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Republican · Texas House, district 82

Serving since Jan 12, 1993TX 2025–26 session

Portrait of Tom Craddick, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
74%
of sponsored bills got out of committee, in the top 5% of the Texas House

74% of 65 sponsored bills got out of committee; the average for the Texas House is 49%. Ranks 7th of 145, where 1st is the highest share.

The share of bills Craddick sponsored that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, ranked within the Texas House. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position as well as effort.

At a glance

6 measures against the Texas House. Craddick reported $267.2K in the 2026 cycle, in the top tenth of State House Republicans (median $33.7K). Craddick voted against the majority of Texas House Republicans 255 times; party unity 69%, in the bottom quarter of the Texas House (average 85%).

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

Out of committee

74%

Texas House average 49% · ranks 7th of 145

Itemized, 2026

$267.2K

State House Republicans’ median $33.7K · ranks 175th of 2,521

Party unity

69%

Texas House average 85% · ranks 120th of 143 · 255 votes against the majority of Texas House Republicans

From Texas, 2026

100%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 392nd of 2,335 State House Republicans

Attendance

96.8%

Texas House average 93.1% · ranks 44th of 143 · 3,701 roll calls

CSIP ideology

+0.33

More liberal than 53% of State House Republicans · ± 0.03

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

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Craddick says

No statements for the TX 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

No policy statements for the TX 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

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Ideology

Craddick sits at +0.33 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 53% of State House Republicans. Approximate range +0.31 to +0.36, which understates the uncertainty; from 145 donors and 879 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”.

+0.33

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.31 to +0.36. From 145 donors and 879 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Craddick +0.3State House Republicans +0.4Texas House +0.3All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Craddick, 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 Craddick’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 Craddick sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Republicansmedian +0.4Craddick +0.3Texas Housemedian +0.3All State Housemedian +0.1
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Craddick's CSIP score of +0.33 placed against State House Republicans, Texas House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Craddick
State House Republicans2917+0.447%
Texas House148+0.355%
All State House5324+0.171%
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 Craddick 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 Craddick.

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Money

Craddick reported $267.2K in the 2026 cycle, 7.9 times the State House Republicans’ median of $33.7K. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% 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
$267.2K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 32 itemized donors. State House Republicans’ median $33.7K.

Where the money came from

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

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  • Individuals (itemized)35 squares$94.2K
  • PACs and other committees65 squares$173.0K
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Sources of Craddick's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$94.2K35.3%
PACs and other committees$173.0K64.7%
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 Republicans’ median for 2026.

2020 cycle: $323.8K$323.8K20202022 cycle: $134.6K$134.6K20222024 cycle: $182.1K$182.1K20242026 cycle: $267.2K$267.2K2026State House Republicans median $33.7K
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Craddick's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Republicans median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$323.8K
2022 cycle$134.6K
2024 cycle$182.1K
2026 cycle$267.2K

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 100% came from Texas.

  1. Texas$94.2K

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: no dataAKMaine: no dataMEVermont: no dataVTNew Hampshire: no dataNHWashington: no dataWAIdaho: no dataIDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: no dataMNIllinois: no dataILWisconsin: no dataWIMichigan: no dataMINew York: no dataNYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: no dataMAOregon: no dataORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: no dataINOhio: no dataOHPennsylvania: no dataPANew Jersey: no dataNJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: no dataCAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: no dataKYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: $94.2KTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Craddick's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Texas$94.2K
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo data
IllinoisNo data
WisconsinNo data
MichiganNo data
New YorkNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
MassachusettsNo data
OregonNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
IndianaNo data
OhioNo data
PennsylvaniaNo data
New JerseyNo data
ConnecticutNo data
CaliforniaNo data
UtahNo data
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
KentuckyNo data
West VirginiaNo data
VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
FloridaNo data
32

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

100%

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. PRESIDENT$24.5K 4 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF TEXAS PAC$100.5K
  2. HILLCO PAC$10.0K
  3. TEXANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM PAC$10.0K
  4. TX DIAMONDBACK ENERGY, INC. PAC$10.0K
  5. TEXAS REALTORS PAC (TREPAC)$7,500

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

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Votes

Craddick voted with the majority of Texas House Republicans on 69% of party-line votes and missed 3.2% of 3,701 roll calls. Texas House on average: 85% party unity, 93.1% attendance. Across all roll calls, Craddick voted against the majority of Texas House Republicans 255 times.

