Jonathan Jackson represents Illinois's 1st, sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and has been showing up on social media this week mostly in list form: rank-and-file Democrats named as vulnerable or notable in various congressional trackers. What Blind Trust tracks is narrower and weirder. Jackson filed five stock trades in the last 90 days, including a $50K-$100K sale of Visa, and then was not present for two banking bills that passed the House floor in May. He also sits on the Agriculture Committee, trades consumer staples, and has a 97-trade alpha record that is, in the plainest possible terms, a coin flip. The filings are public. The calendar is public. The rest is yours to read.
The Social Footprint This Week
Jackson's name has been circulating on Bluesky in two contexts. One is a running list of House members whose voting records or district profiles put them in play heading into the next cycle. The other is a foreign affairs post under his own account, where he stated he'd keep fighting on refugee rights as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Three posts total on Bluesky in the last 24-hour window. Zero Google News stories. For a sitting congressman, that's either disciplined message control or the quietest news cycle an IL-1 member has had in months. Either way, the disclosure filings didn't get the memo.
Five Trades in 90 Days
Per Jackson's full disclosure record on Blind Trust, here's what the last 90 days look like:
- April 15, 2026: Sale of Tenet Healthcare (THC), $1K-$15K
- April 20, 2026: Sale of Tenet Healthcare (THC), $15K-$50K
- April 20, 2026: Purchase of Procter & Gamble (PG), $15K-$50K
- April 24, 2026: Sale of O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), $1K-$15K
- April 24, 2026: Sale of Visa (V), $50K-$100K
That's two sells of a hospital operator, one buy of a consumer staples giant, one sell of an auto parts retailer, and one large Visa exit, all compressed into a nine-day window in mid-to-late April. Then, on May 20, the House passed the American Access to Banking Act and the Community Bank Deposit Access Act of 2025. Jackson was not voting on either.
The Visa Sale and the Banking Votes
Here's the sequence that earns a second look. Jackson sold Visa on April 24, in the $50K-$100K range. That's his single largest disclosed trade in this window. The American Access to Banking Act and the Community Bank Deposit Access Act of 2025 both passed the House on May 20. Jackson was recorded as Not Voting on both. The gap between the Visa sale and the banking votes: 26 days.
Pause for a second: the committee-level conflict question matters here. Jackson sits on Agriculture and Foreign Affairs. He does not sit on House Financial Services, which is the committee with actual jurisdiction over banking regulation. That means these floor votes don't carry a committee oversight angle for him specifically. What they do carry is a timeline. He moved a five-figure-plus Visa position, and then didn't show up when banking-adjacent legislation cleared the floor. The interpretation is yours.
On the alpha record for that Visa trade specifically: the 30-day excess return came in at -0.3% versus the S&P 500. The trade is flagged in the data as carrying a committee overlap designation under Financial Services, which is worth noting given his committee assignments don't include Financial Services. The flag appears in the broader scored sample. The number itself is effectively flat.
The Tenet Healthcare Exits
Jackson sold Tenet Healthcare twice in five days. April 15, $1K-$15K. April 20, $15K-$50K. Tenet is a for-profit hospital chain. Jackson's committees are Agriculture and Foreign Affairs, neither of which has healthcare jurisdiction. These are floor-vote-blind trades, meaning there's no committee-level conflict to name. What they are is a deliberate wind-down of a position across two separate filings, which is either portfolio rebalancing or a decision made incrementally. Nothing in the public record explains the sequencing.
The Procter & Gamble Buy
On the same day Jackson sold the second Tenet Healthcare tranche, April 20, he also picked up $15K-$50K in Procter & Gamble. The company makes consumer staples: detergent, diapers, razors. Jackson's Agriculture Committee assignment covers the Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture subcommittee, which puts food and commodity supply chains within his actual remit. Procter & Gamble's consumer products don't sit squarely in that jurisdiction, but the sector adjacency is closer than, say, buying a defense contractor. No committee overlap is flagged for this trade in the disclosure data. It's a buy. The calendar doesn't show a corresponding vote within the window. Take that for what it's worth.
The Full Alpha Record: Honest Version
Jackson has 97 trades scored in the Blind Trust database. Of those, 48 closed with positive 30-day alpha versus the S&P 500. Forty-nine did not. The mean 30-day alpha across the full sample: -0.0%. Round it however you'd like. The number is exactly as flat as it looks.
His best individual trades, per the record:
- Robinhood Markets (HOOD) purchase, September 5, 2025: +43.2% alpha in 30 days
- GE Vernova (GEV) purchase, January 30, 2026: +21.1% alpha
- Meta Platforms (META) purchase, April 23, 2025: +17.0% alpha
His worst:
- Robinhood Markets (HOOD) sale, January 20, 2026: -29.5% alpha (yes, he bought HOOD well and then sold it into the floor)
- Doximity (DOCS) sale, November 6, 2025: -23.2% alpha
- Palantir Technologies (PLTR) sale, January 16, 2026: -21.7% alpha
The HOOD sequence deserves its own sentence. He bought Robinhood in September 2025 and caught a 43-point alpha run. Then he sold it in January 2026 and gave back nearly 30 points in alpha terms over the next 30 days, meaning the stock kept climbing after he exited. Across 97 trades, the record is 48 wins, 49 losses, and a mean alpha of effectively zero. It's a picture of someone with a brokerage account and a disclosure obligation.
None of the best or worst trades carry a committee overlap flag. The committee overlap trades in his record are the Visa sale (flagged under Financial Services, a committee he doesn't sit on) and a prior Linde (LIN) sale from May 2025 (flagged under Chemicals). Neither produced meaningful alpha: Visa came in at -0.3%, Linde at -5.5%.
The Not Voting Problem
Jackson was recorded as Not Voting on five of the eight most-recent votes in his disclosure window. May 20 alone saw four bills pass the House, and Jackson was not on the board for any of them: the American Access to Banking Act, the Community Bank Deposit Access Act of 2025, the 25th Anniversary of 9/11 Commemorative Coin Act, and the Keeping Deposits Local Act all cleared without his vote. He did vote Nay on the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act and the Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act on May 21, and Nay on a FISA extension in June.
Missing floor votes is not automatically disqualifying. Members have constituents, schedules, and occasionally functioning lives outside the chamber. But missing two banking bills on the same day, 26 days after moving a six-figure Visa position, produces a specific aesthetic. Members are required to disclose. They are not required to vote, recuse, divest, or explain the calendar. That's the rule. Yes, really.
What the Foreign Affairs Work Looks Like
Jackson's Bluesky presence this week leaned into the Foreign Affairs Committee work, specifically refugee rights and border policy. That's consistent with his subcommittee assignments on Africa and Western Hemisphere, which deal with exactly the foreign policy and humanitarian questions he's been posting about. His public-facing posture is that of a backbench progressive doing foreign affairs committee work and filing stock disclosures that collectively net to zero alpha over 97 trades. The policy work and the portfolio don't obviously connect, which is either reassuring or just less interesting than it could be.
The full picture of his disclosed trading history is available at Blind Trust. The receipts are public. Make of them what you make of them.