On December 20th, Donald Trump finally lived up to his potential: full governmental chaos and confusion. Federal agencies will likely close because Coulter and Limbaugh called his border wall weak. His Secretary of Defense resigned over a foreign...
Plenty of people’s electoral hash will likely be settled on November 6th, and we may get answers to some big digital questions that day, too. In my October Campaigns & Elections column, I look at three big trends the elections should...
Down in New Orleans, a proposed natural gas-fired power plant is in serious trouble — in part because the energy company behind it got caught creating a fake grassroots campaign. To counter local organizing against its project, Entergy hired a...
Epolitics.com contributor Sangeeth Peruri is the CEO and founder of VoterCircle, a platform that helps campaigns leverage friend-to-friend connections for voter outreach. This post first appeared on VoterCircle’s blog. Now that I have had a...
Hey gang! Looking to ask more of your supporters than signing petitions and pestering Congress via email? Blackbaud’s Jeanette Russell and I have you covered: earlier this year, she and I had the pleasure of putting together the first...
Epolitics.com contributor Deepak Puri has held executive positions at Oracle, Netscape and VMware, and is the founder of SkilledAnalysts.com, an IoT consulting firm, and co-founder of Democracy Labs, a non-profit hub in San Francisco that connects...
New Epolitics.com contributor! But not someone new to the field: I first met Eric Loeb in the early days of internet politics, probably at the 1997 Politics Online Conference. Even before that, on Eric’s first trip to DC, he tried to contact...
Congressional town hall meetings under siege about healthcare? It could be 2009, but it’s not — and the Congressmembers in question are Republicans, not Democrats. Like their Left-leaning colleauges eight years ago, some Republicans are...
New Epolitics.com contributor Dr. Jeff Swift is the author of “Digital Community Organizing: Why Political Power Must be Shared, Not Stored”, which outlines practical strategies for using digital media to build powerful networks. The...
A year ago, we covered the debut of the Clinton campaign’s Twitter posse. Now that we’re in debate season, we get to watch her rally the troops. Pre-debate, her team sends out preparatory messages, like this one that arrived today...