Twenty-one people signed a sheet at Trent Kelly's Columbus office in 2017 asking for a town hall-style meeting. Eight years later, a weekly protest was standing on the sidewalk outside, and one of the people in it was asking for the same thing.
Nearly 4 in 10 Mississippi women experience intimate partner violence. Trent Kelly, a former city prosecutor and district attorney, voted no on VAWA reauthorization in 2019 and again in 2021.
Only 12 House Republicans voted to cap insulin at $35 a month. Mississippi's Trent Kelly was not one of them — in a state where diabetes costs $5.1 billion a year.
The $50 billion rural health fund Guest is touring the district to promote was created by the same budget bill he voted for — the one KFF estimates cuts $911 billion from Medicaid, including $137 billion from rural areas. The fund covers about a third of the rural damage, and the law doesn't require the money to reach rural hospitals at all.
Guest signed the Supreme Court brief to overturn four states' results, voted to reject Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electors, then told a Jackson TV station in February 2021 that no evidence of substantial fraud was ever presented. He was a district attorney for eleven years.
Michael Guest filed a required stock disclosure eight months late in 2021 — while he was the second-ranking Republican on the Ethics Committee, the panel that enforces the STOCK Act. He paid the $200 fee. He now chairs that committee.
On June 9, 2026, the House passed S. 2 by 214 to 212. At that margin every single Republican yes vote was the deciding vote. Here are the 187 still in their races who have report cards on this site.
Edison Chouest Offshore has spent more than $7 million on parties, PACs and members of the committees that oversee the Coast Guard — then sold the Coast Guard a broken icebreaker for $125 million. Today the man holding the House gavel over the Coast Guard takes more money from Chouest than from any other employer.
A 40-year law enforcement veteran struck a recording device out of a woman's hand in a Capitol hallway. She says she filed a police report. His response was to call her a China-backed protester and lump her in with the Chinese Communist Party and Hamas.
