Where official congressional e-newsletters mentioning "navidad" have come from over the past 5 years:

The focus on Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) is ratcheting up in official congressional e-newsletters:

I don't totally get the imagery here, but it's what Senator John Cornyn sent the other week:

"The typical child in America spends less time outdoors than a federal inmate." - Rep Jake Auchincloss Dec 19, 2025

Official congressional emails mentioning "affordability crisis" over time, by party

Aw thank you so much for sighting and putting out to your parts of the internet!

Thank you so much for spotting and alerting me to this! 🆒

We need more peppermint ice cream in the country

Overall volume of official e-newsletters from Congress over the past 15 years, by party

A year of official congressional communications in 1 minute

The Department of Homeland Security recently launched its public facing "Worst of the Worst" database. You can see it here: www.dhs.gov/wow

Official congressional e-newsletters mentioning "discharge petition" over time, by party

Official congressional e-newsletters mentioning "unaffordable" over time, by party:

Congressman Donald Norcross doing work 👷‍♂️

Congressional Republicans talk a lot more about "bureaucracy" in official e-newsletters than Democrats do:

One of the perks of living in NYC is mostly getting direct flights. But today I’m getting to fly to Kansas via Cleveland and then Atlanta after a cancellation 🫠

Bipartisan Alert: The House & Senate passed a bill to allow the sale of 3,400 acres of federal land to the government of La Paz, AZ. The "La Paz County Solar Energy & Job Creation Act" does not mandate that land be used for solar energy, but does prohibit mining. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

"Deranged" used to be a word reserved for gunmen, hijacker, dictators, and animal abusers. Now it's political opponents. I've written a short history of the term in official political communications here: dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/a-short-hi...

In Dec 2016 having AirPods was one of the ultimate status symbols - in 2026 I think being able to go through your life without influencers and advertisers yammering into your brain for four hours a day seems like more of a status symbol 🙃

It's weird to think the GOP was talking a lot about "influence peddling" by Hunter Biden just a few years ago and both Republicans and Democrats in congress are pretty quiet about the actual influence of the current first family.

Use of the word "derangement" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Mentions of "Biden" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Last week 20 Republicans and all 211 Democrats in the House voted to nullify President Trump’s Executive Order 14251 that exempts certain federal workers from collective bargaining in certain key national security areas. www.congress.gov/votes/house/...

Mentions of "rural" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

The occurrence of the word "warfighters" in official congressional communications, over time, by party.

Members of the Northern Mariana Islands Football Association advocating for the CNMI’s admission into FIFA

Each December the National Park Foundation & National Park Service showcase 59 trees (one for each U.S. state, territory, and the District of Columbia) decorated with ornaments designed by K-12 students. You can see all the ornaments here: www.thenationaltree.org/ornaments/ (Kansas ones are A+)

Trump Accounts in DCinbox - Courtesy of Donald J. Trump? dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/trump-acco...

This is possibly being considered today in the House: H. Res. 939 – Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors. (Sponsored by Rep. Green (TX) / Judiciary Committee)

The Christmas display at Washington County's Training Facility in Maryland doesn't hit the usual holiday spirit note for me

Mentions of "first responders" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

In case anyone was wondering, the weekly Senate Bible Study discussed the verse John 14:16 last week: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...

I'm getting a new neighbor. www.thecut.com/article/zohr...

Every year (for at past 15 years) more Republicans in Congress write to constituents about "Pearl Harbor" than Democrats do:

"courtesy of Donald J. Trump" This was passed by congress and giving tax money raised by the USFG is not "courtesy" of the President, not matter who is in that office.

This is the current landing page of Senator Elizabeth Warren on December 6, 2025:

If we were doing underdog 2028 Dem side I'd put Jamie Raskin in the mix

All in a day of DCinbox maintenance

Congressman Glenn Grothman (R-WI) celebrating the Sheboygan Hmong New Year

FWIW: "fulnecky" has not yet been in an official congressional e-newsletter

Both parties in Congress right now are paying attention to "birthright" more right now, than any time over the past 15 years.

This argument is a little hard for me. Texas actively shipped people to "Democratic States" knowing the rules of federal representation.

The policy window has shifted, it's not just a question of *illegal* immigration, it's a question of legal immigration:

AOC just put out a very cogent way to think about what it might mean if we stop federally recommending the Hepatitis B vaccination at birth: www.dcinbox.com/email/?id=26...

Republican in Congress keep on talking about Mamdani in official e-newsletters, Democrats not so much

Reddit just had me laughing out loud, "her outfits always go so hard it’s like nyfw every Monday morning"

The Weird AI Experience of Senator Blackburn + why it will probably happen again dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/the-weird-...

an intense look

When I started DCinbox back in 2009 members of congress were howling: "annual federal spending surpassed the $3 trillion mark for the first time in our nation’s history" Today we are projected to spend about $7 trillion.

Very few members are messaging about Trump Accounts. So far it's just been Congressmen Ron Estes & Burgess Owens. All other references are from Trump's accounts being banned on Twitter and Facebook re: Jan 6