Late in Christine Blasey Ford’s Senate testimony today, the Republican surrogate questioner asked questions getting at whether anyone was funding her effort to tell her story about Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assault, particularly if...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their pages...
Vote.org sent a fundraising email yesterday with an unexpected ask: they want me to give them money to pay for billboards encouraging people to vote. What? Aren’t we all digital and stuff these days? The actual ask is quite specific. The...
Are “viral” fundraising videos replacing TV ads? The New York Times evidently thinks so. Will they dethrone email as the king of digital political fundraising? The short answer: no time soon. But, the fact that Democratic candidates have...
Democrats dropping $21 million on Senate digital ads largely targeting health care. C.f. Democrats unveil all-digital ad play for November. Dems ramp up digital advertising effort for midterms. Trump’s doing the same for 2020. But, Despite An...
This piece is adapted from Chapter Five of the 2018 edition of “How to Use the Internet to Change the World — and Win Elections. See also an earlier excerpt, “Ten Big Trends in Digital Politics & Advocacy”. For more on...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their...
Back from vacation! Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than...
Step back; this one’s going to be big. Two senators say their identities were stolen in fake net neutrality comments to the FCC, and a Former Lawmaker Says His Emails Were Hacked In 2016. Meanwhile, Campaigns are on their own as cyber threats...
If you’ve wondered whether or not to take campaign cybersecurity and digital trickery seriously, this week should dispel your doubts. Just in the past few days, we’ve found out that: Russian hackers targeted Senate staff and conservative...