CivicWatch State legislative speech

Law and Crime

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Posts in current filter5,226
Filtered engagement6.6M
Ideology dots19

Topic volume over time

612 intervals combined into 72 contiguous bins from 612 dated source rows.

Total
5,226
Peak
570

Adjacent intervals were combined into contiguous bins. No post counts were discarded.

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IntervalpostsSource intervalsSource rows
Jan 1, 2020–Jan 16, 20201488
Jan 18, 2020–Jan 30, 20202599
Feb 1, 2020–Feb 21, 20202188
Feb 22, 2020–Mar 9, 20201499
Mar 16, 2020–Mar 25, 20201088
Mar 26, 2020–Apr 4, 20201099
Apr 5, 2020–May 4, 20201188
May 7, 2020–May 28, 2020999
May 29, 2020–Jun 5, 20204388
Jun 8, 2020–Jun 25, 20205199
Jun 27, 2020–Jul 23, 20201188
Jul 25, 2020–Aug 6, 20202099
Aug 10, 2020–Aug 19, 20201588
Aug 20, 2020–Sep 3, 20201799
Sep 4, 2020–Sep 12, 20201488
Sep 13, 2020–Oct 13, 20201699
Oct 14, 2020–Nov 1, 20202388
Nov 3, 2020–Nov 26, 20201399
Nov 28, 2020–Dec 8, 20202388
Dec 11, 2020–Jan 4, 20211599
Jan 5, 2021–Jan 13, 20214888
Jan 14, 2021–Feb 6, 20215399
Feb 13, 2021–Feb 26, 20215288
Feb 28, 2021–Mar 12, 20213499
Mar 13, 2021–Mar 30, 20213488
Mar 31, 2021–Apr 22, 20213299
Apr 23, 2021–May 7, 20213388
May 8, 2021–May 31, 202110099
Jun 3, 2021–Jun 28, 20215288
Jun 30, 2021–Jul 29, 20212099
Aug 2, 2021–Aug 25, 20212488
Aug 26, 2021–Sep 12, 20219699
Sep 14, 2021–Oct 17, 202122088
Oct 18, 2021–Nov 8, 202110299
Nov 11, 2021–Dec 13, 20217388
Dec 14, 2021–Jan 9, 202227099
Jan 11, 2022–Jan 21, 202210788
Jan 22, 2022–Feb 10, 202211699
Feb 11, 2022–Mar 2, 20224288
Mar 3, 2022–Mar 17, 20227499
Mar 19, 2022–Apr 6, 20222688
Apr 7, 2022–Apr 17, 20224599
Apr 19, 2022–May 8, 20222488
May 10, 2022–May 24, 20225599
May 25, 2022–Jun 14, 202210788
Jun 19, 2022–Jul 1, 202235299
Jul 2, 2022–Jul 10, 202210288
Jul 11, 2022–Jul 22, 202223899
Jul 24, 2022–Aug 7, 202257088
Aug 9, 2022–Sep 1, 202224799
Sep 3, 2022–Sep 21, 20223388
Sep 22, 2022–Oct 20, 202212299
Oct 21, 2022–Nov 1, 20227088
Nov 2, 2022–Nov 21, 20224599
Nov 22, 2022–Dec 8, 20225788
Dec 9, 2022–Dec 30, 20221399
Jan 2, 2023–Jan 19, 20236888
Jan 20, 2023–Feb 1, 202313599
Feb 2, 2023–Feb 15, 20238588
Feb 20, 2023–Mar 5, 202310299
Mar 7, 2023–Mar 19, 20237688
Mar 23, 2023–Apr 5, 202312699
Apr 6, 2023–Apr 16, 202310588
Apr 17, 2023–May 1, 202315099
May 3, 2023–May 12, 20235788
May 18, 2023–Jun 4, 202315499
Jun 10, 2023–Oct 3, 20234788
Oct 18, 2023–Jun 17, 20241199
Jul 18, 2024–Sep 16, 20241088
Sep 25, 2024–Apr 29, 20251499
May 1, 2025–Jun 24, 20251288
Jul 3, 2025–Mar 4, 20261199
Total5,226612612

State salience

Where Law and Crime appears most often across states, measured by post counts.

Each party is scaled independently; blue = Democratic, red = Republican, purple = equal relative contribution.
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Hue compares each party's independently scaled state contribution (blue Democratic, red Republican, purple equal). Bar length shows posts.

Party by chamber

Post count by party and chamber for this topic. Unknown values remain visible.

5,226 posts 3 populated combinations

PartyHouseSenateChamber unknownTotal
Democratic
0
3,982
0
3,982
Republican
0
47
0
47
Independent
0
1,197
0
1,197
Party unknown
0
0
0
0
Total05,22605,226

Cell bars use a shared scale with a maximum of 3,982 posts.

Adjacent topics

Other high-volume topics in the same corpus context.

  • 8 records
  1. Unknown Topic (999)
    41.3K
  2. Government Operations
    14.6K
  3. Civil Rights
    8,843
  4. Health
    8,626
  5. Education
    4,953
  6. Social Welfare
    3,398
  7. Housing
    2,775
  8. Culture
    1,971

Ideology distribution

One dot per legislator with voting-record data. Dot size represents posts on this topic. 15 legislators shown.

