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Gabe Evans

RepublicanGabe Evans

U.S. Representative · Colorado

Colorado's 8th district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from Colorado

5 tracked promises, 5 rated

Colorado · Colorado's 8th district

Colorado's 8th district

Their congressional district

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77/100
Trust rating
Generally keeps promises
77
0 · Broken50 · Mixed100 · Kept
A transparent rescale of the Integrity Score (+54) to 0–100, aggregated from 5 rated promises. Never an opaque single score. Provisional — based on 4 rated promises they could act on; a settled rating needs at least 5.
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How they won their seat

Gabe Evans won the 2024 U.S. House election in Colorado (District 8) with 49% of the vote (163,320 votes).

49%
Win share
163,320
Votes for winner
333,616
Total cast
  • Gabe Evans · Republican49%
  • Yadira Caraveo · Democrat48.2%
  • Chris Baum · Approval Voting Party1.7%
  • 2 Other Candidates1.1%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Gabe Evans has sponsored a range of bills primarily related to public safety, veterans' issues, and healthcare. Notable examples include the 'Combatting Fentanyl Poisonings Act of 2025' and the 'Veterans Burial Allowance and Reimbursement Act of 2026'. His committee memberships are a matter of record and include energy, commerce, and homeland security. Focus areas (from the record): public safety · veterans' affairs · healthcare · energy · commerce Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The lack of declared positions limits the ability to assess alignment with specific commitments. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of priorities or commitments. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Gabe Evans has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Showing 2026. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.

Activity in office

What Gabe Evans has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.

Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
013263952VotesJan '26: 33 YeaJan '26: 14 NayJan '26Feb '26: 23 YeaFeb '26: 7 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 25 YeaMar '26: 5 NayMar '26Apr '26: 33 YeaApr '26: 14 NayApr '26May '26: 27 YeaMay '26: 9 NayMay '26Jun '26: 29 YeaJun '26: 13 NayJun '26Jul '26: 33 YeaJul '26: 17 NayJul '26Aug '26: 2 YeaAug '26: 0 NayAug '26Sep '26: 9 YeaSep '26: 1 NaySep '26Jan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 50 totalAug '26: 2 totalSep '26: 10 total
Measures voted on:211 passed83 failed

Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.

Vote attendance

100%
attendance
294 of 294 roll calls0 missed
Monthly participation rate
0255075100100%Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Sep 26

Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

5bills sponsored
5 pending
01345Bills2026: 5 pending52026

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Independence

3%
Votes against own party
8 of 294 recent votes

How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.

Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 5 sponsored bills became law
5 pending

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$8.1M
Raised, 20242026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$2.5M$5M$7.5M$10M2024: raised $2.7M2024: spent $2.7M20242026: raised $5.4M2026: spent $1.6M20262024: cash on hand $02026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $785K (22%)22%Large individual (itemized): $1.3M (37%)37%PAC / committee: $1.4M (40%)40%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$785K22%
  • Large individual (itemized)$1.3M37%
  • PAC / committee$1.4M40%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Integrity

Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown

+54 · based on 5 rated promises

  • No opportunity 1
  • Partial 2
  • Championed 2

Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.

Integrity over time

In office since Jan 2025 · 5 rated promises

The line steps at each recorded assessment and holds between them; it ends on the current published score.

−100 worked against0+100 kept
Integrity Score by assessment date. Score ranges from −100 (worked against) to +100 (kept).
DateIntegrity Score
Sep 202675
Sep 202665
Sep 202649
Sep 202649
Sep 202654
Jan 202754 (current, held from last rating)

Promise status over time

How the tracked promise record has evolved.

5 tracked
  • Kept4
  • Against0
  • No opportunity1
  • In progress0
0246Sep 2026Sep 2026Sep 2026

Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.

Topic coverage

5 promises across 5 topics

What this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.

  • Abortion1
  • Education1
  • Energy1
  • Immigration & Border Security1
  • Social Security1
Kept Worked against No opportunity / not yet scored

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)5100%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

10
20
32
42
51

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

5 tracked promises

Championedhigh confidence

Secure the southern border by supporting border-security and immigration-enforcement legislation, reinstating Trump-era policies (border-wall construction and 'Remain in Mexico'), and cracking down on sanctuary policies and cartels such as Tren de Aragua.

