This piece from Deepak Puri, which first appeared on The Democracy Lab blog, hits home quite literally for me. As I’m working today, I’m sitting in my long-ago hometown of Palestine, Texas, where at the moment we have electricity but not...
Political campaigns and grassroots advocacy groups have come to love peer-to-peer texting over the past couple of years, since P2P phone apps allow staff and volunteers to send texts to dozens or hundreds of recipients in minutes. By requiring users...
Nobody on the political left wants to share stories from Fox…but we should. The idea naturally rankles. Why should we boost a news outlet that consistently distorts our views and actively turns people against us? For one reason: sharing Fox...
No internet, no Capitol riot: It’s that simple. Mainstream American political organizations assemble crowds, but rarely mobs. Advocacy groups don’t generally turn people against the institutions of government physically, and events like...
The following is an excerpt from the new 2021 edition of How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections”, available for download on Epolitics.com and in the Amazon store as a Kindle ebook. You can read Part One of this...
The Extraordinary Power of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Instagram Live, via Eric Wilson. House removes Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from committees over incendiary social media posts. But, Marjorie Taylor Greene “claimed she had raised...
Now that Twitter has banned its loudest voice, has the platform lost its status as a political tool? Not really, at least in the short run, I argue in my latest column for Campaigns & Elections. For one thing, DJT wasn’t the only one...
The following is an excerpt from the new 2021 edition of How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections”. Note that some of these trends are in flux even a couple of weeks after I wrote these words, particularly the...
The following is an excerpt from the introduction to the 2021 edition of “How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections”. If I could describe politics at the beginning of 2021 in one word, it would be...
Hi folks, I’m proud to announce the launch of the 2021 edition of “How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections”. This eighth edition includes lessons from the 2020 U.S. presidential and down-ballot...