As Americans struggle with a pandemic that’s put millions out of work and killed more than 100,000 of us so far, President Donald Trump has chosen to launch a war against a social-media company. Of course, we already know who’ll lose, and it is us. Trump and Twitter’s fates have...
Read More »Democratic digital staff just conducted an intervention aimed at the Biden campaign, filtered through the words of Politico’s Alex Thompson. In a piece published on Tuesday, Thompson quotes a half-dozen experienced digital campaign staffers with a single message for the presumptive...
Read More »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 Era. Instead, we get results delayed by a...
Read More »“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.” – Erich Fromm Danger? Or opportunity…. With that in mind, I offer you my look at the next ten years of digital politics and advocacy, now live on the Campaigns...
Read More »If it’s midnight in Moscow, what time is it in Kentucky? Via PoliticalWire, the Democratic PAC American Bridge has launched an extension for the Chrome web browser that will automatically replace the words “Mitch McConnell” in any webpage with “Moscow Mitch”. Yes...
Read More »Strategic bombing, by a rebel group, via drone: welcome to the 21st century. Just today, we learned that Yemeni Houthi rebels planned and launched what was obviously a carefully targeted attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. The explosions and resulting fires at refinery or transport hubs have...
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