This piece from Deepak Puri, which first appeared on The Democracy Lab blog, hits home quite literally for me. As I’m working today, I’m sitting in my long-ago hometown of Palestine, Texas, where at the moment we have electricity but not...
After Joe Biden nailed down the Democratic presidential nomination almost a year ago, many worried that Donald Trump’s online disinformation machine would make short work of him. As the election season built toward the fall and Trump’s...
Coronavirus may have most of us sheltering in place, but advocacy hasn’t stopped. For one thing, I’m hearing that Congressional staff are still on duty, just mainly stationed at home for a while. With that in mind, let’s check out...
Top photo: a good mask will scare the coronavirus away, or so I hear As America shuts down public events, limits handshakes and learns to practice “social distancing”, how can political campaigns and advocacy organizations adapt to the...
Check out Bethany Snyder’s latest article for us below, which first appeared on the Snyder Strategies blog. For more about nonprofits in an election year, see the recording of the webinar Jean Kordenbrock and I presented in February, which...
Over the weekend, Politico’s David Siders examined the coronavirus as a wild card for political campaigns. Let’s focus on one possible effect: will the virus drive candidates out of the real world and onto the internet? Most political...
“The Russian influence campaigns often pour gasoline on a fire that is already burning,†said Simon Rosenberg, who worked to counter disinformation for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “It is far more efficient and effective to...
Top photo via Wikipedia The Parkland students continue to amaze — just today, I read about how David Hogg launched an advertiser boycott against conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham in the few HOURS after she mocked his rejection from...
What should advocates and activists keep in mind as they try to change the world in 2018? Plenty, as Jeanette Russell and I discussed on a recent episode of Blackbaud’s Raise + Engage podcast. Among many sexy topics, we covered: Preparing for...
Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address takes place tomorrow, and with it comes a yearly tradition in the political advocacy world: SOTU rapid response. As I wrote a couple of years ago, For political communicators, this is a special...