The file

Tulsi Gabbard

Republican · Director of National Intelligence · Hawaii · Spectrum score +18

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Tulsi Gabbard is Director of National Intelligence in Hawaii. Political positions and ideology score +18 (Center-right). Gabbard is sold as a truth-teller.

College: Hawaii Pacific University, B.S.B.A. 2009
Spouse: Abraham Williams (m. 2015). Previously Eduardo Tamayo (div.)
Children: None on the public record
Résumé: Director of National Intelligence · 2025–
U.S. Representative · Hawaii-2 · 2013–2021
Hawaii Army National Guard · 2003–2020

Net worth: $2.2M
Salary: $253,100
Before office: $300K
2026 raised: —
Years in office: 24

Where Tulsi stands on the spectrum

Tulsi Gabbard scores +18 on Spectrum’s left–right line (center-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 +18 · Center-right · economic +38 · social +53 · authoritarian +25

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Gabbard is sold as a truth-teller. The file is a politician who switched teams and got the most sensitive job in the building. You can like the anti-war record and still ask why DNI is the prize — and who asked for it.

Finances

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

Net worth

$2.2M

+633% since taking office

Disclosure midpoint, 2025

Before office$300K

Now$2.2M

Hawaii legislature to DNI is not a hedge-fund path. Book, media, and the 2020 presidential leftover PACs fill the gap.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $0
Cash on hand: $0

Top industries

Books
Media
Veterans groups

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Book and leftover campaign funds. DNI is the conflict surface, not NVDA.

OGE-style, 2025 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

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

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

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

Conflicts

Director of National Intelligence after years as a Democratic heretic on Syria and the security state — the appointment is the tell.
Hindu-nationalist donor questions from the House years that both parties buried when she became useful.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +38
Social: +53
Authoritarian: +25
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+44
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+30
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+68
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+38
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+6
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+76
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+26
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+58
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+12
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+20
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): -0.18

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

House record
2024–26 alignment
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.