In This Edition: The End of Political Advocacy? Links to Chew On Overnight Follow me on Bluesky, Threads, or Twitter/X. Also published on the Epolitics Substack The End of Political Advocacy? If Donald Trump is allowed to rule as a king...
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...
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...
Once again, Robert Mueller’s probe of possible Trump campaign Russia connections has ensnared one of our digital politics compatriots. Last summer’s party of interest was Trump digital director Brad Parscale; according to Reuters, this...
The collapse of liberal consulting firm Fizgibbon Media last week stunned many in the progressive movement, but the reasons behind it didn’t surprise a tragically large number of women in the field. Founder Trevor Fitzgibbon — a Big Name...
Also published on The Huffington Post Tom DeLay was sentenced to three years in a Texas prison today, and I saw it coming almost 20 years ago. Sort of. Back in that distant, unwired summer of 1991, I was a wide-eyed recent college grad starting a...
Also published on The Huffington Post and techPresident Minor scuffle in the online communications world: BP has purchased Google Ads on search terms related to the Gulf oil spill (for example: “oil spill”), with its ads showing up at...
Ethics in political advocacy? That’s crazy talk! But the folks at GW’s Graduation School of Political Management are planning an event this week that proves that they aren’t afraid to take on an apparent oxymoron: A generation ago...
You know, all this “hope” talk lately has been getting to me. Maybe it’s my father’s roots in Louisiana, where the cash is in the freezer, or perhaps it’s my mom’s ties to Arkansas, where outsiders just...