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Democrat · Texas Senate, district 19

Serving since Jan 12, 2021TX 2025–26 session

Portrait of Roland Gutierrez, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
10.2×
the State Senate Democrat rate of personal attacks

24% of 511 statements contain a personal attack (124 statements); the average for State Senate Democrats is 2.4%. Ranks 2nd of 329, where 1st is the highest rate.

An AI model reads each of Gutierrez’s posts on X and marks whether it attacks a person’s character, integrity or loyalty. The rate is the share of statements marked; it is compared with the average among State Senate Democrats and ranked against the same group.

At a glance

6 measures against State Senate Democrats. 35% of Gutierrez’s statements criticize a policy, 3.4 times the State Senate Democrat average of 10%. 3.7% of Gutierrez’s statements use an extreme label, 4.5 times the State Senate Democrat average of 0.8%.

The measures on which Gutierrez sits furthest from the middle of State Senate Democrats, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.

Personal attacks

24%

State Senate Democrats average 2.4% · ranks 2nd of 329

Policy criticism

35%

State Senate Democrats average 10% · ranks 8th of 329

Extreme labels

3.7%

State Senate Democrats average 0.8% · ranks 24th of 329

Attendance

92.6%

Texas Senate average 97.9% · ranks 26th of 28 · 1,343 roll calls

Talk-to-bills agreement

0.42

State Senate Democrats average 0.56 · ranks 205th of 228

CSIP ideology

−0.41

Left of 0, the centre of the scale · ± 0.02

Peer group: State Senate Democrats. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Gutierrez, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Gutierrez is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).

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What Gutierrez says

Gutierrez attacks opponents personally more than 99% of State Senate Democrats. Personal attacks in 24% of 511 statements, against 2.4% for the average State Senate Democrat; 2nd of 329.

An AI model reads each of Gutierrez’s 511 statements in the TX 2025–26 session (511 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 Senate Democrats and ranked among them.

Kinds of statement

Share of statements carrying each label, the TX 2025–26 session

0%80%
Gutierrez
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion314 statements
61%
43%
50th of 329
Policy criticism180 statements
35%
10%
8th of 329
Personal attacks124 statements
24%
2%
2nd of 329
Credit claiming15 statements
3%
16%
290th of 329
Bipartisanship2 statements
0%
3%
254th of 329
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Gutierrez's share of statements in each category against the State Senate Democrats average.
RowGutierrezPeers
Policy discussion61%43%
Policy criticism35%10%
Personal attacks24%2%
Credit claiming3%16%
Bipartisanship0%3%
511

statements classified

511 posts on X.

posts on X: 511 (100.0%)posts on X 511
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Gutierrez's statements by source
PartValue
posts on X511
How to read the bars

The thick bar is Gutierrez; the thin grey bar is the average State Senate Democrats. A longer thick bar means Gutierrez does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.

Extreme labels

Gutierrez used extreme labels in 3.7% of statements, 4.5 times the peer average. 19 statements, most often aimed at Trump; peers 0.8%.

  1. “MAGA”2
  2. “fascist”2
  3. “extreme”1
  4. “radical”1

Who gets the labels

Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements

  1. Trump5
  2. ICE3
  3. Donald Trump1
  4. MAGA1
  5. National Guard, ICE agents1
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

