CivicWatch State legislative speech

Defense

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Posts in current filter727
Filtered engagement301.8K
Ideology dots19

Topic volume over time

125 intervals combined into 72 contiguous bins from 125 dated source rows.

Total
727
Peak
111

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

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IntervalpostsSource intervalsSource rows
Jan 7, 2020411
Jan 8, 2020–Jan 15, 2020622
Jan 27, 2020–Feb 1, 2020222
Mar 21, 2020111
Mar 28, 2020–Apr 3, 2020222
Apr 6, 2020–Apr 27, 2020322
Apr 28, 2020–May 7, 2020222
May 16, 2020211
May 25, 2020–Jun 3, 2020422
Jun 5, 2020–Jun 6, 2020222
Jun 30, 2020–Jul 6, 2020222
Aug 18, 2020111
Aug 19, 2020–Aug 20, 2020322
Sep 1, 2020–Sep 7, 2020222
Sep 22, 2020–Sep 24, 2020222
Sep 29, 2020111
Oct 12, 2020–Oct 20, 2020222
Oct 23, 2020–Nov 2, 2020222
Nov 9, 2020111
Nov 11, 2020–Dec 6, 2020422
Dec 23, 2020–Dec 24, 2020222
Jan 11, 2021–Jan 12, 2021222
Jan 13, 2021111
Jan 17, 2021–Jan 26, 2021322
Feb 22, 2021–Feb 23, 2021422
Mar 20, 2021–Apr 5, 2021422
May 11, 2021511
May 17, 2021–May 21, 20211322
May 31, 2021–Jun 1, 20212422
Jun 30, 2021–Aug 17, 2021422
Aug 26, 2021511
Aug 28, 2021–Sep 10, 20212422
Sep 11, 2021–Sep 15, 20213322
Nov 7, 2021–Nov 11, 20211322
Nov 15, 20211311
Nov 25, 2021–Dec 5, 20211322
Dec 31, 2021–Jan 18, 20221522
Jan 20, 2022811
Jan 31, 2022–Feb 17, 2022322
Feb 24, 2022–Feb 25, 20221222
Feb 26, 2022–Feb 27, 20221022
Mar 7, 2022211
Mar 11, 2022–Mar 15, 2022422
Mar 17, 2022–Mar 20, 2022422
Mar 27, 2022–Apr 4, 2022422
Apr 14, 2022211
Apr 18, 2022–Apr 20, 2022422
Apr 24, 2022–Apr 29, 20221322
May 15, 2022–May 18, 2022422
May 29, 2022211
May 30, 2022–May 31, 20224822
Jun 12, 2022–Jun 16, 20226422
Jul 29, 2022–Aug 2, 202211122
Aug 15, 20224211
Sep 11, 2022–Sep 12, 20221322
Sep 14, 2022–Sep 27, 2022422
Sep 28, 2022211
Oct 12, 2022–Oct 14, 2022322
Oct 17, 2022–Oct 23, 2022622
Nov 5, 2022–Nov 8, 2022622
Nov 11, 2022611
Nov 18, 2022–Nov 22, 2022522
Dec 16, 2022–Dec 26, 2022322
Feb 3, 2023–Feb 8, 20231922
Feb 12, 2023311
Feb 19, 2023–Mar 10, 20231322
Mar 17, 2023–Mar 27, 20231422
Mar 31, 2023–Apr 20, 20232122
May 26, 2023711
May 29, 2023–Jun 4, 20232122
Jun 15, 2023–Oct 24, 20241622
Oct 26, 2024–Jun 28, 2025222
Total727125125

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.
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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.

727 posts 3 populated combinations

PartyHouseSenateChamber unknownTotal
Democratic
0
653
0
653
Republican
0
23
0
23
Independent
0
51
0
51
Party unknown
0
0
0
0
Total07270727

Cell bars use a shared scale with a maximum of 653 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. Law and Crime
    5,226
  6. Education
    4,953
  7. Social Welfare
    3,398
  8. Housing
    2,775

Ideology distribution

One dot per legislator with voting-record data. Dot size represents posts on this topic. 13 legislators shown.

