Sixty-five Sixty-six excellent stories related to digital politics and advocacy. For more thoughts about long-term trends, check out The Shape of Politics in the 2020s: Fourteen Stories. Trump went ‘ballistic’ after being tossed off...
So now we know what it takes for Facebook and Twitter to cut off Trump: an angry mob storming the United States Capitol. Before today, these companies had overlooked a lot. Consistent racism? Sad, but he’s a public figure. Lies and...
Yesterday I suggested that the Georgia senate runoff races have likely siphoned away donations that otherwise might have landed in nonprofit coffers in the last weeks of 2020. But while Ossoff and Warnock may compete with nonprofits for...
After Joe Biden nailed down the Democratic presidential nomination almost a year ago, many worried that Donald Trump’s online disinformation machine would make short work of him. As the election season built toward the fall and Trump’s...
This year I got to do serious political campaign work for the first time. Yes, I’ve been deep in the world of digital political advocacy for more than two decades, and I’ve helped out on small campaigns in the past, but this election...
Axios reports today Google will finally lift its post-election U.S. political ad ban starting tomorrow, December 10th. Political organizers working on January’s Georgia Senate special will now be able to run ads on Google search, YouTube...
Hi folks, apologies for the sparse posting other than the top ten lists lately. This year I’m doing a ton of election-related work helping to elect Democrats, and it’s taken up most of my brain the last few weeks. Also, my apartment got...
Check out the last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the Trump and Biden campaigns, using data from our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their...
Billionaire and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this weekend that he’ll invest at least $100,000,000 in the state of Florida to help elect his one-time presidential rival, Joe Biden, beat Donald Trump. Say that again: one...
Check out the last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the Trump and Biden campaigns, using data from our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their...