[CAPTURE PORTAL] 119TH CONGRESS

// Legislative Integrity Monitor

Goblin House Intelligence

Mike Bost

Republican · Representative, IL ·12

Score Components

29 ELEVATED

Connection Density 20%

0 → 0

Donor Influence 10%

0 → 0

Silence Risk 25%

0 → 0

Contradiction Risk 25%

92 → 23

Intelligence Volume 10%

55 → 6

Constituency Deviation 5%

0 → 0

Voting Misalignment 5%

0 → 0

% = weight in composite score · Raw component 0–100 × weight = weighted contribution (→) · Sum of contributions = overall score. Hover a row for details.

[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Cook Partisan Voting Index: R+48

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: public transit utilization: 0.3%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: unemployment rate: 4.6%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: median rent: $835

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: median home value: $151,200

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: U.S. citizenship rate: 98.9%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: foreign-born population: 1.99% (14,800 people)

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: White (Non-Hispanic) population share: 88% (651,000 people)

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: median age: 41.6

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: bachelor's degree or higher: 24.4%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: homeownership rate: 75.0%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: poverty rate: 8.8% (ACS) / 13.1% (Data USA 2024)

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: median household income: $68,540

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: population: 746,831 (2024 Data USA)

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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: Illinois Amendment 1 — Right to Collective Bargaining (2022) (2022) — passed, margin 58.6% Yes — 41.4% No

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 31-33 (share 0.11)

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 44-45 (share 0.12)

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 62 (share 0.15)

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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Knight Hawk Coal / Foresight Energy (coal mining operations) (1200 employees)

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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH) / Memorial Hospital of Carbondale (3500 employees)

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No connections mapped

Bill	Vote	Date	Alignment
Iran War Powers Resolution (March 2026)	nay	2026-03-05	deviating
Government Funding Continuing Resolution — November 2025 Shutdown Deal	yea	2025-11-12	aligned
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — House final passage, July 2025	yea	2025-07-03	misaligned
Censuring Representative Al Green of Texas (March 2025)	yea	2025-03-06	deviating
Laken Riley Act (119th Congress, January 2025)	yea	2025-01-07	deviating
SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, 2024)	yea	2024-09-18	mixed
Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 ($26 billion)	yea	2024-04-20	aligned
Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 ($61 billion)	nay	2024-04-20	deviating
Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (Debt Ceiling)	nay	2023-05-31	deviating
Objection to Electoral College Certification — January 6, 2021	yea	2021-01-06	deviating

Last contradiction analysis: Never

platform_vs_vote 90/100

Platform: "Bost has campaigned for years as a fiscal conservative, opposing 'Biden-Pelosi socialist tax and spending plan.' He was a founding member of the House"

Vote: on "Bost voted yea on the OBBBA (H.R. 1) on both May 22 and July 3, 2025. The CBO projected the bill wou"

Bost built his political brand as a fiscal conservative and anti-spending House Freedom Caucus member, yet voted yea on the OBBBA which the CBO projected would add $3.4 trillion to the national debt. Two years earlier, he voted against the much less

statement_vs_disclosure 90/100

Platform: "Ahead of January 6, 2021, Bost released a statement saying 'At a time of great uncertainty for our country, it is vitally important that the American "

Vote: on "After the Capitol riot, Bost suggested his own vote contributed to the violence. Roughly 50 proteste"

Bost publicly stated that 'it is vitally important that the American people have faith in our elections and trust the results' — then voted to overturn those very results on January 6, 2021, hours after the Capitol was breached. The Illinois Educatio

Last silence detection: Never

No active silences

No donor interests mapped

No constituency baseline modelled

No platform commitments archived

No committee memberships recorded

Scoring Methodology

The Capture Risk Score is a composite 0–100 index measuring potential regulatory capture of elected officials. It is computed from seven weighted components:

Component	Weight	Signal
Silence Risk	25%	Topics where donors have interests but the official is silent
Contradiction Risk	25%	Stated positions contradicted by voting record (recent findings boosted)
Connection Density	20%	Mapped relationships to lobbyists, contractors, interest groups
Intelligence Volume	10%	Documented facts from verified sources (logarithmic scale)
Donor Influence	10%	Distinct donors with interests overlapping committee jurisdiction
Constituency Deviation	5%	Gap between district priorities and legislative focus
Voting Misalignment	5%	Floor votes contradicting stated platform positions

Each component produces a raw score 0–100. The weighted sum yields the overall score. Tier thresholds: Critical ≥ 45, High ≥ 36, Elevated ≥ 22, Moderate ≥ 10, Low < 10.

Officials without at least 2 documented facts, 1 contradiction analysis, 1 voting record, or 1 constituency baseline are marked Insufficient Evidence and excluded from numeric ranking.

Contradiction findings from the last 180 days receive a recency boost. High-severity contradictions (score ≥ 70) receive additional weight.

Full methodology: /congress/methodology

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