Astead ✓

@AsteadWH · New York, NY · joined 25 Aug 2011

Host, America, Actually! @voxmedia Weekly midterms newsletter @Substack Editorial director @voxdotcom Political analyst @cnn Former @nytimes @bostonglobe

197 901Followers

2 882Following

66 028Posts total

318.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views50 010this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %25.27%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.96%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	50 010	21 891	2.28×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	25.27%	6.81%	3.71×
Engagement rate	0.96%	1.14%	0.84×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

47.5K11 Apr

51.1K30 Aug

61.6K2 Sep

48.9K

91.8K

14.3K3 Sep

2.9K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.19%11 Apr

0.57%30 Aug

0.56%2 Sep

3.17%

3.23%

1.35%3 Sep

0.41%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes85.6%4 778 in total

Reposts10.0%559 in total

Replies1.2%67 in total

Quotes0.8%46 in total

Bookmarks2.4%135 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Friends!! We’re working on a midterms study guide for our next episode, pulling together our reporting throughout the year to compile what we’ve learned and answer audience questions. We’ve gotten great ones from last week’s call out. But there’s still time to send more!! Have 2.9K views · 11 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 This is really the best part. Punish the team and agent and let us see Kawhi in Toronto Adam Silver you did your big one!! 10/10 no notes five stars 14.3K views · 177 likes · 13 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 ESPN blew this story from the very beginning to the very end. You’ll never get the best sports reporting from the ppl in the pocket of teams/agents/league 91.8K views · 2.6K likes · 293 reposts · 17 replies 02 Sep 2026 Lmao Kawhi got off clean 48.9K views · 1.3K likes · 162 reposts · 16 replies 02 Sep 2026 As promised: I wrote through my thoughts for this week's newsletter What is at the root of the endless focus on a singular Twitch streamer? In my opinion, it's all about 2028. "I think we should read this as an effort to build an early litmus test for the upcoming 61.6K views · 283 likes · 43 reposts · 16 replies 02 Sep 2026 I’ll write through more thoughts @substack this week. But worth remembering — Third Way published its Say No To Hasan op/ed in the Wall Street Journal before he started campaigning with progressive primary candidates. What ticked them off was a Piker appearance at Crooked Con. 51.1K views · 250 likes · 36 reposts · 3 replies 30 Aug 2026 !!!! First day of our new podcast, America Actually (w/ Astead Herndon). It's going to be about the upcoming elections and America's road to a post-Trump future. But as we got started I wanted to write something about why I landed on that theme and what I saw as the our mission 47.5K views · 65 likes · 11 reposts · 12 replies 11 Apr 2026