Statements2025-01: 262025-02: 352025-03: 182025-04: 512025-05: 362025-06: 392025-07: 352025-08: 382025-09: 242025-10: 452025-11: 172025-12: 122026-01: 222026-02: 162026-03: 172026-04: 122026-05: 62026-06: 102026-07: 62026-08: 122026-09: 172026-10: 17peak 51 · Apr ’25Personal attackspeak 58.3% · Apr ’26 · latest 5.9%Personal attacks, 2025-01: 19.2% of 26Personal attacks, 2025-02: 22.9% of 35Personal attacks, 2025-03: 38.9% of 18Personal attacks, 2025-04: 17.6% of 51Personal attacks, 2025-05: 16.7% of 36Personal attacks, 2025-06: 28.2% of 39Personal attacks, 2025-07: 14.3% of 35Personal attacks, 2025-08: 34.2% of 38Personal attacks, 2025-09: 16.7% of 24Personal attacks, 2025-10: 24.4% of 45Personal attacks, 2025-11: 41.2% of 17Personal attacks, 2025-12: 50.0% of 12Personal attacks, 2026-01: 36.4% of 22Personal attacks, 2026-02: 18.8% of 16Personal attacks, 2026-03: 35.3% of 17Personal attacks, 2026-04: 58.3% of 12Personal attacks, 2026-05: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Personal attacks, 2026-06: 20.0% of 10Personal attacks, 2026-07: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Personal attacks, 2026-08: 16.7% of 12Personal attacks, 2026-09: 17.6% of 17Personal attacks, 2026-10: 5.9% of 17Policy criticismpeak 66.7% · Sep ’25 · latest 0.0%Policy criticism, 2025-01: 42.3% of 26Policy criticism, 2025-02: 62.9% of 35Policy criticism, 2025-03: 38.9% of 18Policy criticism, 2025-04: 49.0% of 51Policy criticism, 2025-05: 55.6% of 36Policy criticism, 2025-06: 33.3% of 39Policy criticism, 2025-07: 51.4% of 35Policy criticism, 2025-08: 50.0% of 38Policy criticism, 2025-09: 66.7% of 24Policy criticism, 2025-10: 33.3% of 45Policy criticism, 2025-11: 11.8% of 17Policy criticism, 2025-12: 8.3% of 12Policy criticism, 2026-01: 4.5% of 22Policy criticism, 2026-02: 18.8% of 16Policy criticism, 2026-03: 17.6% of 17Policy criticism, 2026-04: 16.7% of 12Policy criticism, 2026-05: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy criticism, 2026-06: 10.0% of 10Policy criticism, 2026-07: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy criticism, 2026-08: 0.0% of 12Policy criticism, 2026-09: 5.9% of 17Policy criticism, 2026-10: 0.0% of 17Policy discussionpeak 86.4% · Jan ’26 · latest 58.8%Policy discussion, 2025-01: 73.1% of 26Policy discussion, 2025-02: 71.4% of 35Policy discussion, 2025-03: 66.7% of 18Policy discussion, 2025-04: 70.6% of 51Policy discussion, 2025-05: 80.6% of 36Policy discussion, 2025-06: 66.7% of 39Policy discussion, 2025-07: 68.6% of 35Policy discussion, 2025-08: 57.9% of 38Policy discussion, 2025-09: 75.0% of 24Policy discussion, 2025-10: 48.9% of 45Policy discussion, 2025-11: 17.6% of 17Policy discussion, 2025-12: 50.0% of 12Policy discussion, 2026-01: 86.4% of 22Policy discussion, 2026-02: 37.5% of 16Policy discussion, 2026-03: 29.4% of 17Policy discussion, 2026-04: 33.3% of 12Policy discussion, 2026-05: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy discussion, 2026-06: 10.0% of 10Policy discussion, 2026-07: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy discussion, 2026-08: 83.3% of 12Policy discussion, 2026-09: 52.9% of 17Policy discussion, 2026-10: 58.8% of 17Bipartisanshippeak 8.3% · Aug ’26 · latest 0.0%Bipartisanship, 2025-01: 0.0% of 26Bipartisanship, 2025-02: 0.0% of 35Bipartisanship, 2025-03: 0.0% of 18Bipartisanship, 2025-04: 0.0% of 51Bipartisanship, 2025-05: 0.0% of 36Bipartisanship, 2025-06: 0.0% of 39Bipartisanship, 2025-07: 2.9% of 35Bipartisanship, 2025-08: 0.0% of 38Bipartisanship, 2025-09: 0.0% of 24Bipartisanship, 2025-10: 0.0% of 45Bipartisanship, 2025-11: 0.0% of 17Bipartisanship, 2025-12: 0.0% of 12Bipartisanship, 2026-01: 0.0% of 22Bipartisanship, 2026-02: 0.0% of 16Bipartisanship, 2026-03: 0.0% of 