Immigration & Border SecuritySpecific · measurablePromised Sep 2023
SourcesOffice of Rep. Gabe Evans (gabeevans.house.gov)· archivedElect Gabe Evans campaign website (Internet Archive)Elect Gabe Evans campaign website (Internet Archive)BallotpediaU.S. House Committee on Homeland Security (official)Office of Rep. Gabe Evans (official House press release)Office of Rep. Gabe Evans (official House press release, Jan 7, 2025)
No opportunitymedium confidence

Will not vote for a national (federal) abortion ban, holding that the issue was returned to the states by the Supreme Court and should be decided at the state level.

AbortionSpecific · measurablePromised Jan 2024
SourcesWikipediaElect Gabe Evans campaign website (Internet Archive)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of RepresentativesCongress.gov (U.S. Library of Congress) — H.R. 722 bill textNOTUS
Partialmedium confidence

Protect Social Security benefits from cuts and support efforts to make Social Security tax-free; will vote to protect Social Security for seniors.

Social SecuritySpecific · measurablePromised Jan 2024
SourcesElect Gabe Evans campaign website (Internet Archive)Office of Rep. Gabe Evans (gabeevans.house.gov)· archivedU.S. House ClerkU.S. House ClerkRep. Gabe Evans official press release
Championedhigh confidence

Increase domestic energy production to achieve energy independence, boosting U.S. production of oil, gas and critical resources rather than forcing costly, unproven 'green' technology mandates.

EnergyPromised Jan 2024
SourcesElect Gabe Evans campaign website (Internet Archive)Elect Gabe Evans campaign website (Internet Archive)Office of Rep. Gabe Evans (house.gov)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of RepresentativesOffice of Rep. Gabe Evans (house.gov)
Partialmedium confidence

Support school choice and education savings accounts that let parents and donors make tax-free contributions so families can choose the school that best fits their child.

EducationPromised Jan 2024
SourcesOffice of Rep. Gabe Evans (gabeevans.house.gov)· archivedElect Gabe Evans campaign website (Internet Archive)BallotpediaOffice of Rep. Gabe EvansU.S. House Clerk - Roll Call VoteInternal Revenue Service (IR-2025-121)

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
501
Nay
154
Present
0
Not voting
0

Full voting record

655 votes
  • S32Yea
  • S307Yea
120 of 655
Page 1 / 33

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

5 positions on record

The record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.

  • Social SecurityStated position

    Protect Social Security benefits from cuts and support efforts to make Social Security tax-free; will vote to protect Social Security for seniors.

    SourcesElect Gabe Evans campaign website (Internet Archive)Office of Rep. Gabe Evans (gabeevans.house.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • EducationStated position

    Support school choice and education savings accounts that let parents and donors make tax-free contributions so families can choose the school that best fits their child.

    SourcesBallotpediaElect Gabe Evans campaign website (Internet Archive)Office of Rep. Gabe Evans (gabeevans.house.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • AbortionStated position

    Will not vote for a national (federal) abortion ban, holding that the issue was returned to the states by the Supreme Court and should be decided at the state level.

    SourcesElect Gabe Evans campaign website (Internet Archive)Wikipedia
    View position & sources
  • EnergyStated position

    Increase domestic energy production to achieve energy independence, boosting U.S. production of oil, gas and critical resources rather than forcing costly, unproven 'green' technology mandates.

    SourcesElect Gabe Evans campaign website (Internet Archive)Elect Gabe Evans campaign website (Internet Archive)
    View position & sources
  • Immigration & Border SecurityStated position

    Secure the southern border by supporting border-security and immigration-enforcement legislation, reinstating Trump-era policies (border-wall construction and 'Remain in Mexico'), and cracking down on sanctuary policies and cartels such as Tren de Aragua.

    SourcesOffice of Rep. Gabe Evans (gabeevans.house.gov)· archivedElect Gabe Evans campaign website (Internet Archive)Elect Gabe Evans campaign website (Internet Archive)Ballotpedia
    View position & sources
Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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