Anat Shenker-Osorio

You better warm up those vocal chords!

New name a friend coined for endless "concern" batteries in surveys that folks love to ask: Susan Collins Questions. And they're about that useful.

Good note. We're playing around with stuff right now.

Katniss Everdeen of Hunger Games stands with a bow and arrow in a forrest. In front of her are the words "Beat THE MUNGER GAMES" and below "May the odds, and the MAPS, be forever in our favor!" Vote Yes on Prop 50

California! Yes on Prop 50!!!

Charles Munger Jr sitting on a thrown with clown makeup and green hair, ornate costume, made to look like Hunger Games Villain. Text across his chest reads, "The Munger Games" and speech bubble reads "vote 'no' on Prop 50"

California, may the odds (and the maps) be forever in our favor!
#YesOnProp50

Last big program I helped run, we targeted AND MOVED a much higher proportion of former Trump voters than much larger, mainstream programs. The same goes for flipping folks in other countries. It's not about left vs mod, it's about whether you're ready to run on values, build a choir, & persuade. /1

Absolutely!!! This is why I pushed to little avail to call the budget the MAGA Murder Bill rather than try school yard taunts like "Big Ugly Bill" that don't lay out the stakes. What you want a slogan to do is force attention and frame such that upon repetition people understand stakes.

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight “Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

This is a long, thoughtful, and brilliant post about how to understand political campaigning & strategy from one of the progressive left's most brilliant thinkers and practitioners @anatosaurus.bsky.social. Read it and listen to her: Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

Yes, pretty much ever green. This is really why I say - if you want to touch a nerve, you have to touch a nerve. And yeah healthcare *seems* like it would!!! But there's a reason that back in day "death panels" actually DID. Healthcare/Medicare/Medicaid is policy not life/death.

Our colleagues use social listening tools to track across most popular platforms which topics and conversations are breaking through and shutdown is completely off public radar. Very hard for political folks (like me!!!) to believe. Shutdown is process convo; voters basically never tune into that.

Thank you for reading this admittedly long essay. And for telling others about it.

Good friend says "if you want to score a goal you have to MOVE the ball." And I add, "not simply lament that it's over there on the wrong side of the field."

In the film, a bad ass crew of revolutionaries takes on the white supremacist regime head on.

YouTube video by Way to Win Action Fund Superhuman

As a rejoinder to anti-trans and anti-immigrant rhetoric:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bqP...

YouTube video by Way to Win Action Fund Freedom for All

In fuller form from our closing argument in 2022, where we kept the "red wave" from full fruition by arguing to Protect Our Freedoms:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3L6...

YouTube video by Fridays for Future DE 🎥 Wir fahren zusammen – Wir streiken zusammen! 🚌

German transit union also applied this approach. See here (with subtitles!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDx7...

What does that mean in practice?
Here it is from the UK's Green Party Leader taking far right Nigel Farage head on instead of affirming his argument by also shaming & blaming immigrants:
www.instagram.com/p/DOSgymijDHm/

Doing that requires having a clear, compelling, consistent story not list of milquetoast promises without actions. And it requires naming your villains. Lay it on straight: Someone DID take your job/healthcare/pension. Wanna know who took your money? It's the people with all the money. /2

Last big program I helped run, we targeted AND MOVED a much higher proportion of former Trump voters than much larger, mainstream programs. The same goes for flipping folks in other countries. It's not about left vs mod, it's about whether you're ready to run on values, build a choir, & persuade. /1

Thanks so much for engaging so thoughtfully. It probably doesn't come through (even with all the words I managed to use) but I do focus groups, surveys and RCTs all the time. :) My issue is not that is has no value but rather that it's being abused.

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight “Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

Confronted with the "The left must move right to help Dems electorally" argument, Ta-Nehisi Coates distinguished between politicians and everyone else. But @anatosaurus.bsky.social
articulates the electoral flaws of moving right and offers alternatives. www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight “Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

In reading this @anatosaurus.bsky.social piece, it's worth thinking about what strategies/tactics can be used by ALL Democratic candidates. Many successful candidates in red areas (like Jared Golden) succeed by bashing the party. Everyone can't do that. www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Well...if Perry Bacon is saying it's good then...

Democrats are embracing the risky politics of a government shutdown to rein in president, activists say In ‘holding the line on healthcare’ Democrats answered the call to do something in a rare display of unity

“In order for people to fight this regime, they have to understand it as a regime hellbent on taking our freedoms."

@anatosaurus.bsky.social in @us.theguardian.com

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight “Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

Here it is, my answer for every time I get asked "why don't (most) Dems just...[message better, be bolder, sound authentic...etc]"

www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Some people watched One Battle After Another and took notes.

It's great! Thanks for doing this!!! We're working on some quick guerilla marketing ads and memes for Prop 50. Hope to share them soon.

Portland always was, always is Too Fabulous for Fascism.

Resistance. Refusal. Ridicule. Those are the ingredients to bring down regimes and among them ridicule is arguably the most delicious. The emperor isn't just naked; his goon squad is afraid of an inflatable frog.
Portland is TOO FABULOUS FOR FASCISM.

Thanks! Genuine question, if I may. I feel like I only address perception of and messaging about the economy in this piece (and not much at that.) I don't real talk about "the economy" outside that. What do you find inaccurate?