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Posts in party-labeled aggregate8.4M
Engagement5.2B
Ideology dots82

Topic volume over time

2,088 intervals combined into 72 contiguous bins from 2,088 dated source rows.

Total
8.5M
Peak
1M

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

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IntervalpostsSource intervalsSource rows
Jan 1, 2020–Jan 29, 202048,9452929
Jan 30, 2020–Feb 27, 202055,2492929
Feb 28, 2020–Mar 27, 202074,4272929
Mar 28, 2020–Apr 25, 202077,7142929
Apr 26, 2020–May 24, 202065,8162929
May 25, 2020–Jun 22, 202070,9072929
Jun 23, 2020–Jul 21, 202068,1082929
Jul 22, 2020–Aug 19, 202075,3722929
Aug 20, 2020–Sep 17, 202075,7092929
Sep 18, 2020–Oct 16, 202087,9882929
Oct 17, 2020–Nov 14, 202096,1372929
Nov 15, 2020–Dec 13, 202060,1662929
Dec 14, 2020–Jan 11, 202182,9712929
Jan 12, 2021–Feb 9, 2021155,7022929
Feb 10, 2021–Mar 10, 2021185,7432929
Mar 11, 2021–Apr 8, 2021176,3982929
Apr 9, 2021–May 7, 2021171,9852929
May 8, 2021–Jun 5, 2021349,0892929
Jun 6, 2021–Jul 4, 2021220,6622929
Jul 5, 2021–Aug 2, 202148,2842929
Aug 3, 2021–Aug 31, 2021175,1982929
Sep 1, 2021–Oct 4, 2021233,0372929
Oct 5, 2021–Nov 2, 2021355,0562929
Nov 3, 2021–Dec 1, 2021278,9232929
Dec 2, 2021–Dec 30, 2021380,6412929
Dec 31, 2021–Jan 28, 2022353,4332929
Jan 29, 2022–Feb 26, 2022112,6522929
Feb 27, 2022–Mar 27, 2022110,6432929
Mar 28, 2022–Apr 25, 202298,6742929
Apr 26, 2022–May 24, 2022118,6872929
May 25, 2022–Jun 22, 2022415,9212929
Jun 23, 2022–Jul 21, 2022587,8852929
Jul 22, 2022–Aug 19, 20221,005,5802929
Aug 20, 2022–Sep 17, 2022250,3912929
Sep 18, 2022–Oct 23, 2022123,7372929
Oct 24, 2022–Nov 21, 2022189,9372929
Nov 22, 2022–Dec 20, 202292,9732929
Dec 21, 2022–Jan 18, 2023152,9662929
Jan 19, 2023–Feb 16, 2023215,0122929
Feb 17, 2023–Mar 17, 2023244,4392929
Mar 18, 2023–Apr 15, 2023253,8522929
Apr 16, 2023–May 14, 2023211,3662929
May 15, 2023–Jun 12, 2023235,9462929
Jun 13, 2023–Aug 12, 202345,5412929
Aug 14, 2023–Oct 3, 2023432929
Oct 4, 2023–Nov 27, 2023472929
Nov 29, 2023–Jan 26, 2024582929
Jan 29, 2024–Mar 11, 2024532929
Mar 12, 2024–May 3, 2024522929
May 4, 2024–Jun 12, 20241,1192929
Jun 13, 2024–Jul 26, 20242,7342929
Jul 27, 2024–Sep 7, 20246,1812929
Sep 9, 2024–Oct 14, 20248,1132929
Oct 15, 2024–Nov 16, 202415,2192929
Nov 17, 2024–Dec 30, 20243,5802929
Dec 31, 2024–Feb 6, 20251072929
Feb 7, 2025–Mar 21, 2025662929
Mar 22, 2025–Apr 24, 2025852929
Apr 25, 2025–May 27, 2025972929
May 29, 2025–Jun 28, 20251162929
Jun 29, 2025–Jul 30, 20251342929
Jul 31, 2025–Aug 29, 2025972929
Aug 30, 2025–Sep 29, 20251192929
Sep 30, 2025–Oct 30, 20251662929
Oct 31, 2025–Dec 3, 20251412929
Dec 4, 2025–Jan 5, 20261232929
Jan 6, 2026–Feb 4, 20261762929
Feb 5, 2026–Mar 5, 20262282929
Mar 6, 2026–Apr 3, 20262792929
Apr 4, 2026–May 2, 20262592929
May 3, 2026–May 31, 20262132929
Jun 1, 2026–Jul 1, 20262762929
Total8,529,7432,0882,088

State salience

Where Uncategorized 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.

