Kristen McDonald Rivet
Democrat · MI-8 · U.S. House
MI-8 — U.S. House
Lean D 79%Kristen McDonald Rivet is on the ballot. Kristen McDonald Rivet vs. Thomas Smith.
Bio
Kristen Lee McDonald Rivet is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 8th congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the Michigan Senate for the 35th district, where she was the assistant majority floor leader from 2023 to 2025. Her district, located in Central Michigan, includes Flint and the Tri-Cities metropolitan area of Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 1.7 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 393 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 56
- Flint, MI · 810-238-8627
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $1.2M – $2.8M
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- $936k – $2.7M
- Since 2024
- +$301k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 34 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Kristen McDonald Rivet's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Kristen McDonald Rivet (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Rivetsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 67 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Rivet's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Democrats unite around Hegseth impeachment pushThe News Congressional Democrats aren’t eager to impeach Donald Trump. Pete Hegseth is a different story. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his leadership circle remain reluctant to lean too far into talking about impeaching the president if they re…
Semafor.com · October 9, 2026
Trump rages at 'Evil Cause' sweeping America — but GOP senator leading the charge anywayWASHINGTON — The rare 2026 issue that draws huge support from Republicans and Democrats in Congress is the same one that’s mobilized many Americans: restrictions on giant data centers.The House has overwhelmingly passed legislation forcing state regulators to…
Raw Story · September 21, 2026
Every Democrat Who Voted Against Impeaching TrumpHouse Democrats launched another Hail Mary bid to impeach President Donald Trump, but the effort was undercut by members of their own party.More than a dozen Democrats joined 213 Republicans in voting “no” Tuesday night. Another 46 Democrats simply voted “pre…
The New Republic · September 16, 2026
GOP nominee scrubbed thousands of posts — then his treason rhetoric surfaced anywayThomas Smith, the Republican nominee for a competitive Michigan congressional seat, deleted social media accounts containing thousands of posts revealing years of inflammatory and conspiratorial rhetoric, according to a new analysis.The 75-year-old retired Ge…
Raw Story · September 15, 2026
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