Goblin House
Goblin House
Area: Full Workup (one official, all sections) (eo_full_workup)
Filed: 2026-05-01T04:45:36.369Z
Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress (attempt #69128)
Resolved official: Gabe Evans (entity #10871)
Ingest result: 35 facts · 33 sources · 1 silences · 2 contradictions · 5 voting_records · 1 skipped
Single super-prompt covering every per-official research area in one LLM call: donor mapping, silences, contradictions, telling votes, and constituency baseline. The LLM returns ONE JSON object; the ingest pipeline dispatches each section to its typed table independently, so a malformed or no-data section never blocks the rest.
{ "target_official": { "name": "Gabe Evans", "bioguide_id": "E000300" }, "donor_mapping": { "facts": [ { "fact_text": "In the first half of 2025, Evans raised over $1.7 million. Nearly three-quarters came from PACs or joint fundraising committees, with only 3% from small individual donors under $200.", "date_occurred": "2025-06-30", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/07/republican-maintains-narrow-fundraising-lead-in-colorados-closest-congressional-race/" }, { "fact_text": "Top donors to Evans' joint fundraising committees (Grow Our Majority and Defend Our Majority, which transferred over $238,000 to his campaign) include conservative billionaires Peter Thiel, Steve Wynn, Charles Schwab, and Ross Perot Jr.", "date_occurred": "2025-06-30", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/07/republican-maintains-narrow-fundraising-lead-in-colorados-closest-congressional-race/" }, { "fact_text": "Evans' direct campaign haul includes over $500,000 from roughly 200 political and corporate PACs, including oil and gas companies, the American Hospital Association, and the National Association of Realtors.", "date_occurred": "2025-06-30", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/07/republican-maintains-narrow-fundraising-lead-in-colorados-closest-congressional-race/" }, { "fact_text": "In Q1 2026, Evans raised $833,800, bringing his total cash advantage as the most vulnerable House Republican incumbent.", "date_occurred": "2026-04-15", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.quiverquant.com" }, { "fact_text": "In Q4 2025, Evans disclosed $487,000 in fundraising, with 66.6% from individual donors.", "date_occurred": "2026-01-30", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.quiverquant.com" }, { "fact_text": "Evans' 2024 cycle total reported payments were $1,535,254 via his principal campaign committee ELECTGABEEVANS.COM.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/vendor-recipient-profile/ELECTGABEEVANS.COM" } ], "connections": [ { "donor_entity_name": "National Assn of Realtors", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2024-2025 cycle: contributed via PAC to Evans' campaign; Evans received over $500,000 total from ~200 corporate PACs including this group (Colorado Times Recorder)", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/07/republican-maintains-narrow-fundraising-lead-in-colorados-closest-congressional-race/" } ] }, "silences": [ { "topic": "In-person town halls with constituents in Colorado's 8th District", "expected_position": "As the representative for a highly competitive swing district, Evans was expected to hold traditional in-person town halls where constituents could question him directly about his votes on Medicaid cuts, tariffs, and government funding.", "window_start": "2025-01-03", "window_end": "2026-04-30", "evidence_summary": "Evans has refused to hold in-person town halls since taking office. Constituents have held regular Friday protests outside his Northglenn office since March 2025. Evans has only held telephone town halls with pre-selected questions. On April 2, 2025, he held his first telephone town hall with about 8,500 participants, acknowledging 'I know a lot of you have been waiting for a town hall.' In March 2025, hundreds attended a 'People's Town Hall' across from his office. Protesters at his events chant 'Where's That Evans Guy?' and 'one and done.'", "primary_url": "https://yellowscene.com/2025/03/22/hundreds-turn-out-to-demand-accountability-from-absent-rep-gabe-evans/" } ], "contradictions": { "claims": [ { "claim_text": "Throughout his political career, Evans has repeatedly characterized his Mexican immigrant grandfather Cuauhtemoc Chavez as having come to the U.S. 