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Posts in current filter2,278

Filtered engagement2.4M

Ideology dots81

Topic volume over time

413 intervals combined into 72 contiguous bins from 413 dated source rows.

Total: 2,278
Peak: 133

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

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Exact plotted values for Topic volume over time
Interval	posts	Source intervals	Source rows
Jan 3, 2020–Jan 9, 2020	17	5	5
Jan 10, 2020–Jan 29, 2020	8	6	6
Jan 31, 2020–Feb 8, 2020	7	6	6
Feb 16, 2020–Feb 21, 2020	7	5	5
Feb 28, 2020–Mar 18, 2020	7	6	6
Mar 21, 2020–Apr 1, 2020	9	6	6
Apr 5, 2020–Apr 12, 2020	10	6	6
Apr 15, 2020–Apr 28, 2020	8	5	5
Apr 29, 2020–May 8, 2020	12	6	6
May 9, 2020–May 15, 2020	11	6	6
May 16, 2020–May 24, 2020	19	6	6
May 25, 2020–Jun 1, 2020	19	5	5
Jun 2, 2020–Jun 12, 2020	20	6	6
Jun 14, 2020–Jun 26, 2020	17	6	6
Jun 27, 2020–Jul 14, 2020	8	6	6
Jul 16, 2020–Aug 5, 2020	6	5	5
Aug 6, 2020–Aug 21, 2020	6	6	6
Aug 24, 2020–Aug 31, 2020	14	6	6
Sep 1, 2020–Sep 11, 2020	9	5	5
Sep 13, 2020–Oct 8, 2020	10	6	6
Oct 10, 2020–Oct 30, 2020	11	6	6
Nov 2, 2020–Nov 14, 2020	35	6	6
Nov 15, 2020–Nov 26, 2020	7	5	5
Dec 1, 2020–Dec 9, 2020	9	6	6
Dec 11, 2020–Dec 18, 2020	8	6	6
Dec 19, 2020–Jan 10, 2021	7	6	6
Jan 12, 2021–Jan 29, 2021	8	5	5
Jan 30, 2021–Mar 6, 2021	16	6	6
Mar 9, 2021–Apr 18, 2021	22	6	6
Apr 25, 2021–May 7, 2021	14	6	6
May 8, 2021–May 26, 2021	54	5	5
May 27, 2021–Jun 3, 2021	132	6	6
Jun 6, 2021–Jul 2, 2021	48	6	6
Jul 8, 2021–Jul 24, 2021	6	6	6
Aug 1, 2021–Aug 10, 2021	37	5	5
Aug 14, 2021–Aug 23, 2021	19	6	6
Aug 25, 2021–Sep 1, 2021	61	6	6
Sep 2, 2021–Sep 18, 2021	59	5	5
Sep 19, 2021–Oct 7, 2021	32	6	6
Oct 13, 2021–Oct 28, 2021	63	6	6
Nov 8, 2021–Nov 19, 2021	90	6	6
Nov 25, 2021–Dec 8, 2021	56	5	5
Dec 11, 2021–Jan 14, 2022	57	6	6
Jan 18, 2022–Feb 3, 2022	31	6	6
Feb 6, 2022–Feb 24, 2022	16	6	6
Feb 26, 2022–Mar 2, 2022	36	5	5
Mar 3, 2022–Mar 8, 2022	73	6	6
Mar 9, 2022–Mar 20, 2022	28	6	6
Mar 21, 2022–Mar 26, 2022	18	6	6
Mar 27, 2022–Mar 31, 2022	26	5	5
Apr 1, 2022–Apr 8, 2022	30	6	6
Apr 13, 2022–Apr 25, 2022	22	6	6
Apr 26, 2022–May 5, 2022	21	6	6
May 8, 2022–May 16, 2022	19	5	5
May 19, 2022–Jun 6, 2022	106	6	6
Jun 7, 2022–Jul 16, 2022	52	6	6
Jul 19, 2022–Aug 3, 2022	21	5	5
Aug 4, 2022–Sep 11, 2022	127	6	6
Sep 13, 2022–Oct 24, 2022	47	6	6
Oct 28, 2022–Nov 11, 2022	102	6	6
Nov 12, 2022–Nov 25, 2022	17	5	5
Dec 1, 2022–Dec 17, 2022	28	6	6
Dec 18, 2022–Jan 23, 2023	24	6	6
Jan 24, 2023–Feb 12, 2023	41	6	6
Feb 13, 2023–Mar 23, 2023	29	5	5
Mar 29, 2023–Apr 16, 2023	84	6	6
Apr 17, 2023–May 15, 2023	42	6	6
May 26, 2023–Jun 13, 2023	133	6	6
Nov 1, 2023–May 27, 2024	5	5	5
Jun 5, 2024–Aug 9, 2024	6	6	6
Sep 25, 2024–Nov 3, 2024	7	6	6
Nov 11, 2024–Nov 25, 2024	12	6	6
Total	2,278	413	413

