Government Operations

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Posts in current filter106.2K
Filtered engagement65.9M
Ideology dots82

Topic volume over time

1,536 intervals combined into 72 contiguous bins from 1,536 dated source rows.

Total
106.2K
Peak
6,904

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

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Exact plotted values for Topic volume over time
IntervalpostsSource intervalsSource rows
Jan 1, 2020–Jan 21, 20203232121
Jan 22, 2020–Feb 11, 20202782121
Feb 12, 2020–Mar 4, 20204142222
Mar 5, 2020–Mar 25, 20204022121
Mar 26, 2020–Apr 15, 20204112121
Apr 16, 2020–May 7, 20204382222
May 8, 2020–May 28, 20203522121
May 29, 2020–Jun 18, 20205042121
Jun 19, 2020–Jul 10, 20204642222
Jul 11, 2020–Jul 31, 20204062121
Aug 1, 2020–Aug 21, 20206402121
Aug 22, 2020–Sep 12, 20206472222
Sep 13, 2020–Oct 3, 20209962121
Oct 4, 2020–Oct 24, 20201,1032121
Oct 25, 2020–Nov 15, 20201,2922222
Nov 16, 2020–Dec 6, 20203542121
Dec 7, 2020–Dec 27, 20203622121
Dec 28, 2020–Jan 18, 20211,8492222
Jan 19, 2021–Feb 8, 20211,7282121
Feb 9, 2021–Mar 1, 20212,0392121
Mar 2, 2021–Mar 23, 20211,5852222
Mar 24, 2021–Apr 13, 20211,5742121
Apr 14, 2021–May 4, 20211,3332121
May 5, 2021–May 26, 20214,1072222
May 27, 2021–Jun 16, 20214,7322121
Jun 17, 2021–Jul 7, 20215642121
Jul 8, 2021–Jul 29, 20212332222
Jul 30, 2021–Aug 19, 20218852121
Aug 20, 2021–Sep 9, 20211,1682121
Sep 10, 2021–Oct 6, 20212,2812222
Oct 7, 2021–Oct 27, 20215,6462121
Oct 28, 2021–Nov 17, 20215,8392121
Nov 18, 2021–Dec 10, 20211,2192222
Dec 11, 2021–Dec 31, 20212,0582121
Jan 1, 2022–Jan 21, 20226,9042121
Jan 22, 2022–Feb 12, 20226,6782222
Feb 13, 2022–Mar 5, 20222,0862121
Mar 6, 2022–Mar 26, 20228952121
Mar 27, 2022–Apr 17, 20228052222
Apr 18, 2022–May 8, 20226632121
May 9, 2022–May 29, 20227802121
May 30, 2022–Jun 20, 20222,1282222
Jun 21, 2022–Jul 11, 20222,6062121
Jul 12, 2022–Aug 1, 20221,8362121
Aug 2, 2022–Aug 23, 20222,6712222
Aug 24, 2022–Sep 13, 20221,3112121
Sep 14, 2022–Oct 4, 20221,1322121
Oct 12, 2022–Nov 2, 20221,1952222
Nov 3, 2022–Nov 23, 20222,6302121
Nov 24, 2022–Dec 14, 20227062121
Dec 15, 2022–Jan 5, 20239672222
Jan 6, 2023–Jan 26, 20234,0262121
Jan 27, 2023–Feb 16, 20232,4742121
Feb 17, 2023–Mar 10, 20234,1282222
Mar 11, 2023–Mar 31, 20232,4082121
Apr 1, 2023–Apr 21, 20231,8332121
Apr 22, 2023–May 13, 20231,7792222
May 14, 2023–Jun 3, 20231,9102121
Jun 4, 2023–Jun 25, 20232,6002121
Jul 8, 2023–Sep 10, 2023222222
Sep 14, 2023–Oct 21, 2023282121
Oct 22, 2023–Nov 17, 2023602121
Nov 18, 2023–Jan 15, 2024372222
Jan 18, 2024–Mar 27, 2024242121
Apr 3, 2024–Jun 5, 2024262121
Jun 6, 2024–Aug 18, 2024822222
Aug 19, 2024–Sep 29, 20241222121
Sep 30, 2024–Nov 7, 20242132121
Nov 11, 2024–Jan 7, 2025532222
Jan 8, 2025–Jul 5, 2025292121
Jul 12, 2025–Oct 16, 2025332121
Oct 17, 2025–Jun 14, 2026462222
Total106,1521,5361,536

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.

