SCORECARD · JAMES CLYBURN in office since 2025-01-03

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52/100
MODERATE CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
69
Contradiction risk25%
69
Connection density20%
0
Donor influence10%
80
Fact density10%
33
Constituency deviation5%
9
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.

  • South Carolina redistricting negotiations (2021-2022) 425 days silent
    Expected position: As the state's most powerful Black Democrat and a senior House leader, Clyburn would be expected to publicly oppose Republican redistricting efforts that diluted Black voting strength or at minimum disclose his private negotiations. Evidence of activity on adjacent topics: Clyburn said nothing publicly as Republicans drew maps that made SC's 1st District unwinnable for Democrats. His office denied involvement until ProPublica revealed in May 2023 that his chief of staff had secretly delivered a hand-drawn map to GOP staffers in November 2021 that became the starting point for the final plan. Primary URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-rep-james-clyburn-protected-his-district-at-a-cost-to-black-democrats
  • law & lobbying firms
    Interested donors: Honeywell International PAC, American Association For Justice PAC, Federal Bipartisan Voluntary Public Affairs Committee Of The, American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC, Mcguirewoods Federal PAC
    Honeywell International PAC, American Association For Justice PAC, Federal Bipartisan Voluntary Public Affairs Committee Of The, American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC, Mcguirewoods Federal PAC (amounts: $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $6,000 (2024)) — interest area: law & lobbying firms
  • other / unclassified
    Interested donors: National Council Of Textile Organizations Inc Political Action Committee, Kelley Drye & Warren PAC
    National Council Of Textile Organizations Inc Political Action Committee, Kelley Drye & Warren PAC (amounts: $5,000 (2024), $6,500 (2024)) — interest area: other / unclassified
  • party & leadership pacs
    Interested donors: Gridiron-PAC
    Gridiron-PAC (amounts: $5,000 (2026)) — interest area: party & leadership pacs
  • corporate pacs, industry unlisted
    Interested donors: Vulcan Materials Co. P. A. C., Maynard Nexsen PAC, Milliken & Company PAC, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation PAC
    Vulcan Materials Co. P. A. C., Maynard Nexsen PAC, Milliken & Company PAC, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation PAC (amounts: $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026)) — interest area: corporate pacs, industry unlisted
  • colleagues' leadership pacs
    Interested donors: Common Good PAC, Gridiron-PAC
    Common Good PAC, Gridiron-PAC (amounts: $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026)) — interest area: colleagues' leadership pacs
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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 1882 votes on file. 4 aligned, 0 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 2

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

  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 90
    Clyburn's public denial of involvement in Republican redistricting is directly contradicted by ProPublica's reporting based on public records, legal filings, and interviews showing his aide delivered a confidential map to GOP staffers that shaped the final racially gerrymandered map. Both claims originate from the same ProPublica investigation.
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    [auto-downgraded: both claims come from the same source host] Clyburn simultaneously denied facilitating Republican gerrymandering while admitting he made requests that resulted in his district losing majority Black status, and supported the NAACP lawsuit against the map his aide helped craft.
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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. "James Clyburn — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 16, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/james-clyburn.

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