Campaigns
A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
Wired
“There are some real great advantages to … housing this program in a nonprofit,” Graham Wilson, a lawyer working with Chorus, said to creators on a Zoom call reviewed by WIRED. “It gives us the ability to raise money from donors. It also, with this structure, it avoids a lot of the public disclosure or public disclaimers—you know, ‘Paid for by blah blah blah blah’—that you see on political ads. We don’t need to deal with any of that. Your names aren’t showing up on, like, reports filed with the FEC.”
Design
The anatomy of Zohran Mamdani's winning campaign poster
Fast Company
“In Democratic politics especially, there was a rush to kind of put a corporate sheen on things and to make things really nice and clean...The people element of politics can’t be overlooked, and that follows through into visuals.”
If you suddenly got added to Jaime Harrison’s Substack, you’re not alone
Politico
“Last week, Harrison’s Substack showed that he had a million subscribers, but most of Harrison’s posts have less than a dozen likes. After POLITICO started asking questions, the number of subscribers became private.”
Fundraising
How AOC built a Democratic fundraising juggernaut
CNN
“Ocasio-Cortez’s US House campaign has plowed more than $500,000 into Facebook and Google advertising over the last three months, much of it aimed at fundraising and collecting voter contact information.”
Top Democrats Keep Paying Mothership Strategies, Despite Years of Warnings
Sludge
“Aguilar, the third-highest ranking House Democrat, has routed $262,000 from his campaign committee to Mothership since the 2022 cycle, according to FEC records.”
Technology
Apple expected to roll out texting update that would hit GOP hardest ahead of midterms, fundraisers say
Fox News
“Data from the 2024 election cycle showed Republicans leveraged text campaigns two-to-one compared to Democrats, putting them directly in the line of fire when the expected update takes effect in September — ahead of the midterms hitting a fever pitch as Democrats look to flip the House and Senate from Republican control.”
White House
From Airbnb to America’s ‘Chief Design Officer’
New York Times
“My directive is to update today’s government services to be as satisfying to use as the Apple Store,” he wrote in a post on X.
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