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Some of the posts here are serious considerations of campaign issues. Others are spur-of-the-moment, thinking-out-loud. Still others are just funny. (Well, we think they’re funny.)
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What is an “Investment?”

This month at the America Votes State Summit, I attended a panel about the 2026 Midterms, where there was some talk about “investments.” All of the panel members were from organizations that exist to win elections. To be fair, the

April 30, 2025
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Why People Take Action

Being in New Orleans last week reminded me that people take action because of values and emotion, not facts. How much rain fell on New Orleans during Katrina? What was the top wind speed? How high was the flooding? I

March 3, 2025
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So. Many. Details.

I forgot how complicated this is! The first time I managed a field campaign was 1990, on a hopeless congressional race in Richmond, Virginia. The tools have changed. The tech has changed. The messaging has changed. The science of campaigns

September 30, 2024
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Safe Canvassing or Someone Always Calls the Cops Part II

As canvassing season heats up again, I’ve been thinking about how to keep canvassers safe. From traffic. From the heat. From dogs. Also from residents and police officers who haven’t read the memo that canvassing is first Amendment protected free

July 1, 2024
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We Say It Every Year: THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVER!

In the 2024 election cycle, every race will have larger implications. Those candidates for tiny school board districts in your community? Their potential votes on policy will reverberate nationally. Think book bans, restrictions on access and misrepresentations of US history.

February 5, 2024
Sasha Ritzie-Hernandez, a young Latinx-Afro-Indigenous woman, smiling, wearing a white shirt and black and white checked jacket. She stands in front of an outdoor mural with red lettering that reads Growing our roots reclaiming our Fruitvale. Additional colors in the mural are yellow, brown, green, red and grey.

A New Face for Education Justice

The new Oakland Unified School District Board got off to a rocky start this year. (Stick with me. This is complicated.) In January, the city clerk declared the wrong person the winner of the District 4 election the previous November.

September 15, 2023
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Someone Always Calls the Cops

During every campaign I’ve ever worked, the field team faces a consistent problem: Someone calls the cops on a canvasser of color, for nothing more than walking through the neighborhood with a clipboard and some door hangers. Every. Single. Campaign.

September 1, 2022
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Paid Field Teams: Three Red Flags You Can’t Ignore

Back in 2012, I was talking to a political consultant friend about checking nightly canvasser numbers to maintain the campaign data integrity. He didn’t know what I was talking about. Wait. What? You don’t review every canvasser’s numbers every night?

June 22, 2022
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Five Secrets to Better Field Campaigns

With the 2022 primaries in full swing (goodbye Madison Cawthorn!), many campaigns are in canvas mode. To kick that outreach into high gear, here are Five Secrets to Better Field Campaigns. Subscribe to the Organizing to Win monthly newsletter for

May 27, 2022
3 people wearing black t-shirts that read Disarm Hate in rainbow lettering. 2 wearing blue t-shirts that read Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence. 2 wearing t-shirts that read Team Enough. 2 white signs that read #Enough Brady Campaign in blue. 1 black sign that reads Disarm Hate in rainbow lettering. 2 older white women. 1 Latinx boy in his teens or early twenties. 3 white girls in their teens. 1 Black girl in her teens.

Organizing and Winning

Originally published in February 2022 The upcoming midterm elections have me thinking about organizing. (Doesn’t everything?) A political campaign isn’t organizing. If we’re going to win long-term, election campaigns should be an opportunity for organizing. Our objective should be to

March 30, 2022
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