PoliSci Professor running Dcinbox.com Host: Government that Doesn’t Suck Book: How to Raise a Citizen (& Why it's Up to You to Do It) CB8💗NYC
New York, NY
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I got to talk to @EllenLWeintraub - FEC commissioner & four-time chair from 2002-2025!
It's here: piped.video/watch?v=cFKn3e6v…
**And while I have you, it's free to subscribe to the YouTube channel & helps me a lot on the backend - this is a request/plea if you've got an account**
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The CEO of United Airlines said this in the NYTimes this morning:
(but the headline they ran was: United’s C.E.O. Says It Should Cost More Not to Sit in the Middle Seat)
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Congressional Republicans are the only people saying "Democratic Socialists" in official congressional e-newsletters
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You know who said "defund the police" the most over the past few years?
Republicans.
Full write up here: dcinboxinsights.substack.com…
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I have a lot of events happening in October. If you are in:
Utica, NY
Manhattan, NY
Shrewsbury, MA
Marlboro, NY
San Antonio, TX
Greencastle, IN
or
Brooklyn, NY
I'd love to see you at one of these - making my internet people into my IRL 3D people is one of my favorite things.
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Using the @AllSidesNow Media Bias sorting of media outlets, here's how how many official e-newsletters members of Congress have sent referencing different news sources form 2010-2025:
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Back in 2022 Congressional Republicans were a lot more focused on "diesel" in official congressional e-newsletters than they are now.
In 2022 diesel got to ~ $5.82 per gallon.
Today it's ~ $6.53 per gallon.
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Today I am teaching 3 classes then heading up to Michigan Tech to give a talk tomorrow. On Thursday, I’m giving a talk in Pennington, NJ. On Friday I’m heading back to Kansas to speak at the Kansas Book Festival.
If you are in those places, and want to meet up, please reach out
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A local leader in Delaware took my most recent book and organized a series of 5 free teaching events around it that he plans to lead over the next few months with the @braverangels Delaware Alliance.
More details are here:
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4 Senators got together to make an "America In Jeopardy" Jeopardy spoof:
piped.video/watch?v=Mw-Gx7ev…
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Congressional Republicans have really been leaning into casework over the past two years.
Here's the frequency of "constituents navigate" in official e-news, as in "helping constituents navigate federal..."
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There was a time in official congressional e-newsletters when congress used to talk about "deficit reduction" way more than they do now.
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From 2020-2025 Congressional Republicans told constituents that Democrats were saying and trying to "defund the police" more than 200x the amount of times Democrats actually said the phrase in official congressional e-newsletters.
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This looks like it is the first time in the last 15 years that congressional Democrats have written about Iran more than congressional Republicans to constituents.
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Democrats talk about tacos in official congressional e-newsletters about 6x more than Republicans do
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I had such a fun conversation with
@coreysnathan on Talkin‘ Politics & Religion Without Killin‘ Each Other.
We talked powerlifting, founding cross-fitters, parenting, and why democracy depends on people actually knowing how to use it.
It's all here: piped.video/watch?v=4janQBCo…
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Official congressional e-newsletters mentioning "great american state fair" over time, by party
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A colleague of mine nominated me to be interviewed by part of the @America250 American Stories and I just did it :)
I also had a piece come out in the @nypost today about America
🇺🇸 nypost.com/2026/06/28/opinio…
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I did not know this was happening at the new Obama Museum…but a friend just stumbled onto it and texted me these pictures:
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I know I usually post congressional comms graphs here, but I also wrote a book that I really like.
When I opened my mail last night I got a pretty neat surprise about that book:
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Congressional Republicans (especially the men of the party) are far more likely to host their own podcasts, go on other podcasts, and talk about podcasts in their official constituents communications than Democrats -
this is a key part of our politics that is under understood.
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"Allyship" 3 Republicans, 2 Democrats
"Minoritized communities" never
"Carceration" never
"Intersectionality" split half and half
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"Chest feeding" never
"Cisgender" 3 from Republicans 2 from Democrats
"Deadnaming" 1 from Office of Rep. Byron Donalds (R)
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