Joshua David Hawley is the senior U.S. Senator from Missouri. First elected in 2018 after serving as the Missouri Attorney General, Hawley is a highly credentialed constitutional lawyer who famously litigated the landmark Hobby Lobby case before the Supreme Court. In the Senate, he has forged a unique ideological path, combining hardline social conservatism with intense, almost progressive, anti-corporate economic populism. In the 119th Congress (2026), Hawley operates as the undisputed leader of the Republican Party’s anti-monopoly wing. He chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, utilizing the platform to launch aggressive investigations into Big Tech corporations (specifically Google and Meta) regarding child exploitation and data privacy. He frequently breaks with traditional Republican orthodoxy by proposing bills to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes, capping credit card interest rates, and partnering with progressive Democrats (like Elizabeth Warren) to break up massive healthcare conglomerates.