Follow Epolitics on Substack, Bluesky, Threads, or Twitter/X. This post was also published on Substack. Welcome, new readers and new paid subscribers! Thank you so much for being part of the Epolitics community. I’ve been running Epolitics as...
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...
New Epolitics.com contributor Paul Van Remortel is a Senior Product Manager with Intermarkets and StandUnited, a center-Right petition website. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of citizens to petition the government...
Remember that time we wondered why there wasn’t a Right-wing petition site, an equivalent of Care2 or Change.org but for causes dear to the conservative heart? Now there IS one: The digital media firm Intermarkets, Inc., today announced the...
We’ve already heard that the Obama campaign has invested heavily in online advertising, primarily aimed at recruiting new volunteers, donors and other supporters. The campaign is also following the lead of nonprofits across the country in...
It really started with an image: The all-male, clerical-heavy line-up was speaking before Rep. Darrell Issa’s House hearing on the Obama administration’s new policy requiring contraceptive coverage in new health insurance policies, with...
This just in via Space.com — according to the White House, the U.S. has had no contact with extraterrestrials. Good thing that’s cleared up! Yes, this is the result of the official “We The People” petition site, in which...
The world may be paying attention to Egypt’s unfolding revolution, but the Middle East isn’t the only place playing host to online-enabled political activism. This piece comes from Kayle Hatt, an up-and-coming Canadian political...
If Rep. Joe Barton’s apology to BP CEO Tony Hayward was “a political gift” to Democrats, as Rahm Emmanuel put it, the Dems are working to make sure that it’s a financial gift — and one that keeps on giving. After...
The online version of an irrestistible force versus an immovable object? Lefty internet activism powerhouse MoveOn.org is now taking on Facebook, specifically over the social networking site’s new features that expose even more personal...