Policy criticism
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Oct 15, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy criticism; policy discussion; Government Operations and Politics; Emergency Management · Source
0.72
agreement between talk and bills (0 to 1), in the top 5% of State House Democrats
Agreement 0.72 on a 0–1 scale; the average for State House Democrats is 0.54. Ranks 12th of 503, where 1st is the closest match.
How closely the mix of policy areas in Howard’s statements matches the mix in the bills Howard sponsors and cosponsors: 1 means the same areas in the same proportions, 0 means no overlap. Ranked among State House Democrats.
At a glance
6 measures against State House Democrats. 60% of Howard’s statements discuss policy, 1.5 times the State House Democrat average of 39%. 19% of Howard’s statements criticize a policy, 1.8 times the State House Democrat average of 10%.
The measures on which Howard sits furthest from the middle of State House Democrats, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
Attendance
99.4%
Texas House average 93.1% · ranks 1st of 143 · 3,700 roll calls
Talk-to-bills agreement
0.72
State House Democrats average 0.54 · ranks 12th of 503
Policy discussion
60%
State House Democrats average 39% · ranks 109th of 764
Policy criticism
19%
State House Democrats average 10% · ranks 133rd of 764
Bipartisanship
5.0%
State House Democrats average 2.9% · ranks 144th of 764
CSIP ideology
−0.42
More conservative than 79% of State House Democrats · ± 0.03
Peer group: State House Democrats. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Howard, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Howard is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Howard says
Howard attacks opponents personally about as often as the median State House Democrat. Personal attacks in 0.2% of 581 statements, against 2.5% for the average State House Democrat; 397th of 764.
An AI model reads each of Howard’s 581 statements in the TX 2025–26 session (581 posts on X) and marks the kinds of statement it contains: a personal attack, criticism of a policy, discussion of policy, bipartisanship, credit claiming, and extreme labels. A statement can carry several. Every rate is compared with the average for State House Democrats and ranked among them.
Kinds of statement
Share of statements carrying each label, the TX 2025–26 session
0%80%
Howard
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion349 statements
60%
39%
109th of 764
Policy criticism112 statements
19%
10%
133rd of 764
Credit claiming69 statements
12%
14%
386th of 764
Bipartisanship29 statements
5%
3%
144th of 764
Personal attacks1 statements
0%
3%
397th of 764
Show the data
| Row | Howard | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 60% | 39% |
| Policy criticism | 19% | 10% |
| Credit claiming | 12% | 14% |
| Bipartisanship | 5% | 3% |
| Personal attacks | 0% | 3% |
581
statements classified
581 posts on X.
Show the data
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 581 |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is Howard; the thin grey bar is the average State House Democrats. A longer thick bar means Howard does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Extreme labels
Howard used extreme labels in 0.7% of statements, below the peer average. 4 statements, most often aimed at anti-abortion bill; peers 1.0%.
- “extreme”4
Who gets the labels
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
- anti-abortion bill1
- policies1
- Texas Republican Party1
- TX1
What an extreme label is
Calls a politician, a party or a policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who or what the label was aimed at. The lists show the five most used labels and targets; the toggle shows the rest.
Month by month
Share of statements per month, the TX 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 14 | 0.0% | 42.9% | 85.7% | 7.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Feb ’25 | 31 | 3.2% | 32.3% | 54.8% | 0.0% | 9.7% | 0.0% |
| Mar ’25 | 46 | 0.0% | 23.9% | 67.4% | 4.3% | 21.7% | 0.0% |
| Apr ’25 | 17 | 0.0% | 35.3% | 58.8% | 5.9% | 17.6% | 0.0% |
| May ’25 | 12 | 0.0% | 16.7% | 50.0% | 8.3% | 41.7% | 0.0% |
| Jun ’25 | 34 | 0.0% | 44.1% | 67.7% | 5.9% | 8.8% | 0.0% |
| Jul ’25 | 40 | 0.0% | 25.0% | 70.0% | 2.5% | 7.5% | 0.0% |
| Aug ’25 | 29 | 0.0% | 24.1% | 58.6% | 3.5% | 17.2% | 6.9% |
| Sep ’25 | 31 | 0.0% | 19.4% | 38.7% | 19.4% | 9.7% | 0.0% |
| Oct ’25 | 32 | 0.0% | 15.6% | 53.1% | 6.3% | 3.1% | 0.0% |
| Nov ’25 | 28 | 0.0% | 14.3% | 46.4% | 3.6% | 25.0% | 0.0% |
| Dec ’25 | 34 | 0.0% | 20.6% | 61.8% | 2.9% | 14.7% | 2.9% |
| Jan ’26 | 24 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 66.7% | 0.0% | 12.5% | 0.0% |
| Feb ’26 | 23 | 0.0% | 17.4% | 52.2% | 4.3% | 13.0% | 0.0% |
| Mar ’26 | 27 | 0.0% | 3.7% | 37.0% | 7.4% | 14.8% | 0.0% |
| Apr ’26 | 18 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 72.2% | 0.0% | 5.6% | 0.0% |
| May ’26 | 19 | 0.0% | 10.5% | 36.8% | 0.0% | 5.3% | 0.0% |
| Jun ’26 | 15 | 0.0% | 20.0% | 60.0% | 6.7% | 20.0% | 6.7% |
| Jul ’26 | 23 | 0.0% | 34.8% | 78.3% | 13.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Aug ’26 | 22 | 0.0% | 4.5% | 72.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Sep ’26 | 31 | 0.0% | 6.5% | 61.3% | 6.5% | 3.2% | 0.0% |
| Oct ’26 | 31 | 0.0% | 6.5% | 71.0% | 3.2% | 16.1% | 0.0% |
How to read the strips
Each row is one kind of statement; each cell is a month, shaded against that row’s own peak (darker = closer to the peak), with the peak and the latest value written at the right. The top row counts statements. The strip covers every month of the TX 2025–26 session, the same span as the rates above, including months with no statements. A month with fewer than 10 statements is hatched, not shaded: one or two posts would swing its rate to 0% or 100%.
