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Government Operations

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Posts in current filter15.4K
Filtered engagement54.6M
Ideology dots19

Topic volume over time

1,073 intervals combined into 72 contiguous bins from 1,073 dated source rows.

Total
15.4K
Peak
1,610

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

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IntervalpostsSource intervalsSource rows
Jan 2, 2020–Jan 17, 2020521414
Jan 18, 2020–Feb 4, 2020661515
Feb 5, 2020–Feb 19, 2020511515
Feb 20, 2020–Mar 8, 2020521515
Mar 9, 2020–Mar 23, 2020671515
Mar 24, 2020–Apr 7, 2020821515
Apr 8, 2020–Apr 23, 2020851515
Apr 24, 2020–May 9, 2020471515
May 10, 2020–May 26, 2020751515
May 27, 2020–Jun 11, 20201081515
Jun 12, 2020–Jun 26, 20201081414
Jun 27, 2020–Jul 12, 2020641515
Jul 13, 2020–Jul 27, 2020451515
Jul 28, 2020–Aug 12, 2020781515
Aug 13, 2020–Aug 27, 20201031515
Aug 28, 2020–Sep 13, 2020631515
Sep 14, 2020–Sep 28, 20201151515
Sep 29, 2020–Oct 13, 20201761515
Oct 14, 2020–Oct 28, 2020981515
Oct 30, 2020–Nov 14, 20201201515
Nov 15, 2020–Dec 5, 2020241414
Dec 6, 2020–Dec 22, 2020381515
Dec 23, 2020–Jan 8, 20211901515
Jan 9, 2021–Jan 25, 20211061515
Jan 26, 2021–Feb 10, 20211831515
Feb 11, 2021–Feb 26, 20211351515
Feb 27, 2021–Mar 16, 20211211515
Mar 17, 2021–Apr 3, 20211301515
Apr 4, 2021–Apr 24, 20211041515
Apr 26, 2021–May 18, 20211301515
May 20, 2021–Jun 7, 20212191414
Jun 8, 2021–Jun 23, 20212071515
Jun 24, 2021–Jul 13, 2021611515
Jul 14, 2021–Aug 4, 2021521515
Aug 5, 2021–Aug 23, 20211081515
Aug 24, 2021–Sep 11, 20212211515
Sep 13, 2021–Oct 5, 20212321515
Oct 7, 2021–Oct 24, 20212941515
Oct 26, 2021–Nov 16, 20212821515
Nov 17, 2021–Dec 10, 20211901515
Dec 11, 2021–Dec 28, 20214551515
Dec 29, 2021–Jan 11, 20224361414
Jan 12, 2022–Jan 26, 20226161515
Jan 27, 2022–Feb 10, 20223051515
Feb 11, 2022–Feb 28, 20221971515
Mar 1, 2022–Mar 18, 20221491515
Mar 21, 2022–Apr 7, 2022801515
Apr 8, 2022–May 3, 2022901515
May 5, 2022–May 20, 2022721515
May 23, 2022–Jun 8, 20221861515
Jun 10, 2022–Jun 25, 20222511515
Jun 26, 2022–Jul 9, 20225741414
Jul 10, 2022–Jul 24, 20225931515
Jul 25, 2022–Aug 8, 20227991515
Aug 9, 2022–Aug 25, 20221,6101515
Aug 26, 2022–Sep 9, 20222671515
Sep 10, 2022–Sep 26, 20221671515
Sep 27, 2022–Oct 22, 2022841515
Oct 23, 2022–Nov 6, 20221281515
Nov 7, 2022–Nov 22, 20223771515
Nov 26, 2022–Jan 4, 20231191515
Jan 5, 2023–Jan 19, 20232661414
Jan 20, 2023–Feb 10, 20232751515
Feb 11, 2023–Mar 6, 20231951515
Mar 7, 2023–Mar 24, 20233431515
Mar 25, 2023–Apr 9, 20235531515
Apr 10, 2023–Apr 27, 20233241515
Apr 28, 2023–May 18, 20232581515
May 19, 2023–Jun 2, 20234831515
Jun 3, 2023–Jun 26, 20233771515
Jun 13, 2024–Oct 26, 2024221515
Nov 3, 2024–Jul 16, 2025201515
Total15,3531,0731,073

State salience

Where Government Operations 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.

15,353 posts 4 populated combinations

PartyHouseSenateChamber unknownTotal
Democratic
11.7K
3,561
0
15.3K
Republican
40
6
0
46
Independent
0
0
0
0
Party unknown
0
0
0
0
Total11.8K3,567015.4K

Cell bars use a shared scale with a maximum of 11,746 posts.

Adjacent topics

Other high-volume topics in the same corpus context.

