How many emails per day do you receive? How many of them request money from you? If you've bothered to donate to a political campaign, or non-profit, you're under constant pressure to give more. If you purchase a product or service online, it's the same onslaught of emails that never end. To make matters worse, the creative found in these email pitches is piss poor. With the bar so far beyond low, it doesn't …
The ACLU Is Doing What The Government Will Not: Defending Your Right To Vote
Non-profit organizations and political movements are often so laser-focused on their goals, they fail to see the importance of process and the best path forward. Even fewer have a talented team of brand-builders on the job. Thankfully, the ACLU is the exception to this rule. According to Fast Company, the ACLU’s product development team is mobilizing The Resistance using data visualization, sticky design, and an …
The Problem with “For the People” Is It’s A Lie
Populism sounds like such an innocent term. But the word has been beaten beyond all recognition. For instance, Donald Trump is a populist. In name only. One has to be concerned about the needs of ordinary people, to actually be a populist. New York Times opinion writer, Roger Cohen, argues for retiring the term altogether: Populists may be authoritarians, ethnonationalists, nativists, leftists, rightists, …
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Putnam Partners Gives Gillum for Governor (and Others Dems) A Fighting Chance
In the political arena, there's a Washington, DC firm that understands brand storytelling. Thankfully, more and more candidates are turning to Putnam Partners for strategic guidance and video production. The firm has helped elect 10 U.S. senators, 10 U.S. governors and 46 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The former Mayor of Tallahassee, Andrew Gillum, who is now running for Governor of Florida …
Will Rich White People With Archaic Ideas Ever Be Happy?
When you have no accomplishments to your credit, and a mountain of evidence that you're not only incompetent but vile, how do you go forward in the political arena? Simple. You come out swinging, blaming, diverting, and lying your way to the next election. Let's have a look... https://youtu.be/eFRHX6glTSM Wow, that hurts. Who knew that celebrities like Madonna and Johnny Depp are dangers to the state and …
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Jane Raybould Is Angry About Guns, And She’s Bringing The Fight to the GOP
I am from Nebraska. I live in Texas. I have also lived in Utah and South Carolina. Do you see the trend? Because I come from the Corn, I get pissed when the Huskers don't show up to play, and I get pissed when a short-sighted rancher and Trump cheerleader from the Sandhills occupies a U.S. Senate seat. Thankfully, Jane Raybould is working hard to change the political problem and Scott Frost is on the football …
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Riding the Storm Out with Two Old Friends
Scott Pruit, the Trump Administration's scandal-plagued EPA Administrator was sent home to Oklahoma today. The incoming director has a cleanish slate, but Trump's Earth-damaging policies are not about to change. All of which makes today a great day to focus on the problem solvers who battle to preserve and restore nature and honor all living creatures every day, win, lose, or draw. Define Steadfast: The Sierra …
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Ronald Reagan Stars In New Pro-Immigration Reform Ad
Are Ronald Reagan-Republicans stunned by the rapid erosion of conservative values by a reality TV star POTUS? Their professional actor POTUS held ideas about immigration that would make today's Democrats blush. https://youtu.be/JJsyCl84ciQ The ad above is playing on FOX NEWS today. The ad is the work of Becoming American initiative, which exists to counter the White House narrative on immigration and provide …
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