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EVENT 1: Race Issues

All tweets containing one of the following words were included:

‘federal holiday, voting rights, critical race, juneteenth, federal, national holiday, holiday, stacey abrams, independence day, joe manchin, #juneteenth, bill, rights, voting, joe biden, black people, opal lee, june 19th, #juneteenth2021, luther king’

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EVENT 2: Politically Motivated Scotus Cases

All tweets containing one of the following words were included:

‘supreme court, health, court, #aca, #scotus, aca survives, affordable, aca, individual mandate, decision, #healthcare, #obamacare, #uniteforhealthcare, medicaid expansion, obamacare’

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EVENT 3: COVID-19 and Vaccination Efforts

All tweets containing one of the following words were included:

‘delta, variant, 2nd shot, #covid19, mrna vaccines, vaccinated, #deltavariant, dr fauci, covid, covid19, public health, vaccines, white house, vaccine, vaccination’

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EVENT 4: 2021 Capitol Riot

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‘police, tucker carlson, andrew clyde, officer michael, shake hands, officer, jan 6th, jan, gop rep, paul gosar, national security, capitol riot, gop congressman, gold medal, capitol, law enforcement’

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EVENT 5: US-Russia Relations

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‘putin, signs bill, press conference’

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EVENT 6: Political Divisive SCOTUS Cases

All tweets containing one of the following words were included:

‘catholic, foster, couples, religious freedom, religious liberty, lgbtq rights, sexual orientation, reproductive rights, #lgbtq, adoption’

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