  • 8 records
  1. Unknown Topic (999)
    39K
  2. Health
    11.9K
  3. Civil Rights
    11.6K
  4. Law and Crime
    7,261
  5. Education
    6,925
  6. Social Welfare
    5,028
  7. Macroeconomics
    3,327
  8. Labor
    2,515

Ideology distribution

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

Visible 15
Median ideology -0.163
Topic posts 15,353
Most active Paul Baumbach
-2.0-1.5-1.0-0.50.00.51.01.52.0More liberalMore conservativePaul Baumbach · Democratic · 8,851 topic posts · ideology -0.163Sarah McBride · Democratic · 1,870 topic posts · ideology -0.212Kimberly Williams · Democratic · 1,478 topic posts · ideology -0.188Kyle Gay · Democratic · 874 topic posts · ideology -0.129Paul Baumbach · Democratic · 689 topic posts · ideology -0.163Debra Heffernan · Democratic · 545 topic posts · ideology -0.174Laura Sturgeon · Democratic · 534 topic posts · ideology -0.174Bryan Townsend · Democratic · 283 topic posts · ideology -0.130David Bentz · Democratic · 180 topic posts · ideology -0.157Bryan Shupe · Republican · 24 topic posts · ideology -0.030Stephen Smyk · Republican · 15 topic posts · ideology -0.009Anthony Delcollo · Republican · 6 topic posts · ideology -0.171Sherae'A Moore · Democratic · 2 topic posts · ideology -0.180Sherry Walker · Democratic · 1 topic post · ideology -0.168Timothy Dukes · Republican · 1 topic post · ideology 0.071
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Legislators shown in the chart, ordered from most liberal to most conservative
LegislatorPartyIdeologyTopic posts
Sarah McBrideDemocratic-0.2121,870
Kimberly WilliamsDemocratic-0.1881,478
Sherae'A MooreDemocratic-0.1802
Laura SturgeonDemocratic-0.174534
Debra HeffernanDemocratic-0.174545
Anthony DelcolloRepublican-0.1716
Sherry WalkerDemocratic-0.1681
Paul BaumbachDemocratic-0.1638,851
Paul BaumbachDemocratic-0.163689
David BentzDemocratic-0.157180
Bryan TownsendDemocratic-0.130283
Kyle GayDemocratic-0.129874
Bryan ShupeRepublican-0.03024
Stephen SmykRepublican-0.00915
Timothy DukesRepublican0.0711

Most concentrated voices

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

  • 19 records
1–19 of 19
Paul BaumbachDemocratic-0.16327.3%
Stephen SmykRepublican-0.00923.1%
Paul BaumbachDemocratic-0.16321.9%
David BentzDemocratic-0.15717.7%
Sarah McBrideDemocratic-0.21213.0%
Kyle GayDemocratic-0.1299.0%
Bryan TownsendDemocratic-0.1308.8%
Laura SturgeonDemocratic-0.1748.0%
Anthony DelcolloRepublican-0.1717.9%
Debra HeffernanDemocratic-0.1745.9%
Kimberly WilliamsDemocratic-0.1885.9%
Sherae'A MooreDemocratic-0.1805.3%
Bryan ShupeRepublican-0.0303.1%
Timothy DukesRepublican0.0711.2%
Sherry WalkerDemocratic-0.1680.5%
Darius BrownDemocratic-0.2660.0%
Michael SmithRepublican-0.2060.0%
Nicole PooreDemocratic-0.1480.0%
Brian PettyjohnRepublican0.1190.0%

Post explorer

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  • 10 matching posts

Debra Heffernan

@DebraHeffernan

Democratic DE House

RT @JoeBiden: Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Vote out Donald Trump.

Government Operations

Bryan Townsend

@BryanTownsendDE

Democratic DE Senate

RT @mrbenwexler: Leaders who have hidden in a bunker and gassed their own citizens include Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump

Government Operations

Paul Baumbach

@PBaumbachDE

Democratic DE House

RT @RepJohnYarmuth: The President just declared war on millions of Americans and the 1st Amendment. He is the greatest threat to the Americ&

Government Operations

Paul Baumbach

@PBaumbachDE

Democratic DE House

RT @jeffbercovici: Boy youd think a country that can equip every cop like a soldier could equip every doctor like a doctor

Government Operations

Paul Baumbach

@PaulBaumbach

Democratic DE House

RT @KingJames: If you still havent figured out why the protesting is going on. Why were acting as we are is because we are simply F-N tir&

Government Operations

Paul Baumbach

@PBaumbachDE

Democratic DE House

RT @JoeBiden: I won't be president until January 20th, but my message today to everyone is this: wear a mask.

Government Operations

Paul Baumbach

@PBaumbachDE

Democratic DE House

RT @BernieSanders: Some people ask: Why would you impeach and convict a president who has only a few days left in office? The answer: Prece&

Government Operations

Paul Baumbach

@PBaumbachDE

Democratic DE House

RT @IlhanMN: I am drawing up Articles of Impeachment. Donald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from&

Government Operations

Kimberly Williams

@kimwilliamsde

Democratic DE House

RT @ProjectLincoln: RT if you think the Senate should #ExpelJoshHawley

Government Operations