Alaska Senate is one of the fastest-rising stories on Reddit right now. Over roughly 32 hours, 5 threads about it surfaced across 2 subreddits, most of the conversation happening in r/politics and r/news. Combined, those threads hold roughly 749 upvotes and 377 comments so far.
What the sources report
Here is how the outlets linked in these threads describe what happened, word for word.
- CNN: Alaska Senate candidate given subpoena by FBI days before election | CNN Politics
Gerald Heikes, a longshot candidate, was issued a subpoena as part of a DOJ probe into whether Democrats boosted spoiler candidates.
The numbers in the headlines
- $1.4 billion: cited by a post in r/politics
Where Reddit is talking about it
| Community | Threads | Upvotes | Comments | First thread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| r/politics | 4 | 749 | 377 | Nov 6, 15:08 UTC |
| r/news | 1 | 0 | 0 | Nov 7, 02:45 UTC |
The biggest threads
- Elizabeth Warren’s Power in New Senate Is a Wall Street Nightmarer/politics · 297 upvotes · 65 comments · Nov 6, 15:08 UTC · wsj.com
- Why it’s still too early to call the US Senate race in Mississippir/politics · 255 upvotes · 83 comments · Nov 7, 01:33 UTC · AP News
- Trump declares Alaska Senate race ‘OVER’ and claims Republican wonr/politics · 1 upvotes · 198 comments · Nov 7, 23:30 UTC · nypost.com
- 'Dead on Arrival': Elizabeth Warren To Chair Senate Banking Committee, Targeting Trump's $1.4B Cryptor/politics · 196 upvotes · 31 comments · Nov 7, 12:48 UTC · ibtimes.co.uk
- FBI agents served an Alaska Senate candidate with a subpoena just days before election dayr/news · 0 upvotes · 0 comments · Nov 7, 02:45 UTC · CNN
Timeline on Reddit
- First thread we found, in r/politics: “Elizabeth Warren’s Power in New Senate Is a Wall Street Nightmare”
- The biggest thread so far is posted in r/politics (297 upvotes, 65 comments by our last count).
- First link to AP News shared, in r/politics.
- The story reaches r/news: “FBI agents served an Alaska Senate candidate with a subpoena just days before election day”
- Latest thread in our sample, in r/politics.
How this page is made
SubMouse watches dozens of large, safe-for-work subreddits and Google's trending searches. When several communities start talking about the same event at the same time, we group those threads into one story and publish this page, then refresh it while the story keeps rising. The counts are ours; everything said about the event itself is quoted and credited to the post or outlet it comes from. Claims in Reddit posts are unverified unless an outlet confirms them. Upvote and comment counts come from Reddit's public data via the Arctic Shift archive and can lag. Spotted a mistake? Tell us. Not affiliated with Reddit.