CivicWatch State legislative speech

Labor

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Posts in current filter18.2K
Filtered engagement4.5M
Ideology dots106

Topic volume over time

1,156 intervals combined into 72 contiguous bins from 1,156 dated source rows.

Total
18.2K
Peak
1,784

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

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IntervalpostsSource intervalsSource rows
Jan 2, 2020–Jan 19, 2020491616
Jan 20, 2020–Feb 4, 2020591616
Feb 5, 2020–Feb 20, 2020651616
Feb 21, 2020–Mar 8, 2020811616
Mar 9, 2020–Mar 24, 20202191616
Mar 25, 2020–Apr 9, 20202081616
Apr 10, 2020–Apr 25, 20201961616
Apr 26, 2020–May 11, 20201841616
May 12, 2020–May 27, 20201021616
May 28, 2020–Jun 14, 2020521616
Jun 15, 2020–Jul 1, 2020651616
Jul 2, 2020–Jul 17, 2020621616
Jul 19, 2020–Aug 3, 20201101616
Aug 4, 2020–Aug 20, 20201241616
Aug 21, 2020–Sep 5, 20201141616
Sep 6, 2020–Sep 21, 20201711616
Sep 22, 2020–Oct 7, 20201281616
Oct 8, 2020–Oct 25, 2020701717
Oct 26, 2020–Nov 13, 2020411616
Nov 14, 2020–Dec 3, 2020811616
Dec 4, 2020–Dec 20, 2020611616
Dec 21, 2020–Jan 6, 2021851616
Jan 7, 2021–Jan 24, 20211151616
Jan 25, 2021–Feb 9, 20213201616
Feb 10, 2021–Feb 26, 20212351616
Feb 27, 2021–Mar 15, 20211741616
Mar 16, 2021–Apr 3, 20212631616
Apr 4, 2021–Apr 19, 20212571616
Apr 20, 2021–May 7, 20213271616
May 8, 2021–May 24, 20214701616
May 25, 2021–Jun 9, 20214581616
Jun 10, 2021–Jun 25, 20212761616
Jun 26, 2021–Jul 16, 2021871616
Jul 18, 2021–Aug 6, 20211281616
Aug 7, 2021–Aug 26, 20211471616
Aug 27, 2021–Sep 12, 20217241717
Sep 13, 2021–Oct 10, 20212981616
Oct 11, 2021–Oct 27, 20214131616
Oct 28, 2021–Nov 17, 20212371616
Nov 18, 2021–Dec 6, 20212321616
Dec 7, 2021–Dec 24, 20214961616
Dec 25, 2021–Jan 12, 20224851616
Jan 13, 2022–Jan 29, 20225511616
Jan 31, 2022–Feb 16, 20223961616
Feb 17, 2022–Mar 8, 20221641616
Mar 9, 2022–Mar 29, 20221041616
Mar 30, 2022–Apr 20, 20221581616
Apr 21, 2022–May 8, 20221041616
May 9, 2022–May 26, 20224491616
May 27, 2022–Jun 16, 20226461616
Jun 17, 2022–Jul 8, 20224671616
Jul 10, 2022–Jul 27, 20229211616
Jul 28, 2022–Aug 17, 20221,7841616
Aug 18, 2022–Sep 4, 20225281717
Sep 5, 2022–Sep 23, 20222341616
Sep 26, 2022–Oct 25, 20221081616
Oct 26, 2022–Nov 13, 20221151616
Nov 14, 2022–Dec 6, 20221201616
Dec 8, 2022–Jan 5, 2023681616
Jan 6, 2023–Jan 24, 20232451616
Jan 26, 2023–Feb 15, 20233211616
Feb 16, 2023–Mar 6, 20233391616
Mar 7, 2023–Mar 23, 20233451616
Mar 24, 2023–Apr 8, 20233021616
Apr 10, 2023–Apr 27, 20233711616
Apr 28, 2023–May 17, 20232701616
May 18, 2023–Jun 2, 20233151616
Jun 3, 2023–Jun 30, 20232311616
Jul 14, 2023–May 22, 2024171616
May 25, 2024–Sep 2, 2024201616
Sep 3, 2024–Nov 4, 2024311616
Nov 5, 2024–Jun 26, 2026171717
Total18,2101,1561,156

State salience

Where Labor 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.