17Bipartisanship, 2026-04: 0.0% of 12Bipartisanship, 2026-05: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Bipartisanship, 2026-06: 0.0% of 10Bipartisanship, 2026-07: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Bipartisanship, 2026-08: 8.3% of 12Bipartisanship, 2026-09: 0.0% of 17Bipartisanship, 2026-10: 0.0% of 17Credit claimingpeak 25.0% · Aug ’26 · latest 5.9%Credit claiming, 2025-01: 7.7% of 26Credit claiming, 2025-02: 5.7% of 35Credit claiming, 2025-03: 0.0% of 18Credit claiming, 2025-04: 2.0% of 51Credit claiming, 2025-05: 0.0% of 36Credit claiming, 2025-06: 7.7% of 39Credit claiming, 2025-07: 5.7% of 35Credit claiming, 2025-08: 0.0% of 38Credit claiming, 2025-09: 0.0% of 24Credit claiming, 2025-10: 0.0% of 45Credit claiming, 2025-11: 5.9% of 17Credit claiming, 2025-12: 0.0% of 12Credit claiming, 2026-01: 0.0% of 22Credit claiming, 2026-02: 0.0% of 16Credit claiming, 2026-03: 0.0% of 17Credit claiming, 2026-04: 0.0% of 12Credit claiming, 2026-05: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Credit claiming, 2026-06: 0.0% of 10Credit claiming, 2026-07: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Credit claiming, 2026-08: 25.0% of 12Credit claiming, 2026-09: 0.0% of 17Credit claiming, 2026-10: 5.9% of 17Extreme labelspeak 13.3% · Oct ’25 · latest 0.0%Extreme labels, 2025-01: 0.0% of 26Extreme labels, 2025-02: 0.0% of 35Extreme labels, 2025-03: 5.6% of 18Extreme labels, 2025-04: 2.0% of 51Extreme labels, 2025-05: 0.0% of 36Extreme labels, 2025-06: 5.1% of 39Extreme labels, 2025-07: 8.6% of 35Extreme labels, 2025-08: 10.5% of 38Extreme labels, 2025-09: 4.2% of 24Extreme labels, 2025-10: 13.3% of 45Extreme labels, 2025-11: 0.0% of 17Extreme labels, 2025-12: 0.0% of 12Extreme labels, 2026-01: 0.0% of 22Extreme labels, 2026-02: 0.0% of 16Extreme labels, 2026-03: 0.0% of 17Extreme labels, 2026-04: 0.0% of 12Extreme labels, 2026-05: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Extreme labels, 2026-06: 0.0% of 10Extreme labels, 2026-07: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Extreme labels, 2026-08: 0.0% of 12Extreme labels, 2026-09: 0.0% of 17Extreme labels, 2026-10: 0.0% of 17Jan ’25Jul ’25Jan ’26Jul ’26Oct ’26
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Monthly rates for Gutierrez, each row shaded against its own peak, with statement volume. Months with fewer than 10 statements are left blank.
ColumnStatementsPersonal attacksPolicy criticismPolicy discussionBipartisanshipCredit claimingExtreme labels
Jan ’252619.2%42.3%73.1%0.0%7.7%0.0%
Feb ’253522.9%62.9%71.4%0.0%5.7%0.0%
Mar ’251838.9%38.9%66.7%0.0%0.0%5.6%
Apr ’255117.6%49.0%70.6%0.0%2.0%2.0%
May ’253616.7%55.6%80.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Jun ’253928.2%33.3%66.7%0.0%7.7%5.1%
Jul ’253514.3%51.4%68.6%2.9%5.7%8.6%
Aug ’253834.2%50.0%57.9%0.0%0.0%10.5%
Sep ’252416.7%66.7%75.0%0.0%0.0%4.2%
Oct ’254524.4%33.3%48.9%0.0%0.0%13.3%
Nov ’251741.2%11.8%17.6%0.0%5.9%0.0%
Dec ’251250.0%8.3%50.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Jan ’262236.4%4.5%86.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Feb ’261618.8%18.8%37.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Mar ’261735.3%17.6%29.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Apr ’261258.3%16.7%33.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%
May ’266— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)
Jun ’261020.0%10.0%10.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Jul ’266— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)
Aug ’261216.7%0.0%83.3%8.3%25.0%0.0%
Sep ’261717.6%5.9%52.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Oct ’26175.9%0.0%58.8%0.0%5.9%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%. 2 months are hatched here.

