Great stat from the Democratic National Committee’s head of digital fundraising, Clarke Humphrey, at today’s CampaignTech Innovation Summit: 30% of the DNC’s digital income arrives via recurring donations. Thirty percent! So...
Congratulations to Andrew Yang! As of Monday, his campaign had raked in over $1 million in donations and at least 450,000 new email subscribers since he announced his Universal Basic Income giveaway (ten lucky winners will take home $1000 per month...
Hi folks, I went on Karen Jagoda’s Digital Politics Radio show a few days back, and in an action-packed sixteen-minute session, we talked about: Democratic debate/advertising strategies Financial dangers of fishing for donors in a small pond...
Earlier this week, the public radion show Marketplace dove into the business of processing political donations online. Reporter Kimberly Adams pointed to the success of ActBlue on the Left and examined the Republican attempt to create a uniform...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Isaac Shalev is president of Sage70, Inc., a boutique consultancy providing guidance on digital strategy to nonprofit and public advocacy organizations. Recent reports from industry news sites, corroborated by personal...
My Twitter feed sparkled today with tweets, retweets and comments about my latest column for Campaigns & Elections, which talked about a fundamental difference between the ways Democrats and Republicans have historically built their email lists...
In a move likely to please few people not on his payroll, wealthy Democratic activist Tom Steyer has joined the presidential campaign. Huzzah! And right after Eric Swallwell’s departure created a yawning gap in the Democratic lineup, with only...
The Supreme Court had a chance to apply some kind of judicial reason to the practice of drawing legislative and congressional district boundaries for partisan gain, but it punted. In a decision released today, the Court held that the federal...
The Republicans finally have an answer to ActBlue, the Democratic fundraising platform that’s super-charged grassroots online fundraising up and down the ballot on the Left. The new Republican toolset is called WinRed, and crucially, it will...
According to a newly arrived press release, Democratic congressmember and presidential candidate Eric Swallwell is now taking donations in bitcoin. The strategy seems to have more to do with an actual belief in blockchain technology than practical...