DCinbox Insights
Weekly updates tracking how members of Congress communicate with constituents, highlighting messaging trends, issue emphasis, and emerging language patterns. I focus on primary source trends over "takes".
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Corruption in Communications (opens the original)
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Note: We had our first DCinbox Office Hours last week. I had fun answering questions and learning about the people subscribing. Thanks for supporting this work! The next office hours will happen October 8, at 1 pm.Since the beginning of the second term of President Trump, congressional Democrats have focused on “corruption” in their official constituent e-newsletters in a manner that is increasing as time goes on (Q3 is not yet over) while Republicans have used the term less often.<a class="imag
Congress Won’t “Regulate” AI, but the Conversation Should be Bigger Anyhow (opens the original)
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In Ipsos-Reuters poll fielded over the summer, Americans reported mostly mixed impressions about the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on society. A majority (53%) saw pros and cons to the impacts of AI, and the remainder tended to think there were negative impacts, though 11% said the societal impacts were somewhat or very positive. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M_j1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstac
Who Hits Send? (opens the original)
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This DCinbox Insight was supported by the research of Zach Posnick of Brooklyn Tech. I get to work with a lot of young people, this assistant really impressed me over the summer with his work ethic and ability to figure out complex things. **Reminder - today at 1:30 pm EST we will have our first real time Office Hours for paid subscribers. A Substack Live video invitation will go out right before then - I’m looking forward to seeing you all and getting into your questions!**<a class="button prim
The Drag Queens of Official Congressional Communications (opens the original)
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(Psst…At the bottom of there’s an idea I’ve been kicking something for paid subscriptions and how that’ll look moving forward…I think it’ll be a fun time and I’m looking forward to more direct connection with people.)I was working on something about beauty queens in official congressional communications, when this other sort insight came into focus. When I did a heatmap to look at the term “drag queen”, it highlighted Arizona as the highest focus state per member of congress. My priors about wha
Dog Poop Congress (opens the original)
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This cute image is a marker of one of the most frustrating way politics happens sometimes. It’s frustrating because it’s performative and largely a waste of our attentions. I’ve been hesitant to write about this because it feeds the beast a little, but it’s one of the most recent versions of this in DCinbox and it’s been eating at me because of the overlaps with where I live and work. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BMV3!,f_auto,q_auto:g
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