106,152 posts 4 populated combinations

Party by chamber. Post count by party and chamber for this topic. Unknown values remain visible.
PartyHouseSenateChamber unknownTotal
Democratic
61.8K
26.2K
0
88K
Republican
12.9K
5,219
0
18.2K
Independent
0
0
0
0
Party unknown
0
0
0
0
Total74.7K31.4K0106.2K

Cell bars use a shared scale with a maximum of 61,777 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. 78 legislators shown.

Visible 78
Median ideology -0.063
Topic posts 106,152
Most active Lee Carter
-2.0-1.5-1.0-0.50.00.51.01.52.0More liberalMore conservativeLee Carter · Democratic · 9,891 topic posts · ideology 0.016Jennifer McClellan · Democratic · 8,324 topic posts · ideology -0.301Danica Roem · Democratic · 7,648 topic posts · ideology -0.033Alfonso Lopez · Democratic · 5,536 topic posts · ideology -0.401Marcus Simon · Democratic · 5,245 topic posts · ideology -0.306Louise Lucas · Democratic · 4,727 topic posts · ideology 0.042Scott Surovell · Democratic · 3,480 topic posts · ideology -0.138Mark Cole · Republican · 3,390 topic posts · ideology 0.009Marcia Price · Democratic · 3,152 topic posts · ideology -0.175Kathy Tran · Democratic · 2,745 topic posts · ideology -0.120Mark Keam · Democratic · 2,705 topic posts · ideology -0.218Glenn Davis · Republican · 2,679 topic posts · ideology -0.007Eileen Filler-Corn · Democratic · 2,462 topic posts · ideology -0.359Jerrauld Jones · Democratic · 2,278 topic posts · ideology -0.270David Suetterlein · Republican · 2,174 topic posts · ideology 0.228Sally Hudson · Democratic · 2,170 topic posts · ideology -0.292Kaye Kory · Democratic · 2,111 topic posts · ideology -0.331Dave Larock · Republican · 2,060 topic posts · ideology 0.108Jason Miyares · Republican · 2,054 topic posts · ideology -0.037Sam Rasoul · Democratic · 1,788 topic posts · ideology -0.043Monty Mason · Democratic · 1,783 topic posts · ideology -0.065Kathleen Murphy · Democratic · 1,567 topic posts · ideology -0.195Jennifer Boysko · Democratic · 1,496 topic posts · ideology -0.222Michael Mullin · Democratic · 1,464 topic posts · ideology -0.124Bryce Reeves · Republican · 1,436 topic posts · ideology 0.051Paul Krizek · Democratic · 1,386 topic posts · ideology -0.157Jeremy McPike · Democratic · 1,370 topic posts · ideology -0.062Patrick Hope · Democratic · 1,278 topic posts · ideology -0.373Chris Hurst · Democratic · 1,278 topic posts · ideology 0.024Alex Askew · Democratic · 1,198 topic posts · ideology -0.021Suhas Subramanyam · Democratic · 1,068 topic posts · ideology -0.162Lionell Spruill · Democratic · 953 topic posts · ideology -0.148David Reid · Democratic · 943 topic posts · ideology -0.179Mark Levine · Democratic · 898 topic posts · ideology -0.379Barbara Favola · Democratic · 861 topic posts · ideology -0.296Creigh Deeds · Democratic · 833 topic posts · ideology -0.014Charniele Herring · Democratic · 720 topic posts · ideology -0.453Todd Gilbert · Republican · 649 topic posts · ideology 0.238Adam Ebbin · Democratic · 625 topic posts · ideology -0.329Mark Obenshain · Republican · 591 topic posts · ideology 0.146Shelly Simonds · Democratic · 573 topic posts · ideology -0.013Dave Marsden · Democratic · 545 topic posts · ideology -0.288Chris Head · Republican · 474 topic posts · ideology 0.197Terry Kilgore · Republican · 397 topic posts · ideology 0.287Emily Brewer · Republican · 392 topic posts · ideology 0.170Jeff Bourne · Democratic · 390 topic posts · ideology -0.443Rip Sullivan · Democratic · 357 topic posts · ideology -0.242Israel O'Quinn · Republican · 326 topic posts · ideology 0.219Mamie Locke · Democratic · 325 topic posts · ideology -0.095Lamont Bagby · Democratic · 322 topic posts · ideology -0.231Les Adams · Republican · 269 topic posts · ideology 0.188George Barker · Democratic · 250 topic posts · ideology -0.187Dick Saslaw · Democratic · 232 topic posts · ideology -0.306Bill Desteph · Republican · 227 topic posts · ideology -0.009John Bell · Democratic · 204 topic posts · ideology -0.043Todd Pillion · Republican · 189 topic posts · ideology 