How are you really using AI?
We're partnering with Anchor Change, Chaotic Era, and Doomscroll on a survey to better understand how political professionals like you are using AI.
Advertising
Are Political Advertisers Underbuying Meta?
Impressions to Ballots
“44% of time spent with Social Video is on Meta properties: Facebook and Instagram. TikTok does not allow political advertising, making Meta the largest source of available Social Video inventory for campaigns.”
Campaigns
Spencer Pratt Batman-Inspired AI Campaign Ad Trolling Gavin Newsom Goes Viral
Hollywood Reporter
“The video is also raising questions about the ethics of using AI to realistically depict political foes without permission in campaign ads, even if the ads are not directly commissioned by the candidate.”
What Spencer Pratt's Rise Can Teach Both Parties About AI-Age Campaigning
Semafor
“It's not a given that Pratt's Trumpian act will work in LA, but he's proven one political truth that the sitting president also counts on: Emotion beats data, especially if the data doesn't jibe with voters' emotions.”
Spencer Pratt's LA Mayor Campaign Is Optimized For Attention, But Will It Get Votes?
Eric Wilson
“There is a big chasm between getting attention and getting elected.”
Talent + Reps = Dynamite
Doomscroll
“What people saw this week wasn't effortless brilliance. It was years of public reps, failures, adjustments, and refinement all cashing in at once.”
The AI Filmmaker Outrunning Hollywood
Pirate Wires
“This isn't ‘slop.’ That label's been commodified. The word doesn't really mean anything anymore — most videos created today use AI to some extent. Curran is a professional producing short films enabled and accelerated by AI.”
Here's What I Told the DNC Autopsy
The Bulwark
“If your organic content and earned media are telling one story and your paid content is telling another, you don't have a messaging problem—you have a brand problem. No amount of ad testing can fix that.”
Design
Trump's Leaving Vance Out of His Newest Logos
Yello
“The percentage of logos in Trump's fundraising emails that are branded solely for him and not his VP has risen from 25% in March 2025 to a high of 42% in March 2026, according to a review of the Archives of Political Emails, a database.”
Technology
What iOS 26 Actually Means for Campaign Calls and Texts
Campaigns & Elections
“What got far less attention is the most important detail: These features are turned off by default, and adoption has been far from universal. Political calls and texts aren't being blocked. Users are simply being given the chance to organize them differently.”
AI in Campaigns: Tell Us What You're Seeing
Anchor Change
“I've spent the last few years watching the political world have two conversations about AI that have almost nothing to do with each other. One is the panic conversation: deepfakes, voter manipulation, the end of trust in everything. The other is the hype conversation: AI is going to revolutionize organizing, fundraising, direct voter contact, all of it.”
White House
The Late-Night Truth Social Storms That Offer a Window Into the President's Mind
Wall Street Journal
“Monday was one of 44 similar spates of a dozen or more Truth Social posts published from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. since Trump returned to the White House. On Dec. 1, from 8:17 p.m. until just before midnight, the president's account posted nearly 160 times—more posts than on any other day in his second term.”