Goblin House
Goblin House
Area: Full Workup (one official, all sections) (eo_full_workup)
Filed: 2026-05-02T01:09:03.431Z
Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress (attempt #74178)
Resolved official: Jake Ellzey (entity #10978)
Ingest result: 23 facts · 22 sources · 7 voting_records · 3 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": "Jake Ellzey", "bioguide_id": "E000071" }, "donor_mapping": { "facts": [ { "fact_text": "Ellzey's campaign committee raised $13,608,054 in the 2017–2024 election cycle, with $5,493,235 from Retired donors — his largest industry sector. He raised $2,008,406 in the 2025–2026 cycle.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H8TX06150/" }, { "fact_text": "Ellzey's top career contributor is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee at $88,008 ($73,008 individual + $15,000 PAC), followed by Citizens National Bank of Texas ($75,540) and Southwest Airlines ($45,683). Southwest Airlines is his former employer.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/jake-ellzey/summary?cid=N00042243&cycle=CAREER" }, { "fact_text": "In the 2025–2026 cycle, Ellzey's top PAC contributors include American Bankers Association PAC ($100,000), FUSE Integration Mission First PAC ($70,000), and Diamondback Energy Inc PAC ($50,000).", "date_occurred": "2025-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://congressmachine.com/member/E000071/rep-ellzey-jake-r-tx-6" }, { "fact_text": "Ellzey served as a commercial airline pilot for Southwest Airlines after retiring from the U.S. Navy. Southwest Airlines pilots' union PACs (Air Line Pilots Assn, Southwest Airlines Pilots Assn) are among his top contributors.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/jake-ellzey/contributors?cid=N00042243&cycle=CAREER" } ], "connections": [ { "donor_entity_name": "American Israel Public Affairs Cmte", "relationship_type": "major_donor", "description": "Career (2017–2024): $88,008 total ($73,008 individual + $15,000 PAC) — Ellzey's single largest career donor.", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/jake-ellzey/summary?cid=N00042243&cycle=CAREER" }, { "donor_entity_name": "Southwest Airlines", "relationship_type": "donor", "description": "Career (2017–2024): $45,683 total ($28,433 individual + $17,250 PAC). Ellzey previously worked as a commercial pilot for Southwest Airlines.", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/jake-ellzey/contributors?cid=N00042243&cycle=CAREER" }, { "donor_entity_name": "National Assn of Realtors", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "Career (2017–2024): $17,000 all PAC.", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/jake-ellzey/contributors?cid=N00042243&cycle=CAREER" } ] }, "silences": { "no_data": true, "reason": "No falsifiable silence identified; Ellzey maintains regular public communications via press releases, Coffee with Your Congressman events, social media, and floor votes on all major district-relevant and committee-relevant topics." }, "contradictions": { "no_data": true, "reason": "No verifiable contradiction meeting the two-independent-source, different-hostname threshold identified in Ellzey's voting record and public statements." }, "telling_votes": [ { "bill_id": "H.R.8035", "title": "Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 ($60.8 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2024-04-20", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024151", "why_it_matters": "Ellzey was among only 101 House Republicans to vote for Ukraine aid while 112 Republicans opposed it. He called Zelenskyy a 'Churchillian figure' and said 'the world's on fire, and everybody knows it. The fire's not going out by itself.' The GOP for Ukraine group gave him an 'A' grade.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.R.8034", "title": "Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 ($26.4 billion in military and security assistance to Israel)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2024-04-20", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024152", "why_it_matters": "Ellzey voted with the overwhelming 366-58 bipartisan majority for Israel aid. His top career donor is AIPAC ($88,008). The bill's passage directly served the legislative priority of his largest funding source.", "category": "donor_aligned" }, { "bill_id": "H.Con.Res.38", "title": "War Powers Resolution to remove U.S. Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in Iran", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2026-03-05", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/38", "why_it_matters": "Ellzey voted against restraining Trump's Iran military operations, telling an interviewer 'We're on day four of taking down the largest state sponsor of terror.' His top donors include defense contractors (Huntington Ingalls $40,000, AeroVironment $40,000, BWX Technologies $20,000 in 2026 cycle). Only 2 Republicans voted for the resolution.", "category": "donor_aligned" }, { "bill_id": "H.R.1", "title": "One Big Beautiful Bill Act (extending 2017 tax cuts, restructuring Medicaid and SNAP, border security, energy provisions)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2025-07-03", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll190.xml", "why_it_matters": "Ellzey voted for the bill that passed 218-214. The bill cut SNAP by roughly $267 billion over 10 years and imposed new Medicaid work requirements. His district has a 9–11.7% poverty rate and 26.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree. The bill was strongly supported by the GOP base but the social safety net provisions created tension with the needs of lower-income constituents in his majority-minority district.", "category": "cross_pressure" }, { "bill_id": "S.5", "title": "Laken Riley Act (requiring mandatory ICE detention for undocumented immigrants charged with certain crimes)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2025-01-07", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/20256", "why_it_matters": "Ellzey co-sponsored related legislation and said 'the tragic death of Laken Riley is a reminder of why we must enforce our immigration laws.' His district is 34.9% Hispanic and 17.3% foreign-born, but is a solidly Republican border-state district where immigration enforcement resonates strongly.", "category": "constituent_aligned" }, { "bill_id": "H.R.3746", "title": "Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (debt ceiling suspension with SNAP work requirements and discretionary spending caps)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2023-05-31", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023243", "why_it_matters": "Ellzey voted to avert default, stating 'Republicans control one-half of one-third of the federal government. Today, we cut federal spending by 2 trillion dollars.' The bill passed 314-117 with broad bipartisan support and protected his district from the economic fallout of a default.", "category": "constituent_aligned" }, { "bill_id": "H.Res.845", "title": "Censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for comments on the Israel-Hamas war", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2023-11-07", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023622", "why_it_matters": "Ellzey joined 234 Republicans and 22 Democrats in voting to censure Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress. The vote aligned with his top donor AIPAC's priorities and reinforced his consistently pro-Israel voting record.", "category": "donor_aligned" } ], "constituency_baseline": { "baseline": { "district_summary": "Texas's 6th Congressional District encompasses areas south and southeast of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, including Ellis, Navarro, Anderson, Hill, and Cherokee counties, plus portions of Tarrant, Dallas, Freestone, and Johnson counties. It is a majority-minority district (52.3% White, 34.9% Hispanic, 14.1% Black) with a population of approximately 794,000. The median household income is $79,905 and the poverty rate ranges from 9% to 11.7%. Homeownership is 66.5% with a median property value of $277,000. The median age is 35.6 — younger than the national average. The district is car-dependent (75.2% drive alone) with a 28-minute average commute. It is a solidly Republican seat (Cook PVI R+31). 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