# KILLSHOTS — UNANIMOUS! ## Demuth (R-MN) × Hong (D-WI): The Roll Calls, Compressed. Inarguable Truths, Zero Nuance. *Format: killshots. Each is a conclusion, not an argument. Every word documentable against the linked primary sources. Companions: [[Essay_5000_Unanimous]], [[Essay_0850_The_Consent_Agenda]], [[Unanimous_Roll_Call_File]].* --- **KILLSHOT 1 — 454 FOR 454** Every recorded floor vote of both careers has been read: 2,557 in the Minnesota House, 806 in the Wisconsin Assembly. Four hundred fifty-four were final-passage votes with zero nays. Demuth and Hong voted yes on all four hundred fifty-four. Neither has ever been the member who said no when nobody else did. — Sources: [MN Chamber Voting System](https://www.house.mn.gov/votes/); [WI Assembly vote records](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/related/votes/assembly); [[Unanimous_Roll_Call_File]] --- **KILLSHOT 2 — THE TIE WAS THE MOST UNANIMOUS CHAMBER IN EIGHT YEARS** Unanimity in the Minnesota House rises as the majority weakens: 21.4% of passage votes under the DFL's 70-64 House, **45.6% in the 67-67 tie Demuth presides over.** The chamber the country covered as a constitutional crisis produced more unanimous passage votes in two years than the DFL trifecta did. — Source: full-census parse of 2,557 roll calls, [MN House votes](https://www.house.mn.gov/votes/) --- **KILLSHOT 3 — THREE OF FOUR WISCONSIN LAWS PASSED WITH NO NAMES TAKEN** Assembly Rule 76 lets any question pass on a voice vote unless a member and fifteen seconds demand otherwise. In a fixed-seed sample of 120 enacted laws across three sessions, **89 — 74.2% — cleared the Assembly with no roll call at all.** Nobody wanted to be counted against them. Nobody had to be. — Sources: [Assembly Rule 76](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/related/rules/assembly/9/76); [Wis. Const. art. IV, § 20](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/wisconsinconstitution/IV,20); [2025 Acts index](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/related/acts) --- **KILLSHOT 4 — THE RATCHET IS UNANIMOUS** In all 454 zero-nay passage votes across two states and eleven years, not one bill reduced a license, eliminated a board, shrank a standing appropriation, or narrowed an agency's jurisdiction. The consensus only ever expands. That is not agreement about good governance. That is agreement about who benefits from expansion. — Source: [[Unanimous_Roll_Call_File]], Part II-C --- **KILLSHOT 5 — TWO CANDIDATES WITHOUT DEGREES, ZERO VOTES AGAINST THE CREDENTIAL** Demuth holds no college degree on any public record. Hong's Blue Book entry reads "attended University of Wisconsin–Madison" — attended, no degree. Neither has ever cast a recorded vote against the expansion of a state licensing, credentialing, or certification structure. Dentistry licensure and fees: 134-0. Private detectives: 129-0. County jailers reclassified under the state retirement system: 96-0. Rural pharmacy grants through the Higher Educational Aids Board: **99-0**, a perfect chamber. — Sources: [VoteSmart — Demuth](https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/183728/lisa-demuth); [Blue Book 2025-26](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/misc/lrb/blue_book/2025_2026/030_state_legislators.pdf); [MN HF3516, 134-0](https://www.house.mn.gov/Votes/Details?SessionKey=302&BillNumber=HF3516); [WI AB 28, 96-0](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/votes/assembly/av0009); [WI AB 255, 99-0](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/votes/assembly/av0174) --- **KILLSHOT 6 — SHE PROVED THE FILTER, THEN VOTED FOR EVERYTHING THAT CAME THROUGH IT** Hong claimed 75% of Republican bills got Assembly hearings while under 2% of Democratic bills did. PolitiFact checked it against nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau memos and rated it **True**: 76.5% versus **1.9%**. She then voted aye on 121 of 121 bills that survived that filter, with no absences. — Sources: [PolitiFact Wisconsin, 7/26/2022](https://api.