262,852 posts 4 populated combinations

PartyHouseSenateChamber unknownTotal
Democratic
176.2K
52.3K
0
228.5K
Republican
24.8K
9,591
0
34.4K
Independent
0
0
0
0
Party unknown
0
0
0
0
Total201K61.9K0262.9K

Cell bars use a shared scale with a maximum of 176,189 posts.

Adjacent topics

Other high-volume topics in the same corpus context.

  • 8 records
  1. Government Operations
    2.8M
  2. Civil Rights
    1.7M
  3. Health
    1.5M
  4. Law and Crime
    1.2M
  5. Education
    1.2M
  6. Social Welfare
    783K
  7. Macroeconomics
    637.3K
  8. Housing
    515.7K

Ideology distribution

One dot per legislator with voting-record data. Dot size represents posts on this topic. 82 legislators shown.

Visible 82
Median ideology -0.053
Topic posts 262,852
Most active Lee Carter
-2.0-1.5-1.0-0.50.00.51.01.52.0More liberalMore conservativeLee Carter · Democratic · 61,343 topic posts · ideology 0.016Danica Roem · Democratic · 28,040 topic posts · ideology -0.033Jennifer McClellan · Democratic · 14,332 topic posts · ideology -0.301Marcus Simon · Democratic · 10,522 topic posts · ideology -0.306Mark Keam · Democratic · 8,840 topic posts · ideology -0.218Louise Lucas · Democratic · 7,303 topic posts · ideology 0.042Alfonso Lopez · Democratic · 7,099 topic posts · ideology -0.401Sally Hudson · Democratic · 6,560 topic posts · ideology -0.292Scott Surovell · Democratic · 6,302 topic posts · ideology -0.138Michael Mullin · Democratic · 6,114 topic posts · ideology -0.124Mark Cole · Republican · 5,367 topic posts · ideology 0.009Glenn Davis · Republican · 5,358 topic posts · ideology -0.007Marcia Price · Democratic · 5,345 topic posts · ideology -0.175David Suetterlein · Republican · 4,566 topic posts · ideology 0.228Jennifer Boysko · Democratic · 4,530 topic posts · ideology -0.222Paul Krizek · Democratic · 4,503 topic posts · ideology -0.157Monty Mason · Democratic · 4,463 topic posts · ideology -0.065Creigh Deeds · Democratic · 4,301 topic posts · ideology -0.014Jeremy McPike · Democratic · 4,098 topic posts · ideology -0.062Sam Rasoul · Democratic · 3,991 topic posts · ideology -0.043Kathy Tran · Democratic · 3,805 topic posts · ideology -0.120Jerrauld Jones · Democratic · 3,519 topic posts · ideology -0.270Jason Miyares · Republican · 3,177 topic posts · ideology -0.037Chris Hurst · Democratic · 2,988 topic posts · ideology 0.024Jeff Bourne · Democratic · 2,862 topic posts · ideology -0.443Patrick Hope · Democratic · 2,801 topic posts · ideology -0.373Lionell Spruill · Democratic · 2,639 topic posts · ideology -0.148Kaye Kory · Democratic · 2,558 topic posts · ideology -0.331Dave Larock · Republican · 2,459 topic posts · ideology 0.108Bryce Reeves · Republican · 2,226 topic posts · ideology 0.051Kathleen Murphy · Democratic · 2,109 topic posts · ideology -0.195Eileen Filler-Corn · Democratic · 2,010 topic posts · ideology -0.359Alex Askew · Democratic · 1,956 topic posts · ideology -0.021Charniele Herring · Democratic · 1,907 topic posts · ideology -0.453Emily Brewer · Republican · 1,787 topic posts · ideology 0.170Todd Gilbert · Republican · 1,765 topic posts · ideology 0.238Terry Kilgore · Republican · 1,731 topic posts · ideology 0.287Israel O'Quinn · Republican · 1,639 topic posts · ideology 0.219Suhas Subramanyam · Democratic · 1,443 topic posts · ideology -0.162David Reid · Democratic · 1,307 topic posts · ideology -0.179Barbara Favola · Democratic · 986 topic posts · ideology -0.296Shelly Simonds · Democratic · 942 topic posts · ideology -0.013John Bell · Democratic · 804 topic posts · ideology -0.043Cliff Hayes · Democratic · 804 topic posts · ideology 0.001Mark Obenshain · Republican · 769 topic posts · ideology 0.146Mark Levine · Democratic · 725 topic posts · ideology -0.379Adam Ebbin · Democratic · 709 topic posts · ideology -0.329Chris Head · Republican · 704 topic posts · ideology 0.197Mamie Locke · Democratic · 638 topic posts · ideology -0.095Lamont Bagby · Democratic · 594 topic posts · ideology -0.231Bill Stanley · Republican · 579 topic posts · ideology 0.171Bill Desteph · Republican · 564 topic posts · ideology -0.009Rip Sullivan · Democratic · 465 topic posts · ideology -0.242Dave Marsden · Democratic · 389 topic posts · ideology -0.288Martha Mugler · Democratic · 342 topic posts · ideology -0.002Les Adams · Republican · 326 topic posts · ideology 0.188George Barker · Democratic · 