This article first appeared on the Smart As A Fox blog. Over the last five years, I’ve noticed certain text-messaging mistakes organizations consistently make. It doesn’t matter if they’ve been running their mobile programs for...
According to a newly arrived press release, Democratic congressmember and presidential candidate Eric Swallwell is now taking donations in bitcoin. The strategy seems to have more to do with an actual belief in blockchain technology than practical...
This piece is an excerpt from Chapter Three of “How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections [2019 Edition]. Download your copy today, or pick up the ebook on Amazon.com. Before we dive into the details of online...
I’m speaking on a panel about digital video at a wind-energy conference in Houston this week, and I prepared this piece as a one-page handout to leave behind with the audience. We could say a lot more about about video promotion online, but...
Fifty-one good stories about digital politics and advocacy. Biden spends $1.4 million on digital ads in less than 2 weeks. Covers Google, Facebook and Twitter, and has a good comparison chart. C.f Billionaire digital ad wars, which includes Trump...
Peer-to-peer texting exploded as a voter-contact tool in 2018. Building on its success in 2016, campaigns and independent turnout operations employed it on a vast scale in the mid-term elections, abetted in part by the Democratic National...
The fireworks don’t lie: the 2019 edition of “How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections” is now live here on Epolitics.com and in the Kindle Store. The new version improves on last year’s top-to...
Beto’s in! And already begging for money (today’s email subject line: “We will be heavily outspent”). Of course, the man from El Paso raised close to $80 million in last year’s Texas Senate race, and we can expect that...
Sandi Fox is a past Epolitics.com contributor, a mobile-advocacy expert and the proprietor of Smart As A Fox, a consulting shop for progressive digital advocacy and politics. This post first appeared on the Smart As A Fox blog. Warning: Don’t...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Erik Milman is a veteran opposition researcher who has worked on over 200 races. Find him at Milman Research and Consulting. As Democrats, we have often seen how the Republican attack machine and our own lack of...