18,210 posts 5 populated combinations

PartyHouseSenateChamber unknownTotal
Democratic
10.3K
4,069
0
14.4K
Republican
2,372
1,295
0
3,667
Independent
134
0
0
134
Party unknown
0
0
0
0
Total12.8K5,364018.2K

Cell bars use a shared scale with a maximum of 10,340 posts.

Adjacent topics

Other high-volume topics in the same corpus context.

  • 8 records
  1. Unknown Topic (999)
    193.5K
  2. Health
    91.1K
  3. Government Operations
    73.3K
  4. Civil Rights
    62.4K
  5. Law and Crime
    46.4K
  6. Housing
    41.2K
  7. Social Welfare
    39.4K
  8. Education
    39K

Ideology distribution

One dot per legislator with voting-record data. Dot size represents posts on this topic. 96 legislators shown.

Visible 96
Median ideology -0.213
Topic posts 18,210
Most active Ash Kalra
-2.0-1.5-1.0-0.50.00.51.01.52.0More liberalMore conservativeAsh Kalra · Democratic · 1,841 topic posts · ideology -0.348Buffy Wicks · Democratic · 1,012 topic posts · ideology -0.487Kevin Kiley · Republican · 771 topic posts · ideology -0.035Miguel Santiago · Democratic · 766 topic posts · ideology -0.336Lorena Gonzalez · Democratic · 702 topic posts · ideology -0.213Scott Wilk · Republican · 618 topic posts · ideology -0.031Dave Cortese · Democratic · 565 topic posts · ideology -0.350Lena Gonzalez · Democratic · 513 topic posts · ideology -0.292Todd Gloria · Democratic · 470 topic posts · ideology -0.263Scott Wiener · Democratic · 426 topic posts · ideology -0.513Anthony Rendon · Democratic · 424 topic posts · ideology -0.241Alex Lee · Democratic · 419 topic posts · ideology -0.328Connie Leyva · Democratic · 401 topic posts · ideology -0.143Tom Lackey · Republican · 396 topic posts · ideology -0.003Holly Mitchell · Democratic · 389 topic posts · ideology -0.217Luz Rivas · Democratic · 372 topic posts · ideology -0.235Laura Friedman · Democratic · 332 topic posts · ideology -0.338Freddie Rodriguez · Democratic · 329 topic posts · ideology -0.132Richard Pan · Democratic · 325 topic posts · ideology -0.253David Chiu · Democratic · 321 topic posts · ideology -0.562Phil Ting · Democratic · 289 topic posts · ideology -0.458Mike McGuire · Democratic · 240 topic posts · ideology -0.217Brian Jones · Republican · 239 topic posts · ideology -0.079Jim Patterson · Republican · 237 topic posts · ideology -0.066Chris Holden · Democratic · 218 topic posts · ideology -0.294Devon Mathis · Republican · 204 topic posts · ideology 0.019Patrick O'Donnell · Democratic · 184 topic posts · ideology -0.347Bill Quirk · Democratic · 181 topic posts · ideology -0.259James Gallagher · Republican · 179 topic posts · ideology 0.044Adrin Nazarian · Democratic · 177 topic posts · ideology -0.441Kevin Mullin · Democratic · 175 topic posts · ideology -0.395Evan Low · Democratic · 163 topic posts · ideology -0.361Sharon Quirk-Silva · Democratic · 149 topic posts · ideology -0.201Reggie Jones-Sawyer · Democratic · 148 topic posts · ideology -0.234Steve Glazer · Democratic · 148 topic posts · ideology -0.201Brian Dahle · Republican · 146 topic posts · ideology 0.016Josh Newman · Democratic · 144 topic posts · ideology -0.176Jose Medina · Democratic · 143 topic posts · ideology -0.127Andreas Borgeas · Republican · 143 topic posts · ideology -0.014Suzette Valladares · Republican · 142 topic posts · ideology -0.176Anthony Portantino · Democratic · 138 topic posts · ideology -0.279Chad Mayes · Independent · 134 topic posts · ideology -0.053Tim Grayson · Democratic · 129 topic posts · ideology -0.244Cristina Garcia · Democratic · 129 topic posts · ideology -0.216Jim Wood · Democratic · 123 topic posts · ideology -0.170Mark Stone · Democratic · 121 topic posts · ideology -0.275Jordan Cunningham · Republican · 117 topic posts · ideology -0.089Bob Wieckowski · Democratic · 116 topic posts · ideology -0.297Jim Cooper · Democratic · 112 topic posts · ideology -0.154Henry Stern · Democratic · 111 topic posts · ideology -0.244Mike Gipson · Democratic · 110 topic posts · ideology -0.222Dave Min · Democratic · 107 topic posts · ideology -0.189Brian Maienschein · Democratic · 103 topic posts · ideology -0.240Marie Waldron · Republican · 103 topic posts · ideology -0.102Jay Obernolte · Republican · 98 topic posts · ideology -0.143Rob Bonta · Democratic · 97 topic posts · ideology -0.459Vince Fong · Republican · 84 topic posts · ideology 0.019Monique Limon · Democratic · 76 topic posts · ideology -0.170Toni Atkins · Democratic · 73 topic posts · ideology -0.267Richard Roth · Democratic · 69 topic posts · ideology -0.126Patricia Bates · Republican · 66 topic posts · ideology -0.132Jim Frazier · Democratic · 64 topic posts · ideology -0.102Lisa Calderon · Democratic · 63 topic posts · ideology -0.151Rudy Salas · Democratic · 62 topic posts · ideology -0.032Kevin McCarty · Democratic · 58 topic posts · ideology -0.247Ben Allen · Democratic · 55 topic posts · ideology -0.378Richard Bloom · Democratic · 52 topic posts · ideology -0.423Marc Levine · Democratic · 48 topic posts · ideology -0.298Kansen Chu · Democratic · 47 topic posts · ideology -0.328Ian Calderon · Democratic · 43 topic posts · ideology -0.151Shannon Grove · Republican · 41 topic posts · ideology 0.026Jim Beall · Democratic · 37 topic posts · ideology -0.367Bill Dodd · Democratic · 35 topic posts · ideology -0.207Akilah Weber · Democratic · 31 topic posts · ideology -0.221Hannah-Beth Jackson · Democratic · 30 topic posts · ideology -0.170Christopher Ward · Democratic · 29 topic posts · ideology -0.263Janet Nguyen · Republican · 28 topic posts · ideology -0.167Autumn Burke · Democratic · 27 topic posts · ideology -0.320Cecilia Aguiar-Curry · Democratic · 27 topic posts · ideology -0.213Jacqui Irwin · Democratic · 25 topic posts · ideology -0.145Ling Chang · Republican · 22 topic posts · ideology -0.176John Laird · Democratic · 21 topic posts · ideology -0.221John Moorlach · Republican · 19 topic posts · ideology -0.189Josh Becker · Democratic · 15 topic posts · ideology -0.360Dave Min · Democratic · 14 topic posts · ideology -0.189Susan Eggman · Democratic · 12 topic posts · ideology 0.041Ben Hueso · Democratic · 11 topic posts · ideology -0.181Steven Bradford · Democratic · 10 topic posts · ideology -0.241Frank Bigelow · Republican · 10 topic posts · ideology 0.041Adam Gray · Democratic · 7 topic posts · ideology -0.049Autumn Burke · Democratic · 5 topic posts · ideology -0.320Anthony Rendon · Democratic · 1 topic post · ideology -0.241Steven Choi · Republican · 1 topic post · ideology -0.201Tyler Diep · Republican · 1 topic post · ideology -0.167Phillip Chen · Republican · 1 topic post · ideology -0.155Mike Morrell · Republican · 1 topic post · ideology -0.058
