SCORECARD · KATHERINE CLARK in office since 2025-01-03

Katherine Clark dossier →

Democratic U.S. House · MA-5 full conduct profile →
56/100
MODERATE CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
31
Contradiction risk25%
54
Connection density20%
29
Donor influence10%
96
Fact density10%
66
Constituency deviation5%
23
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 1875 votes on file. 2 aligned, 2 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 1

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

  • position_evolution SCORE 90
    Clark became the highest-ranking member of Congress to characterize the Gaza conflict as 'genocide' on August 14, then formally retracted the characterization within five days, saying she was not personally accusing Israel. The walk-back occurred amid backlash and despite her office's initial refusal to retract. As the No. 2 House Democrat with more than $700,000 in career pro-Israel donor funding ($416,380 from AIPAC alone), her oscillation between progressive activist framing and establishment pro-Israel positioning exposed a fundamental cross-pressure.
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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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