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/26/francesca-hong/state-gop-only-let-less-2-democratic-bills); [[Unanimous_Roll_Call_File]], Parts I-D and II-B --- **KILLSHOT 7 — THE BILL NUMBER IS NOT THE BILL** HF729 left the Minnesota House 134-0 as a bill "providing for a new name for an advisory council," came back from the Senate as the civil-unrest funding package, and repassed 107-25 — **all twenty-five nays cast by Democrats, not one Republican voting no.** HF3825 left 134-0 as a crime-victim-notification bill and came back as the health-occupations licensure omnibus. HF447 passed 70-57 on a strict party line as a contested civil-law package and came back as the Revisor's technical corrections act, 132-0. The state's own vote pages show each bill's *current* description, not the one members voted on. A published unanimous vote can describe legislation the chamber never saw. — Sources: [MN HF729](https://www.house.mn.gov/Votes/Details?SessionKey=257&BillNumber=HF0729); [MN HF3825](https://www.house.mn.gov/Votes/Details?SessionKey=302&BillNumber=HF3825); [MN HF447](https://www.house.mn.gov/Votes/Details?SessionKey=300&BillNumber=HF0447); [2023 Minn. Laws ch. 73](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2023/0/Session+Law/Chapter/73/) --- **KILLSHOT 8 — UNANIMOUS, PARTY-LINE, UNANIMOUS — ONE BILL, SEVEN WEEKS** HF1370, the deep-fake sexual images bill, passed the Minnesota House 127-0 on March 30, 2023; came back from conference and passed 71-57 with exactly one Republican in the affirmative, Demuth voting no; and passed 131-0 sixteen days after that. — Source: [MN HF1370 roll calls](https://www.house.mn.gov/Votes/Details?SessionKey=300&BillNumber=HF1370) --- **KILLSHOT 9 — ONLY THREE MARQUEE VOTES IN THE TRIFECTA WERE ACTUALLY PARTY-LINE** Of every headline bill of Minnesota's 2023-24 DFL trifecta — the PRO Act, cannabis, paid leave, the ERA, the red-flag law, conversion therapy, the CROWN Act — **exactly three had zero cross-party defectors**: universal school meals (70-58), Driver's Licenses for All (69-60), and the elections bill (70-57). Two DFL members, Pelowski and Lislegard, account for nearly every other Democratic crossing. — Sources: [HF5](https://www.house.mn.gov/cco/journals/2023-24/J0209020.htm); [HF4](https://www.house.mn.gov/cco/journals/2023-24/J0130015.htm); [HF3](https://www.house.mn.gov/cco/journals/2023-24/J0413048.htm) --- **KILLSHOT 10 — UNANIMOUS ON THE MONEY, PARTY-LINE ON THE POWER** March 26, 2020: Demuth votes for the $330.6 million COVID package, 99-4, and says "I am proud of how well we worked together to get this done." The four nays are the entire New House Republican Caucus — Bahr, Drazkowski, Miller, Munson. Over the next fourteen months she votes nine times, with a unanimous Republican bloc, to terminate the emergency under which that money is spent. All nine fail. Her own press release notes the move "fell mainly on party lines." — Sources: [MN Journal, 3/26/2020, p.7108](https://www.house.mn.gov/cco/journals/2019-20/J0326076.htm); [Demuth release, 3/26/2020](https://www.house.mn.gov/members/profile/news/15498/42898); [Demuth release, 7/14/2020](https://www.house.mn.gov/members/profile/news/15498/43409); [NHRC roster](https://www.house.mn.gov/Caucus/View/NR/43789) --- **KILLSHOT 11 — SHE HAS NEVER JOINED A NAY BLOC SMALLER THAN ELEVEN** Demuth defected from her caucus 68 times in 2,428 recorded votes. In eight years she has never joined a group of fewer than eleven members voting no, or fewer than thirty-two voting yes. Her only two solo votes were procedural motions — one on felon voting rights, one on a large-capacity magazine ban. Neither was a recorded position on a bill. — Source: [[Unanimous_Roll_Call_File]], Part IV; [MN HF3402 Journal, 3/26/2026](https://www.house.mn.gov/cco/journals/2025-26/J0326053.htm) --- **KILLSHOT 