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Legislators shown in the chart, ordered from most liberal to most conservative
LegislatorPartyIdeologyTopic posts
David ChiuDemocratic-0.562321
Scott WienerDemocratic-0.513426
Buffy WicksDemocratic-0.4871,012
Rob BontaDemocratic-0.45997
Phil TingDemocratic-0.458289
Adrin NazarianDemocratic-0.441177
Richard BloomDemocratic-0.42352
Kevin MullinDemocratic-0.395175
Ben AllenDemocratic-0.37855
Jim BeallDemocratic-0.36737
Evan LowDemocratic-0.361163
Josh BeckerDemocratic-0.36015
Dave CorteseDemocratic-0.350565
Ash KalraDemocratic-0.3481,841
Patrick O'DonnellDemocratic-0.347184
Laura FriedmanDemocratic-0.338332
Miguel SantiagoDemocratic-0.336766
Alex LeeDemocratic-0.328419
Kansen ChuDemocratic-0.32847
Autumn BurkeDemocratic-0.32027
Autumn BurkeDemocratic-0.3205
Marc LevineDemocratic-0.29848
Bob WieckowskiDemocratic-0.297116
Chris HoldenDemocratic-0.294218
Lena GonzalezDemocratic-0.292513
Anthony PortantinoDemocratic-0.279138
Mark StoneDemocratic-0.275121
Toni AtkinsDemocratic-0.26773
Christopher WardDemocratic-0.26329
Todd GloriaDemocratic-0.263470
Bill QuirkDemocratic-0.259181
Richard PanDemocratic-0.253325
Kevin McCartyDemocratic-0.24758
Henry SternDemocratic-0.244111
Tim GraysonDemocratic-0.244129
Anthony RendonDemocratic-0.241424
Anthony RendonDemocratic-0.2411
Steven BradfordDemocratic-0.24110
Brian MaienscheinDemocratic-0.240103
Luz RivasDemocratic-0.235372
Reggie Jones-SawyerDemocratic-0.234148
Mike GipsonDemocratic-0.222110
John LairdDemocratic-0.22121
Akilah WeberDemocratic-0.22131
Holly MitchellDemocratic-0.217389
Mike McGuireDemocratic-0.217240
Cristina GarciaDemocratic-0.216129
Lorena GonzalezDemocratic-0.213702
Cecilia Aguiar-CurryDemocratic-0.21327
Bill DoddDemocratic-0.20735
Steve GlazerDemocratic-0.201148
Sharon Quirk-SilvaDemocratic-0.201149
Steven ChoiRepublican-0.2011
Dave MinDemocratic-0.189107
Dave MinDemocratic-0.18914
John MoorlachRepublican-0.18919
Ben HuesoDemocratic-0.18111
Josh NewmanDemocratic-0.176144
Ling ChangRepublican-0.17622
Suzette ValladaresRepublican-0.176142
Hannah-Beth JacksonDemocratic-0.17030
Monique LimonDemocratic-0.17076
Jim WoodDemocratic-0.170123
Janet NguyenRepublican-0.16728
Tyler DiepRepublican-0.1671
Phillip ChenRepublican-0.1551
Jim CooperDemocratic-0.154112
Ian CalderonDemocratic-0.15143
Lisa CalderonDemocratic-0.15163
Jacqui IrwinDemocratic-0.14525
Jay ObernolteRepublican-0.14398
Connie LeyvaDemocratic-0.143401
Freddie RodriguezDemocratic-0.132329
Patricia BatesRepublican-0.13266
Jose MedinaDemocratic-0.127143
Richard RothDemocratic-0.12669
Jim FrazierDemocratic-0.10264
Marie WaldronRepublican-0.102103
Jordan CunninghamRepublican-0.089117
Brian JonesRepublican-0.079239
Jim PattersonRepublican-0.066237
Mike MorrellRepublican-0.0581
Chad MayesIndependent-0.053134
Adam GrayDemocratic-0.0497
Kevin KileyRepublican-0.035771
Rudy SalasDemocratic-0.03262
Scott WilkRepublican-0.031618
Andreas BorgeasRepublican-0.014143
Tom LackeyRepublican-0.003396
Brian DahleRepublican0.016146
Devon MathisRepublican0.019204
Vince FongRepublican0.01984
Shannon GroveRepublican0.02641
Frank BigelowRepublican0.04110
Susan EggmanDemocratic0.04112
James GallagherRepublican0.044179