'legally' and 'the right way,' stating at his November 2024 victory news conference: 'we're doing work to fix our broken immigration system for those who legally want to come to this country, as my grandfather did.' He also said: 'if you're going to come to the United States, you do it the right way. You come here legally.'", "claim_date": "2024-11-13", "claim_type": "statement", "source_url": "https://gazette.com/2025/07/23/documents-contradict-gabe-evans-stories-about-his-grandfather-legally-immigrating-to-u-s-3b8a7f07-3068-5202-895d-214e4d6d7a15/" }, { "claim_text": "Historical INS documents obtained by Colorado Newsline show Evans' grandfather entered the U.S. illegally at age 5 in 1929, lived without documentation for 12 years, was arrested on an 'immigration violation,' and was subject to 'deportation proceedings.' An INS form described the entry as 'to live, illegal entry.' He obtained citizenship in 1946 through military service in World War II.", "claim_date": "2025-07-22", "claim_type": "disclosure", "source_url": "https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/07/22/u-s-rep-gabe-evans-misrepresented-familys-immigration-history/" }, { "claim_text": "Evans' issues page says he wants to lower inflation and bring prices down for Colorado families, and at his telephone town hall stated: 'I'm a big believer in free trade.'", "claim_date": "2025-04-02", "claim_type": "statement", "source_url": "https://www.cpr.org/2025/04/02/gabe-evans-congress-trump-tariffs-telephone-town-hall/" }, { "claim_text": "In September 2025 and February 2026, Evans voted to protect Trump's sweeping tariffs — taxes on imported goods that economists say drive consumer prices higher, with analysis showing they cost American families over $1,700 in higher costs.", "claim_date": "2025-09-17", "claim_type": "vote", "source_url": "https://dccc.org/gabe-evans-votes-to-protect-trumps-tariffs/" } ], "contradictions": [ { "claim_a_idx": 0, "claim_b_idx": 1, "type": "statement_vs_disclosure", "severity": "high", "narrative": "Evans built his immigration policy narrative around his grandfather who he repeatedly claimed immigrated 'legally.' Federal documents revealed his grandfather entered the country illegally at age 5 and lived undocumented for over a decade. Evans' own proposed immigration policies would have resulted in his grandfather's deportation." }, { "claim_a_idx": 2, "claim_b_idx": 3, "type": "platform_vs_vote", "severity": "medium", "narrative": "Evans campaigned on lowering costs and claimed to believe in free trade, but twice voted to protect Trump's cost-spiking tariffs that economic analysis shows cost American families over $1,700 in higher prices — contradicting his stated priority of reducing inflation." } ] }, "telling_votes": [ { "bill_id": "H.R. 1", "title": "One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Trump tax-and-spending reconciliation package, final passage)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2025-07-03", "roll_call_url": "https://coloradosun.com/2025/07/03/colorado-votes-big-beautiful-bill-congress/", "why_it_matters": "Evans was the deciding vote (218-214) for the OBBB, which the CBO projected would cut approximately $880 billion from Medicaid and $300 billion from SNAP. An estimated 140,000-230,000 Coloradans faced Medicaid coverage loss, including about 26,257 in his own district. Constituents booed him at a Denver press conference chanting 'one and done' and 'Gabe you lie.' Evans defended the bill claiming it 'protects Medicaid' and 'strengthens Medicaid for the most vulnerable.'", "category": "against_constituent" }, { "bill_id": "H.Con.Res.14", "title": "House Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Resolution (reconciliation framework)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2025-02-25", "roll_call_url": "https://gabeevans.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-evans-votes-budget-resolution", "why_it_matters": "Evans voted for the budget blueprint that set the stage for deep Medicaid and SNAP cuts, despite the CBO determining the Energy and Commerce Committee's $880 billion target could not be met without cutting benefits. Evans claimed 'Medicaid cuts aren't specifically listed in the resolution' and the focus was on 'waste, fraud, and abuse,' but the nonpartisan CBO analysis contradicted this framing.", "category": "against_constituent" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 29", "title": "Laken Riley Act (mandatory ICE detention for non-citizens accused of theft before conviction)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2025-01-07", "roll_call_url": "https://gabeevans.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-evans-votes-crack-down-illegal-immigration", "why_it_matters": "Evans voted for mandatory ICE detention based on accusations alone, citing his background as a former police officer. His district is nearly 40% Hispanic — drawn as Colorado's 'Hispanic influence' district — and his own grandfather entered the U.S. illegally. Immigrant-rights groups and constituents protested, with one Latina constituent saying 'Congressman Evans is attacking our Latino community by saying all immigrants are criminals.'", "category": "cross_pressure" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 5371", "title": "Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026 (bill to end 43-day government shutdown)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2025-11-12", "roll_call_url": "https://www.denvergazette.com/2025/11/13/colorados-house-delegation-votes-on-party-lines-to-end-federal-government-shutdown/", "why_it_matters": "Evans