Provocative title, eh? Here’s what I’m getting at: in a Citizens United world, one in which individual wealthy people can poor billions of dollars into our political process at will, digital campaigners (particularly on the Left) feel...
My email inbox was buzzing this morning with reaction to turmoil at the New Organizing Institute, a major provider of digital, field and data training for staff of Democratic campaigns and liberal advocacy groups. As Buzzfeed’s Evan McMorris...
Hi folks, I had the pleasure of going on Karen Jagoda’s Digital Politics Radio show this week, and as always we had a terrific conversation. This time we talked about several things that have been recent obsessions on Epolitics.com, including...
Earlier this week, National Journal’s Scott Bland picked up on a story that relates to several recent trends we’ve been following on Epolitics.com, most notably the shortage of experienced digital staff for 2016. Bland examines the...
Beth Becker’s latest “Political Social Grab Bag” e-newsletter is out, and you should check out the whole February issue archived right here, an Epolitics.com online exclusive. The Grab Bag is monthly for now, and it’s a hit...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: peanut butter plus communicable diseases? Yum. A special note to our readers...
Koch Brothers Will Spend $889 Million on 2016, as Clinton plans to astound, intimidate with fundraising ‘like nothing you’ve seen’. Not surprsingly, A Massive Wave of Secret Money Is Coming. Supporters say Clinton developing...
As Colin noted last week, one of the biggest topics of discussion at December’s Rootscamp was how to move the state of the art forward with respect to Digital Organizing. In the Democratic political space, we suffer what can only be described...
Remember that we talked last week about the Koch brothers creation of an alternate political campaign structure independent of the Republican Party? Now i360, the data arm of that operation, is pulling staff from RNC itself: Chuck DeFeo, the RNC...
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...