In Howard’s words
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Personal attacks
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
Feb 14, 2025 · Posts on X (state legislators) · personal attacks; target: Greg Abbott · Source
Extreme label
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Jun 23, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy criticism; policy discussion; Health; Families; extreme label “extreme” aimed at Texas Republican Party · Source
Examples by category
Up to five recent statements in each category
Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.
Posts on X (state legislators)
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · target: Greg AbbottSource
All 581 statements
Newest first, the TX 2025–26 session
The full feed
Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 581 posts on X.
Policy
Education is what Howard talks about most: 27% of policy statements, above the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.72 on a 0–1 scale (State House Democrats average 0.54; 12th of 503).
Each policy statement is tagged by the AI model with one or more of 25 policy areas from the Congressional Research Service list, so the shares say what Howard talks about. The bills Howard sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
What Howard talks about
Share of policy statements by area, the TX 2025–26 session
0%35%
Howard
Peers
Education93 statements
27%
15%
Health92 statements
26%
15%
Government Operations and Politics64 statements
18%
15%
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues54 statements
15%
10%
Economics and Public Finance42 statements
12%
11%
Show the data
| Row | Howard | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Education | 27% | 15% |
| Health | 26% | 15% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 18% | 15% |
| Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | 15% | 10% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 12% | 11% |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is the share of Howard’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State House Democrats. A statement counts once in each of its areas, so shares can add to more than 100%. The five largest areas are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
Talks about · legislates on
Left: share of statements by policy area. Right: share of bills. Areas in order of their share of statements; both sides run from 0 to 35%. Grey ticks are the State House Democrats averages.
Show the data
| Area | Talks about | State House Democrats, talks about | Legislates on | State House Democrats, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 27% | 15% | 24% | 10% |
| Health | 26% | 15% | 29% | 15% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 18% | 15% | 9% | 8% |
| Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | 15% | 10% | 6% | 4% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 12% | 11% | 2% | 2% |
0.72
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
State House Democrats average 0.54. Ranks 12th of 503.
What agreement means, and what it doesn’t
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Howard legislates on exactly the areas Howard talks about, in the same proportions; 0 means no overlap. It does not say whether the bills match the positions in the statements, only the subjects. Bills Howard sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology
Howard sits at −0.42 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more conservative than 79% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.45 to −0.40, which understates the uncertainty; from 1,472 donors and 841 roll calls.
CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.
−0.42
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range −0.45 to −0.40. From 1,472 donors and 841 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Howard, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Howard’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.
What this means, and what it doesn’t
The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.
Where Howard sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
State House Democrats2,392 · median −0.6
Texas House148 · median +0.3
All State House5,324 · median +0.1
Show the data
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Howard |
|---|---|---|---|
| State House Democrats | 2392 | −0.6 | 79% |
| Texas House | 148 | +0.3 | 24% |
| All State House | 5324 | +0.1 | 35% |
How to read the strips
Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Howard in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Howard.
Money
Howard reported $98.4K in the 2026 cycle, 2.4 times the State House Democrats’ median of $40.4K. State filings report no small-donation total. 98% of itemized individual money came from Texas.
Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.
$98.4K
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 265 itemized donors. State House Democrats’ median $40.4K.
Where the money came from
Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.
- Individuals (itemized)34 squares$33.0K
- PACs and other committees66 squares$65.4K
Show the data
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $33.0K | 33.5% |
| PACs and other committees | $65.4K | 66.5% |
What this means, and what it doesn’t
Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.
