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
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The personal health of elected officials is public interest. I respected Pritzker’s refusal to answer this question earlier this year, and respect his decision to tell his story now
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We’re adding a second America Actually episode each week until the midterms!
Today I’m talking to @mehdirhasan at 1230 on @Substack live. On Trump’s press ban, media credibility, and how the public opinion change on Israel has affected both parties.
In audio and on @voxdotcom
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There’s been a big backlash to Trump’s deportation policies from Latino voters — and new numbers show 62% of Latinos now believe Trump supports deporting people broadly, up 26 percent sent the start of his second term.
Here’s what I don’t get: The GOP held up “mass deportation
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And they’ll still invite him to next years dinner
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Today’s action revoking access for journalists from CNN, POLITICO, and MSNOW violates the First Amendment. The implications extend beyond these organizations: a standard used to exclude one news outlet because of its coverage could be applied to any outlet in the future. The
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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
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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
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@AsteadWH I think @ramonashelburne is the most shameless “journalist” mouthpiece ive ever seen
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@AsteadWH They didn't even get the investigation story right at first :/ https://t.co/T2Cdt1A6h6
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@AsteadWH But shams got to tweet it out first so it’s all even /s
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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
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@AsteadWH each week the media focuses on hasan piker, abdul el-sayed gains like 5 points in the polls lol
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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
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Read more at "The Midterms, Actually" -- a companion newsletter for the pod. Today's post includes quotes from our interviews with @hasanthehun, @ThirdWayTweet, @neeratanden and more. We also trace how Piker went from being largely embraced post 2024 to....wherever we're at now
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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.
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Q: Jim Clyburn’s takeaway from the 2024 presidential election?
A: Black people let Democrats (and Kamala Harris) down
Watch the back and forth: https://t.co/aa41icIKji
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Watch the full interview now on the @voxdotcom YouTube channel
https://t.co/8qixy7l4vb
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!!!! 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
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So @TheView did a segment today debating the appropriateness of my question to Gov. Pritzker about GLP-1s https://t.co/ge1golLTzn
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Against accounts of the same size
20 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views18 506this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %9.35%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.65%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 18 506 | 5 983 | 3.09× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 9.35% | 1.49% | 6.28× |
| Engagement rate | 0.65% | 0.93% | 0.70× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
94.3K2 Sep
51.2K
801
140.8K
1.8K
3.7K
1.3K
15.6K3 Sep
5.8K
374.3K19 Sep
50.6K20 Sep
16.4K21 Sep
6.7K
22.3K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.45%2 Sep
3.07%
4.62%
2.32%
0.84%
0.76%
0.95%
1.29%3 Sep
0.33%
0.74%19 Sep
1.64%20 Sep
0.27%21 Sep
0.47%
0.44%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes68.4%8 707 in total
Reposts10.3%1 306 in total
Replies10.9%1 386 in total
Quotes4.0%508 in total
Bookmarks6.4%817 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
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Daily snapshots since 19 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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