Dan Newhouse represents Washington's 4th District, sits on the House Agriculture and Appropriations committees, voted to impeach Donald Trump in 2021, and has spent the last three months filing stock trades at a pace that would make a day-trader blush. Thirty-one disclosed trades in 90 days, including 15 in a single day. No news peg is driving the Google traffic today. The financial record is the story.
Why He's Trending
The social chatter is a mix. Bluesky posts place Newhouse in a group of six Republicans who broke with leadership to vote against tariffs alongside Democrats. His name also keeps appearing in Agriculture Committee threads about specialty crop market access. And a contingent of Washington state voters are still reliably furious about his 2021 impeachment vote, which he has since tried to distance himself from while never quite explaining what changed.
Six posts in 24 hours across Bluesky. Not viral. But pointed. The people posting about Newhouse are not posting warmly.
Fifteen Trades in One Day
On July 10, 2026, Dan Newhouse filed 15 separate stock transactions. Eight sales, seven purchases, all in the $1,001 to $15,000 range. The sales: AMD, Adobe, Alphabet, Applied Materials, CSX, Deere, Eli Lilly, and Intuit. The purchases: Accenture, Amcor, Amphenol, Arista Networks, Costco, Duke Energy, Fidelity National Information Services, and FirstEnergy.
That's a rotation. Out of semiconductors, software, and industrials. Into consulting, packaging, connectivity infrastructure, retail, and utilities. Whether there's a thesis behind it or a broker executing a model rebalance is not something the disclosure form answers. The disclosure form just names the tickers.
Members are required to disclose. They are not required to explain, divest, recuse, or look uncomfortable about it.
The Alpha Record
Across 65 scored trades, Newhouse has logged 40 positive-alpha outcomes and 25 negative ones. That's a 62% hit rate against the S&P 500, with a mean 30-day alpha of 1.2% per trade. Not a hall-of-fame number. Not a scandal number. A number that says someone, or someone's advisor, is picking stocks and getting it right more often than not.
The best single trade in the scored window: an Accenture purchase on July 10 that returned 27.5% over the following 30 days. Accenture ($ACN) is a consulting and IT services firm with substantial federal contracting exposure. Newhouse sits on the Appropriations Committee. The Accenture trade has no flagged committee overlap in the data. It's just a trade that timed well.
The Lululemon purchase from December 11, 2025 returned 16.9% over 30 days. Newhouse represents apple orchards and wheat farms in central Washington. Lululemon makes athleisure. The Venn diagram is two non-overlapping circles. It's also his second-best scored trade. Make of that what you make of it.
The Trades That Come With an Asterisk
Five trades in the scored record carry a committee-overlap flag, meaning the ticker's sector falls within the actual remit of Newhouse's committee assignments. These are the ones worth naming.
On August 18, 2025, Newhouse purchased Exxon Mobil in the $1,001 to $15,000 range. The 30-day alpha: 7.9%. He also purchased ConocoPhillips the same day, which returned 5.8% above the index. Newhouse sits on the Appropriations subcommittee for Energy and Water Development. Exxon and ConocoPhillips are oil and gas companies. The Appropriations committee controls energy funding. The overlap is real. The causal story is not something the disclosure form tells.
The July 10 rotation added two more flagged names. FirstEnergy, purchased that day, returned 6.3% over 30 days. Duke Energy, also purchased July 10, returned 6.1%. Both are utilities. Both sit in the energy sector that Newhouse's Appropriations subcommittee oversees.
On the sell side: Intuit, sold July 10, is flagged under Technology. That sale lost 7.4% in alpha terms over the following 30 days, meaning the market went up and Intuit went up more. He sold before that happened.
Selling a stock before it runs is not evidence of anything except, in hindsight, bad timing. Or good timing, depending on which direction you're reading the chart.
The Worst Trades
The July 10 chip-sector exodus did not age well on two names. Newhouse sold AMD that day; AMD's 30-day alpha versus the S&P came in at negative 15.8%. He sold Applied Materials the same day; negative 14.7%. Both were sales, so negative alpha on a sale is actually a win: he exited before the stocks dropped relative to the market.
The worst outright call in the full scored record belongs to a Broadcom sale from December 11, 2025. Alpha: negative 18.4% over 30 days. Broadcom ($AVGO) is flagged as a Technology-sector overlap. He sold it. It ran hard. That one stings on the ledger regardless of the reason behind it.
Forty wins out of 65 scored trades. Twenty-five losses. The record is fine. It's a portfolio managed by someone who doesn't always call it right.
Recent Votes Worth Noting
On September 15, 2026, Newhouse voted Yea on the Building the Use of Technology to Uphold Regulatory Effectiveness in Supervision Act, which passed. The bill is a financial technology oversight measure. Newhouse is not on the Financial Services Committee. His vote is a floor vote, not a committee action, and the bill's subject is outside his committee remit. The vote is noted; the overlap is not there.
On July 22, he voted for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, which passed the House. He also voted Yea on an amendment to codify chaplain protections under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and Yea on an amendment to ban automated speed cameras on military installations. He voted Nay on a Boebert amendment to preserve caps on cadet athletic career waivers, which failed. None of those votes connect to his disclosed trades in any structural way.
The tariff vote, which is what the Bluesky crowd is actually agitated about, is not in the structured vote data here. What's documented is that six Republicans broke with leadership on it, and Newhouse was one of them. His Agriculture Committee assignment, which covers specialty crops and market access, gives that vote more institutional texture than most of his colleagues who crossed over. He's the one who has to hear from Washington apple growers in the off-season. That context doesn't make the trade activity more or less notable. It makes the man more complicated than the filing.
The Portfolio Reads as a Character Study
Newhouse represents one of the most agricultural districts in the country. His committee assignments run through farming, rural development, food policy, and energy appropriations. His disclosed portfolio, as of the July rotation, is weighted toward large-cap tech exits, utility purchases, consulting firms, and a Costco stake. Not a single ag-sector name in the recent filings.
The man who chairs the Horticulture and Horticulture subcommittee owns Duke Energy and Amphenol. His constituents grow hops and wheat. The portfolio says something, even if it says nothing actionable.
The receipts are public. Make of them what you make of them.