State salience

Where Defense appears most often across states, measured by post counts.

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Party: Color: 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.

WI 2,278
Wisconsin

Party by chamber

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

2,278 posts 4 populated combinations

Party by chamber. Post count by party and chamber for this topic. Unknown values remain visible.
Party	House	Senate	Total
Democratic	739	179	918
Republican	903	457	1,360
Independent	0	0	0
Party unknown	0	0	0
Total	1,642	636	2,278

Cell bars use a shared scale with a maximum of 903 posts.

Adjacent topics

Other high-volume topics in the same corpus context.

8 records

Ideology distribution

One dot per legislator with voting-record data. Dot size represents posts on this topic. 54 legislators shown.

Visible 54

Median ideology 0.038

Topic posts 2,278

Most active Robert Cowles

Party Zoom 1.1x

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Legislators shown in the chart, ordered from most liberal to most conservative
Legislator	Party	Ideology	Topic posts
Francesca Hong	Democratic	-0.571	22
Kelda Roys	Democratic	-0.515	34
Jonathan Brostoff	Democratic	-0.456	270
Lisa Subeck	Democratic	-0.449	2
Samba Baldeh	Democratic	-0.384	2
Jimmy Anderson	Democratic	-0.367	13
Mark Miller	Democratic	-0.304	9
David Bowen	Democratic	-0.287	6
Jocasta Zamarripa	Democratic	-0.279	4
David Crowley	Democratic	-0.262	127
Chris Larson	Democratic	-0.220	78
Lena Taylor	Democratic	-0.211	2
Dora Drake	Democratic	-0.209	6
Robyn Vining	Democratic	-0.201	19
Rob Hutton	Republican	-0.186	13
Tim Carpenter	Democratic	-0.181	19
Christine Sinicki	Democratic	-0.148	1
Dianne Hesselbein	Democratic	-0.133	58
Dale Kooyenga	Republican	-0.120	38
Tod Ohnstad	Democratic	-0.095	1
Jon Erpenbach	Democratic	-0.087	33
Daniel Riemer	Democratic	-0.082	38
Gordon Hintz	Democratic	-0.071	34
Jessie Rodriguez	Republican	-0.043	70
Roger Roth	Republican	-0.022	8
Mark Spreitzer	Democratic	0.036	115
Van Wanggaard	Republican	0.038	39
Jennifer Shilling	Democratic	0.039	4
John Macco	Republican	0.039	36
Katrina Shankland	Democratic	0.042	9
Amy Loudenbeck	Republican	0.048	4
Cindi Duchow	Republican	0.055	34
Samantha Kerkman	Republican	0.055	86
Nick Milroy	Democratic	0.055	12
Warren Petryk	Republican	0.056	60
Jeremy Thiesfeldt	Republican	0.059	12
Jim Steineke	Republican	0.064	51
Janel Brandtjen	Republican	0.072	133
Julian Bradley	Republican	0.091	7
Robin Vos	Republican	0.094	85
Robert Cowles	Republican	0.109	312
John Jagler	Republican	0.111	1
Tyler August	Republican	0.111	45
Rob Swearingen	Republican	0.121	153
Scott Allen	Republican	0.125	8
Kathy Bernier	Republican	0.128	2
John Spiros	Republican	0.137	45
Duey Stroebel	Republican	0.147	14
Robert Brooks	Republican	0.152	3
Jerry Petrowski	Republican	0.157	8
John Nygren	Republican	0.191	31
Mary Felzkowski	Republican	0.209	1
Tom Tiffany	Republican	0.209	27
Scott Krug	Republican	0.297	34

