DCinbox Insights
Lindsey CormackWeekly updates tracking how members of Congress communicate with constituents, highlighting messaging trends, issue emphasis, and emerging language patterns. These are not takes, they are primary source trends.
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Latest Issues
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The Nationalization of New York Politics
On occasion, in official constituent e-newsletters federal legislators wade into state and local politics, but they rarely single out individual candidates for local office. Most members of Congress don’t have the bandwidth or the desire to...
Fighting Words: How Congress Uses Party Labels in Official Messages
Over the past 15 years, despite having a nearly 50/50 congress the whole time, Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to use the incumbent perk of official e-newsletters, and overall they send many more messages. Most of the time Re...
The Shutdown Show Down: Official Congressional Communications Style
In 2025 there have been two possible government shutdown periods, March and right now. This September showdown has been brewing for weeks, and here’s how congressional communications have been laying the groundwork. Below is what the overal...
Which members of Congress write to constituents about "evil"?
In DCinbox, the word “evil” has occurred 2,490 times over the last 15 years, with 89% of all mentions coming from Republicans. I posted the little graph on how this has looked overtime on Bsky and Twitter last week, and it sparked a number ...
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Authors
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Lindsey Cormack is a political scientist, author, and creator of DCinbox — the only comprehensive archive of constituent e-newsletters sent by members of Congress. She is an Associate Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology.
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