues: the 2024 tax package that expanded the child tax credit and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (jobs and wealth; also health and food, since it changed Medicaid and SNAP), the ROAD to Housing Act, the ACA premium tax credit extension, the student debt relief resolution and the Inflation Reduction Act. Record tags describe voting rights only; other issues appear as records, not tags. Members new to Congress have no votes yet, so their record comes from their campaigns and public statements.
Sources
Every fact links to its source. We prefer primary sources (roll calls, official sites, campaign sites, debate video) and then reputable news, including local and Black-owned outlets. Quotes are verbatim and checked against the source page; any quote we could not match word for word is left off the map. Contested facts stay off the map until settled. Third-party scorecards, where shown, are named and dated and are not our grades. We record that a member is Black only when they say so publicly, and Congressional Black Caucus membership comes from the caucus roster.
Photos are official congressional portraits where they exist. For members who have not yet served in Congress, photos come from Wikimedia Commons or the member's official or campaign site, credited in each member's sources.
The record tags
Promise statuses
- Made
- A specific, sourced promise with no action on it yet.
- Acted on
- A bill, vote, letter or funding request moved it forward, linked.
- Reversed
- A later vote or statement went the other way, linked. We never mark a promise "broken" ourselves.