Ro Khanna is having a week. He's rallying in Maine for a Senate candidate whose personal history is, charitably, complicated. He failed on the House floor to block a measure deepening U.S. Military ties with Israel, a vote that put him squarely back in the news cycle he lives in. And while the political press is busy writing the Khanna-as-future-of-the-Democratic-Party narrative, his financial disclosure record has been quietly telling a different story: 188 trades in 90 days, a fistful of tech buys that landed in sectors his own committees oversee, and a record that's roughly half right.
The News Cycle First
Khanna flew to Maine this week to stump for Graham Platner, a Democratic Senate candidate trying to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins. PBS reported on the rally alongside the word "scandals," which is a sentence structure that tends to follow Platner around. Khanna's public take: Platner's past relationships were "toxic" but the man deserves "redemption." Which is a generous read, and also the kind of generous read that tends to generate blowback on Bluesky, where Khanna's progressive credibility gets litigated roughly every 48 hours.
Local Maine media covered the Platner-Khanna pairing straight. The progressive internet was less charitable. The general vibe on Bluesky: Khanna keeps finding candidates and causes that complicate his brand, and his defenders keep having to work overtime.
Meanwhile, on the House floor, Khanna failed to block a measure deepening U.S. Military cooperation with Israel. He sits on the House Armed Services Committee, which makes the vote squarely within his remit, and he voted against it. The New Republic asked why everyone seemed fine with the whole thing. Good question. The answer is that most of Congress was busy.
188 Trades in 90 Days
Here's what Khanna was doing while all of this was happening: trading.
Per his disclosure record on Blind Trust, Khanna filed 188 disclosed trades in the last 90 days. To put that in context: the average sitting member barely hits double digits per quarter. 188 is an industriousness that would be impressive in a hedge fund junior analyst, let alone a congressman who also apparently has time to fly to Maine and lose floor votes.
The filing cadence tells part of the story. On April 13 alone, he filed eight purchases: Thermo Fisher Scientific, Home Depot, Stryker, Capital One Financial, Barnes Group, Cisco Systems, Johnson and Johnson, and Mastercard. Most in the 5,000-$50,000 range. Whatever was happening in his portfolio on April 13, it was not a slow Monday.
Five days earlier, on April 21, he bought JPMorgan Chase (also 5K-$50K) and added NCR. Then on April 22, he sold Lionsgate Studios, Agilent Technologies, and Nasdaq Inc. By April 27, he was buying Albertsons Companies and selling Micron Technology.
That's an active trading portfolio from a guy who also serves on two major House committees and apparently has opinions about Maine Senate primaries.
The Committee Overlap Question
Khanna sits on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Oversight Committee, including its Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation subcommittee. He's also on the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition with China. Tech is literally in his committee portfolio.
Which makes the following trades worth a second look.
On April 13, Khanna purchased Seagate Technology. Over the next 30 days, that position outperformed the S&P 500 by 54.7 percentage points. He also bought Oracle Corporation on the same date: up 16.8 points versus the index in 30 days. He'd purchased Amazon.com on March 30 and again on April 2, both of which also put up 16.8 points of excess return.
On April 2, he bought Microchip Technology. Up 32.1 points against the S&P in 30 days.
Every one of those five trades sits in his committee's jurisdiction. The overlap is structural, not coincidental: Khanna helps oversee the technology sector, and he's buying technology stocks that proceeded to outperform the market.
Members are required to disclose. They are not required to divest, recuse, abstain, blush, or look up from their phones.
What the Full Record Actually Says
Here's where the record gets more complicated, and where anyone writing this as a simple hero-or-villain story would be wrong.
Out of 186 scored trades, 88 were positive and 98 were negative. That's a 47% hit rate. The mean 30-day alpha across all trades was plus 1.0%. That's barely above breakeven. A coin flip with a slight edge, or a coin flip with slightly worse luck than it looks.
The worst three trades: he sold ServiceNow on March 30 at a loss of 27.0 percentage points versus the index. He sold Cognizant Technology Solutions the same day, down 23.7 points. He sold Abbott Laboratories that same day, down 21.5 points. Three sales, same date, all losers relative to the market. The March 30 exits look, in retrospect, like a series of mistimed sells.
So the full picture is a member who trades constantly, beats the market on a handful of high-profile tech names in his committee's backyard, loses on a cluster of sales that should have held, and comes out barely ahead on the aggregate. The 54.7-point pop on Seagate gets a lot of attention. The 27-point whiff on ServiceNow is right there in the same filing period.
The honest read on 88 wins out of 186 scored trades is: active trading, unremarkable results, with a notable cluster of wins concentrated precisely in the sector this member legislatively oversees. Readers get to bring their own opinion.
The Banking Bills on the Floor
Separately, on May 20, Khanna voted Yea on three banking-adjacent bills that passed: the American Access to Banking Act, the Community Bank Deposit Access Act of 2025, and the Keeping Deposits Local Act. All three cleared. His committee assignments don't include Financial Services, so there's no oversight angle there. He's a floor vote on those, same as every other member who showed up.
He also voted Nay on both veterans' gun-rights bills that came through on May 21, which is consistent with where he's been on those issues. That vote has no financial disclosure angle; it's just Khanna being Khanna.
The Khanna Brand, Priced to Market
The version of Ro Khanna that Bluesky argues about is a progressive purist who occasionally disappoints the base by associating with the wrong people. The Graham Platner endorsement fits that pattern. The Israel military cooperation vote fits the other side of it.
The version of Ro Khanna that his disclosure record shows is an extremely active trader who holds tech stocks, sits on tech oversight committees, and is beating the market on that specific overlap while roughly breaking even everywhere else.
Both versions are supported by public records. They are just rarely described in the same paragraph.
The receipts are public. Make of them what you make of them.