[CAPTURE PORTAL] 119TH CONGRESS

// Legislative Integrity Monitor

Goblin House Intelligence

Vicente Gonzalez

Democratic · Representative, TX ·34

Score Components

26 ELEVATED

Connection Density 20%

0 → 0

Donor Influence 10%

0 → 0

Silence Risk 25%

20 → 5

Contradiction Risk 25%

64 → 16

Intelligence Volume 10%

52 → 5

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: Bachelor's Degree or Higher: 19.3% (national avg. 33.7%)

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Homeownership Rate: 67.0%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Cook Partisan Voting Index: EVEN (2024); D+9 (2022)

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Foreign-Born Population Share: 22% (171,000 residents)

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Hispanic/Latino Population Share: 90.6%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Population (2024 ACS): 778,225

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Poverty Rate: 22.2% (LegisLetter); 26.1% (DataUSA 2024)

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Median Household Income: $53,104 (ACS 2024); $51,228 (Census 2023)

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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: Texas Proposition 11 — Increase Homestead Exemption for Seniors and Disabled to $200,000 (2025) — passed, margin 88% Yes to 12% No (statewide, preliminary)

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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: Texas Proposition 4 — $18 Billion Property Tax Relief (Constitutional Amendment) (2023) — passed, margin 83% Yes to 17% No (statewide)

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting (share 0.05)

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 92 - Public Administration (share 0.07)

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

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 61 - Educational Services (share 0.12)

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 62 - Health Care and Social Assistance (share 0.18)

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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Texas Southmost College (1500 employees)

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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Port of Brownsville (2000 employees)

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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Brownsville Independent School District (2500 employees)

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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Valley Baptist Medical Center (Brownsville/Harlingen) (3000 employees)

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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (5000 employees)

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No connections mapped

Bill	Vote	Date	Alignment
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (FY2025 Budget Reconciliation)	nay	2025-07-03	aligned
SAVE Act of 2025	nay	2025-04-10	misaligned
Laken Riley Act	yea	2025-01-07	mixed
Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act of 2024	yea	2024-07-10	deviating
Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (TikTok	yea	2024-03-13	aligned
Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act	nay	2024-01-30	mixed

Last contradiction analysis: Never

reversal 90/100

Platform: "Gonzalez was one of only five House Democrats to vote Yea on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act (H.R. 8281) on July 10, 2024, which r"

Vote: on "Gonzalez voted Nay on the identical SAVE Act (H.R. 22) on April 10, 2025, joining 207 other Democrat"

Gonzalez voted Yea on the SAVE Act in July 2024, making him one of only five House Democrats to support proof-of-citizenship voting requirements. Ten months later, he voted Nay on the identical bill (H.R. 22) — a complete reversal on the same policy

statement_vs_disclosure 60/100

Platform: "Gonzalez told POLITICO in February 2025: 'I don't listen to the ACLU — I listen to my district, how it feels on the ground,' justifying his Yea vote o"

Vote: on "The ACLU gave Gonzalez a 100% rating on its most recent legislative scorecard (2021), noting that '9"

Gonzalez publicly disavowed the ACLU to justify his conservative border-security vote, telling POLITICO 'I don't listen to the ACLU.' Yet the ACLU's own scorecard reveals Gonzalez voted with the organization 100% of the time (9 out of 9 scored votes)

Last silence detection: Never

Gaza ceasefire and AIPAC funding relationship (October 2023 – February 2024)

144d silent

Expected position: As a Democrat whose district includes constituents who organized protests specifically about his AIPAC funding and complicity in Gaza, Gonzalez would be expected to address the prot

Sanctuary cities legislation (No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act, February 2025)

17d silent

Expected position: Gonzalez voted Yea on the Laken Riley Act in January 2025, breaking with most Texas Democrats. When the House prepared to vote on the sanctuary cities defunding bill weeks later, Go

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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