318 topic posts · ideology -0.187Kirk Cox · Republican · 247 topic posts · ideology 0.098Dick Saslaw · Democratic · 245 topic posts · ideology -0.306David Bulova · Democratic · 229 topic posts · ideology -0.304Jill Vogel · Republican · 216 topic posts · ideology 0.168Angelia Graves · Democratic · 201 topic posts · ideology -0.156Michael Webert · Republican · 200 topic posts · ideology 0.203Todd Pillion · Republican · 168 topic posts · ideology 0.254Emmett Hanger · Republican · 164 topic posts · ideology 0.168Lynwood Lewis · Democratic · 159 topic posts · ideology -0.022Mark Sickles · Democratic · 154 topic posts · ideology -0.239Richard Stuart · Republican · 117 topic posts · ideology 0.056Tommy Norment · Republican · 87 topic posts · ideology 0.100Ryan McDougle · Republican · 85 topic posts · ideology 0.167John Edwards · Democratic · 65 topic posts · ideology 0.028Jeion Ward · Democratic · 51 topic posts · ideology -0.092Joe Lindsey · Democratic · 49 topic posts · ideology -0.156Siobhan Dunnavant · Republican · 40 topic posts · ideology -0.138John Petersen · Democratic · 14 topic posts · ideology -0.251Ken Plum · Democratic · 11 topic posts · ideology -0.222Kathy Byron · Republican · 10 topic posts · ideology 0.158John Cosgrove · Republican · 7 topic posts · ideology 0.066Janet Howell · Democratic · 3 topic posts · ideology -0.223Ben Chafin · Republican · 3 topic posts · ideology 0.279Terry Austin · Republican · 3 topic posts · ideology 0.297Margaret Ransone · Republican · 1 topic post · ideology 0.173
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Legislators shown in the chart, ordered from most liberal to most conservative
LegislatorPartyIdeologyTopic posts
Charniele HerringDemocratic-0.4531,907
Jeff BourneDemocratic-0.4432,862
Alfonso LopezDemocratic-0.4017,099
Mark LevineDemocratic-0.379725
Patrick HopeDemocratic-0.3732,801
Eileen Filler-CornDemocratic-0.3592,010
Kaye KoryDemocratic-0.3312,558
Adam EbbinDemocratic-0.329709
Marcus SimonDemocratic-0.30610,522
Dick SaslawDemocratic-0.306245
David BulovaDemocratic-0.304229
Jennifer McClellanDemocratic-0.30114,332
Barbara FavolaDemocratic-0.296986
Sally HudsonDemocratic-0.2926,560
Dave MarsdenDemocratic-0.288389
Jerrauld JonesDemocratic-0.2703,519
John PetersenDemocratic-0.25114
Rip SullivanDemocratic-0.242465
Mark SicklesDemocratic-0.239154
Lamont BagbyDemocratic-0.231594
Janet HowellDemocratic-0.2233
Jennifer BoyskoDemocratic-0.2224,530
Ken PlumDemocratic-0.22211
Mark KeamDemocratic-0.2188,840
Kathleen MurphyDemocratic-0.1952,109
George BarkerDemocratic-0.187318
David ReidDemocratic-0.1791,307
Marcia PriceDemocratic-0.1755,345
Suhas SubramanyamDemocratic-0.1621,443
Paul KrizekDemocratic-0.1574,503
Angelia GravesDemocratic-0.156201
Joe LindseyDemocratic-0.15649
Lionell SpruillDemocratic-0.1482,639
Scott SurovellDemocratic-0.1386,302
Siobhan DunnavantRepublican-0.13840
Michael MullinDemocratic-0.1246,114
Kathy TranDemocratic-0.1203,805
Mamie LockeDemocratic-0.095638
Jeion WardDemocratic-0.09251
Monty MasonDemocratic-0.0654,463
Jeremy McPikeDemocratic-0.0624,098
John BellDemocratic-0.043804
Sam RasoulDemocratic-0.0433,991
Jason MiyaresRepublican-0.0373,177
Danica RoemDemocratic-0.03328,040
Lynwood LewisDemocratic-0.022159
Alex AskewDemocratic-0.0211,956
Creigh DeedsDemocratic-0.0144,301
Shelly SimondsDemocratic-0.013942
Bill DestephRepublican-0.009564
Glenn DavisRepublican-0.0075,358
Martha MuglerDemocratic-0.002342
Cliff HayesDemocratic0.001804
Mark ColeRepublican0.0095,367
Lee CarterDemocratic0.01661,343
Chris HurstDemocratic0.0242,988
John EdwardsDemocratic0.02865
Louise LucasDemocratic0.0427,303
Bryce ReevesRepublican0.0512,226
Richard StuartRepublican0.056117
John CosgroveRepublican0.0667
Kirk CoxRepublican0.098247
Tommy NormentRepublican0.10087
Dave LarockRepublican0.1082,459
Mark ObenshainRepublican0.146769
Kathy ByronRepublican0.15810
Ryan McDougleRepublican0.16785
Jill VogelRepublican0.168216
Emmett HangerRepublican0.168164
Emily BrewerRepublican0.1701,787
Bill StanleyRepublican0.171579
Margaret RansoneRepublican0.1731
Les AdamsRepublican0.188326
Chris HeadRepublican0.197704
Michael WebertRepublican0.203200
Israel O'QuinnRepublican0.2191,639
David SuetterleinRepublican0.2284,566
Todd GilbertRepublican0.2381,765
Todd PillionRepublican0.254168
Ben ChafinRepublican0.2793
Terry KilgoreRepublican0.2871,731
Terry AustinRepublican0.2973

