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Social Welfare

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Posts in current filter3,017
Filtered engagement114.6K
Ideology dots24

Topic volume over time

422 intervals combined into 72 contiguous bins from 422 dated source rows.

Total
3,017
Peak
320

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

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IntervalpostsSource intervalsSource rows
Jan 5, 2020–Jan 28, 2020755
Jan 29, 2020–Feb 13, 2020766
Feb 16, 2020–Mar 10, 2020766
Mar 11, 2020–Mar 17, 20201166
Mar 18, 2020–Mar 24, 2020966
Mar 25, 2020–Apr 3, 20201166
Apr 5, 2020–Apr 13, 2020766
Apr 14, 2020–Apr 20, 2020655
Apr 21, 2020–May 1, 20201166
May 8, 2020–May 18, 2020866
May 26, 2020–Jun 8, 20201066
Jun 9, 2020–Jun 19, 2020866
Jun 20, 2020–Jul 13, 2020666
Jul 14, 2020–Jul 29, 20201066
Jul 30, 2020–Aug 11, 2020755
Aug 14, 2020–Aug 28, 2020766
Sep 1, 2020–Sep 11, 2020766
Sep 19, 2020–Oct 4, 2020766
Oct 5, 2020–Oct 14, 2020666
Oct 22, 2020–Oct 30, 20201466
Nov 9, 2020–Nov 18, 20201266
Nov 21, 2020–Dec 3, 2020655
Dec 4, 2020–Dec 16, 2020666
Dec 19, 2020–Jan 16, 20211266
Jan 18, 2021–Jan 31, 20212066
Feb 1, 2021–Feb 6, 20214666
Feb 7, 2021–Mar 3, 20213666
Mar 4, 2021–Mar 13, 20213066
Mar 14, 2021–Mar 23, 20211555
Mar 25, 2021–Apr 12, 20212366
Apr 19, 2021–Apr 26, 20212466
Apr 27, 2021–May 21, 20214266
May 23, 2021–Jun 8, 20214666
Jun 9, 2021–Jun 21, 20213566
Jun 23, 2021–Jul 27, 20211266
Jul 29, 2021–Sep 7, 20212866
Sep 12, 2021–Sep 23, 20215255
Sep 24, 2021–Nov 5, 20213866
Nov 7, 2021–Dec 9, 20214666
Dec 10, 2021–Dec 26, 20216966
Dec 27, 2021–Jan 22, 20224966
Jan 25, 2022–Feb 14, 20223866
Feb 15, 2022–Feb 28, 20223566
Mar 7, 2022–Mar 21, 20221255
Mar 28, 2022–Apr 11, 20221666
Apr 14, 2022–May 3, 20222866
May 5, 2022–May 12, 20223066
May 16, 2022–Jun 6, 20225466
Jun 17, 2022–Jun 24, 20229466
Jun 27, 2022–Jul 12, 20229466
Jul 13, 2022–Jul 23, 202218555
Jul 25, 2022–Aug 5, 202227266
Aug 12, 2022–Aug 22, 202232066
Aug 24, 2022–Sep 12, 20225566
Sep 13, 2022–Sep 26, 20222666
Oct 15, 2022–Oct 28, 20221766
Nov 2, 2022–Nov 15, 20222666
Nov 16, 2022–Dec 10, 20221755
Dec 12, 2022–Jan 5, 20231866
Jan 12, 2023–Jan 21, 20234266
Jan 24, 2023–Jan 31, 202312666
Feb 2, 2023–Feb 7, 20237766
Feb 9, 2023–Feb 22, 20232966
Feb 24, 2023–Mar 11, 20235366
Mar 14, 2023–Mar 20, 20233255
Mar 21, 2023–Apr 1, 20237066
Apr 3, 2023–Apr 12, 20235666
Apr 13, 2023–Apr 22, 202314766
Apr 23, 2023–May 3, 20234266
May 5, 2023–May 17, 20233166
May 24, 2023–Jun 1, 202310566
Jun 2, 2023–Oct 10, 20245766
Total3,017422422

State salience

Where Social Welfare 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.

3,017 posts 4 populated combinations

PartyHouseSenateChamber unknownTotal
Democratic
2,551
274
0
2,825
Republican
167
25
0
192
Independent
0
0
0
0
Party unknown
0
0
0
0
Total2,71829903,017

Cell bars use a shared scale with a maximum of 2,551 posts.

Adjacent topics

Other high-volume topics in the same corpus context.

  • 8 records
  1. Unknown Topic (999)
    27.4K
  2. Government Operations
    6,839
  3. Education
    4,483
  4. Civil Rights
    4,208
  5. Health
    4,070
  6. Housing
    2,410
  7. Macroeconomics
    2,266
  8. Law and Crime
    1,798

Ideology distribution

One dot per legislator with voting-record data. Dot size represents posts on this topic. 14 legislators shown.

