Follow Epolitics on Substack, Bluesky, Threads, or Twitter/X. This post was also published on Substack. Welcome, new readers! If you haven’t had a chance yet, be sure to check out: My six-part 2025 digital politics spring training series, now...
Keep scrolling past the links to watch last week’s training, “Creating a Practical Digital Advocacy Strategy in a Tough Environment”. And believe me, if you are a fan of constitutional democracy, we are in a tough environment. Also...
Download PDF This article is adapted from Chapter 17 of the 2023 edition of the ebook “How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections”. Other chapters cover particular technologies and campaign tasks in detail...
Hi folks, the first thing I’ll be watching in the midterm elections is how well the mass of digital ads I’m about to launch will perform. Michigan, Ohio and Illinois voters, get ready. But this year’s elections should help answer...
Brad Caldana and long-time friend-of-Epolitics Beth Becker are hosting what promises to be a great online training starting in March. The topic? Building a social-media ambassador program. The idea? With organic Facebook reach a fading memory for...
This piece from Deepak Puri, which first appeared on The Democracy Lab blog, hits home quite literally for me. As I’m working today, I’m sitting in my long-ago hometown of Palestine, Texas, where at the moment we have electricity but not...
Political campaigns and grassroots advocacy groups have come to love peer-to-peer texting over the past couple of years, since P2P phone apps allow staff and volunteers to send texts to dozens or hundreds of recipients in minutes. By requiring users...
No internet, no Capitol riot: It’s that simple. Mainstream American political organizations assemble crowds, but rarely mobs. Advocacy groups don’t generally turn people against the institutions of government physically, and events like...
Author Deepak Puri is the co-founder and CEO of Democracy Labs. This article first appeared on the DemLabs blog. Online petitions help build public support for a cause. But… How does a small grassroots group, with just a few volunteers collect...
Top photo: a good mask will scare the coronavirus away, or so I hear As America shuts down public events, limits handshakes and learns to practice “social distancing”, how can political campaigns and advocacy organizations adapt to the...