The file

Mike Johnson

Republican · Speaker of the House · Louisiana · Spectrum score +62

House · 2026 ballot ·

Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House in Louisiana. Political positions and ideology score +62 (Far right). Johnson was a backbench culture lawyer until the caucus needed someone nobody had dirt on.

College: Louisiana State University, B.S. 1995 · LSU Law Center, J.D. 1998
Spouse: Kelly Johnson (m. 1999)
Children: Four
Résumé: Speaker of the House · 2023–
U.S. Representative · Louisiana-4 · 2017–
Louisiana House of Representatives · 2015–2017

Net worth: $1.8M
Salary: $223,500
Before office: $250K
2026 raised: $9.2M
Years in office: 9

Where Mike stands on the spectrum

Mike Johnson scores +62 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 +62 · Far right · economic +66 · social +70 · authoritarian +41

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Johnson was a backbench culture lawyer until the caucus needed someone nobody had dirt on. The file is that dirt-not-found: a modest balance sheet, a maximal legal project on election and family law, and energy money from a Gulf state. The MSM skip is the clients from the ADF years.

Finances

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

Net worth

$1.8M

+620% since taking office

House disclosure midpoint, 2025

Before office$250K

Now$1.8M

Shreveport lawyer, not a millionaire caucus. Speakership brought the leadership-PAC premium, not a Pelosi chart.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $9.2M
Cash on hand: $3.4M

Top industries

Leadership PACs
Oil & gas
Evangelical PACs
Lawyers

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Shreveport lawyer, not a trader. Retirement funds, not a Pelosi sheet.

House disclosure, 2024 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

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

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

Speaker who once wrote the Alliance Defending Freedom briefs now scheduling the floor on a one-vote margin.
Louisiana energy donors vs a national brand built on the 2020 amicus brief.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +66
Social: +70
Authoritarian: +41
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+68
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+62
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+70
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+70
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+58
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+68
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+84
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+76
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): 0.54

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

DW-NOMINATE
Speakership 2023–26
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.