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As conservatives hustle to confirm a Supreme Court justice during the election, their anti-democratic rhetoric has become increasingly strained. Fundamentally, conservatives are arguing against majority governance and for minority rule, but few are...

Email is one of the most important tools we have for communicating with supporters. But it often gets a bad rap because donors and volunteers get frustrated with unsolicited messages and gimmicky, high pressure tactics. The good news is that there are...

Pundits, advocates and think tankers spend a lot of time arguing that a majority of Americans are on their side. And conservatives often inflate the popularity of their positions by claiming to represent “half” of all Americans. That's far from the...

Process arguments are important in a democracy. They're about who gets to make decisions, how they make them, and on what timeline. But process arguments can be weaponized to undermine functioning government and distract from the actual issues we care...

Ed Markey’s primary campaign in Massachusetts broke new ground for digital organizing, especially during a pandemic. Markey's long-standing ties to the youth climate movement—and his innovative campaign structure—meant organizers could work hand-in-hand...

When we talk about “narrative” in political communication we often use the term very broadly. But it has a specific meaning: how campaigns use storytelling to advance an agenda and galvanize more attention in their preferred frame. There are a lot of...

Media coverage of protests—from marches to uprisings to street conflict—is incredibly contentious. Protesters themselves attempt to get attention for their demands while advocacy groups, media outlets and policymakers try to both shape and gauge their...

As social media has played a larger role in driving mainstream campaign coverage, operatives have tried to weaponize online comments to attack rival campaigns, especially in primaries. Rep. Joe Kennedy’s campaign recently tried to do that to Sen. Ed...

Party conventions repeatedly remind viewers to vote, but rhetoric around elections often invokes voting to the exclusion of other forms of political action. A more progressive view of democracy recognizes the limits of voting, from disenfranchisement to...

With COVID-19, everyone’s going digital. But online organizers have been building communities and driving effective political action for years. Jay Carmona is the founder of Sematonic Strategies and they have deep experience building, sustaining and...