Most concentrated voices

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

  • 82 records
1–25 of 82
John CosgroveRepublican0.066100.0%
Cliff HayesDemocratic0.00166.8%
Janet HowellDemocratic-0.22360.0%
Ben ChafinRepublican0.27960.0%
Terry AustinRepublican0.29760.0%
Lee CarterDemocratic0.01659.9%
Jeff BourneDemocratic-0.44355.1%
John BellDemocratic-0.04353.4%
Creigh DeedsDemocratic-0.01453.2%
Terry KilgoreRepublican0.28749.9%
Lamont BagbyDemocratic-0.23148.4%
Mark KeamDemocratic-0.21848.1%
Danica RoemDemocratic-0.03347.4%
Todd GilbertRepublican0.23847.2%
Tommy NormentRepublican0.10045.8%
David SuetterleinRepublican0.22845.6%
Emily BrewerRepublican0.17044.9%
Michael MullinDemocratic-0.12444.8%
Sally HudsonDemocratic-0.29244.3%
Marcus SimonDemocratic-0.30644.2%
Bill StanleyRepublican0.17144.2%
Louise LucasDemocratic0.04243.7%
Michael WebertRepublican0.20342.6%
Mark SicklesDemocratic-0.23941.6%
Israel O'QuinnRepublican0.21941.1%

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  • 10 matching posts

Jerrauld Jones

@jonesjay

Democratic VA House

RT @chadwickboseman: https://t.co/aZ2JzDf5ai

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Mark Keam

@MarkKeam

Democratic VA House

RT @RoyalFamily: The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening<U+2026>

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Suhas Subramanyam

@SuhasforVA

Democratic VA House

RT @BarackObama: Kobe was a legend on the court and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act. To lose G&

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Mark Keam

@MarkKeam

Democratic VA House

RT @BarackObama: Kobe was a legend on the court and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act. To lose G&

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Michael Mullin

@mikemullin4VA

Democratic VA House

RT @KamalaHarris: We did it, @JoeBiden. https://t.co/oCgeylsjB4

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Chris Hurst

@ChrisHurstVA

Democratic VA House

RT @Levance_: Know the difference. https://t.co/einoHMXvHn

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Lee Carter

@carterforva

Democratic VA House

RT @OfficialMLK3: As my father explained during his lifetime, a riot is the language of the unheard.

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Alfonso Lopez

@Lopez4VA

Democratic VA House

RT @JoeBiden: It’s a new day in America.

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Danica Roem

@pwcdanica

Democratic VA House

RT @BarackObama: My statement on the death of George Floyd: https://t.co/Hg1k9JHT6R

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Suhas Subramanyam

@SuhasforVA

Democratic VA House

RT @BarackObama: My statement on the death of George Floyd: https://t.co/Hg1k9JHT6R

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