voted with all four Colorado Republicans to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history (43 days). He had previously requested his pay be withheld during the shutdown in solidarity with troops. The final bill passed 222-209 with six Democrats joining Republicans, and Evans' vote aligned with reopening the government but without ACA subsidy extensions that Colorado constituents relied on.", "category": "cross_pressure" }, { "bill_id": "H.Res.246", "title": "Resolution condemning Boulder antisemitic terrorist attack (Evans-authored)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2025-06-09", "roll_call_url": "https://www.longmontleader.com/2025/06/10/rep-gabe-evans-resolution-condemning-boulder-attack-passes-the-house/", "why_it_matters": "Evans authored and passed a bipartisan resolution condemning an antisemitic attack in Boulder. However, Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries denounced the bill for 'politically weaponizing antisemitism.' Evans, who has strong pro-Israel convictions rooted in his Christian faith and military service in the Middle East, received support from AIPAC-aligned donors in his 2024 race. The vote highlighted the tension between bipartisan support for combating antisemitism and accusations of politicization.", "category": "cross_pressure" } ], "constituency_baseline": { "baseline": { "district_summary": "Colorado's 8th Congressional District encompasses the northern Denver suburbs (Adams County), Greeley, and parts of Weld and Larimer counties. Created after the 2020 Census, it is Colorado's newest and most competitive district with a Cook PVI of R+1. With approximately 740,000 constituents, the district is 62.5% White and 39.5% Hispanic — drawn as the state's 'Hispanic influence' district. The median household income of $94,617 sits well above the national average, with a poverty rate of 6.9% and homeownership at 71.2%. The economy is anchored by agriculture (corn, sugar beets, cattle), energy (oil and gas extraction in Weld County), health care, and manufacturing. Unaffiliated voters comprise ~44% of registered voters, making this the ultimate swing district. Evans won in 2024 by fewer than 2,500 votes.", "top_employers": [ { "name": "UCHealth (Greeley Hospital, etc.)", "employees": 12000, "source_url": "https://www.ucHealth.org/about" }, { "name": "Banner Health (North Colorado Medical Center)", "employees": 2500, "source_url": "https://www.bannerhealth.com" }, { "name": "JBS USA (Greeley meatpacking plant)", "employees": 4000, "source_url": "https://www.greeleytribune.com/2022/04/17/jbs-usa-headquarters-greeley-colorado" }, { "name": "Leprino Foods (Greeley)", "employees": 900, "source_url": "https://www.leprinofoods.com" }, { "name": "School District 27J (Brighton/Thornton/Commerce City)", "employees": 3000, "source_url": "https://www.sd27j.org" } ], "dominant_industries": [ { "naics": "62", "share": 15.0, "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" }, { "naics": "11", "share": 12.0, "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" }, { "naics": "31-33", "share": 10.0, "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" }, { "naics": "44-45", "share": 11.0, "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" } ], "recent_ballot_measures": [ { "name": "Colorado Proposition 122: Decriminalization and Regulation of Psychedelic Plants and Fungi", "year": 2022, "result": "passed", "margin": "53.6% Yes – 46.4% No", "source_url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Proposition_122,_Decriminalization_and_Regulation_of_Certain_Psychedelic_Plants_and_Fungi_Initiative_(2022)" }, { "name": "Colorado Proposition HH: Property Tax Changes and Revenue Changes", "year": 2023, "result": "failed", "margin": "60% No – 40% Yes", "source_url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Proposition_HH,_Property_Tax_Changes_and_Revenue_Changes_Measure_(2023)" }, { "name": "Colorado Amendment 79: Right to Abortion and Health Insurance Coverage", "year": 2024, "result": "passed", "margin": "61.7% Yes – 38.3% No", "source_url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Amendment_79,_Right_to_Abortion_Initiative_(2024)" } ], "demographic_anchors": [ { "label": "median household income", "value": "$94,617", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" }, { "label": "poverty rate", "value": "6.9%", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" }, { "label": "bachelor's degree or higher", "value": "29.9%", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" }, { "label": "White alone (non-Hispanic)", "value": "62.5%", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" }, { "label": "Hispanic or Latino (any race)", "value": "39.5%", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" }, { "label": "homeownership rate", "value": "71.2%", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" }, { "label": "median home value", "value": "$474,000", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" } ] } } }