0.254Angelia Graves · Democratic · 178 topic posts · ideology -0.156Martha Mugler · Democratic · 153 topic posts · ideology -0.002Jill Vogel · Republican · 150 topic posts · ideology 0.168Michael Webert · Republican · 125 topic posts · ideology 0.203David Bulova · Democratic · 124 topic posts · ideology -0.304Bill Stanley · Republican · 118 topic posts · ideology 0.171Ryan McDougle · Republican · 113 topic posts · ideology 0.167Emmett Hanger · Republican · 103 topic posts · ideology 0.168Kirk Cox · Republican · 102 topic posts · ideology 0.098Lynwood Lewis · Democratic · 95 topic posts · ideology -0.022John Edwards · Democratic · 91 topic posts · ideology 0.028Richard Stuart · Republican · 71 topic posts · ideology 0.056Cliff Hayes · Democratic · 45 topic posts · ideology 0.001Mark Sickles · Democratic · 43 topic posts · ideology -0.239Tommy Norment · Republican · 31 topic posts · ideology 0.100Joe Lindsey · Democratic · 26 topic posts · ideology -0.156Jeion Ward · Democratic · 25 topic posts · ideology -0.092Kathy Byron · Republican · 23 topic posts · ideology 0.158John Petersen · Democratic · 20 topic posts · ideology -0.251Siobhan Dunnavant · Republican · 16 topic posts · ideology -0.138Ken Plum · Democratic · 10 topic posts · ideology -0.222Margaret Ransone · Republican · 2 topic posts · ideology 0.173
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Legislators shown in the chart, ordered from most liberal to most conservative
LegislatorPartyIdeologyTopic posts
Charniele HerringDemocratic-0.453720
Jeff BourneDemocratic-0.443390
Alfonso LopezDemocratic-0.4015,536
Mark LevineDemocratic-0.379898
Patrick HopeDemocratic-0.3731,278
Eileen Filler-CornDemocratic-0.3592,462
Kaye KoryDemocratic-0.3312,111
Adam EbbinDemocratic-0.329625
Marcus SimonDemocratic-0.3065,245
Dick SaslawDemocratic-0.306232
David BulovaDemocratic-0.304124
Jennifer McClellanDemocratic-0.3018,324
Barbara FavolaDemocratic-0.296861
Sally HudsonDemocratic-0.2922,170
Dave MarsdenDemocratic-0.288545
Jerrauld JonesDemocratic-0.2702,278
John PetersenDemocratic-0.25120
Rip SullivanDemocratic-0.242357
Mark SicklesDemocratic-0.23943
Lamont BagbyDemocratic-0.231322
Jennifer BoyskoDemocratic-0.2221,496
Ken PlumDemocratic-0.22210
Mark KeamDemocratic-0.2182,705
Kathleen MurphyDemocratic-0.1951,567
George BarkerDemocratic-0.187250
David ReidDemocratic-0.179943
Marcia PriceDemocratic-0.1753,152
Suhas SubramanyamDemocratic-0.1621,068
Paul KrizekDemocratic-0.1571,386
Angelia GravesDemocratic-0.156178
Joe LindseyDemocratic-0.15626
Lionell SpruillDemocratic-0.148953
Scott SurovellDemocratic-0.1383,480
Siobhan DunnavantRepublican-0.13816
Michael MullinDemocratic-0.1241,464
Kathy TranDemocratic-0.1202,745
Mamie LockeDemocratic-0.095325
Jeion WardDemocratic-0.09225
Monty MasonDemocratic-0.0651,783
Jeremy McPikeDemocratic-0.0621,370
John BellDemocratic-0.043204
Sam RasoulDemocratic-0.0431,788
Jason MiyaresRepublican-0.0372,054
Danica RoemDemocratic-0.0337,648
Lynwood LewisDemocratic-0.02295
Alex AskewDemocratic-0.0211,198
Creigh DeedsDemocratic-0.014833
Shelly SimondsDemocratic-0.013573
Bill DestephRepublican-0.009227
Glenn DavisRepublican-0.0072,679
Martha MuglerDemocratic-0.002153
Cliff HayesDemocratic0.00145
Mark ColeRepublican0.0093,390
Lee CarterDemocratic0.0169,891
Chris HurstDemocratic0.0241,278
John EdwardsDemocratic0.02891
Louise LucasDemocratic0.0424,727
Bryce ReevesRepublican0.0511,436
Richard StuartRepublican0.05671
Kirk CoxRepublican0.098102
Tommy NormentRepublican0.10031
Dave LarockRepublican0.1082,060
Mark ObenshainRepublican0.146591
Kathy ByronRepublican0.15823
Ryan McDougleRepublican0.167113
Jill VogelRepublican0.168150
Emmett HangerRepublican0.168103
Emily BrewerRepublican0.170392
Bill StanleyRepublican0.171118
Margaret RansoneRepublican0.1732
Les AdamsRepublican0.188269
Chris HeadRepublican0.197474
Michael WebertRepublican0.203125
Israel O'QuinnRepublican0.219326
David SuetterleinRepublican0.2282,174
Todd GilbertRepublican0.238649
Todd PillionRepublican0.254189
Terry KilgoreRepublican0.287397

