Greetings from Philadelphia! I’m here for Netroots Nation, where a couple of thousand of the finest people I know have gathered to discuss political organizing, effective digital campaigning and much more. I’m leading a training on...
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...
A noteworthy email from Amy Klobuchar’s campaign arrived late yesterday evening: Colin — We’e busy getting ready for the debate tomorrow and we want your help. We’re continuing to build our team to make sure everyone hears...
Responding to criticism that they’ve ceded the field to Trump in battleground states while potential presidential nominees fight it out, Democratic groups went to Politico’s Maggie Severn this weekend to argue that they aren’t...
Top Photo: Leading a Republican voter to water Between now and Election Day 2020, Democrats have a lot of persuading to do. It won’t be easy — and Donald Trump is already well ahead of us. First, the problem: outside of the suburbs...
Theresa Greenfield is running for Congress from Iowa. I know this because I get a daily report from my email spam filter and I’ve learned to check it. Greenfield’s campaign has sent me six messages over the past week, and not one of them...
When Epolitics.com launched in 2006, the site included an “Online Politics 101”, a collection of how-to articles I later gathered into an ebook and updated until 2011. As that guide evolved into the current “How to Use the Internet...
Epolitics.com contributor Dave Leichtman just wrote a piece for Campaigns & Elections highlighting new technologies that can help Democratic campaigns reach voters more effectively: relational organizing. As big data has become even bigger...