12 — THE ONE TIME SHE WAS NEARLY ALONE, SHE TOOK IT BACK** November 9, 2023: AB 298 passes the Wisconsin Assembly 95-2. The nays are C. Anderson and Hong — the thinnest company of her career. The Assembly Journal, page 446, immediately after: "Representative Hong asked unanimous consent to be recorded as voting 'Aye' on the previous question. Granted." The tally was never amended. In 47 journals reviewed, 123 members asked to change a recorded vote. Exactly one of them was Hong. This one. — Sources: [WI Assembly Journal, 11/9/2023, p.446](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/journals/assembly/20231109.pdf); [AB 298 roll call, 95-2](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/votes/assembly/av0120) --- **KILLSHOT 13 — NEITHER HAS EVER VOTED ALONE** Demuth: zero sole nays in eight years. Hong: zero votes in which she was the only Democrat voting her way, in six. The members who do vote alone are named — Wichgers, Clancy, Madison, Knodl in Madison; Bahr, Drazkowski, Roach in St. Paul. Neither front-runner is on that list. — Sources: [WI AB 4, 90-1](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2021/related/votes/assembly/av0010); [WI AB 109, 95-1](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/votes/assembly/av0040); [WI SB 787, 98-1](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/votes/assembly/av0186); [[Unanimous_Roll_Call_File]], Parts VI-A and VI-C --- **KILLSHOT 14 — 127 DEFECTIONS, ZERO OUTCOMES CHANGED** Demuth broke with her caucus 68 times. Hong broke with hers 59 times. **Not one of the 127 changed the result of a vote.** Hong's near-lone nays were cast on bills passing 90-6, 92-4, 94-3, 95-4. Demuth's defections were 57 yes votes joining bills that were carrying anyway. Loud and costless in one state; silent and costless in the other. — Source: [[Unanimous_Roll_Call_File]], Parts IV-D and V-H --- **KILLSHOT 15 — NEITHER HAS EVER EXPLAINED A DEFECTION** No statement from Demuth exists on the Human Rights Act race definition, the racism-as-a-public-health-crisis resolution, the CROWN Act, Met Council redistricting, the Rice statue, or the magazine-ban reconsideration. No statement from Hong exists on Victims of Communism Memorial Day, the child and dependent care credit, the police union contract, rural veterinary loans, or the grooming bill. On the grooming bill a colleague did explain — Rep. Phelps, on the record, in full. The reasoning was available. Neither front-runner gave it. — Sources: [Demuth release index](https://www.house.mn.gov/members/profile/news/15498); [Wisconsin Examiner, 1/14/2026 — Phelps quoted](https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/01/14/assembly-passes-constitutional-amendment-child-grooming-proposals/) --- **KILLSHOT 16 — UNANIMITY IS NOT POWER** Wisconsin bills that drew zero recorded opposition in the Assembly and died anyway, killed by Senate inaction: human trafficking victim services grants (96-0), rural pharmacy practice grants (**99-0**), the veterans property tax credit threshold (96-0), truancy reduction grants (98-0), community EMS grants (97-0). A chamber can agree completely and produce nothing. It does so routinely. — Source: [[Unanimous_Roll_Call_File]], Part VI-D --- **KILLSHOT 17 — THE TWO PERCENT IS THE CAMPAIGN** On roughly two percent of what a state legislator does, Demuth and Hong are opposites, and the coverage is entirely about that two percent. The other ninety-eight percent is unanimous, expands every year, appears on no campaign website, and is the only bipartisan achievement either state has managed without interruption since 2019. It is not on tomorrow's ballot. It never is. — Sources: all roll calls linked above; [[Essay_5000_Unanimous]] --- *Every killshot compresses documented fact. The compression is the argument. Built from [[Unanimous_Roll_Call_File]], [[Demuth_hub]], [[Hong_hub]], [[Hong_Demuth_Convergence]].* #Actors_and_Architects