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State of the Blog: Res Ipsa at 95,000,000 Views

crowd vj dayWe often use the end of the year to do a quick review of the state of the blog. Created in 2007, we are approaching our 20th anniversary. It is hard to imagine. We are celebrating the New Year after reaching our 95,000,000 view mark. Our community continues to grow rapidly around the world. 

As always, I want to offer special thanks to Darren Smith, who has continued to help manage the blog.  I also want to thank our dedicated editors, Kristin Oren and Hartwell Harrison, who continue their amazing work proofing posts on a daily basis to remove my embarrassing typos.  Finally, I would like to thank our regular readers for their continued support and contributions.

The growth on Twitter this year has been astonishing. We are now over a million followers on X (formerly known as Twitter). I also started a Facebook site this year called JonathanTurleyUSA. Thousands of new people have signed up for emails, and we have almost 22,000 WordPress subscribers.

This week, we passed 22,675 posts and roughly 1,530,000 comments.

So here are the annual figures. Over the last year, our ten biggest international sources for readers came from:

  1. United States
    2. Canada
    3. Australia
    4. United Kingdom
    5. Germany
    6. China
    7. Netherlands
    8. New Zealand
    9. Japan
    10. France

The top five posts in terms of traffic in the last year were:

    1. The Reveal: The Public is Finally Learning How Democrats Pulled Off the Greatest Political Trick in History
    2. “Your Credibility with Me is about None”: CNN Trial Goes From Bad to Worse
    3. Down But Not Out: The Supreme Court Rules 5-4 Against the Freezing $2 Billion in USAID Funds
    4. The Chilling Jurisprudence of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
    5. The Educational Cartel: How Randi Weingarten Finally Said the Quiet Part Out Loud

We are now routinely ranked among the top legal blogs in the world. We have also attracted our share of accolades, including the ABA Journal for its blog Hall of Fame. That is due in large part to our regulars, who add perspectives and passion to the issues that we discuss.

In these trying times, it is nice to have a place (even a virtual one) where you can go to discuss issues from the momentous to the merely odd. I hope you continue to find this site worthy of your time and contributions.

So, here’s hoping for a great year to come for our country, our families, and, yes, our blog in 2026.

92 thoughts on “State of the Blog: Res Ipsa at 95,000,000 Views”

  1. Hello Professor T & belated congratulations 🙏 I went searching for a blog post where you addressed the Don Lemon case, but I’m only finding that on YouTube. So I hope you don’t mind me hijacking this thread to share a point of view with you:
    The government should be accusing Lemon of being the PUBLIC RELATIONS representative of the conspiracy. Courts have historically been very lenient regarding the behavior of journalists reporting AFTER a crime has been committed. However, based on his statement in one video–saying that he couldn’t reveal the pending location–and the other video that made it clear he knew exactly what they planned to do in “disrupting” the church service, The government can point out that he had foreknowledge of a crime about to be committed and did nothing to stop it, and instead, did his utmost to promote it for sensational political value AND the monetary gain his business enterprise would realize from the revenue of his streaming videos.

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  2. Prof. Turley, everyday I wake up, make my coffee and read your blog, I find it insightful, balanced and very interesting. Happy New Year, best wishes for 2026!

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  5. I believe the viewer and comment numbers are a lie. They have not been audited. Turley is a fraud.

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