Photo: You don’t have to be an anime demon to build political tech, but it helps. I got my start in digital politics when cell phones were exotic. When downloading a good-sized jpeg took minutes. When email, websites and a handful of back...
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...
Howdy folks, I’m in the middle of a two-part series looking at the past and future of digital politics and advocacy, running on Campaigns & Elections. The first section, published earlier this week, examines the past ten years — an...
Trump and the Republican party have used the impeachment process as a fundraising hook since Nancy Pelosi launched the inquiry back in September, but they’re not the only ones profiting from his supporters in this political moment. Maggie...
My Twitter feed sparkled today with tweets, retweets and comments about my latest column for Campaigns & Elections, which talked about a fundamental difference between the ways Democrats and Republicans have historically built their email lists...
Brexit! In our latest sign of populist political dissatisfaction, the British chose last night to leave the European Union. Voters in declining industrial cities left behind by the global economy provided the decisive margin, which ought to give...
Epolitics.com is likely to be quiet over the July 4th holiday, so I wanted to leave you with something to ponder for the long weekend. This piece first appeared on the site on July 5th, 2009, as the Iranian government was crushing a people’s...
In June of 2007, the political world was just waking up to the idea that individual citizens were going to shake up how political communications was done. As the the race to succeed George W. Bush rolled into its first summer, the Macaca moment was...
In private meetings last week, Hillary Clinton pledged in New Hampshire to work with state parties in “early states” to help them rebuild. At first appearance, this would seem to be an amazing boon. The trope goes that Obama for America...
Michelle Coyle Edwards is Vice President of Rising Tide Interactive (RTI). Read her previous work on Epolitics.com. When Hillary Clinton made her much–anticipated announcement that she’d be running for president, the inevitability of the act led...