“Don’t join my cool kids club if you’re not coming to vote. This club votes.” Erika Harrison built Black Girls Who Brunch as a food blog. Over ten years, it became a platform where she talks about politics, policy, and culture with an ever-growing audience. She recently started using a tool called Sway to […]
“Every day that we are not adopting this stuff, the other side is moving faster. And I think ultimately that’s going to translate into votes.” — Jack Welty This is the first election cycle where what ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok say about candidates could actually shape how voters decide. And as Jack Welty sees […]
“It doesn’t matter if Democratic senators or members of Congress put out TikTok videos or bring influencers for special hearings. Ultimately, if it’s not in their bones that they want to fight with everything they have, the people will see right through it.” Murshed Zaheed has more than 30 years of experience as a leader, […]
On any given week, I can create, edit, manage and/or directly post north of a hundred pieces of content to social media. These posts get shared on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google My Business… all that fun stuff!Some of the posts are for my own channels – many are for my clients. I’ve experimented with a lot of third party scheduling tools. And I mean a lot!But for the cost and the power, I’ve yet to find one that comes even close to Publer.io.In this […]
Last October, my agency quietly turned 10. I say quietly because there’s no exact founding date to point to. The way I typically tell it, my first speaking gig was Day 1 — a decade ago, when I was just looking for something to do between political cycles. I had no roadmap, no client list, […]
Joshua Canter is vice president of digital advocacy at McGuire Woods Consulting, where he uses digital tools to influence legislation and shape public policy. His work spans multi-million dollar ad campaigns, interactive platforms, organic content, and full-scale omnichannel strategies — all focused on driving real-world impact. His work has been featured in the New York […]
“You’re basically seeing your psyche projected back at you when you open any of these social apps these days.” Ryan Davis is a longtime progressive digital strategist. He got his start as an internet organizer on Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign, worked on Barack Obama’s groundbreaking 2008 campaign, and later founded Blue State Digital’s social […]
Lucy Ritzmann is a progressive digital strategist and a founding member of Courier’s national newsroom. She’s a former co‑author of FWIW, their must-read weekly email for us political digital nerds. I first met her collaborating on The FYP — a weekly Courier email covering political TikTok, specifically focused on how the two presidential campaigns were […]
“One media company is now carrying ICE’s public image almost entirely on its shoulders…” After analyzing 12 billion views across 90,019 videos posted in December and January, Drew Eldredge‑Martin of Ground Truth AI found that Fox News accounts for 70% of ALL views on YouTube tied to positive narratives about ICE — without Fox, the pro‑ICE […]
