📌 This is a living document. It is the home for an ongoing read of the
~4,000-message MAHA transition policy inbox — a place to return to the analysis and to record new
insights as they surface. The figures below are generated directly from the searchable email index;
the interpretation grows over time. Last updated: 2026-05-31 (v1).
The inbox at a glance
1,048
unique correspondents
2,332
direct from individuals
1,710
via policy@ intake (42%)
Nov '24 – Apr '26
date span
A genuinely citizen-heavy corpus: more than half of all
messages (2,332) came directly from individuals rather than the central intake address — the
practical basis for weighting citizen voices roughly evenly with credentialed experts.
Volume over time — the transition window
Nov 2024mid 2025Apr 2026
The inbox is a snapshot of the post-election transition:
a sharp peak of ~900–990 messages/month from Dec 2024 through Feb 2025, then a
long taper through 2025 and only sporadic traffic since. The bulk of the policy input arrived in
that three-month window.
What people wrote about — thematic prevalence
Messages mentioning each theme (full-text, including
attachment text). Themes overlap — one email can touch several.
RFK / Kennedy / MAHA framing
3527
Federal agencies (FDA/CDC/NIH/HHS)
2657
Food, diet & additives
1352
Integrative & functional medicine
886
Vaccines & vaccine safety
844
Big Pharma / industry capture
514
Mental health / psych meds
399
Supplements & nutraceuticals
330
Childhood vaccine schedule
274
Medical freedom / informed consent
258
Pesticides / glyphosate
153
Repurposed drugs (ivermectin etc.)
140
Working observations
Early reads from the data — to be tested, refined, and added to over time.
- It's overwhelmingly a transition-era document. ~70% of all mail landed in
the Dec 2024–Feb 2025 window — the height of the policy-input moment after the election.
- The center of gravity is food and the agencies, not vaccines. Beyond the
near-universal MAHA/Kennedy framing, food, diet & additives (1,352) is the single
largest substantive theme — larger than vaccines (844) or COVID (668).
- It is a citizen corpus first. 2,332 messages came directly from 1,048
individuals — grassroots input, not just institutional submissions.
- HSA / financing is under-represented (21). The integrative-coverage and
HSA-eligibility work is a policy output direction, not something the inbox itself
was loudly asking for — worth noting for prioritization.
Next reads & open threads
The queue for deeper analysis — this section grows as the work continues.
- Citizen vs. credentialed split — characterize the ~50/50 weighting with real counts.
- Attachment deep-dive — what's in the 835 attachments (studies, testimony, proposals)?
- Sentiment & specificity — distinguish policy proposals from general support/comment.
- Map themes to the 163-item tracker — coverage gaps and over-represented asks.
- Notable single submissions worth surfacing individually.
Method & provenance
Figures are computed from a local full-text index (SQLite FTS5) of the inbox — subjects, bodies,
recipients, attachment filenames, and text extracted from attachments (PDF/Word/PowerPoint,
including OCR of scanned documents and images). Theme counts use stemmed keyword matching and
represent message-level term presence; they are indicative, not exact classifications, and
themes overlap. For privacy, this public summary reports only aggregate figures — no individual
names or email addresses are published.