Goblin House
Goblin House
Area: Full Workup (one official, all sections) (eo_full_workup)
Filed: 2026-05-01T21:19:21.471Z
Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress (attempt #69162)
Resolved official: Gabe Evans (entity #10871)
Ingest result: 37 facts · 38 sources · 2 silences · 2 contradictions · 3 voting_records · 4 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": "Gabe Evans raised over $1.7 million in the first half of 2025, with nearly three-quarters coming from PACs or joint fundraising committees. Just 3% came from individual donors giving 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) 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 in receipts from roughly 200 political and corporate PACs, including more than a dozen oil and gas companies.", "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 raised $839,000 in Q1 2025, finishing the quarter with $750,000 cash on hand, for Colorado's 8th Congressional District race.", "date_occurred": "2025-03-30", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://gazette.com/2025/04/15/republican-gabe-evans-raises-839k-in-1st-quarter-in-colorados-8th-congressional-district-2/" }, { "fact_text": "Evans' 2025-2026 campaign raised $3,054,209.75 total receipts in 2025, with $914,762.61 in total individual contributions and $880,877.00 in other committee (PAC) contributions.", "date_occurred": "2025-12-31", "confidence": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00849844/" }, { "fact_text": "Evans' campaign reported $487,000 in Q4 2025 fundraising according to a January 2026 FEC disclosure, with 66.6% from individual donors.", "date_occurred": "2026-01-30", "confidence": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.quiverquant.com/stocknews/Fundraising-Update-Representative-Gabe-Evans-just-disclosed-487-0K-of-new-fundraising/" }, { "fact_text": "Evans raised $3.1 million total for the 2026 midterm cycle, earning him an R+1 rating in the Cook-listed EVEN district.", "date_occurred": "2026-04-25", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" }, { "fact_text": "The IADC DrillersPAC made a donation to Evans at the Denver Chapter golf tournament on July 28, 2025, according to IADC's government affairs team.", "date_occurred": "2025-07-28", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://iadc.org/2025/08/06/congressman-gabe-evans-attends-denver-chapter-golf-tournament/" } ], "connections": [ { "donor_entity_name": "National Assn of Realtors", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2025: PAC contribution from the National Association of Realtors PAC to Evans' campaign as part of over $500,000 in total PAC receipts from roughly 200 committees.", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/07/republican-maintains-narrow-fundraising-lead-in-colorados-closest-congressional-race/" }, { "donor_entity_name": "American Hospital Assn", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2025: PAC contribution from the American Hospital Association to Evans' campaign, listed among roughly 200 political and corporate PAC donors.", "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 CD-8", "expected_position": "As the representative of a swing district won by fewer than 2,500 votes, Evans would be expected to hold regular in-person town halls to engage constituents across the political spectrum.", "window_start": "2025-01-03", "window_end": "2026-05-01", "evidence_summary": "Evans has refused to hold in-person town halls, opting only for a 'telephone town hall' with pre-selected questions. Constituent protests broke out in Greeley and Northglenn; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held a town hall in his district specifically because Evans refused. Evans was active on other public-facing fronts during this period: he held press conferences with Rep. Lauren Boebert, gave media interviews on Newsmax and KNUS, issued press releases on his bills, and participated in telephone town halls — proving he was publicly communicative on his own terms.", "primary_url": "https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/08/greeley-protest-wheres-that-evans-guy/" }, { "topic": "$33 million clean energy project funding cancellation in his district", "expected_position": "As a congressman who publicly defended clean energy tax credits and signed a March 2025 letter asking legislative leaders to preserve them, Evans would be expected to comment when $33 million in clean energy funding was canceled in his district.", "window_start": "2025-09-01", "window_end": "2025-10-15", "evidence_summary": "Evans spent months touting his commitment to American energy and clean energy investments, including signing a letter with 21 representatives asking tax credits for clean energy be preserved. When $33 million in energy project funding was canceled in his district, he issued no public statement. His official press release page shows no releases on this topic during September-October 2025, though he was active issuing statements on the Epstein Files Transparency Act and other matters.", "primary_url": "https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/06/big-definitely-but-colorado-utilities-see-no-beauty-in-the-federal-budget-bill/" } ], "contradictions": { "claims": [ { "claim_text": "Evans repeatedly stated his grandfather Cuauhtemoc Chavez immigrated to the United States 'the right way,' 'the legal way,' and that his family 'did it the right way and did it the legal way.' He used this story as justification for mass deportation and strict immigration enforcement.", "claim_date": "2023-09-10", "claim_type": "statement", "source_url": "https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2025/07/23/documents-contradict-republican-gabe-evans-stories-about-his-grandfather-legally-immigrating-to-us-53f72341-6c94-43da-968e-5d21e6fce78a/" }, { "claim_text": "Archived