SCORECARD · STEVEN HORSFORD accountability readout

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Democratic U.S. House · NV-4 full conduct profile →
78/100
HIGH CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
99
Contradiction risk25%
89
Connection density20%
29
Donor influence10%
96
Fact density10%
78
Constituency deviation5%
37
Voting misalignment5%
0

Weighted composite, 0–100. Identical to the figure on the Congress monitor. Each bar is the component's normalised 0–100 contribution before weighting.

01

Silence on donor-funded topics 9

Topics where donors have documented interests but the official has no public statement on record. Silence is the absence of expected speech — not proof of intent.

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02

Vote-vs-platform contradictions 1

Roll-call votes that contradict the official's own stated platform commitments. Each links to the bill and the contradiction rationale.

12.5% of 8 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 29 ↗ YEA 2025-01-22
    Laken Riley Act (mandatory ICE detention for undocumented immigrants charged with theft-related crimes)
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Horsford was one of only 46 House Democrats to vote for this hallmark Trump immigration bill. His district is 35.9% Hispanic and 17.7% foreign-born with large immigrant communities in Las Vegas. The vote placed him in tension with immigrant-rights advocates who later commended him for voting against DHS funding. He was the only Nevada Democrat to face criticism from both sides: Republicans praised him while immigration groups expressed 'disappointment.'
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03

Broken promises 0

Documented public commitments paired with the documented action that broke them. Each carries a primary-source citation for the violation.

No documented broken promises on file.

04

Documented contradictions 4

Stated-position-vs-revealed-conduct contradictions analysed against the official's commitments, scored by strength of the contradiction.

  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 90
    Horsford campaigns as a champion for Nevada's working families, yet he voted against the 'No Tax on Tips' bill that would directly increase take-home pay for Nevada's tipped hospitality workers — the backbone of his district's economy. Both sources are from independent outlets with different hostnames (stevenhorsford.com and thenevadaglobe.com).
  • reversal SCORE 90
    Horsford voted to expand mandatory ICE detention via the Laken Riley Act in January 2025 but then voted to deny funding to the same agency in February-March 2026, citing concerns about ICE's 'out-of-control' conduct. The Laken Riley Act is only effective with a funded ICE, making his votes operationally contradictory. Both sources are from independent outlets with different hostnames (reviewjournal.com and lasvegassun.com).
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 60
    Horsford publicly positions himself as a serious legislator delivering for military families, yet his campaign spending pattern shows luxury hotel and bar expenditures funded by donors — including a 2010 pay-to-play scandal where he solicited $25,000 for access to legislative leaders. Both sources are from independent outlets with different hostnames.
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    [auto-downgraded: both claims come from the same source host] Horsford received an 'A' grade from Stand With Crypto and over $110,000 from crypto PACs, then voted for the GENIUS Act and CLARITY Act — bills that senior Democratic leaders (Maxine Waters, Elizabeth Warren) warned would enable Trump's personal crypto conflicts of interest and weaken consumer protections. The alignment between his crypto-industry donations and his votes raises questions about whether financial support influenced his legislative decisions. Both sources are independent outlets with different hostnames (newsfromthestates.com as source for both his vote and the criticism).
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What this scorecard does and doesn't claim

Every figure above is a count of records the platform already holds, each click-through-able to its source. The scorecard adds no inference, no forecast, and no narrative — it aggregates what is documented.

A populated scorecard is not a finding of corruption. It documents the volume of stated-vs-revealed tension, donor-adjacent silence, and broken commitments on the public record for this official. Silence in particular is the absence of an expected statement; it can have innocent explanations and is never presented as proof. Read each item's source before drawing conclusions.

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CitationGoblin House. "Steven Horsford — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-h001066.

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