SCORECARD · JULIA LETLOW accountability readout

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69/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
85
Contradiction risk25%
69
Connection density20%
86
Donor influence10%
64
Fact density10%
37
Constituency deviation5%
47
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 7

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 2

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

66.7% of 3 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 8035 ↗ NAY 2024-04-20
    Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 ($60.84 billion aid package)
    why contradicted?
    [reversal] Letlow voted against the 2024 Ukraine aid package after previously supporting Ukraine aid measures in 2022, including the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act and the 2022 Ukraine Supplemental Appropriation. Her grade from Republicans for Ukraine dropped from a B to a C. She was among 112 House Republicans opposing the bill, joining the ascendant GOP isolationist wing after earlier staking out an internationalist position. Prior vote for Ukraine aid: 2022 Ukraine Supplemental Appropriation (May 2022).
  • H.R. 5692 ↗ NAY 2023-09-28
    Ukraine Security Assistance and Oversight Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 ($300 million in Ukraine aid)
    why contradicted?
    [reversal] Letlow voted against the 2023 Ukraine supplemental, reversing her 2022 pro-Ukraine stance. This was the first major Ukraine funding vote where she broke from her earlier internationalist record. The GOP for Ukraine organization cited this vote among the factors that dropped her grade. Her top defense-sector donors (Northrop Grumman PAC $10,000; Misc Defense industry $91,669) historically back robust international engagement, creating tension between isolationist voting and donor foreign-policy preferences. Prior pro-Ukraine vote: 2022 Ukraine Supplemental Appropriation (May 2022).
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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 2

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

  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Letlow dismissed CBO projections of SNAP benefit losses as 'fear mongering,' yet the nonpartisan scorekeeper projected 5.3 million families would lose food assistance under the very bill she voted for. Her district has a 19.5% poverty rate and 131,300 adult Medicaid enrollees, making it one of the most safety-net-reliant districts in the country.
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    Both facts come from the same secondary coverage of Letlow's STOCK Act violations. Letlow blamed Merrill Lynch for the 210 late trade disclosures, while the same week House Republicans advanced a congressional stock-trading ban — highlighting the tension between her personal noncompliance with transparency law and the broader GOP push for reform.
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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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