Quick Hits returns! In this edition: 75 excellent stories related to digital politics and advocacy. The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President. “Scholars have a name for this: censorship through noise”. A multi...
With Bernie leading the polls and the Democratic delegate count, Bloomberg’s team seems ready to drop the leash on their opposition research team. On CNN earlier today (via PoliticalWire), a campaign advisor to the former New York mayor...
If you couldn’t join the Epolitics.com webinar with nonprofit attorney Jean Kordenbrock on February 5th, we have you covered. In the recording embedded below and posted to YouTube, Jean and I cover the basic rules of the engagement for...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the current Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns, using data from our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement...
We are back in business! The site ran into some technical problems over the holiday weekend, which is why those of you who subscribe via email received a weird extra message a couple of days ago. Bonus! All fixed now, and I’m in Atlanta for a...
There’s that wise owl again! DC folks, please join us Wednesday evening at the WeWork Wonderbread (Shaw Metro) for a discussion about what nonprofits can and should do in an election year. I’ll do a short Q&A with staff from Save...
Hey gang, sorry for the delay on these. I’m aiming to get back on track and have them out on Fridays or Saturdays from now on. Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the current Democratic and Republican...
Iowa, thank you for reminding us of a fundamental truth about political tech: test it before you need it. On edge since Election Day 2016, Democrats wanted the Iowa caucus to show us something, SOMETHING! definitive about how we will end the Trump...
Top photo: Obama field team in 2008 With Democrats deep in their presidential nominating process, Donald Trump can push his messages in battleground states with little answer from candidates focused on opponents from their own party. We’ve...
Earlier this week, The Daily Beast reported that the DNC plans to add the cellphone numbers of millions of Americans to the voter file: The Democratic National Committee is dropping “six figures†to acquire “tens of millions†of cellphone...