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Ro Khanna

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Ro Khanna

Member of Congress, California 17th
Congressional transaction reports, roll-call votes

Lifetime record

No receipts yet. The record opens the day their words and a document first meet.

The record as a path

Ro Khanna
Five things in JanuaryStill open
Statements we checked4

What the colours mean

Each root, and the card it starts from

  • RoutineThe gap exists but means nothing. Most threads land here, and saying so is the point.
  • AlignedWords and filings point the same way, but nothing was promised.
  • KeptA checkable promise the filings confirm was honoured.
  • MissedA checkable promise with a deadline, and the deadline passed without it being met.
  • TellThe gap reveals something the words alone would not. Red stays rare on purpose.
  • Still openAn open question. It runs to the date something is due to settle it.
  • Open callA published forecast still running, scored at its deadline.
  • Call wonA finished call that was right. Blue, as on the board.
  • Call lostA finished call that was wrong. It stays on the board for good.

Each step along a root

  • SaidTheir own words: a post, a speech, an interview, a call.
  • TradeA buy or a sell in a disclosure report or a Form 4.
  • FilingAnother document on the public record.
  • Law or orderA vote, a bill, an executive order, a rule.
  • CourtA complaint, an order or a judgment.
  • DataAn official number: Treasury, Medicare, the Fed, an agency release.
  • EventSomething that happened and is on the record.
  • StockThe move since the thread opened. Green up, orange down.

Words are blue. Documents are grey and told apart by their icon. The last step takes the colour of the verdict, or of the question while it is still open. Nothing here claims one thing caused another: it is what followed, in order, each with its source.

No receipts on Ro Khanna yet. The file opens the day their words and filings first meet. Their disclosures are on the desk.

The playbook

He represents Silicon Valley, has said in public that members of Congress should not trade individual stocks, and his household filed eight transaction reports in 2026 by mid-September, counted from the House Clerk''s own index. That combination is the reason he is here: a stated position on trading, next to a steady stream of trade reports.

Read the reports carefully before drawing anything from them. The owner column matters: trades in a spouse''s or a dependent''s account are disclosed under his name but are not his decisions in the way his votes are, and the reports say which is which. What makes a receipt is a dated statement about trading or about a company on one side and a dated, attributed transaction on the other.

The other seam is his district. He speaks about the technology companies based in it constantly, and any trade report touching those companies can be set against what he said about them that month.

What we're watching

  • Ongoing Transaction reports as they land, read from the primary PDF, with the owner column recorded every time.
  • Ongoing Statements about a ban on congressional trading, dated, next to the household's filing cadence.
  • Ongoing Baseline, read from his Oct 7 report: about 460 transactions in one month across eight family trusts, every line marked as his wife's or his children's, nearly all under $15,000, bought and sold in baskets on a handful of days. That is a managed portfolio. A line in his own name, or a single large purchase outside a basket day, would be the thing to notice.

Statement stream, awaiting a filing pair

  • AI super PACs spent over $127 million in 2026 primaries. They won 90% of the races. Tech billionaires are buying our politicians because they want to write the rules that maximize their profits. It's time to ban super PACs. The people need to write the rules.

    X, @RoKhanna, post 2102166324449267831, checked at source, Sep 21, 2026

    Two figures with a year attached, both testable against Federal Election Commission filings: independent expenditure totals for AI-aligned committees in the 2026 primaries, and the win rate of the candidates they backed. It also puts a second money-in-politics position on his record alongside his support for a member stock-trading ban, while his household filed eight transaction reports this year.

  • Five things Democrats will do in January when we win back the House: Increase the minimum wage. Pass paid family leave. End the war in Iran. Hold a vote on Medicare for All. Tax the billionaires.

    X, @RoKhanna, post 2102859378168647875, checked at source, Sep 23, 2026

    Five promises with a month attached, conditional on his party winning the House. Each one is settled by the same document: the roll-call record. A vote held is a vote held, and the fourth item only promises a vote rather than passage, which is worth holding him to exactly as written. If the House changes hands, all five become scoreable from January 2027.

  • Mark Zuckerberg drafted and circulated the AI voluntary pledge touted by Trump. There are no penalties. No timeline.

    X, @RoKhanna, post 2105708644138471757, checked at source, Oct 1, 2026

    An allegation by one watchlist subject about another, so it is his claim and not a fact about Zuckerberg until a document says so. We have not found the pledge he means or anything that shows who drafted it. What would test it: the text of the pledge and any record of its authorship.

  • The number of California billionaires has increased from 245 to 261 in 2026 since the billionaire tax has been on the ballot. Those claiming billionaires are fleeing are gaslighting.

    X, @RoKhanna, post 2107522905651421447, checked at source, Oct 6, 2026

    Two counts and a year. He links a site, cabillionairetracker.org, as the source, and we have not examined how it counts. What would test it: how that tracker decides who lives in California, the dates the two counts were taken, and a second list kept by someone else. It is a list's count of residents and not the state's record of who files tax there.

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