If you want to understand what happened with Shadow and the failure of its IowaReporterApp you have to understand how electoral campaign tech work is done and funded. Let me tell you a story to make sense of it. Shadow’s caucus app was built using Firebase and React, services quite...
[Editor’s note: Three days ago, Adriel Hampton, a California-based activist and civic tech professional, filed papers to run for Governor. He has since garnered headlines everywhere because he said he was running, in part, in order to test Facebook’s recently announced policy of not fact-checking political ads. He told CNN...
This week, MoveOn members will send more than 20 million text message to targeted voters. That is, on its own, nearly as many voter contacts as the 2012 Obama re-election campaign made in the climactic last four days of that contest. As of the end of October, the Beto O’Rourke...
Any day now, elections are expected to be called in Malaysia in what many expect to be the closest, most hard-fought race in the country’s history. Aiming to make a real impact on the information voters can access ahead of the election is the Sinar Project, a nonpartisan Malaysia civic...
The answer for digital campaigners moving forward isn’t to abandon experiments, testing, and analytics. The answer is to listen better and to continuously test standing assumptions.
What a time to think outside the nation-state, as North Korea taunts “American bastards” with intercontinental ballistic missiles; as the Trump administration escalates immigration arrests to an unprecedented rate; as migrants and refugees pour into Central and Eastern Europe; as the United Kingdom trudges towards Brexit. It is a time...
Election season has just erupted in the U.K. with all the shock and surprise of finding that Christmas has been rescheduled from its normal position in the annual cycle to the day after tomorrow. It feels really weird and sort-of-impossible, but Santa Claus has made it very clear that you’ve...
New Media was dead, but a corpse called “Digital” rose to take its place. It was bloodless, technocratic, and made of big data.
Yes, the Clinton campaign struggled with messaging; that doesn’t mean we should throw away everything we’ve learned about how data can make campaigns more effective.
While we try to understand the lessons of 2016, it is time to deal with a key missing element in the conversation on the future of Democratic technology: the voices of people who are not straight, white men.