Most concentrated voices

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

  • 82 records
1–25 of 82
Legislators concentrated on Government Operations
John PetersenDemocratic-0.25150.0%
Margaret RansoneRepublican0.17350.0%
Kathy ByronRepublican0.15832.9%
Les AdamsRepublican0.18829.3%
Louise LucasDemocratic0.04228.3%
Jill VogelRepublican0.16827.4%
Dave MarsdenDemocratic-0.28827.0%
Michael WebertRepublican0.20326.7%
Ryan McDougleRepublican0.16726.3%
Lamont BagbyDemocratic-0.23126.2%
Mark LevineDemocratic-0.37926.2%
Angelia GravesDemocratic-0.15626.1%
Ken PlumDemocratic-0.22225.6%
Rip SullivanDemocratic-0.24225.0%
Alex AskewDemocratic-0.02124.7%
Richard StuartRepublican0.05624.6%
Chris HeadRepublican0.19724.0%
Kathleen MurphyDemocratic-0.19523.0%
Todd PillionRepublican0.25422.8%
Jerrauld JonesDemocratic-0.27022.7%
Alfonso LopezDemocratic-0.40122.4%
Marcus SimonDemocratic-0.30622.0%
David SuetterleinRepublican0.22821.7%
Jennifer McClellanDemocratic-0.30121.1%
Eileen Filler-CornDemocratic-0.35920.9%

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Jennifer Boysko

@JenniferBoysko

Democratic VA Senate

RT @JoeBiden: America, Im honored that you have chosen me to lead our great country. The work ahead of us will be hard, but I promise you&

Government Operations

Jerrauld Jones

@jonesjay

Democratic VA House

RT @JoeBiden: America, Im honored that you have chosen me to lead our great country. The work ahead of us will be hard, but I promise you&

Government Operations

Lee Carter

@carterforva

Democratic VA House

The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now.

Government Operations

Lee Carter

@carterforva

Democratic VA House

RT @jcriccoo: When all 50 states are protesting the same issue, the government should realize they are the problem

Government Operations

Mark Keam

@MarkKeam

Democratic VA House

RT @BarackObama: I wrote out some thoughts on how to make this moment a real turning point to bring about real changeand pulled together&

Government Operations

Jerrauld Jones

@jonesjay

Democratic VA House

RT @BarackObama: I wrote out some thoughts on how to make this moment a real turning point to bring about real changeand pulled together&

Government Operations

Paul Krizek

@KrizekForVA

Democratic VA House

RT @BarackObama: I wrote out some thoughts on how to make this moment a real turning point to bring about real changeand pulled together&

Government Operations

Lee Carter

@carterforva

Democratic VA House

Every Senator that did insider trading after that COVID-19 briefing should immediately resign. Yes, that applies to both parties.

Government Operations

Lee Carter

@carterforva

Democratic VA House

RT @g0rrin: the fact that Bernie Sanders doesnt give a single shit about his status in the election and is instead ONLY concerned about th&

Government Operations

Kathleen Murphy

@kmurphyva

Democratic VA House

RT @keithgiles: Kinda surreal when the President starts accusing your 75 yr old friend of being an agent of ANTIFA. My friend Martin Gugin&

Government Operations