In Gutierrez’s words

Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned

Bipartisanship

The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

Aug 16, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; bipartisanship; Public Lands and Natural Resources; Government Operations and Politics · Source

Personal attacks

The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

Oct 8, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · personal attacks; policy discussion; Government Operations and Politics; target: Trump · Source

Extreme label

The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

Jul 10, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · extreme label “extreme” aimed at ICE, Trump · Source

Examples by category

Up to five recent statements in each category

Category

Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.

  1. Posts on X (state legislators)

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    personal attacks · policy discussion · Government Operations and Politics · target: TrumpSource

  2. Posts on X (state legislators)

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    personal attacks · target: Ken PaxtonSource

  3. Posts on X (state legislators)

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    personal attacks · target: bofrenchSource

  4. Posts on X (state legislators)

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    personal attacks · policy discussion · Economics and Public Finance · target: TrumpSource

  5. 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 511 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: 511 posts on X.

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Policy

Crime and Law Enforcement is what Gutierrez talks about most: 22% of policy statements, 2.6 times the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.42 on a 0–1 scale (State Senate Democrats average 0.56; 205th of 228).

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 Gutierrez talks about. The bills Gutierrez sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.

What Gutierrez talks about

Share of policy statements by area, the TX 2025–26 session

0%35%
Gutierrez
Peers
Crime and Law Enforcement68 statements
22%
8%
Immigration67 statements
21%
4%
Economics and Public Finance42 statements
13%
10%
Government Operations and Politics42 statements
13%
14%
Health39 statements
12%
17%
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Policy areas Gutierrez talks about, as a share of policy statements, against the State Senate Democrats average.
RowGutierrezPeers
Crime and Law Enforcement22%8%
Immigration21%4%
Economics and Public Finance13%10%
Government Operations and Politics13%14%
Health12%17%
How to read the bars

The thick bar is the share of Gutierrez’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State Senate 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 Senate Democrats averages.

Talks aboutLegislates onCrime and Law EnforcementCrime and Law Enforcement, talks about: 22% (State Senate Democrats 8%)22%Crime and Law Enforcement, legislates on: 15% (State Senate Democrats 9%)15%ImmigrationImmigration, talks about: 21% (State Senate Democrats 4%)21%Immigration, legislates on: 0% (State Senate Democrats 1%)0%Economics and Public FinanceEconomics and Public Finance, talks about: 13% (State Senate Democrats 10%)13%Economics and Public Finance, legislates on: 0% (State Senate Democrats 3%)0%Government Operations andPoliticsGovernment Operations and Politics, talks about: 13% (State Senate Democrats 14%)13%Government Operations and Politics, legislates on: 9% (State Senate Democrats 8%)9%HealthHealth, talks about: 12% (State Senate Democrats 17%)12%Health, legislates on: 5% (State Senate Democrats 15%)5%
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Gutierrez's share of statements against share of bills in each policy area.
AreaTalks aboutState Senate Democrats, talks aboutLegislates onState Senate Democrats, legislates on
Crime and Law Enforcement22%8%15%9%
Immigration21%4%0%1%
Economics and Public Finance13%10%0%3%
Government Operations and Politics13%14%9%8%
Health12%17%5%15%
0.42

talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1

State Senate Democrats average 0.56. Ranks 205th of 228.

What agreement means, and what it doesn’t

Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Gutierrez legislates on exactly the areas Gutierrez 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 Gutierrez sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.

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Ideology

Gutierrez sits at −0.41 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more conservative than 82% of State Senate Democrats. Approximate range −0.44 to −0.39, which understates the uncertainty; from 2,145 donors and 548 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”.

−0.41

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −0.44 to −0.39. From 2,145 donors and 548 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Gutierrez −0.4State Senate Democrats −0.7Texas Senate +0.4All State Senate +0.1

The outlined dot is Gutierrez, 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 Gutierrez’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 Gutierrez sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State Senate Democratsmedian −0.7Gutierrez −0.4Texas Senatemedian +0.4All State Senatemedian +0.1
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Gutierrez's CSIP score of −0.41 placed against State Senate Democrats, Texas Senate, All State Senate.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Gutierrez
State Senate Democrats825−0.782%
Texas Senate30+0.47%
All State Senate1909+0.136%
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 Gutierrez 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 Gutierrez.

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Money

Gutierrez reported $257.6K in the 2026 cycle, 4.6 times the State Senate Democrats’ median of $55.5K. State filings report no small-donation total. 94% 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.

Election cycle
$257.6K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 432 itemized donors. State Senate Democrats’ median $55.5K.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.

Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)Individuals (itemized): $88.2K (34.2%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)PACs and other committees: $169.4K (65.8%)
  • Individuals (itemized)34 squares$88.2K
  • PACs and other committees66 squares$169.4K
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Sources of Gutierrez's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$88.2K34.2%
PACs and other committees$169.4K65.8%
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 Senate Democrats’ median for 2026.

2020 cycle: $1.1M$1.1M20202022 cycle: $418.9K$418.9K20222024 cycle: $215.3K$215.3K20242026 cycle: $257.6K$257.6K2026State Senate Democrats median $55.5K
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Gutierrez's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State Senate Democrats median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$1.1M
2022 cycle$418.9K
2024 cycle$215.3K
2026 cycle$257.6K

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 94% came from Texas.

  1. Texas$82.7K
  2. California$1,609
  3. Florida$633
  4. Washington$527
  5. Louisiana$375

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

Alaska: $5AKMaine: $25MEVermont: $20VTNew Hampshire: no dataNHWashington: $527WAIdaho: no dataIDMontana: $30MTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: $30MNIllinois: $142ILWisconsin: $85WIMichigan: $5MINew York: $60NYRhode Island: $43RIMassachusetts: $167MAOregon: $84ORNevada: $22NVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: $20INOhio: $77OHPennsylvania: $175PANew Jersey: $80NJConnecticut: $35CTCalifornia: $1,609CAUtah: $5UTColorado: $115CONebraska: $20NEMissouri: $50MOKentucky: $35KYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: $260VAMaryland: $53MDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: $126AZNew Mexico: $40NMKansas: $195KSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: $145TNNorth Carolina: $15NCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: $10OKLouisiana: $375LAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: $80ALGeorgia: $59GAHawaii: no dataHITexas: $82.7KTXFlorida: $633FL
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Gutierrez's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Texas$82.7K
California$1,609
Florida$633
Washington$527
Louisiana$375
Virginia$260
Kansas$195
Pennsylvania$175
Massachusetts$167
Tennessee$145
Illinois$142
Arizona$126
Colorado$115
Wisconsin$85
Oregon$84
New Jersey$80
Alabama$80
Ohio$77
New York$60
Georgia$59
Maryland$53
Missouri$50
Rhode Island$43
New Mexico$40
Connecticut$35
Kentucky$35
Montana$30
Minnesota$30
Maine$25
Nevada$22
Vermont$20
Indiana$20
Nebraska$20
North Carolina$15
Oklahoma$10
Alaska$5
Michigan$5
Utah$5
New HampshireNo data
IdahoNo data
North DakotaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
West VirginiaNo data
DelawareNo data
ArkansasNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
MississippiNo data
HawaiiNo data
432

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

94%

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.

  1. ATTORNEY$21.5K 11 donors
  2. NOT EMPLOYED$9,086 272 donors
  3. SELF$807 20 donors
  4. NONE$254 11 donors
  5. RETIRED$135 6 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. TEXAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION PAC$50.0K
  2. BORDER HEALTH PAC$25.0K
  3. TREPAC/TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS PAC$15.0K
  4. SAN ANTONIO PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS PAC$8,500
  5. WHOLESALE BEER DISTRIBUTORS OF TEXAS PAC$8,000

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. MANAGER$190 5 donors
  2. ATTORNEY$85 4 donors
  3. TEACHER$75 5 donors
  4. PHYSICIAN$50 3 donors

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Gutierrez voted with the majority of Texas Senate Democrats on 94.5% of party-line votes and missed 7.4% of 1,343 roll calls. Texas Senate on average: 89% party unity, 97.9% attendance. Across all roll calls, Gutierrez voted against the majority of Texas Senate Democrats 108 times.