3,701 roll calls Craddick 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 Craddick voted with the majority of Texas House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

255

votes against the majority of Texas House Republicans

Party unity 69%, Texas House average 85%, ranks 120th of 143. 3,701 roll calls in the TX 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Craddick, the thin grey bar the Texas House average. The scale runs from 60% to 100% to show the gap.

60%100%
Craddick
Peers
Rank
Attendance
96.8%
93.1%
44th of 143
Party unity
69%
85%
120th of 143
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Craddick's attendance and party unity against Texas House.
RowCraddickPeers
Attendance96.8%93.1%
Party unity69%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

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Sep 3, 2025
HB 1
Relating to youth camp emergency plans and preparedness; authorizing penalties.
passage
YeaWith majoritypassD 44–1 · R 46–37Democrats 44 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 46 yea, 37 naybecame law · party crossover · much discussed
Sep 3, 2025
SB 1
Relating to campground and youth camp safety.
passage
YeaWith majoritypassD 45–0 · R 76–8Democrats 45 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 76 yea, 8 naybecame 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
YeaWith majoritypassD 1–40 · R 78–7Democrats 1 yea, 40 nay; Republicans 78 yea, 7 naybecame 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.
YeaWith majoritypassD 43–0 · R 86–0Democrats 43 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 86 yea, 0 naybecame 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—passD 45–1 · R 41–41Democrats 45 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 41 yea, 41 naybecame 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 Craddick most often

  1. Pat CurryR3,505 shared votes97%
  2. Angie ButtonR3,512 shared votes96%
  3. John LujanR3,539 shared votes95%
  4. Ryan GuillenR3,516 shared votes95%
  5. Paul DysonR3,559 shared votes95%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Craddick least often

  1. Brian HarrisonR3,477 shared votes61%
  2. Briscoe CainR3,334 shared votes62%
  3. David LoweR3,482 shared votes62%
  4. Mike OlcottR3,392 shared votes63%
  5. Steve TothR3,452 shared votes65%
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

Craddick sponsored 65 bills in the TX 2025–26 session; 37 became law. Cosponsored 53 others. 74% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Texas House average 49%; 7th of 145).

The bills Craddick 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

Sponsored65 billsSponsored, Introduced: 6565Sponsored, In committee: 6161Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 4848Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 3939Sponsored, Became law: 3737Cosponsored53 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 5353Cosponsored, In committee: 5050Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 2828Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 2525Cosponsored, Became law: 2121IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Craddick sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored6561483937
Cosponsored5350282521
How to read the blocks

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

74%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Texas House average 49%. Ranks 7th of 145.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Kevin Sparks28
  2. Drew Darby9
  3. Pat Curry5
  4. Josey Garcia4
  5. Penny Morales Shaw4
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 Craddick’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
HCR 20Commemorating the 75th anniversary of St. Ann's Catholic School in Midland.SponsorSep 2, 2025Became lawUnassignedSigned by the Governor Sep 17, 2025
HB 298Relating to a vacancy in the office of senator or representative due to excessive absence.CosponsorAug 25, 2025In committeeGovernment Operations and Politics(model)Referred to State Affairs Aug 26, 2025
HB 295Relating to election procedures regarding accepting a voter with a residence address that is not current and the immediate effect of a voter's registration after the registrar's receipt of certain change of address notices.CosponsorAug 25, 2025In committeeGovernment Operations and Politics(model)Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) Aug 28, 2025
HCR 16Congratulating Barbara Jean Bolden Yarbrough of Midland on the occasion of her 90th birthday.SponsorAug 25, 2025Became lawUnassignedSigned by the Governor Sep 17, 2025
HCR 13Urging the federal government to take immediate action to curb the spread of the New World screwworm in Texas.CosponsorAug 22, 2025Became lawAgriculture and Food(model)Signed by the Governor Sep 17, 2025

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Online

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

The lab crawls Craddick’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 Craddick 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 Craddick posted

No images from Craddick’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.

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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 Craddick is most unusual among Texas House, 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

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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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