Sources and method.

Roster coverage

Roster as of November 5, 2026.

• Senate: 54 people on the roster (34 continuing, 20 projected, 0 certified), 2 seats not yet called.
• House: 244 people on the roster (243 projected, 0 certified), 47 seats not yet called.

Research coverage

• Leadership: 209 of 298 people have a sourced statement.
• Agenda: 2690 sourced positions across 28 demands and 298 people.

Roster sources

• 2026 Senate election results (NBC News Decision Desk), published November 5, 2026, checked November 5, 2026. Source for every 2026 Senate call on the roster (page last modified 11:31 a.m. ET November 5). Cross-checked against AP and New York Times calls.
• 2026 House election results (CNN), published November 5, 2026, checked November 5, 2026. Main source for House calls (results feed extracted 11:31 a.m. ET November 5).
• House election results (Associated Press calls) (The New York Times / AP), published November 5, 2026, checked November 5, 2026. Second source for House calls: 235 of 240 voting seats on the roster are called by both AP and CNN; 5 (MT-01, NC-01, NC-09, NJ-02, NY-17) by CNN only so far.
• U.S. Senate: Senators (senate.gov), published October 8, 2026, checked November 5, 2026. Continuing senators (seats not up in 2026), with each senator's class.
• congress-legislators (current members, bioguide ids) (unitedstates project), published September 24, 2026, checked November 5, 2026. Bioguide ids for people already serving; newcomers get one when sworn in.

What counts as a position

A position goes on the tracker only when we can point to something the person said or did, with a link and a date. We use, in this order: their own official statements, campaign policy pages, recorded votes, bills they sponsored or cosponsored, and interviews where they're quoted by name. A news report can establish a position when it directly supports it.

We never treat silence as support or opposition, and we never infer a position from party membership. Saying healthcare should cost less is not support for single-payer. When a plank has several demands, each one is tracked separately, so someone who backs a stock-trading ban but has said nothing about adding House seats shows as partial, with the breakdown on their page.

Votes and bills are past records. They're shown with their date and what they did, never as a promise about the next Congress.

Leadership

For senators we track their position on Chuck Schumer staying on as Senate Democratic leader. For House members we track their position on Hakeem Jeffries becoming Speaker.

Senate Democrats choose their leader by secret ballot, and House Democrats pick their Speaker nominee the same way. Nobody outside the room can see those votes, so we only ever show what a member said they would do. The House floor vote for Speaker in January 2027 is a recorded roll call; once it happens, we'll add each member's recorded vote, labelled as one.

Each statement is labelled as a public statement on the record, a position reported by a news outlet, or a recorded vote. "Committed to oppose" means the person said it publicly; a position known only from reporting says "reported".

The roster

The roster is every Democrat, and every independent who caucuses with Democrats, whose seat in the 120th Congress (starting January 2027) is settled: senators whose seats weren't up in 2026, and winners of 2026 races that a news decision desk has called. A called race is marked projected until the state certifies it. Races that haven't been called are listed as pending and left out of every total, so the denominators always say how many people they cover.

Corrections

If something here is wrong or out of date, write to [email protected] with a link to the source. We fix the record and keep the person's page at the same address.