Joe Biden and Donald Trump both send a lot of emails.
But how many they send, and the content of their email programs, is vastly different.
I reviewed 20 emails from each of the two campaigns (they were the most recent 20 emails from a random moment in time – Friday, May 17th at 10:45am central). Read more
Read more“We have to rethink communications in the progressive movement. It is less about a candidate or a campaign or a spokesperson for a campaign delivering a message to the traditional media who then deliver that message to voters, and more thinking about our audience and our supporters and our volunteers as messengers themselves who have the ability to amplify those messages.”
“They ultimately A/B tested their way into some pretty unfortunate tactics.”
If you have an email address, or a phone number, you’ve likely received spam from some democratic group threatening that if you don’t donate immediately, you hate democracy. Or maybe they’re promising a 10,000 percent match, but only if you donate in the next 30 seconds. Read more
“People are desperate to turn digital into television and at the same time, they are desperate to have social be the thing that saves them from the small-dollar apocalypse.”
Andy Barr is Managing Director at Uplift, an agency that provides creative, ad buying, data and software to Democratic campaigns, firms and organizations throughout the country. Read more
“We deployed a competitive search strategy to disrupt pathways to misinformation and lead people to our fact-based narratives instead.”
Britt Bischoff is a reformed corporate digital strategist, analyst, click baiter, and algorithm chaser.
Over her career, she’s led digital strategy and data-informed campaigns for national brands, social causes, and progressive campaigns as a proponent for change in the digital space for the progressive world. Read more
Eric Hovde has run for the US Senate in Wisconsin before. So you’d think he’d be better prepared this time around.
But in fairness to him, he hasn’t spent a whole lot of time in Wisconsin over the last decade or so. Read more
Congressman Mark Pocan represents Wisconsin’s second district.
He’s a small business owner, a labor union member and a surprisingly good magician!
Along with serving on the Appropriations Committee, he’s served as co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and serves as chair of the Equality Caucus and co-chair of the Labor Caucus. Read more
“Where the memes are and where the conversation is, is constantly evolving.”
Nancy Leeds is a veteran political operative with over 18 years of experience in the field. She has worked on Democratic campaigns all over, from Minnesota to California to Arkansas, as well as with several politically oriented non-profits. Read more
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There’s an old joke: two campers are in the woods. One is hanging by the fire, the second comes running into the area, yelling about a bear while hurriedly putting on his shoes. The first camper says, “Do you really think you can outrun the bear?” Read more
Deepak Puri is an engineer and Silicon Valley exec with over 15 years experience at Oracle, Netscape and VMware.
He co-founded Democracy Labs after the 2106 Presidential election with the mission to apply innovative technology and storytelling to progressive, social justice and voting rights causes. Read more