Most concentrated voices

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

81 records

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Legislators concentrated on Defense

Nick Milroy	Democratic	0.055	7.5%
Dale Kooyenga	Republican	-0.120	6.1%
Rob Swearingen	Republican	0.121	4.5%
Jessie Rodriguez	Republican	-0.043	4.1%
Tyler August	Republican	0.111	4.1%
John Nygren	Republican	0.191	3.9%
Samantha Kerkman	Republican	0.055	3.6%
John Spiros	Republican	0.137	3.4%
Janel Brandtjen	Republican	0.072	3.1%
Warren Petryk	Republican	0.056	3.0%
Van Wanggaard	Republican	0.038	2.9%
John Macco	Republican	0.039	2.7%
Jerry Petrowski	Republican	0.157	2.7%
Rob Hutton	Republican	-0.186	2.7%
Julian Bradley	Republican	0.091	2.7%
Tod Ohnstad	Democratic	-0.095	2.5%
Jeremy Thiesfeldt	Republican	0.059	2.5%
Daniel Riemer	Democratic	-0.082	2.5%
Cindi Duchow	Republican	0.055	2.4%
Robert Cowles	Republican	0.109	2.1%
Dora Drake	Democratic	-0.209	2.0%
Tom Tiffany	Republican	0.209	1.8%
Robin Vos	Republican	0.094	1.5%
Mark Miller	Democratic	-0.304	1.4%
David Crowley	Democratic	-0.262	1.4%

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Jonathan Brostoff

@Jbrostoff

Democratic WI House

Mar 2, 2022

RT @lapatina_: A Russian soldier surrendered. Ukrainians gave him tea, food, and let him call his mother on video. I want to cry from how m<U+2026>

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Jonathan Brostoff

@Jbrostoff

Democratic WI House

Jan 10, 2021

RT @EricG1247: I'm a Marine vet I'm a Democrat I haven't committed sedition I will run against @DevinNunes RT and follow

Defense

Jonathan Brostoff

@Jbrostoff

Democratic WI House

Mar 9, 2022

RT @ZelenskyyUa: Mariupol. Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital. People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity! H<U+2026>

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Jonathan Brostoff

@Jbrostoff

Democratic WI House

Mar 5, 2022

RT @lapatina_: Ukrainians march towards Russian soldiers while getting shot at. Everyone must watch this video. https://t.co/gclsykDS9P

Defense

Jonathan Brostoff

@Jbrostoff

Democratic WI House

Apr 13, 2022

RT @ZelenskyyUa: Without additional weaponry, this war will become an endless bloodbath, spreading misery, suffering, and destruction. Mari<U+2026>

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Jonathan Brostoff

@Jbrostoff

Democratic WI House

Jan 8, 2021

RT @AOC: Trump did NOT immediately send out the National Guard. No initial presence. Clashes began ~1:20pm. The breach happened (roughly)&

Defense

Janel Brandtjen

@RepJanel

Republican WI House

Aug 31, 2020

RT @realDonaldTrump: If I didnt INSIST on having the National Guard activate and go into Kenosha, Wisconsin, there would be no Kenosha rig&

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Janel Brandtjen

@RepJanel

Republican WI House

Aug 14, 2020

RT @realDonaldTrump: Today, we honor the brave Native American/First Nations soldiers who served our Nation and played a vital role in Amer&

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Scott Krug

@skrug75

Republican WI House

Jan 3, 2020

RT @mrglenn: I'm a reporter but I was a Soldier for several years and led a platoon of cavalry troops into combat in Iraq. Qassim Solemani&

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Jim Steineke

@jimsteineke

Republican WI House

Jan 3, 2020

RT @mrglenn: I'm a reporter but I was a Soldier for several years and led a platoon of cavalry troops into combat in Iraq. Qassim Solemani&

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