Most concentrated voices

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

  • 106 records
1–25 of 106
Mark StoneDemocratic-0.27533.0%
Anthony RendonDemocratic-0.24125.0%
Lorena GonzalezDemocratic-0.21324.4%
Jim CooperDemocratic-0.1549.4%
Ash KalraDemocratic-0.3487.2%
Dave CorteseDemocratic-0.3507.0%
Ben HuesoDemocratic-0.1816.1%
Hannah-Beth JacksonDemocratic-0.1706.0%
Autumn BurkeDemocratic-0.3205.9%
John MoorlachRepublican-0.1895.2%
Kevin KileyRepublican-0.0354.6%
Miguel SantiagoDemocratic-0.3364.4%
Lena GonzalezDemocratic-0.2924.2%
Jim FrazierDemocratic-0.1024.2%
Holly MitchellDemocratic-0.2173.9%
Connie LeyvaDemocratic-0.1433.7%
Chris HoldenDemocratic-0.2943.7%
Adrin NazarianDemocratic-0.4413.6%
Kansen ChuDemocratic-0.3283.5%
Brian MaienscheinDemocratic-0.2403.5%
Freddie RodriguezDemocratic-0.1323.4%
Tom LackeyRepublican-0.0033.3%
Monique LimonDemocratic-0.1703.3%
Reggie Jones-SawyerDemocratic-0.2343.2%
Patrick O'DonnellDemocratic-0.3473.0%

Post explorer

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  • 10 matching posts

Rob Bonta

@RobBonta

Democratic CA House

RT @CallaWalsh: I am a 16-year-old part-time minimum wage worker and I pay more income taxes than the billionaire President of the United S&

Labor

Ash Kalra

@Ash_Kalra

Democratic CA House

RT @CallaWalsh: I am a 16-year-old part-time minimum wage worker and I pay more income taxes than the billionaire President of the United S&

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Lena Gonzalez

@SenGonzalez_33

Democratic CA Senate

RT @JoeBiden: Make no mistake: if you are out of work, if your business is closed, if your childs school is shut down, if you are seeing l&

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Buffy Wicks

@BuffyWicks

Democratic CA House

RT @AOC: Food workers. Grocery clerks. Cashiers. Delivery drivers. Warehouse stockers. They were never unskilled workers. They were alwa&

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Buffy Wicks

@BuffyWicks

Democratic CA House

RT @BarackObama: During this crisis, our grocery store clerks, delivery drivers, transit and utility workersalong with so many othershave&

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Buffy Wicks

@BuffyWicks

Democratic CA House

RT @TeamJoe: Teachers paid $7,239 Firefighters paid $5,283 Nurses paid $10,216 Donald Trump paid $750 https://t.co/5YE1cbYsBN

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Steve Glazer

@Steve_Glazer

Democratic CA Senate

RT @BarackObama: This Labor Day, lets thank all those who've kept our country going this yearnurses, teachers, delivery drivers, food ser&

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Buffy Wicks

@BuffyWicks

Democratic CA House

RT @BarackObama: This Labor Day, lets thank all those who've kept our country going this yearnurses, teachers, delivery drivers, food ser&

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Laura Friedman

@laurafriedman43

Democratic CA House

RT @RepAdamSchiff: The Postmaster General must resign. Hes slowed delivery, banned overtime & decommissioned mail-sorting machines. Righ&

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Buffy Wicks

@BuffyWicks

Democratic CA House

RT @JoeBiden: Real presidents lead. Reality TV presidents dont. https://t.co/2lMwnRXLcG

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