Jonathan Jackson represents Illinois's 1st Congressional District, sits on the House Agriculture and Foreign Affairs committees, and has filed 8 stock trades in the last 90 days. He is not, by any conventional measure, in the news right now. Zero Google News stories in the last 24 hours. The Bluesky posts using his name are about a Colonial-era enslaved man, an actor, and an AI education thread — none of which involve the congressman. The story is in the filing cabinet.
The Votes He Skipped
On May 20, 2026, the House passed four separate bills. Jackson was Not Voting on all four: the American Access to Banking Act (H.R. 4544), the Community Bank Deposit Access Act of 2025 (H.R. 5317), the Keeping Deposits Local Act (H.R. 3234), and the 25th Anniversary of 9/11 Commemorative Coin Act (H.R. 1993).
Three of those four are financial-sector legislation. All three passed without him.
Members are required to show up and vote. They are not required to explain why they don't. Jackson's office has not issued a public statement about his absence on May 20. The roll-call record shows four blanks in a row.
One thing to flag on the committee angle: Jackson sits on Agriculture and Foreign Affairs, not Financial Services. The banking bills on May 20 fall outside his committee remit, so his absence doesn't create a formal oversight conflict. What it does do is sit next to what his disclosures show from the month before.
The Visa Sale
Per Jackson's disclosure record on Blind Trust, on April 24, 2026, he sold between $50,000 and $100,000 of Visa (V). Largest single trade in his 90-day window by dollar range.
Jackson is not on Financial Services. The sector classification flags Visa as financially regulated territory, but the formal conflict-of-interest framing doesn't attach to a member who doesn't sit on that committee. What does attach is the calendar.
He sold Visa on April 24. The House moved four financial-sector bills on May 20. He was not present for any of them. The 30-day alpha on the Visa sale: negative 0.3%. The trade didn't beat the market. The receipts are public. Make of them what you make of them.
The Rest of the 90-Day Window
The full disclosure record shows eight trades between March 19 and April 24, 2026. Here's the ledger:
- March 19: Purchased BP ($15K–$50K), sold O'Reilly Automotive / ORLY ($15K–$50K)
- March 20: Purchased BP ($1K–$15K)
- April 15: Sold Tenet Healthcare / THC ($1K–$15K)
- April 20: Purchased Procter & Gamble / PG ($15K–$50K), sold Tenet Healthcare / THC ($15K–$50K)
- April 24: Sold O'Reilly Automotive / ORLY ($1K–$15K), sold Visa / V ($50K–$100K)
He bought BP twice in two days in March, totaling up to $65,000 in a single energy position. He sold Tenet Healthcare in two tranches across five days in April, clearing up to $65,000 out of a hospital-operator stock. He bought Procter & Gamble on the same day as his second THC sale, then four days later sold both ORLY and Visa.
Jackson sits on the House Agriculture Committee's Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture subcommittee. Procter & Gamble sells food and household products. The committee-oversight connection is real but indirect: PG is not a farm or a commodity exchange. Agriculture jurisdiction touches food policy broadly, and PG's consumer staples business sits in that neighborhood. The interpretation is yours.
The Alpha Record
Blind Trust's full scored sample on Jackson covers 97 trades: 48 positive, 49 negative, mean 30-day alpha of essentially zero (0.0%). Dead-even against the S&P 500 across nearly 100 scored positions.
The best three trades in his history: a Robinhood Markets purchase in September 2025 that beat the market by 43.2% over 30 days, a GE Vernova purchase in January 2026 up 21.1%, and a Meta Platforms purchase in April 2025 up 17.0%. None carry committee overlap. They're wins — sitting inside a 48–49 overall record.
The worst three: a Palantir sale in January 2026 that underperformed by 21.7%, a Doximity sale in November 2025 that missed by 23.2%, and a Robinhood sale in January 2026 that cost him 29.5% in relative terms. He sold Robinhood in September for a 43-point beat, then sold it again in January for a 29-point miss. Same ticker. Four months apart. Opposite directions relative to the index.
97 trades. 48 wins. A coin-flip record.
The Other Votes
Jackson also voted Nay on two veterans-related bills on May 21 — the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act and the Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act — both of which passed over his objection. He voted Nay on the FISA extension (H.R. 9238) on June 11, which failed. None of those votes connect to any of his trades or committee assignments. They went the way they went.
The May 20 absences are the ones that sit next to the April 24 financial trades and don't resolve cleanly.
What the Filings Show
Jackson is not a prolific discloser. Eight trades in 90 days is a moderate pace. His overall alpha is flat. His largest recent trade — the Visa sale — lands in a sector adjacent to financial regulation, and he skipped four financial-sector floor votes three weeks later. His committee assignments don't create a formal oversight overlap on banking. He does, however, sit on the Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development subcommittee of Agriculture, which puts him closer to financial-adjacent policy than a member with no relevant seats at all.
The full trade history is public. The vote record is public. The committee assignments are public. Congress passed the STOCK Act in 2012 to make all of this visible. What the STOCK Act didn't do is require any member to explain the pattern, connect the calendar, or answer questions about it.
Members are required to disclose. They are not required to divest, recuse, abstain, or explain.
Take that for what it's worth.