This article originally appeared on September 20th of last year but is even more relevant following today’s announcement that the U.S. Supreme Court has opened the doors to direct political contributions by corporations and labor unions. The...
More articles have popped up on the internet’s role in the Brown/Coakley race, besides the Henri’s and mine posted here on Epolitics.com and the earlier link round-up: Update: How Republicans won the Internet Update: G.O.P. Used Energy...
Hi folks, e.politics has temporarily relocated to Salt Lake City, camping out in a swankalicious hotel with a great view of the mountains (a nice change from sleeping on a park bench, believe you me). The goal, besides experiencing how The Other...
[Update: see Henri Makembe’s defense of Coakley’s new media team for a wrap-up of post-mortem articles on the race.] More articles on the role of online organizing in Scott Brown’s potential Massachusetts victory: Massachusetts...
Republican Scott Brown didn’t have much when he started running for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, but he did have himself and the internet: The fundamental dynamic of the race fell in place months ago, when Brown set off in a pickup truck...
Have a cell phone and want to help Haiti? It’s easy — just Text HAITI to the short-code 90999 and $10 will go to Red Cross and be billed to your account. Within 30 hours of launching the campaign, the Red Cross had already raised over $3...
Be sure to check out Kate Harding’s recent Salon.com take on S.E. Cupp, a rising star in the right-wing punditosphere — and a non-blonde atheist, which makes her a bit of an outlier and a more interesting character than most of the...
Looking for something substantive to read over the three-day weekend? Check out Ari Melber’s new analysis of Organizing For America, the successor to the Obama campaign’s grassroots list, published over at tPrez and produced in...
Earlier in the week, we saw how Charles Lenchner is using the document hosting/distribution site Posterus to help track MoveOn.org emails, and already we get to check out another cool advocacy-related way to put the site to use, in this case by Josh...
Step back, this is gonna be a big one — with some amazing articles. Haiti Quake LiveBlog: LiveStream key news source; World Vision grabs Google Ad; PicFog live images. C.f. Red Cross Utilizes Text Messaging for Aid After Haiti Quake, Red...