Receipts by cycle
Itemized contributions, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Democrats’ median for 2026.
Show the data
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2020 cycle | $250.9K |
| 2022 cycle | $194.5K |
| 2024 cycle | $185.3K |
| 2026 cycle | $98.4K |
Top donor states, 2026
Itemized contributions by donor state. 98% came from Texas.
- Texas$32.4K
- Pennsylvania$254
- California$144
- South Carolina$100
- Oregon$22
Small donations
State filings report no total for small gifts.
Not reported in state filings.
Where itemized donors live
Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state
Show the data
| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Texas | $32.4K |
| Pennsylvania | $254 |
| California | $144 |
| South Carolina | $100 |
| Oregon | $22 |
| Illinois | $20 |
| Virginia | $13 |
| Maryland | $8 |
| New Jersey | $6 |
| Kentucky | $6 |
| North Carolina | $5 |
| New York | $4 |
| Kansas | $3 |
| Washington | $3 |
| New Hampshire | $2 |
| Minnesota | $2 |
| Massachusetts | $2 |
| Colorado | $2 |
| Missouri | $2 |
| New Mexico | $2 |
| Florida | $2 |
| Hawaii | $1 |
| Alaska | No data |
| Maine | No data |
| Vermont | No data |
| Idaho | No data |
| Montana | No data |
| North Dakota | No data |
| Wisconsin | No data |
| Michigan | No data |
| Rhode Island | No data |
| Nevada | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Iowa | No data |
| Indiana | No data |
| Ohio | No data |
| Connecticut | No data |
| Utah | No data |
| Nebraska | No data |
| West Virginia | No data |
| Delaware | No data |
| Arizona | No data |
| Arkansas | No data |
| Tennessee | No data |
| District of Columbia | No data |
| Oklahoma | No data |
| Louisiana | No data |
| Mississippi | No data |
| Alabama | No data |
| Georgia | No data |
265
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
98%
from Texas
Of itemized individual dollars
How to read the map
Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is Texas. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Top donor occupations
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- NOT EMPLOYED$16.6K 165 donors
- ATTORNEY$4,226 11 donors
- CRNA$1,700 6 donors
- RETIRED$1,254 5 donors
- PHYSICIAN$797 4 donors
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
- TEXAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION PAC$7,500
- HDCC INCUMBENT PROTECTION FUND$7,000
- TREPAC$5,000
- TX CRNA PAC$5,000
- TEXAS SANDS PAC$4,000
Top employers
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS$2,518 3 donors
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
Howard voted with the majority of Texas House Democrats on 93.6% of party-line votes and missed 0.6% of 3,700 roll calls. Texas House on average: 85% party unity, 93.1% attendance. Across all roll calls, Howard voted against the majority of Texas House Democrats 94 times.
3,700 roll calls Howard could vote on in the TX 2025–26 session, compared with Texas House. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Howard voted with the majority of Texas House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
94
votes against the majority of Texas House Democrats
Party unity 93.6%, Texas House average 85%, ranks 48th of 143. 3,700 roll calls in the TX 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Howard, the thin grey bar the Texas House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
80%100%
Howard
Peers
Rank
Attendance
99.4%
93.1%
1st of 143
Party unity
93.6%
85%
48th of 143
Show the data
| Row | Howard | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 99.4% | 93.1% |
| Party unity | 93.6% | 85% |
What this means, and what it doesn’t
A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.
Key votes
25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the TX 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2025 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 44–1 · R 46–37Democrats 44 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 46 yea, 37 nay | became law · party crossover · much discussed | |
| Sep 3, 2025 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 45–0 · R 76–8Democrats 45 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 76 yea, 8 nay | became law · much discussed | |
| Sep 3, 2025 | HB 8 Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions passage | Nay | With majority | pass | D 1–40 · R 78–7Democrats 1 yea, 40 nay; Republicans 78 yea, 7 nay | became law · much discussed |
| Sep 3, 2025 | SB 5 Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and preparedness and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations. adopt the conference committee report on SB 5. | Yea | With majority | pass | D 43–0 · R 86–0Democrats 43 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 86 yea, 0 nay | became law · much discussed |
| Sep 3, 2025 | HB 8 Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions passage | Yea | With majority | pass | D 45–1 · R 41–41Democrats 45 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 41 yea, 41 nay | became law · party crossover · much discussed |
How key votes are chosen
Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.
Votes most often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Howard most often
- James TalaricoD3,002 shared votes97%
- Hubert VoD3,034 shared votes97%
- John BucyD3,572 shared votes97%
- Diego BernalD3,131 shared votes97%
- Ana HernandezD3,237 shared votes96%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Howard least often
- Briscoe CainR3,429 shared votes48%
- Brian HarrisonR3,570 shared votes49%
- David LoweR3,575 shared votes49%
- Mike OlcottR3,466 shared votes50%
- Steve TothR3,545 shared votes52%
How to read the agreement lists
The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.
