You've seen the name David Taylor trending. The social chatter over the last 24 hours is about a British Labour MP who reportedly pushed to have a prominent online political commentator barred from the UK, with Bluesky posts calling it a free-speech crackdown. Here's the thing: that David Taylor is a Member of Parliament in Westminster. The David Taylor we track sits in the U.S. House of Representatives, files disclosures under the STOCK Act, and has logged 26 stock trades in the last 90 days. Different continent. Different accountability framework. The filings, though, are public on both sides of the Atlantic. Ours are just more interesting.
Two David Taylors, One Name-Recognition Moment
The Bluesky pile-on has 13 posts and counting, nearly all aimed at the British MP. The American David Taylor has generated exactly zero Google News stories in the last 24 hours. By the logic of the internet, he doesn't exist right now.
He does exist in the disclosure database, though. Twenty-six trades in 90 days puts him in the active-trader tier of the House, well above the rank-and-file member who files once a quarter and calls it a day. The full record is at Blind Trust's Taylor disclosure page.
So while the internet yells at the wrong guy, let's look at what the right one's been buying.
May 15: A Busy Friday Before a Banking Vote
On May 15, Taylor filed seven trades in a single day. He sold Google (GOOGL) twice, once in the 5K-$50K range and once in the K-5K range. He sold Apple (AAPL) in the K-5K range. And he bought Parker Hannifin (PH), Medpace Holdings (MEDP), Home Depot (HD), and AT&T (T), each in the K-5K range.
Five days later, on May 20, he voted yes on the American Access to Banking Act, the Community Bank Deposit Access Act of 2025, and the Keeping Deposits Local Act. All three passed. All three carry a market-relevance score above 80 in our system.
The trades landed on May 15. The banking votes landed on May 20. Five days between the portfolio reshuffle and the floor action on financial-sector legislation.
Members are required to disclose. They are not required to divest, recuse, abstain, or look up from their phones. That's the rule. Yes, really.
The April 27 Cluster
April 27 produced another burst: seven trades in one session. Taylor sold Home Depot, Broadcom (AVGO), and Lam Research (LRCX), all in the K-5K range. He simultaneously bought Home Depot back, plus Procter & Gamble (PG), Progressive (PGR), and Visa (V).
Selling and rebuying the same ticker on the same day is a move that raises eyebrows among retail investors. It can reflect tax-loss harvesting, a wash-sale that didn't get the calendar right, or a genuine repositioning. The filing doesn't say which. It just says what it says.
The Lam Research sale is worth a separate beat. Taylor sold LRCX on April 27. But per our alpha-tracking, he'd bought LRCX on March 12. That position returned 21.2% alpha over 30 days, the best single-trade performance in his recent disclosed history. He bought it, it ran, and then he sold it. The sequence is clean. The 21.2% number is the part that makes you reread the sentence.
The AMGN Overlap Worth Reading Twice
The highest-suspicion-scored overlap in Taylor's recent record involves Amgen (AMGN). On January 16, he purchased AMGN in the K-5K range. The day before, January 15, he voted on the Protecting Prudent Investment of Retirement Savings Act. One day between the vote and the buy. Our system scores that overlap at 78.8 out of 100.
The same AMGN purchase also sits near votes on the Flexibility for Workers Education Act (voted January 13, three days before the trade) and the AGOA Extension Act (voted January 12, four days before). None of those bills are biotech legislation. The connections are timing-based, not thematic.
That AMGN position returned 16.5% alpha over the following 30 days.
The trade date and the vote date are both public record. What connects them is a question the filings can't answer.
RPM International and the Iran Votes
The second-highest suspicion score in Taylor's record is 77.1, attached to an RPM International (RPM) sale on February 26.
Seven days after that sale, on March 5, Taylor voted on two Iran-related resolutions: one reaffirming Iran as the largest state sponsor of terrorism, one directing the removal of U.S. Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities involving Iran. Both resolutions carried geopolitical weight. RPM International is a specialty coatings and sealants company with international exposure.
He sold RPM on February 26. The Iran votes came March 5. The days-between figure is negative seven, meaning the trade preceded the votes. The suspicion score flags the proximity. The filing doesn't explain the rationale. It never does.
The Alpha Leaderboard
Across Taylor's disclosed trades tracked by Blind Trust, five positions stand out on 30-day alpha:
- Lam Research (LRCX), purchased March 12: +21.2% alpha
- Amgen (AMGN), purchased January 16: +16.5% alpha
- AT&T (T), purchased January 29: +16.4% alpha
- Installed Building Products (IBP), purchased January 29: +16.3% alpha
- Kroger (KR), purchased January 16: +14.8% alpha
Five of his top-alpha positions are in five different sectors: semiconductors, biotech, telecom, construction, and grocery. No single committee assignment explains all five. The committee-overlap field in our data returns null across the board.
What the alpha board shows is a member whose disclosed trades have consistently outperformed, across a portfolio that looks deliberately diversified. Whether that diversification is sophisticated personal finance or something else is a question the disclosure regime was designed to let the public ask.
The Voting Record Alongside the Trades
Taylor's recent votes tilt toward financial-sector and banking legislation. On May 20 alone, he voted yes on the American Access to Banking Act, the Community Bank Deposit Access Act, and the Keeping Deposits Local Act. All passed. His portfolio on May 15 included a fresh buy of Visa, a payments network that lives and dies on the health of the banking system, and AT&T, which has its own financial-services exposure through consumer credit and installment billing.
He also voted yes on the Save Our Shrimpers Act on May 12. His disclosed holdings don't include any shrimping-adjacent equities. The Venn diagram there is two separate circles, but at least it's refreshing to find a vote with no portfolio echo.
The full vote and trade record is public. The pattern is yours to trace.
What the Name Mix-Up Accidentally Reveals
The British David Taylor is getting heat today for a speech about who should and shouldn't be allowed to speak in the UK. The American David Taylor is generating zero headlines despite 26 trades in 90 days, a 78.8-suspicion-score AMGN overlap, and a March LRCX buy that returned 21.2% before he sold it in April.
The attention economy picked the wrong David Taylor this week.
The receipts are public. Make of them what you make of them.