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After a string of more than 30 losses at the ballot, gay activists won four marriage-related ballot campaigns in 2012. These historic wins legalized the freedom to marry for same-sex...

Join us for best practices and cautionary tales from women running for office. We'll focus on confronting sexism that abounds in politics and how to shake up the status quo....

While political consultants in Washington rake in hefty paychecks for multi-million dollar ad buys, many elections in 2012 were won not by way of expensive ad buys, but with sophisticated...

The 2014 mid-terms might seem like a long way off, but as noted political strategist Yogi Berra famously said, "It gets late early around here!" And so, because it's never...

As DNC Chair, Gov. Howard Dean proposed something radical. Rather than focusing all party resources on a media onslaught of the usual battleground states, Democrats would develop infrastructure and invest...

Leaders of three unconventional super PACs will share their stories of why their work broke through in substantial ways—one using satire (Stephen Colbert's), one using jujitsu to take on money...

Barriers to the ballot box, corporate funded elections, gridlock in Washington, DC—yikes! Our democracy is in distress: corporate influence is at an all-time high; citizen belief and engagement, at an...

Over the past year, grassroots campaigns have taken on some of the biggest Wall Street corporations in the country and scored real, tangible victories against behemoths like Walmart, Bank of...

In the past, a New York Times front-page story was all it took to get an issue traction. But those days are gone. During the 2012 election, it was often...