Full voting record
TX 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Legislation
Howard sponsored 121 bills in the TX 2025–26 session; 24 became law. Cosponsored 39 others. 45% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Texas House average 49%; 85th of 145).
The bills Howard sponsored and cosponsored in the TX 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.
Bills by stage
Counts for the TX 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 121 | 120 | 55 | 25 | 24 |
| Cosponsored | 39 | 39 | 30 | 20 | 16 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Howard sponsored, ochre blocks bills Howard cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
45%
of sponsored bills got out of committee
Texas House average 49%. Ranks 85th of 145.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Howard, by number of shared bills in the TX 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
- Lulu Flores16
- Mihaela Pleșa14
- Penny Morales Shaw12
- John Bucy9
- Sarah Eckhardt9
What this means, and what it doesn’t
The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Howard’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| HR 129 | In memory of Abby Lynn Pohl of Austin. | Sponsor | Sep 2, 2025 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Reported enrolled Sep 3, 2025 |
| HR 130 | In memory of Linnie Anne McCown of Austin. | Sponsor | Sep 2, 2025 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Reported enrolled Sep 3, 2025 |
| HB 272 | Relating to a grant program to provide financial assistance to municipalities and counties that use helicopters to respond to disasters. | Sponsor | Aug 20, 2025 | Introduced | Emergency Management(model) | Filed Aug 20, 2025 |
| HB 226 | Relating to the required provision to campers at youth camps of active radio frequency identification tags. | Cosponsor | Aug 18, 2025 | In committee | Emergency Management(model) | Referred to Public Health Aug 20, 2025 |
| SB 1 | Relating to campground and youth camp safety. | Cosponsor | Aug 18, 2025 | Became law | Emergency Management(model) | Effective immediately Sep 5, 2025 |
Online
A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. Howard’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Howard’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Howard posts with a vision model.
Websites
- 1
pages crawled
1changes in 90 days
Campaign site
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://teamhowardtx.com/&ved=2ahUKEwjrsZLUiYKGAxWZmYkEHVnYAVIQFnoECDwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2rIxLsddJ6JtoEeqPZIVNyLast crawled Oct 1, 2026
1pages crawled
0changes in 90 days
How to read the counts
“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.
Social accounts
- Xdonnahowardtx
- Facebookwww.facebook.com/donna.howard.1675/friends_mutual/
- Instagramwww.instagram.com/teamhowardtx/
- YouTubewww.google.com/search?q=donna+howard+youtube&client=safari&sca_esv=32288416509471f0&sca_upv=1&rls=en&sxsrf=ADLYWIKMIvtBylscgp0HKUd_qv-gopzpDw%3A1715309451196&ei=i4s9ZqvAC5mzptQP2bCHkAU&ved=0ahUKEwjrsZLUiYKGAxWZmYkEHVnYAVIQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=donna+howard+youtube&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiFGRvbm5hIGhvd2FyZCB5b3V0dWJlMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigAUjpHVDTA1jJHHADeAGQAQCYAYECoAGSCaoBBTUuMy4xuAEDyAEA-AEBmAIMoALGCcICChAAGLADGNYEGEfCAg0QABiABBiwAxhDGIoFwgITEC4YgAQYsAMYQxjIAxiKBdgBAcICChAjGIAEGCcYigXCAgUQABiABMICBhAAGAcYHsICExAuGIAEGBQY1AIYhwIYxwEYrwHCAg0QLhiABBgUGNQCGIcCwgIKEAAYgAQYFBiHAsICChAAGIAEGEMYigWYAwCIBgGQBg-6BgQIARgIkgcFNi41LjGgB7ws&sclient=gws-wiz-serp
- Emaildonna.howard@house.texas.gov
Images Howard posted
No images from Howard’s posts have been described.
About the descriptions
Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
State floor speeches
No transcribed state floor speeches are matched to this legislator yet.
Floor speeches
Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.
Methods and sources
How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.
The headline
The headline is the measure on which Howard is most unusual among State House Democrats, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.
The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.
A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).
Identifiers
- Profile id
- 349071fd-3c36-43c6-aaca-6d7f9d04322d
- Open States
- ocd-person/349071fd-3c36-43c6-aaca-6d7f9d04322d
Bulk files with the same data for every official:
Freshness of this profile’s data
- What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
- Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
- Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
- Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
- Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
- WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
- State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.
How the measures work
- What politicians say
- Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
- Extreme labels
- A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
- Policy areas and agreement
- Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
- Ideology (CSIP)
- Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
- Campaign money
- Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
- Votes and key votes
- Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
- Peers and ranks
- Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.
America’s Political Pulse · Polarization Research Lab