Visible 13
Median ideology -0.071
Topic posts 727
Most active Adam Morfeld
-2.0-1.5-1.0-0.50.00.51.01.52.0More liberalMore conservativeAdam Morfeld · Democratic · 295 topic posts · ideology -0.189Patty Brooks · Democratic · 133 topic posts · ideology -0.030Anna Wishart · Democratic · 65 topic posts · ideology -0.154Carol Blood · Democratic · 64 topic posts · ideology 0.083Terell McKinney · Independent · 51 topic posts · ideology -0.173Tony Vargas · Democratic · 42 topic posts · ideology -0.071Justin Wayne · Democratic · 23 topic posts · ideology -0.149Brett Lindstrom · Republican · 15 topic posts · ideology -0.069Matt Hansen · Democratic · 15 topic posts · ideology -0.002Kate Bolz · Democratic · 13 topic posts · ideology -0.071Mike Hilgers · Republican · 8 topic posts · ideology 0.027Sara Howard · Democratic · 2 topic posts · ideology -0.155Lynne Walz · Democratic · 1 topic post · ideology 0.200
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Legislators shown in the chart, ordered from most liberal to most conservative
LegislatorPartyIdeologyTopic posts
Adam MorfeldDemocratic-0.189295
Terell McKinneyIndependent-0.17351
Sara HowardDemocratic-0.1552
Anna WishartDemocratic-0.15465
Justin WayneDemocratic-0.14923
Kate BolzDemocratic-0.07113
Tony VargasDemocratic-0.07142
Brett LindstromRepublican-0.06915
Patty BrooksDemocratic-0.030133
Matt HansenDemocratic-0.00215
Mike HilgersRepublican0.0278
Carol BloodDemocratic0.08364
Lynne WalzDemocratic0.2001

Most concentrated voices

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

  • 19 records
1–19 of 19
Mike HilgersRepublican0.0275.9%
Brett LindstromRepublican-0.0694.5%
Anna WishartDemocratic-0.1541.1%
Adam MorfeldDemocratic-0.1890.9%
Kate BolzDemocratic-0.0710.9%
Matt HansenDemocratic-0.0020.9%
Patty BrooksDemocratic-0.0300.8%
Terell McKinneyIndependent-0.1730.6%
Carol BloodDemocratic0.0830.5%
Tony VargasDemocratic-0.0710.4%
Justin WayneDemocratic-0.1490.4%
Sara HowardDemocratic-0.1550.2%
Lynne WalzDemocratic0.2000.0%
Sue CrawfordDemocratic0.0250.0%
Rita SandersRepublican0.0250.0%
Rich PahlsRepublican0.0630.0%
Joni AlbrechtRepublican0.1130.0%
John StinnerRepublican0.2260.0%
Curt FriesenRepublican0.2360.0%

Post explorer

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  • 10 matching posts

Adam Morfeld

@Adam_Morfeld

Democratic NE Senate

RT @KatyaYushchenko: Someone posted a photo of this 80-year-old who showed up to join the army, carrying with him a small case with 2 t-shi<U+2026>

Defense

Adam Morfeld

@Adam_Morfeld

Democratic NE Senate

RT @TsybulskaLiubov: What we do in bomb shelters when they bomb us from the sky https://t.co/SzielSRxIj

Defense

Sara Howard

@saraehoward1

Democratic NE Senate

RT @DrTedros: Thank you, @BTS_twt J-Hope for reminding #BTSARMY to #WearAMask as families gather together and celebrate #ChuSeok holiday th&

Defense

Adam Morfeld

@Adam_Morfeld

Democratic NE Senate

RT @ChristopherJM: Audio from Snake Island, Black Sea: Russians: This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to a<U+2026>

Defense

Adam Morfeld

@Adam_Morfeld

Democratic NE Senate

RT @Sotero269: Wrongfully relieved of command but did right by the sailors. #navy @UncleChaps @katebarstool @ZeroBlog30 @CaptainCons https:&

Defense

Adam Morfeld

@Adam_Morfeld

Democratic NE Senate

RT @FLOTUS: 100 million shots in arms…Hugs are coming.💕

Defense

Adam Morfeld

@Adam_Morfeld

Democratic NE Senate

RT @VP: Today I swore in @LloydAustin as the Secretary of @DeptofDefense. Secretary Austins integrity, experience, and intimate knowledge&

Defense

Adam Morfeld

@Adam_Morfeld

Democratic NE Senate

RT @ChristopherJM: "I am Serhiy Volyna, Commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade...addressing to you from the besieged Mariupol." Ukra<U+2026>

Defense

Adam Morfeld

@Adam_Morfeld

Democratic NE Senate

RT @DanLamothe: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the leaders of each branch of the U.S. military, weigh in on the insurrection at the Capitol in&

Defense

Anna Wishart

@NebraskaAnna

Democratic NE Senate

RT @nytimes: One of the last photos that Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee shared with her family shows her amid the chaos of Kabul, carefully cradlin…

Defense