SCORECARD · SHRI THANEDAR accountability readout

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61/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
14
Contradiction risk25%
91
Connection density20%
83
Donor influence10%
12
Fact density10%
83
Constituency deviation5%
13
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 3

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.

All silence flags for Shri Thanedar →
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 1871 votes on file. 2 aligned, 4 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 3

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

  • reversal SCORE 90
    Thanedar condemned AIPAC's spending as 'despicable' and 'corrupting' when it was used against him in 2022, saying his opponent 'invited corruption' by accepting pro-Israel money. Two years later, he welcomed and benefited from $2.3 million in AIPAC-linked super PAC spending in his own primary.
  • reversal SCORE 90
    Thanedar co-sponsored a 2021 resolution labeling Israel an 'apartheid' state and calling for an end to all U.S. military aid. After facing AIPAC-funded opposition in 2022, he fully reversed: he traveled to Israel on AIPAC's dime, became one of Congress's most vocal Israel defenders, urged unconditional military aid, and accepted AIPAC's endorsement and $2.3 million in super PAC support in 2024.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Thanedar built his 2022 campaign image around a pledge to 'never take a dime of corporate PAC money' and condemning the 'corrupting influence of special interests,' yet once in Congress he accepted tens of thousands from corporate PACs and continued claiming in 2025 that he takes no corporate PAC money — even while actively accepting it — calling the discrepancy 'rounding up.'
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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. "Shri Thanedar — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-t000488.

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