Immigration and Naturalization Service documents show Evans' grandfather entered the U.S. illegally at age 5 in 1929, lived without documentation for 12 years, was arrested for an 'immigration violation' at 16 and made subject to 'deportation proceedings.' An AR-2 form lists the reason for entry as 'to live, illegal entry' and includes an undated arrest for 'attempted burglary.'", "claim_date": "1929-12-09", "claim_type": "disclosure", "source_url": "https://www.kunc.org/news/2025-07-24/u-s-rep-gabe-evans-misrepresented-familys-immigration-history" }, { "claim_text": "Evans signed a March 2025 letter with 21 House Republicans asking legislative leaders to preserve clean energy tax credits to 'increase domestic manufacturing, promote energy innovation and keep utility costs down.'", "claim_date": "2025-03-31", "claim_type": "statement", "source_url": "https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/06/big-definitely-but-colorado-utilities-see-no-beauty-in-the-federal-budget-bill/" }, { "claim_text": "Evans voted for H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll Call 190), the budget reconciliation package that included repealing most clean energy tax credits, gutting funding for clean energy projects, and making the largest Medicaid cuts in U.S. history.", "claim_date": "2025-07-03", "claim_type": "vote", "source_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025190" } ], "contradictions": [ { "claim_a_idx": 0, "claim_b_idx": 1, "type": "statement_vs_disclosure", "severity": "high", "narrative": "Evans built his political identity and hardline immigration stance on his grandfather's claimed 'legal' immigration path. Government documents show the grandfather entered illegally, lived undocumented for 12 years, and was arrested for an immigration violation — directly contradicting Evans' repeated public statements. Evans' spokesperson subsequently argued that in 'Hispanic culture, immigrating the right way generally means working hard' — a departure from Evans' repeated use of the word 'legally.'" }, { "claim_a_idx": 2, "claim_b_idx": 3, "type": "reversal", "severity": "high", "narrative": "Evans publicly advocated for preserving clean energy tax credits in March 2025, then voted in July 2025 for H.R. 1, the budget reconciliation package that effectively repealed those same clean energy tax credits. After the vote, he sent a letter asking the Senate to 'mitigate' the damage of the bill he had just voted for. A $190 million clean energy project was paused in his district weeks after his vote." } ] }, "telling_votes": [ { "bill_id": "H.R. 1", "title": "One Big Beautiful Bill Act (budget reconciliation — Medicaid cuts, clean energy repeal, tax cuts)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2025-07-03", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025190", "why_it_matters": "Evans cast what was described as the deciding vote (215-214) for a bill that cut Medicaid by an estimated $625 billion to $1 trillion over 10 years, despite roughly 1 in 4 of his constituents relying on Medicaid. The bill also repealed clean energy tax credits his district's wind and solar industries depend on. Oil and gas PACs were among his top donors. Constituent interest opposed the bill; donors supported it. Evans was heckled and protested at subsequent events.", "category": "against_constituent" }, { "bill_id": "H.J.Res. 72", "title": "Resolution disapproving of Trump's emergency tariff on Canada", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2026-02-11", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/72", "why_it_matters": "Evans voted to keep 25% tariffs on Canadian imports in place, opposing a bipartisan resolution (219-211) that fellow Colorado Republican Jeff Hurd supported. Canada is Colorado's second-largest trading partner ($1.6B in exports). Hurd cited constituent farmers and manufacturers harmed by the tariffs. Evans' vote protected Trump's trade policy against the material interests of Colorado agricultural and manufacturing constituents. Six Republicans defected; Evans did not.", "category": "against_constituent" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 29", "title": "Laken Riley Act (mandatory immigrant detention for theft-related arrests)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2025-01-07", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202506", "why_it_matters": "Evans voted with the overwhelming majority (264-159) to require detention of undocumented immigrants for low-level theft-related offenses. His district is 39% Hispanic — the highest share of any Colorado district. His own grandfather was arrested for an immigration violation and 'attempted burglary' at age 16, which under the Laken Riley Act's provisions would have prioritized him for detention and deportation. The cross-pressure between Evans' hardline immigration voting record and his family's documented immigration history is acute.", "category": "cross_pressure" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 6387", "title": "FIRE Act (modifies Clean Air Act 'exceptional events' definition for wildfire mitigation)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2026-04-22", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6387", "why_it_matters": "Evans sponsored and voted for his own bill, which passed 220-198. The Colorado Oil and Gas Association and Colorado Petroleum Association endorsed it; Democrats argued it would let polluters use hot weather as an excuse to ignore Clean Air Act limits. Evans' bill was supported by oil and gas industry groups that are among his top campaign