Visible 14
Median ideology -0.026
Topic posts 3,017
Most active Joshua Boschee
-2.0-1.5-1.0-0.50.00.51.01.52.0More liberalMore conservativeJoshua Boschee · Democratic · 1,217 topic posts · ideology -0.240Karla Hanson · Democratic · 1,089 topic posts · ideology -0.240Zac Ista · Democratic · 236 topic posts · ideology 0.089Erin Oban · Democratic · 209 topic posts · ideology 0.058Thomas Beadle · Republican · 72 topic posts · ideology -0.110Tim Mathern · Democratic · 65 topic posts · ideology -0.213Greg Stemen · Republican · 52 topic posts · ideology -0.110Kyle Davison · Republican · 22 topic posts · ideology -0.164Vicky Steiner · Republican · 18 topic posts · ideology 0.198Shannon Jones · Republican · 12 topic posts · ideology -0.139Corey Mock · Democratic · 9 topic posts · ideology 0.098Cole Christensen · Republican · 8 topic posts · ideology 0.319Rick Becker · Republican · 5 topic posts · ideology 0.196Scott Meyer · Republican · 3 topic posts · ideology 0.098
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Legislators shown in the chart, ordered from most liberal to most conservative
LegislatorPartyIdeologyTopic posts
Joshua BoscheeDemocratic-0.2401,217
Karla HansonDemocratic-0.2401,089
Tim MathernDemocratic-0.21365
Kyle DavisonRepublican-0.16422
Shannon JonesRepublican-0.13912
Greg StemenRepublican-0.11052
Thomas BeadleRepublican-0.11072
Erin ObanDemocratic0.058209
Zac IstaDemocratic0.089236
Corey MockDemocratic0.0989
Scott MeyerRepublican0.0983
Rick BeckerRepublican0.1965
Vicky SteinerRepublican0.19818
Cole ChristensenRepublican0.3198

Most concentrated voices

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

  • 24 records
1–24 of 24
Zac IstaDemocratic0.0899.8%
Joshua BoscheeDemocratic-0.2407.6%
Karla HansonDemocratic-0.2407.5%
Erin ObanDemocratic0.0586.0%
Tim MathernDemocratic-0.2135.2%
Shannon JonesRepublican-0.1393.4%
Thomas BeadleRepublican-0.1102.0%
Vicky SteinerRepublican0.1981.8%
Kyle DavisonRepublican-0.1641.3%
Corey MockDemocratic0.0980.5%
Cole ChristensenRepublican0.3190.5%
Scott MeyerRepublican0.0980.5%
Greg StemenRepublican-0.1100.4%
Rick BeckerRepublican0.1960.3%
James KasperRepublican-0.1390.0%
Emily O'BrienRepublican0.0670.0%
Michael HoweRepublican0.1100.0%
Nicole PoolmanRepublican0.1960.0%
Scott LouserRepublican0.2450.0%
Jessica Unruh-BellRepublican0.3250.0%
Jared HagertRepublican0.3480.0%
Keith KempenichRepublican0.3540.0%
Sebastian ErteltRepublican0.3750.0%
Paul ThomasRepublican0.5200.0%

Post explorer

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

  • 10 matching posts

Erin Oban

@ErinOban

Democratic ND Senate

RT @ajplus: "I've pulled myself up by the bootstraps so many damn times that I ripped them off." This single mom works two jobs and has a&

Social Welfare

Karla Hanson

@karlarosehanson

Democratic ND House

RT @Kimberly_Corban: All joking aside, for those who are worried about quarantining during #COVID19 in a home where they do not feel safe,&

Social Welfare

Joshua Boschee

@JoshBoschee

Democratic ND House

RT @RevDrBarber: Every attack on the poor must embolden our agitation. Lack of healthcare, lack of living wages, black men & women getting&

Social Welfare

Cole Christensen

@ColeChristense8

Republican ND House

RT @GlennYoungkin: Let me be clear. Children do not belong to the state. They belong to families. https://t.co/M6FXqDi7Jf

Social Welfare

Joshua Boschee

@JoshBoschee

Democratic ND House

RT @PeteButtigieg: A DREAMer asked me what I thought about DACA. This is what I told him. https://t.co/MNYZzriMpH

Social Welfare

Joshua Boschee

@JoshBoschee

Democratic ND House

RT @kylegriffin1: Pelosi on Republicans wanting to wait to move on the next coronavirus relief bill: "We cannot take a pause. They may thin&

Social Welfare

Joshua Boschee

@JoshBoschee

Democratic ND House

RT @RepErinHealy: Today @govkristinoem vetoed my bill (HB 1223), a bill that allows pregnant minors to receive prenatal, delivery process,<U+2026>

Social Welfare

Joshua Boschee

@JoshBoschee

Democratic ND House

RT @MalloryMcMorrow: Meanwhile<U+2026>in Nebraska<U+2026> Children are not a conflict of interest. Imagine telling any legislator they couldn<U+2019>t vote on<U+2026>

Social Welfare

Greg Stemen

@GregStemen

Republican ND House

RT @redsteeze: Why a shelter? There are homes there with several bedrooms each. It's what good neighbors would do.

Social Welfare

Joshua Boschee

@JoshBoschee

Democratic ND House

RT @PodSaveAmerica: "It's time to recognize that child care is part of the basic infrastructure of this nation." @SenWarren https://t.co/Tc&

Social Welfare