New Epolitics.com contributor! Erik Milman is a veteran opposition researcher who has worked on over 200 races. Find him at Milman Research and Consulting. As Democrats, we have often seen how the Republican attack machine and our own lack of...
Voters usually think about ethics in moral terms: is this candidate or official a good person or not? Are they going to look after people like me or someone who’s given them money? Can I trust them to make good decisions? Ask a voter, and she...
Also published on Medium.com as Digital Beachheads: How to Use Facebook to Build Progressive Support in Trump Country You don’t always get to pick your battlefields when you want to change a country. For progressives, many of our policy and...
Tonight’s nonprofit tech trends discussion is going to rock, and I hope you can make it in person. Either way, take a look at the articles below, which go into depth around several points I hope to bring up during the conversation. What do YOU...
Hi folks, apologies for the sparse posting — several articles are in the oven right now, but they haven’t yet found the right moment to spring into the world. If you’re in DC next week, though, catch me in person at a Netsquared DC...
The digital side of Senator Kamala Harris’s campaign launch got good reviews this week, as Sam Stein and Gideon Resnick note at The Daily Beast: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) announced on Tuesday that her presidential campaign exploratory...
Via Politico, Republicans will finally build a central digital fundraising hub, something the Democrats have benefited from for fourteen years in the form of ActBlue: Following weeks of closed-door discussions, Republicans have agreed to create a...
Recognizing talent when they see it, House Democrats recently held a Twitter training featuring a star freshman member, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her day-to-day tweets show what the medium can do in the hands of someone who mastered it in her...
Another thought inspired by Priorities USA’s decision to put a digital expert in charge of ALL paid media: when organizations choose managers from the digital campaigning world, they’re more likely to be looking at women and people of...
Big news from one of the big spenders on the Independent Expenditure side of Democratic campaigning: Priorities USA Action, the top Democratic super PAC targeting President Donald Trump in 2020, is promoting its head of digital operations to a new...