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Ashley Hinson Republican · IA-2

House of Representatives · in office · serving since 2021 · born June 27, 1983

Transactions 14 across 1 filings
Securities traded 10 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $1,276,014 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

In plain language

Of 14 disclosed trades, 0 were flagged by the site's published rules.

Too few disclosed trades here to say anything about a pattern. A handful of trades will throw up the odd coincidence for anyone.

Across the whole database, congressional trading beats the market by close to nothing on average, and only slightly more trades look unusual than chance alone would produce. Most members, most of the time, are unremarkable. That is the backdrop for anything you read here. A flag is a prompt to look at the record, never a finding about a person.

Seat & district history

SeatCongressesServedChange
IA-2 118th–119th 2023–2027 district renumbered from 1
IA-1 117th 2021–2023 first seat

District numbers change when a state is redistricted, so a renumbering here is not necessarily a move — the boundaries were redrawn around the member. Term records come from the public congress-legislators dataset.

Committees

Current (119th Congress)

CommitteePositionRankSideJurisdiction
House Committee on Appropriations Member 19 majority
House Committee on Ethics Member 3 majority
House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party Member 8 majority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thHouse Committee on Appropriations Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thHouse Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thHouse Committee on Appropriations Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
117thHouse Committee on the Budget Member 2021-03 → 2022-11

The published roster covers only the sitting Congress, so earlier assignments are reconstructed from the dated version history of that same public dataset, sampled monthly back to 2012. Observed is the span across which we actually saw the seat held — it is evidence of tenure, not a precise start and end date, and a seat that changed hands between two monthly samples may be dated up to a month out. Committees with no history recorded are absent because no snapshot showed them, which is not evidence the member held no seat.

Currently trading — last 6 months

0 securities

No transactions disclosed in the last 6 months.

Previously traded

10 securities

Securities with disclosed transactions before this window and none since. A security leaving this list means no reported trading — not that a position was closed. Holdings themselves are not disclosed in these filings.

TickerSecuritySectorTrades Buys / SellsTotal valueActive
TSLA Tesla, Inc. - Common Stock (TSLA) Automotive 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2021-03 → 2021-03
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. - Common Stock (AMZN) Retail & Consumer 2 1 / 1 $40,501 2021-03 → 2021-03
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Limited American … Business Services 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2021-03 → 2021-03
AAPL Apple Inc. - Common Stock (AAPL) Technology Hardware 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2021-03 → 2021-03
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. Common Stock… Food & Beverage 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2021-03 → 2021-03
GTN gray Television, Inc. (gTN) 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2021-03 → 2021-03
HRTX Heron Therapeutics, Inc. (HRTX) 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2021-03 → 2021-03
MCS Marcus Corporation (MCS) 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2021-03 → 2021-03
QCRH QCR Holdings, Inc. (QCRH) 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2021-03 → 2021-03
SHAK Shake Shack, Inc. Class A Common Stock … 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2021-03 → 2021-03

The Spread by year

YearSpreadTrades pricedDisclosed value
2021 +5.4% 7 $80,504

Transaction timing versus the market over 90 trading days — not portfolio return, which these filings cannot support. See Methodology and the Scoreboard for the population baseline.

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2021-03-31 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2021-03-31 SHAK Shake Shack, Inc. Class A (SHAK) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2021-03-31 QCRH QCR Holdings, Inc. (QCRH) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2021-03-31 MCS Marcus Corporation (MCS) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2021-03-31 HRTX Heron Therapeutics, Inc. (HRTX) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2021-03-31 GTN gray Television, Inc. (gTN) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2021-03-31 STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. (STZ) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2021-03-31 AAPL Apple Inc. (AAPL) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2021-03-31 AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) sell $15,001 – $50,000 spouse
2021-03-31 BABA Alibaba group Holding Limited American Depositary Shares each representing eight Ordinary share (BABA) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2021-03-08 AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2021-03-05 Transportation Insurance & Consultants, Inc. (d/b/a Elliott- Hartman Agency) sell $1,000,001+ spouse
2021-03-05 High Street Insurance Partners buy $250,001+ spouse
2021-03-04 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse