#30
📈 Top 50
Rising voice in US Congress
JA

James A. Himes

US Congress Twitter/X
#30
Instagram Rank
78,284
Benchmarker Score
12
Posts
69,890
Likes
4,197
Comments
5,824
Avg Likes
350
Avg Comments
74,087
Total Engagement
6,174
Engagement Rate
7.4
Posts/Week
Every few days
Posting Regularity
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99,675 followers

Data last refreshed: April 15, 2026

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12 posts

Democrats have been clear from the get-go: we just want ICE to act like proper police officers. It’s the Republicans who are prolonging this shutdown and forcing you to wait in hours-long security ...

Video Mar 29, 2026 View on Instagram
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I asked the Director of National Intelligence a straightforward question: whether there was any intelligence to support the President’s claims about the 2020 election, or to justify her presence in...

Video Mar 20, 2026 View on Instagram
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The FBI Director has no idea how many ongoing investigations his department has into foreigners voting in US elections despite Trump consistently claiming it’s a HUGE issue. He doesn’t know because...

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Got to grill Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel today on Iran and election interference — here’s what I found out and here are the questions that still need to be answered.

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Right now, as we watch the dignified transfer of lost American patriots at Dover, as we watch gasoline approach five dollars a gallon, as we watch our allies mocking us on the world stage, we need ...

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Not one agency in the Intelligence Community has produced a report claiming Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States. Today I questioned Directors Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, and John Ratc...

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Why did we and are we risking our blood and treasure on a deeply risky venture, one that the President of the United States and the Director of National Intelligence have spent years telling us is ...

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The Trump Administration fired its counterterrorism experts because they were assigned years ago to investigate his misuse of classified information. That should concern Americans at any time, but ...

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Trump keeps claiming we’re winning in Iran, but we have yet to hear the answers to the most important questions in any war: how does this end, and will it do anything to make Americans safer?

Video Mar 15, 2026 View on Instagram
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We were thrilled to welcome Congressman Jim Himes to the Food Pantry and Gillespie Center at Homes with Hope. During his visit, he got a tour of our shelter and newly upgraded Food Pantry program, ...

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The most serious decision a president can take is to send our military into war. We have now lost seven Americans to Trump’s war with Iran and, to date, there’s been no indication he is taking this...

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A few thoughts on how Trump might try to end his catastrophic war with Iran.

Video Mar 06, 2026 View on Instagram
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Top Quartile Benchmarks

Based on top 124 of 494 in US Congress

Posts
56
James: 39 ↓
Likes
61,770
James: 77,584 ↑
Comments
6,462
James: 4,878 ↓
Avg Likes
746.4
James: 1,989.3 ↑
Avg Comments
97.4
James: 125.1 ↑
Benchmarker Score
74,694
James: 87,340 ↑
Posts/Week
13.5
James: 7.4 ↓
Avg Post Length
226 chars
James: 196 ↓
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