Visible 15
Median ideology -0.069
Topic posts 5,226
Most active Adam Morfeld
-2.0-1.5-1.0-0.50.00.51.01.52.0More liberalMore conservativeAdam Morfeld · Democratic · 2,430 topic posts · ideology -0.189Terell McKinney · Independent · 1,197 topic posts · ideology -0.173Patty Brooks · Democratic · 477 topic posts · ideology -0.030Carol Blood · Democratic · 372 topic posts · ideology 0.083Justin Wayne · Democratic · 329 topic posts · ideology -0.149Tony Vargas · Democratic · 115 topic posts · ideology -0.071Anna Wishart · Democratic · 111 topic posts · ideology -0.154Lynne Walz · Democratic · 69 topic posts · ideology 0.200Matt Hansen · Democratic · 47 topic posts · ideology -0.002Mike Hilgers · Republican · 39 topic posts · ideology 0.027Kate Bolz · Democratic · 21 topic posts · ideology -0.071Sara Howard · Democratic · 9 topic posts · ideology -0.155Brett Lindstrom · Republican · 7 topic posts · ideology -0.069Sue Crawford · Democratic · 2 topic posts · ideology 0.025Joni Albrecht · Republican · 1 topic post · ideology 0.113
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Legislators shown in the chart, ordered from most liberal to most conservative
LegislatorPartyIdeologyTopic posts
Adam MorfeldDemocratic-0.1892,430
Terell McKinneyIndependent-0.1731,197
Sara HowardDemocratic-0.1559
Anna WishartDemocratic-0.154111
Justin WayneDemocratic-0.149329
Kate BolzDemocratic-0.07121
Tony VargasDemocratic-0.071115
Brett LindstromRepublican-0.0697
Patty BrooksDemocratic-0.030477
Matt HansenDemocratic-0.00247
Sue CrawfordDemocratic0.0252
Mike HilgersRepublican0.02739
Carol BloodDemocratic0.083372
Joni AlbrechtRepublican0.1131
Lynne WalzDemocratic0.20069

Most concentrated voices

Legislators with the largest share of their posts on this topic.

  • 19 records
1–19 of 19
Mike HilgersRepublican0.02728.9%
Terell McKinneyIndependent-0.17313.3%
Adam MorfeldDemocratic-0.1897.7%
Justin WayneDemocratic-0.1495.1%
Patty BrooksDemocratic-0.0303.0%
Sue CrawfordDemocratic0.0252.9%
Matt HansenDemocratic-0.0022.8%
Carol BloodDemocratic0.0832.7%
Lynne WalzDemocratic0.2002.2%
Brett LindstromRepublican-0.0692.1%
Anna WishartDemocratic-0.1541.9%
Kate BolzDemocratic-0.0711.4%
Tony VargasDemocratic-0.0711.1%
Joni AlbrechtRepublican0.1131.0%
Sara HowardDemocratic-0.1550.9%
Rita SandersRepublican0.0250.0%
Rich PahlsRepublican0.0630.0%
John StinnerRepublican0.2260.0%
Curt FriesenRepublican0.2360.0%

Post explorer

Browse high-engagement posts, recent posts, and representative samples assigned to this topic.

  • 10 matching posts

Adam Morfeld

@Adam_Morfeld

Democratic NE Senate

RT @warriors: Steve Kerr on today's tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas. https://t.co/lsJ8RzPcmC

Law and Crime

Adam Morfeld

@Adam_Morfeld

Democratic NE Senate

RT @MittRomney: Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying t&

Law and Crime

Adam Morfeld

@Adam_Morfeld

Democratic NE Senate

RT @Ash_Stewart_: This is Anastasiia Yalanskaya <U+0001F1FA><U+0001F1E6> She was killed yesterday, just outside Kyiv, delivering supplies to a dog shelter that<U+2026>

Law and Crime

Matt Hansen

@MattHansenNE

Democratic NE Senate

RT @elizaorlins: Lori Laughlin was just sentenced to 2 months in jail. Earlier this year, the Manhattan DA recommended one year jail for&

Law and Crime

Terell McKinney

@SenMcKinneyLD11

Independent NE Senate

RT @AgentNicoleLynn: Just reading on Jelani Day, a missing 25 year old graduate student. He has been missing for almost a month. We need mo…

Law and Crime

Lynne Walz

@lynnewalz

Democratic NE Senate

RT @Public_Citizen: Today is the 144th day of 2022. The Uvalde shooting is the 212th mass shooting of 2022. Gun violence is a public heal<U+2026>

Law and Crime

Terell McKinney

@SenMcKinneyLD11

Independent NE Senate

RT @TalbertSwan: His name is Jayland Walker. <U+2063> <U+2063> 8 Akron Ohio cops fired 90 bullets at him, hitting him 60 times throughout hie entire body<U+2026>

Law and Crime

Adam Morfeld

@Adam_Morfeld

Democratic NE Senate

RT @dilloncollier: Xavier Lopez, 10. He was a 4th grader at Robb Elementary. His family confirms he died in today<U+2019>s school shooting. https:<U+2026>

Law and Crime

Adam Morfeld

@Adam_Morfeld

Democratic NE Senate

RT @DavidBegnaud: Ralph Yarl, age 16, knocked on the wrong door in Missouri and was shot. He went to the door at the wrong home to pick u<U+2026>

Law and Crime

Adam Morfeld

@Adam_Morfeld

Democratic NE Senate

RT @NBCNews: Texas Gov. Abbott says the Uvalde school shooter had a "mental health challenge" and the state needed to "do a better job with<U+2026>

Law and Crime