donors. Environmental and public-health-aligned constituents in his district opposed the bill.", "category": "donor_aligned" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 1 (Committee)", "title": "Energy and Commerce Committee budget reconciliation markup (Medicaid cuts)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2025-05-14", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/all-info", "why_it_matters": "On the Energy and Commerce Committee, Evans voted with Republicans 30-24 on party lines to advance $625 billion in Medicaid cuts over 10 years. Less than three months later, he co-introduced the Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act and introduced a resolution celebrating Medicaid's 60th anniversary — an apparent effort to recast himself as a Medicaid supporter after voting for the largest cuts in the program's history.", "category": "reversal" } ], "constituency_baseline": { "baseline": { "district_summary": "Colorado's 8th Congressional District was created after the 2020 census and includes parts of Adams, Weld, and Larimer counties, stretching along U.S. 85 from Denver's northern suburbs to Greeley. With approximately 757,000 residents (2024), it is Colorado's newest district and has the state's highest Hispanic population share at 39%. The district is politically competitive: Cook PVI rates it EVEN. In 2024, Trump won the district 50%-48% while Evans unseated a Democratic incumbent by just 2,449 votes (49.0%-48.2%). Registered voters are 28% Democratic, 25% Republican, and 44% unaffiliated. The district is working-class with a median household income of approximately $94,617-$100,033, well above the national median. Homeownership is 71.2%. Key industries include agriculture and food processing (JBS USA, Leprino Foods), oil and gas extraction (Weld County is a top energy-producing county), healthcare (Banner Health), manufacturing (Vestas Blades wind turbines), and defense/aerospace. The district is car-dependent (71.4% drive alone) with a 29.1-minute mean commute.", "top_employers": [ { "name": "JBS USA (meat processing, Greeley)", "employees": 6000, "source_url": "https://jobs.cste.org/profile/weld-county-government-human-resources/1797918/" }, { "name": "Banner Health", "employees": 3000, "source_url": "https://upstatecolorado.org/competitive-advantages/" }, { "name": "Leprino Foods (dairy processing)", "employees": 750, "source_url": "https://jobs.cste.org/profile/weld-county-government-human-resources/1797918/" }, { "name": "Vestas Blades America (wind turbine manufacturing)", "employees": 3000, "source_url": "https://www.bestplaces.net/economy/county/colorado/weld" }, { "name": "Halliburton Energy Services", "employees": 1110, "source_url": "https://www.northerncolorado.co/top-employers" } ], "dominant_industries": [ { "naics": "11", "share": 0.12, "source_url": "https://upstatecolorado.org/competitive-advantages/" }, { "naics": "211", "share": 0.15, "source_url": "https://www.bestplaces.net/economy/county/colorado/weld" }, { "naics": "62", "share": 0.14, "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" }, { "naics": "31-33", "share": 0.10, "source_url": "https://upstatecolorado.org/competitive-advantages/" } ], "recent_ballot_measures": [ { "name": "Amendment 79: Right to Abortion (2024)", "year": 2024, "result": "passed", "margin": "62.0% Yes to 38.0% No", "source_url": "https://apps.npr.org/2024-election-results/colorado.html?section=I" }, { "name": "Amendment 80: Right to School Choice (2024)", "year": 2024, "result": "failed", "margin": "50.7% No to 49.3% Yes (55% required)", "source_url": "https://apps.npr.org/2024-election-results/colorado.html?section=I" }, { "name": "Proposition 127: Mountain Lion and Bobcat Hunting Ban (2024)", "year": 2024, "result": "failed", "margin": "rejected by voters statewide", "source_url": "https://develop.denverpost.com/2024/11/06/colorado-2024-election-results/" }, { "name": "Proposition 131: Ranked Choice Voting and Open Primaries (2024)", "year": 2024, "result": "failed", "margin": "53.5% No to 46.5% Yes", "source_url": "https://apps.npr.org/2024-election-results/colorado.html?section=I" }, { "name": "Proposition 128: Parole Eligibility for Certain Offenders (2024)", "year": 2024, "result": "passed", "margin": "approved by voters", "source_url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_2024_ballot_measures" } ], "demographic_anchors": [ { "label": "Median household income", "value": "$94,617 (national: $37,585)", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" }, { "label": "Population (2024)", "value": "757,119 — Colorado's newest district, created after 2020 census", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%27s_8th_congressional_district" }, { "label": "Hispanic population share", "value": "39% — highest of any Colorado district", "source_url": "https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/12/evans-will-fight-for-his-political-life-next-election-with-expected-referendum-on-trump-say-experts/75160/" }, { "label": "Homeownership rate", "value": "71.2% (national: 65.5%)", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" }, { "label": "Cook Partisan Voting Index", "value": "EVEN (Trump won 50%-48% in 2024)", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%27s_8th_congressional_district" }, { "label": "Voter registration breakdown", "value": "28% Democrat, 25% Republican, 44% Unaffiliated", "source_url": "https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/12/evans-will-fight-for-his-political-life-next-election-with-expected-referendum-on-trump-say-experts/75160/" }, { "label": "Poverty rate", "value": "6.9% (national: 12.4%)", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/gabe-evans-E000300/district" } ] } } }