As mentioned in today’s NGP VAN webinar on effective and ethical list-building for politics and advocacy, here are a few resources from Epolitics.com and my monthly pieces in CampaignsandElections.com. Much more from epolitics.com in the weeks...
[Hi folks, apologies for the long radio silence! Basically, after 15 years of writing regularly, I burned out — I got to the point where it felt I’d run out of anything new to say. I’ve still been writing my monthly piece for...
Last fall, I was lucky enough to help out with a very cool voter-turnout program employing sophisticated targeting to help elect down-ballot Democrats in two battleground states. The tools? Digital videos created by The Hometown Project and tailored...
Update: The Daily 202 has details on ad volume and placement. Interesting tidbit via today’s Politico’s Playbook PM: Press secretary Jen Psaki said at the briefing today that the Biden administration’s efforts to discourage migration...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Chuck Westover is the founder of Next Level Digital, where he continues more than two decades of fighting for progressive policy solutions and electing Democrats at the local, state, and federal level. He joins us...
If you heard a distant roaring sound on Wednesday, it was probably the collective sigh of relief from every digital political consultant in the United States. Around mid-day, Facebook sent an email to political ad agencies announcing that it was...
Political advertisers will soon roam Google’s pastures once more! Starting Wednesday, political campaigns and political nonprofits can buy ads on Google search, YouTube and the company’s other platforms again. Will Facebook follow suit...
Photo: online, disinformation spreads like…. Continuing today’s disinformation theme (readers-via-email, be sure to check out Deepak Puri’s piece below), let’s talk about neo-nazis on social media: Over the years, these...
Nobody on the political left wants to share stories from Fox…but we should. The idea naturally rankles. Why should we boost a news outlet that consistently distorts our views and actively turns people against us? For one reason: sharing Fox...
So now we know what it takes for Facebook and Twitter to cut off Trump: an angry mob storming the United States Capitol. Before today, these companies had overlooked a lot. Consistent racism? Sad, but he’s a public figure. Lies and...