RT @SenBobCasey: Right now in America, it is easier to get an AR-15 than a test kit for COVID-19.
Defense
Posts in current filter8,849
Filtered engagement4.8M
Ideology dots106
State salience
Where Defense appears most often across states, measured by post counts.
Each party is scaled independently; blue = Democratic, red = Republican,
purple = equal relative contribution.
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.
8,849 posts 5 populated combinations
| Party | House | Senate | Chamber unknown | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | 2,682 | 2,274 | 0 | 4,956 |
| Republican | 2,050 | 1,359 | 0 | 3,409 |
| Independent | 484 | 0 | 0 | 484 |
| Party unknown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 5,216 | 3,633 | 0 | 8,849 |
Cell bars use a shared scale with a maximum of 2,682 posts.
Adjacent topics
Other high-volume topics in the same corpus context.
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Ideology distribution
One dot per legislator with voting-record data. Dot size represents posts on this topic. 96 legislators shown.
Visible 96
Median ideology -0.204
Topic posts 8,849
Most active Chad Mayes
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| Legislator | Party | Ideology | Topic posts |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Chiu | Democratic | -0.562 | 57 |
| Scott Wiener | Democratic | -0.513 | 48 |
| Buffy Wicks | Democratic | -0.487 | 128 |
| Rob Bonta | Democratic | -0.459 | 33 |
| Phil Ting | Democratic | -0.458 | 13 |
| Adrin Nazarian | Democratic | -0.441 | 30 |
| Richard Bloom | Democratic | -0.423 | 14 |
| Kevin Mullin | Democratic | -0.395 | 86 |
| Ben Allen | Democratic | -0.378 | 47 |
| Jim Beall | Democratic | -0.367 | 5 |
| Evan Low | Democratic | -0.361 | 33 |
| Jerry Hill | Democratic | -0.360 | 7 |
| Josh Becker | Democratic | -0.360 | 3 |
| Dave Cortese | Democratic | -0.350 | 159 |
| Ash Kalra | Democratic | -0.348 | 98 |
| Patrick O'Donnell | Democratic | -0.347 | 165 |
| Laura Friedman | Democratic | -0.338 | 81 |
| Miguel Santiago | Democratic | -0.336 | 46 |
| Alex Lee | Democratic | -0.328 | 22 |
| Kansen Chu | Democratic | -0.328 | 12 |
| Autumn Burke | Democratic | -0.320 | 8 |
| Marc Levine | Democratic | -0.298 | 15 |
| Bob Wieckowski | Democratic | -0.297 | 203 |
| Chris Holden | Democratic | -0.294 | 13 |
| Lena Gonzalez | Democratic | -0.292 | 95 |
| Anthony Portantino | Democratic | -0.279 | 145 |
| Mark Stone | Democratic | -0.275 | 1 |
| Toni Atkins | Democratic | -0.267 | 37 |
| Christopher Ward | Democratic | -0.263 | 7 |
| Todd Gloria | Democratic | -0.263 | 186 |
| Bill Quirk | Democratic | -0.259 | 212 |
| Richard Pan | Democratic | -0.253 | 228 |
| Kevin McCarty | Democratic | -0.247 | 1 |
| Henry Stern | Democratic | -0.244 | 18 |
| Tim Grayson | Democratic | -0.244 | 96 |
| Anthony Rendon | Democratic | -0.241 | 70 |
| Steven Bradford | Democratic | -0.241 | 20 |
| Brian Maienschein | Democratic | -0.240 | 76 |
| Luz Rivas | Democratic | -0.235 | 10 |
| Reggie Jones-Sawyer | Democratic | -0.234 | 77 |
| Mike Gipson | Democratic | -0.222 | 76 |
| Akilah Weber | Democratic | -0.221 | 12 |
| Holly Mitchell | Democratic | -0.217 | 92 |
| Mike McGuire | Democratic | -0.217 | 157 |
| Cristina Garcia | Democratic | -0.216 | 103 |
| Lorena Gonzalez | Democratic | -0.213 | 14 |
| Cecilia Aguiar-Curry | Democratic | -0.213 | 7 |
| Bill Dodd | Democratic | -0.207 | 26 |
| Steve Glazer | Democratic | -0.201 | 100 |
