SCORECARD · RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHI accountability readout

Raja Krishnamoorthi dossier →

Democratic U.S. House · IL-8 full conduct profile →
68/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
31
Contradiction risk25%
69
Connection density20%
83
Donor influence10%
68
Fact density10%
80
Constituency deviation5%
10
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 4

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 0

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

No platform-contradicting votes among 1867 votes on file. 7 aligned, 3 related.

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 60
    Krishnamoorthi co-authored the TikTok ban (H.R. 7521) as a national security hawk, yet simultaneously courted the crypto industry — voting for FIT21, GENIUS Act, and CLARITY Act — and accepted $10 million in super PAC support from Fairshake. The contradiction is between his hawkish posture toward Chinese-controlled technology platforms (TikTok) and his embrace of an industry (crypto) that critics argue has its own vulnerabilities to foreign adversary exploitation and money laundering. Both positions align with his financial backers: TikTok's competitors benefit from a ban; crypto benefits from favorable regulation.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 60
    Krishnamoorthi publicly demanded 'not a single dollar more' for ICE/DHS at the January 2026 debate, while his opponents noted he had previously voted to fund DHS and had accepted more than $90,000 from Palantir's CTO — an ICE contractor. Krishnamoorthi said he donated the Palantir contributions to immigrant rights groups as soon as the connection came to his attention, but the donations dated back to 2015 and were only donated after public scrutiny.
  • position_evolution SCORE 60
    Krishnamoorthi voted to 'express gratitude' to ICE in a June 2025 antisemitism resolution (H.Res. 488), then seven months later called for abolishing 'Trump's ICE' at a Senate primary debate and said 'not a single dollar more' for the agency. His opponents seized on the vote. Krishnamoorthi defended it as a vote to condemn antisemitism, noting the ICE language was a Republican addition. The contradiction reflects the tension between his pro-Israel voting record and his progressive immigration positioning.
  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 30
    Krishnamoorthi championed the ETHICS Act to ban congressional stock trading, yet reported retirement accounts with Vanguard funds that hold individual stocks. While mutual funds are generally excluded from congressional stock trading ban proposals, the juxtaposition of his 'clean hands' messaging with financial holdings — however permissible — was noted by opponents. His net worth of $3.9 million and Senate campaign spending of $28 million also drew attention to the scale of his personal and political finances.
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What this scorecard does and doesn't claim

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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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