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• Colin Delany: You Can Microtarget Yourself to Death

  October 6, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

  Campaigns keep pouring money into broadcast TV while their voters are on YouTube, and targeting people too narrowly can backfire. Digital strategist Colin Delany has watched every new political technology arrive since the mid-1990s, and he…

• Ritti Singh: A Door Knocker Is Not Hitting 250 People

  September 22, 2026 · 56 min

  Someone with 1,500 followers who reliably gets 250 people engaging is a person who can move 250 people — and a door knocker isn't reaching that many in an hour. Narrative strategist Ritti Singh explains how New York's tenant movement built…

• Will Robinson: "Consultants are parasites"

  September 8, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

  Will Robinson has made ads for Democrats for forty years. He opens this conversation by calling his own profession parasitic. We start with what artificial intelligence has done to political communication since late 2025. Voters searching…

• "Trust Scales Through People Now" — Amanda Brink on Why the Old Organizing Toolkit Is Breaking

  August 11, 2026 · 45 min

  The tactics most campaigns were built on are quietly breaking, and the reason isn't messaging — it's trust. Host Pete Altman talks with Amanda Brink, executive director of The Empower Project, whose recent essay "The Rules of Engagement…

• "Anything Else Is Just Busy Work" — Dana Johnson on Strategy, Solidarity, and What Comes After

  July 14, 2026 · 32 min

  "If you're not focused on democracy and holding the line there, anything else you're doing is just busy work." That's movement strategist Dana Johnson, and it's the spirit of this whole conversation — clear-eyed about the moment, and…

• Francesca Koe on Narrative vs. Messaging — and How Stories Shift Power

  June 16, 2026 · 49 min

  If you've ever used "narrative," "messaging," and "communication strategy" as if they meant the same thing, this episode sorts that out fast. Host Pete Altman sits down with Francesca Koe — a communications and advocacy strategist with…

• Anna Aurilio on Child Poverty, Affordability & Political Power

  May 12, 2026 · 57 min

  Anna Aurilio joins The Campaign Strategist to talk about the intersection of advocacy, economic security, and political power. Drawing on nearly four decades of organizing experience — from environmental campaigns to leading federal…

• Pete Maysmith, LCV President, on what it really takes to win right now

  April 7, 2026 · 52 min

  Pete Maysmith has been doing this work for over 30 years — from Rocky Flats protests in fifth grade to leading one of the country’s most powerful environmental electoral organizations. As President of the League of Conservation Voters, he…