1,343 roll calls Gutierrez could vote on in the TX 2025–26 session, compared with Texas Senate. 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 Gutierrez voted with the majority of Texas Senate Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

108

votes against the majority of Texas Senate Democrats

Party unity 94.5%, Texas Senate average 89%, ranks 16th of 28. 1,343 roll calls in the TX 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Gutierrez, the thin grey bar the Texas Senate average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Gutierrez
Peers
Rank
Attendance
92.6%
97.9%
26th of 28
Party unity
94.5%
89%
16th of 28
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Gutierrez's attendance and party unity against Texas Senate.
RowGutierrezPeers
Attendance92.6%97.9%
Party unity94.5%89%
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

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Sep 4, 2025
HB 18
Relating to a restriction on the acceptance of political contributions and the making of certain political expenditures by a member of the legislature and certain political committees during certain periods in which a member is absent from a legislative session; authorizing a civil penalty.
final passage
Did not vote—passD 0–8 · R 18–0Democrats 0 yea, 8 nay; Republicans 18 yea, 0 naybecame law
Sep 3, 2025
SB 5
Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and preparedness and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations.
passage
Did not vote—pass—became law · much discussed
Sep 3, 2025
HB 18
Relating to a restriction on the acceptance of political contributions and the making of certain political expenditures by a member of the legislature and certain political committees during certain periods in which a member is absent from a legislative session; authorizing a civil penalty.
passage
Did not vote—passD 0–8 · R 18–0Democrats 0 yea, 8 nay; Republicans 18 yea, 0 naybecame law
Sep 3, 2025
HB 7
Relating to prohibitions on the manufacture and provision of abortion-inducing drugs, including the jurisdiction of and effect of certain judgments by courts within and outside this state with respect to the manufacture and provision of those drugs, and to protections from certain counteractions und
final passage
Did not vote—passD 0–8 · R 17–0Democrats 0 yea, 8 nay; Republicans 17 yea, 0 naybecame law
Sep 3, 2025
HB 1
Relating to youth camp emergency plans and preparedness; authorizing penalties.
Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSHB 1 be placed on its third reading and final passage.
Did not vote—pass—became law · 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 Gutierrez most often

  1. Carol AlvaradoD1,237 shared votes89%
  2. José MenéndezD1,211 shared votes88%
  3. Nathan JohnsonD1,237 shared votes83%
  4. Molly CookD1,238 shared votes83%
  5. Borris MilesD1,190 shared votes83%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Gutierrez least often

  1. Bryan HughesR1,237 shared votes21%
  2. Mayes MiddletonR1,238 shared votes29%
  3. Kevin SparksR1,238 shared votes34%
  4. Brent HagenbuchR1,238 shared votes35%
  5. Brandon CreightonR1,237 shared votes35%
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

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Gutierrez sponsored 108 bills in the TX 2025–26 session; 10 became law. Cosponsored 21 others. 70% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Texas Senate average 65%; 10th of 28).

The bills Gutierrez 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

Sponsored108 billsSponsored, Introduced: 108108Sponsored, In committee: 9595Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 7676Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 1313Sponsored, Became law: 1010Cosponsored21 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 2121Cosponsored, In committee: 2121Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 1616Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 1212Cosponsored, Became law: 77IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Gutierrez sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored10895761310
Cosponsored212116127
How to read the blocks

Ink blocks are bills Gutierrez sponsored, ochre blocks bills Gutierrez cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.

70%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Texas Senate average 65%. Ranks 10th of 28.

Cosponsorship partners

Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Gutierrez, by number of shared bills in the TX 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.

  1. Sarah Eckhardt44
  2. César Blanco38
  3. José Menéndez35
  4. Molly Cook34
  5. Carol Alvarado33
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 Gutierrez’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
SR 50Recognizing the Ochoa family on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the opening of their family restaurant, Palenque Grill.SponsorAug 25, 2025Passed one chamberUnassignedReported enrolled Sep 4, 2025
SR 1Honoring the lives lost during the 2025 Texas flooding.SponsorAug 21, 2025Passed one chamberUnassignedReported enrolled Sep 4, 2025
SB 42Relating to exceptions to certain laws prohibiting abortion.SponsorAug 18, 2025IntroducedCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues(model)Filed Aug 18, 2025
SB 43Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.SponsorAug 18, 2025IntroducedCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues(model)Filed Aug 18, 2025
SR 4In memory of James Bruce Bugg Jr. of San Antonio.SponsorAug 18, 2025Passed one chamberUnassignedReported enrolled Sep 4, 2025

Back to topNext: Online

Online

A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. Gutierrez’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls Gutierrez’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 Gutierrez posts with a vision model.

Websites

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.

Images Gutierrez posted

No images from Gutierrez’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.

Back to topNext: Methods and sources

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 Gutierrez is most unusual among State Senate 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
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Open States
ocd-person/68767ec3-151c-413f-aeb8-f35dd6c5f35c

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.

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