| Sharon Quirk-Silva | Democratic | -0.201 | 128 |
| Steven Choi | Republican | -0.201 | 6 |
| Dave Min | Democratic | -0.189 | 209 |
| Dave Min | Democratic | -0.189 | 27 |
| John Moorlach | Republican | -0.189 | 3 |
| Ben Hueso | Democratic | -0.181 | 2 |
| Josh Newman | Democratic | -0.176 | 198 |
| Ling Chang | Republican | -0.176 | 18 |
| Suzette Valladares | Republican | -0.176 | 183 |
| Hannah-Beth Jackson | Democratic | -0.170 | 2 |
| Monique Limon | Democratic | -0.170 | 26 |
| Jim Wood | Democratic | -0.170 | 113 |
| Janet Nguyen | Republican | -0.167 | 186 |
| Phillip Chen | Republican | -0.155 | 1 |
| Jim Cooper | Democratic | -0.154 | 41 |
| Ian Calderon | Democratic | -0.151 | 6 |
| Lisa Calderon | Democratic | -0.151 | 17 |
| Jacqui Irwin | Democratic | -0.145 | 61 |
| Jay Obernolte | Republican | -0.143 | 370 |
| Ken Cooley | Democratic | -0.143 | 2 |
| Connie Leyva | Democratic | -0.143 | 43 |
| Laurie Davies | Republican | -0.135 | 41 |
| Freddie Rodriguez | Democratic | -0.132 | 371 |
| Patricia Bates | Republican | -0.132 | 212 |
| Jose Medina | Democratic | -0.127 | 20 |
| Richard Roth | Democratic | -0.126 | 377 |
| Jim Frazier | Democratic | -0.102 | 19 |
| Marie Waldron | Republican | -0.102 | 51 |
| Jordan Cunningham | Republican | -0.089 | 63 |
| Brian Jones | Republican | -0.079 | 434 |
| Jim Patterson | Republican | -0.066 | 306 |
| Mike Morrell | Republican | -0.058 | 4 |
| Rosilicie Bogh | Republican | -0.058 | 5 |
| Chad Mayes | Independent | -0.053 | 484 |
| Adam Gray | Democratic | -0.049 | 1 |
| Kevin Kiley | Republican | -0.035 | 57 |
| Rudy Salas | Democratic | -0.032 | 84 |
| Scott Wilk | Republican | -0.031 | 435 |
| Andreas Borgeas | Republican | -0.014 | 100 |
| Tom Lackey | Republican | -0.003 | 292 |
| Brian Dahle | Republican | 0.016 | 73 |
| Devon Mathis | Republican | 0.019 | 227 |
| Vince Fong | Republican | 0.019 | 145 |
| Shannon Grove | Republican | 0.026 | 75 |
| Frank Bigelow | Republican | 0.041 | 52 |
| Susan Eggman | Democratic | 0.041 | 17 |
| James Gallagher | Republican | 0.044 | 70 |
Most concentrated voices
Legislators with the largest share of their posts on this topic.
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| Laurie Davies | Republican | -0.135 | 9.5% |
| Janet Nguyen | Republican | -0.167 | 7.7% |
| Jay Obernolte | Republican | -0.143 | 6.9% |
| Richard Roth | Democratic | -0.126 | 5.6% |
| Bob Wieckowski | Democratic | -0.297 | 4.6% |
| Patricia Bates | Republican | -0.132 | 3.9% |
| Freddie Rodriguez | Democratic | -0.132 | 3.9% |
| Mike Morrell | Republican | -0.058 | 3.8% |
| Jim Patterson | Republican | -0.066 | 3.7% |
| Jim Cooper | Democratic | -0.154 | 3.4% |
| Rudy Salas | Democratic | -0.032 | 3.4% |
| Frank Bigelow | Republican | 0.041 | 3.3% |
| Rosilicie Bogh | Republican | -0.058 | 3.3% |
| Brian Jones | Republican | -0.079 | 3.3% |
| Bill Quirk | Democratic | -0.259 | 3.1% |
| Chad Mayes | Independent | -0.053 | 3.1% |
| Patrick O'Donnell | Democratic | -0.347 | 2.7% |
| Brian Maienschein | Democratic | -0.240 | 2.6% |
| Josh Newman | Democratic | -0.176 | 2.5% |
| Tom Lackey | Republican | -0.003 | 2.4% |
| Vince Fong | Republican | 0.019 | 2.4% |
| Suzette Valladares | Republican | -0.176 | 2.2% |
| Jacqui Irwin | Democratic | -0.145 | 2.1% |
| Dave Cortese | Democratic | -0.350 | 2.0% |
| Scott Wilk | Republican | -0.031 | 1.9% |
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