The file

Josh Hawley

Republican · U.S. Senator, Missouri · Missouri · Spectrum score +54

Senate · New Right ·

Josh Hawley is U.S. Senator, Missouri in Missouri. Political positions and ideology score +54 (Right). Hawley wants to be the intellectual of the populist right.

College: Stanford University, B.A. 2002 · Yale Law School, J.D. 2006
Spouse: Erin Morrow Hawley (m. 2008)
Children: Three
Résumé: U.S. Senator · Missouri · 2019–
Attorney General · Missouri · 2017–2019
Law professor · University of Missouri · 2011–2016

Net worth: $2.8M
Salary: $174,000
Before office: $400K
2026 raised: $7.2M
Years in office: 9

Where Josh stands on the spectrum

Josh Hawley scores +54 on Spectrum’s left–right line (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 +54 · Right · economic +31 · social +66 · authoritarian +39

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Hawley wants to be the intellectual of the populist right. The file is a book contract, a fist, and a university-trained prosecutor who found a lane attacking the universities. Read the antitrust bills and the FEC file in the same sitting.

Finances

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

Net worth

$2.8M

+600% since taking office

Senate disclosure + books, 2024

Before office$400K

Now$2.8M

Yale Law, AG, then two books and a New Right speaking circuit. Not Thiel-rich. Rich enough to lecture about Big Tech while fundraising from people who use it.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $7.2M
Cash on hand: $3.1M

Top industries

Lawyers
Conservative PACs
Publishing
Small-dollar

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Books and a New Right circuit. Index funds, not a desk.

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

VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Joint
$100K–$500K
VXUS
Vanguard Total International
Joint
$30K–$150K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market	Joint	$100K–$500K
VXUS	Vanguard Total International	Joint	$30K–$150K

Sum of ranges $130K–$650K · midpoint $390K

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

Jan. 6 fist photo as both albatross and donor cue.
Antitrust speeches vs a donor class that still includes the usual Missouri industries.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +31
Social: +66
Authoritarian: +39
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+36
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+30
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+68
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+24
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages-10
Unions, higher minimum wage, worker power
Immigration+84
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+46
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+68
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+74
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+70
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+40
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+54
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.62

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

Senate record
Public writing
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.