Kelly Morrison Profited From War — And CD3 Deserves to Know the Truth

Kelly Morrison likes to present herself as a small-town doctor who came to Washington to fight for working families. But a review of her congressional financial disclosures tells a very different story — one of a sitting Congresswoman who has turned her office into a personal investment opportunity, cashing in on defense, space, and national security stocks while failing, over and over, to follow the law that requires her to disclose it.

This isn’t speculation. It’s in her own financial disclosure filings with the Clerk of the House of Representatives.

The Saronic Technologies Trade

On March 11, 2026 — just nine days after the United States entered its war with Iran — Kelly Morrison purchased stock in Saronic Technologies, a defense contractor that builds autonomous naval warships for the U.S. Navy. The purchase was valued at $15,001 to $50,000.

Saronic wasn’t some obscure startup. The U.S. Navy had just awarded the company a $392 million production contract. While American troops were in harm’s way in a live conflict, Kelly Morrison was putting her own money into the company profiting from the machinery of that war.

Saronic also maintains a “strategic partnership” with Palantir Technologies — a company with massive contracts with both the Department of Defense and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Ask yourself: does that sound like a Congresswoman representing your interests, or one representing her portfolio?

It’s Not Just Saronic

If this were an isolated incident, it might be easier to write off. It isn’t. A review of Kelly Morrison’s financial disclosures reveals a consistent pattern of investment in defense, space, and national-security-adjacent companies:

• Saronic Technologies — autonomous naval warships; recipient of a $392 million Navy production contract. https://www.saronic.com/
• Star Catcher — a space-based power infrastructure company that lists “National Security” as one of its core markets, and holds Air Force and Space Force contracts through the AFWERX and SpaceWERX programs. https://www.star-catcher.com/about
• StarCloud — a company building orbital data centers. https://www.starcloud.com/starcloud-1
• Urban Sky — a stratospheric flight technology company. https://urbansky.com/
• Honeywell Aerospace — one of the largest defense and aerospace manufacturers in the country. https://www.honeywellaerospace.com/us/en/solutions/defense
• Solstice Advanced Materials — manufacturer of Spectra Shield, an advanced fiber material used in military and law enforcement body armor. https://www.solstice.com/us/en/initiative/spectra-shield-armor

What does an OB-GYN know about autonomous warships, orbital data centers, stratospheric flight technology, and body armor materials? Nothing — except how to profit from them.

A Documented Pattern of Breaking the Law

Congress requires its members to publicly disclose stock trades within 45 days under the STOCK Act — a law designed to prevent exactly the kind of conflict of interest Kelly Morrison’s portfolio represents.

She didn’t follow it.

According to a review of congressional financial records, Morrison was months — and in one case, more than a year — late disclosing eight financial trades together worth between $1.41 million and $2.91 million. The trades involved equity in the Andersen Corporation (a window and door manufacturer), Cavall (an equine software company), and Flux (an AI hardware company).

When confronted, Morrison’s office didn’t deny it. Instead, a spokesperson blamed the missed deadlines on her “investment manager,” claiming Morrison had no prior knowledge of the trades before they occurred. But the House Committee on Ethics is clear about how that excuse holds up:

“You are personally responsible for incomplete and inaccurate information contained in your [financial reports], regardless of who assisted in preparation.”

The STOCK Act makes no distinction between a lawmaker who personally executes a trade and one who lets an investment manager do it on her behalf. The responsibility is hers. Full stop.

The Numbers Don’t Lie

The scale of Kelly Morrison’s trading activity is itself remarkable for a freshman member of Congress:

• 125 total stock trades made since taking office
• $6.09 million in total trade volume — roughly $1 million bought and $3.1 million sold in 2025 alone, with hundreds of thousands more in trades already in 2026
• More trading activity in a three-year window than 490 other members of the House and Senate
• A personal net worth estimated at $38.72 million
• Her top traded sectors: Information Technology (19 trades), Health Care (11), Industrials (9), Communication Services (6), and Consumer Staples (6)

This is not the profile of someone too busy governing to notice her portfolio. This is the profile of an active, engaged trader who happened to also hold a congressional seat with access to information the rest of us don’t have.

Her Stock Holdings Overlap With Her Campaign Donors

Here’s where it gets even harder to explain away. Kelly Morrison doesn’t just hold stock in defense contractors — some of those same companies are actively donating to her re-election campaign.

• Honeywell International, whose Public Affairs Council PAC (HONPAC) gave $2,000 to Morrison for Congress on June 4, 2026 — the same company behind Honeywell Aerospace, a stock Morrison has held in her personal portfolio.
• General Dynamics, one of the largest defense contractors in the country, whose employee PAC gave $1,000 to her campaign on April 8, 2025.
• Huntington Bancshares, whose PAC gave $1,500 to her campaign on July 22, 2025.

A defense contractor whose stock she personally profits from is also cutting checks to her campaign. That’s not a coincidence — that’s the exact conflict of interest the STOCK Act and campaign finance disclosure laws exist to expose.

Caught, Then Cornered Into “Reform”

Only after this reporting became public did Kelly Morrison announce she would divest from all of her individual stock holdings. In the same statement, she took the opportunity to lecture the country about “unfathomable levels of corruption and self-enrichment” coming out of Washington — an astonishing claim from someone who had just been caught doing exactly that.

She now claims to support legislation that would ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks entirely. It’s a fine position to hold — years and millions of dollars too late.

What This Means for CD3

Kelly Morrison wants voters to believe she’s a doctor who understands healthcare, a public servant who understands sacrifice, and a leader who understands accountability. Her financial disclosures tell a different story: a Congresswoman who invested in the war machine while our troops were in harm’s way, who was caught breaking federal disclosure law not once but eight times, and who only found religion on stock trading reform after getting caught.

CD3 deserves a Congressman who represents this district — not one whose portfolio benefits from the conflicts he or she is supposed to be legislating on.

That’s the difference I’ll bring to Congress.

Tyler Bass is the Republican nominee for Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District. Learn more at bassforcongress.com.