The file

Chip Roy

Republican · U.S. Representative, Texas-21 · Texas · Spectrum score +79

House · Freedom Caucus · 2026 ballot ·

Chip Roy is U.S. Representative, Texas-21 in Texas. Political positions and ideology score +79 (Far right). Roy is the staffer who became the conscience.

College: University of Virginia, B.S. 1994 · University of Texas, M.S. 1995 · University of Texas School of Law, J.D. 2003
Spouse: Carrah Roy
Children: Two
Résumé: U.S. Representative · Texas-21 · 2019–
Chief of staff · Sen. Ted Cruz / Texas Attorney General · 2014–2018
Federal prosecutor · U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Texas · 2007–2009

Net worth: $2.0M
Salary: $174,000
Before office: $800K
2026 raised: $3.6M
Years in office: 7

Where Chip stands on the spectrum

Chip Roy scores +79 on Spectrum’s left–right line (far right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +79 · Far right · economic +72 · social +68 · authoritarian +39

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Roy is the staffer who became the conscience. The file is Cruz’s former counsel running a one-man rules fight: he can freeze the floor, then raise from the people who liked the freeze. That is a business model now.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$2.0M

+150% since taking office

House disclosure midpoint, 2024

Before office$800K

Now$2.0M

Cruz staffer and Texas solicitor-general track, not a land fortune. Freedom Caucus money is the PAC, not the house.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $3.6M
Cash on hand: $1.5M

Top industries

Oil & gas
Conservative PACs
Lawyers

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Cruz staffer, Texas solicitor-general track. Funds, not land.

Disclosure midpoint, 2024–25 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Joint
$50K–$250K
VXUS
Vanguard Total International
Joint
$15K–$75K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market	Joint	$50K–$250K
VXUS	Vanguard Total International	Joint	$15K–$75K

Sum of ranges $65K–$325K · midpoint $195K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

Live · checked just now

New articles land here as they publish. Checking about every 12 seconds.

Conflicts

Texas AG-world donors vs immigration and spending hard lines.
Holds on bills as leverage — including disaster aid optics.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +72
Social: +68
Authoritarian: +39
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+84
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+62
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+70
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+82
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+58
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+76
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+72
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+78
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+66
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+66
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+74
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+46
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.91

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

DW-NOMINATE ~0.91
GovTrack
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.