Rep. Kevin Hern's accounts sold 28 stocks in August and bought one Oklahoma municipal bond

The pattern is in the filing before it

One busy month is just a busy month. The filing before it shows the same shape. Hern's previous report, signed August 10, carries 14 transactions: seven stock sales out of the Hern Family Foundation, and seven municipal bond purchases into the Hern Family Revocable Trust. Every one of those bonds was an Oklahoma issuer. Caddo County, the Edmond Public Works Authority, the Grand River Dam Authority, Kingfisher County, the city of Lawton, the Oklahoma County Finance Authority and Tulsa County Independent School District. Coupons run from 2% to 5% and maturities from 2026 to 2033, with a combined disclosed range of $310,007 to $800,000.

Set the two filings next to each other and the arithmetic is clean. That's 35 stock sales and eight municipal bond purchases between July 16 and August 24. Every bond was issued in Oklahoma. The sales and the purchases sit in different accounts, so the filings record the two activities side by side and stop short of tracing money from one to the other. Tuesday's report is also his largest of the year by a wide margin. He has filed ten periodic transaction reports in 2026 covering 73 transactions, and 29 of them are in this one, more than a third of his year in a single filing.

Who is actually doing this

Hern's office says financial advisers make the decisions, though it said so about an earlier set of filings. NOTUS reported in March that he appeared to have disclosed between $4.2 million and $17.6 million of trades past the STOCK Act deadline since early 2025, across roughly ten transactions that ran two to twelve days late. His office disputed it in writing, twice. "The filings aren't late." "Congressman Hern files his [disclosure reports] no later than 30 days after receiving notification from his financial advisor, and in compliance with the 45-day transaction activity requirement. It is well documented that Congressman Hern has no involvement in the purchasing or selling of stocks, nor in the preparation of reports for the Public Transaction Report (PTR) system." NOTUS asked for documentation supporting that arrangement and came away empty.

According to Hern's office, this report records what an advisor did inside a foundation, a family trust and an IRA.

Hern won the Oklahoma Republican Senate primary on June 16 with 69.8% of the vote, running for the seat Markwayne Mullin vacated in March to become Secretary of Homeland Security. He gave up the House Republican Policy Committee chairmanship on March 11 when he entered the race, and he's leaving the House at the end of this term. Forecasters rate November's general election as safe Republican. So these accounts recorded stock sales and Oklahoma bond purchases in the period between Hern's primary victory and the general election. Any link between the two lives outside the filings.

One thing the document does settle is the timing. Its earliest trade is August 5 and the digital signature reads September 1, 27 days later. The advisor's notification date is listed as August 27, five days before the filing. Whatever the March dispute turns on, this report landed inside both deadlines.

A periodic transaction report gives you the asset, the date, a dollar band and the account it sat in. It stops there. Share counts and prices stay out, so the size of these moves is a range, and that's permanent. Whether the bond buying continues is a question the next filing answers, and we'll be reading it. Hern's full record sits on his Congress tracker page, and if the who-actually-trades question is the part you want to understand, we wrote about why so few members of Congress use a blind trust.