SCORECARD · TROY E. NEHLS accountability readout

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Republican U.S. House · TX-22 full conduct profile →
71/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
69
Contradiction risk25%
87
Connection density20%
88
Donor influence10%
23
Fact density10%
85
Constituency deviation5%
12
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 6

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 3

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

42.9% of 7 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 3746 ↗ NAY 2023-05-31
    Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (debt ceiling suspension)
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Nehls voted against preventing a catastrophic U.S. default in the wealthiest congressional district in Texas (median income $110,835, homeownership 75.7%). Default would have devastated his district's high homeownership, retirement accounts, and financial sector employment. 149 Republicans supported the compromise; Nehls joined 71 who voted no, prioritizing fiscal messaging over preventing potential economic catastrophe for his affluent suburban constituents.
  • H.R. 3233 ↗ NAY_UNVERIFIED 2021-05-19
    National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex Act
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Nehls voted against establishing a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol attack that he personally experienced and helped defend against. All 217 Democrats and 35 Republicans voted yes; Nehls joined 175 Republicans in opposition. He had witnessed the mob break glass panels inches from his face and stood with Capitol Police to defend the chamber, yet voted to block an independent investigation into the attack.
  • H.Res. 24 ↗ YEA 2021-01-07
    Objecting to Pennsylvania's Electoral College certification (January 6, 2021)
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Nehls helped barricade the House chamber doors against the January 6 mob alongside Capitol Police officers, personally witnessing the violence. Hours later, he voted to sustain the objection to Pennsylvania's electoral votes — granting the mob's demand to overturn the election. His district, TX-22, is a suburban, majority-minority, highly-educated district (47% bachelor's+) that voted for Trump by only a narrow margin for the district's partisan lean, and whose constituents have a material interest in democratic stability and rule of law.
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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 3

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

  • reversal SCORE 90
    Nehls voted for the GOP debt ceiling bill in April 2023 calling it 'responsible,' then voted against the final bipartisan Fiscal Responsibility Act just 35 days later — a reversal on the same policy question of whether to suspend the debt ceiling. The final bill was a compromise that 149 Republicans supported. Sources are from different hostnames (nehls.house.gov vs. cbsnews.com).
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Nehls brands himself as the 'law and order' candidate and former sheriff, yet he has been found by the OCE to have probable cause for converting campaign funds to personal use (a potential violation of federal law) and has violated the STOCK Act by failing to file required financial disclosures. Sources are from different hostnames (johntfloyd.com vs. opensecrets.org).
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    Nehls voted for the OBBBA calling it 'promises made, promises kept,' then five days later cosponsored a Democratic bill to repeal a provision within it. Both quotes are documented in independent sources (nehls.house.gov and newsweek.com, different hostnames), but the contradiction reflects his acknowledgment that large bills contain provisions he opposes — a common legislative dynamic.
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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. "Troy E. Nehls — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-n000026.

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