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Excited to be quoted alongside the amazing Maya Hutchinson in today's Digiday piece on how AI is helping small political campaigns scale content. Quiller is helping campaigns of every size increase their money raised per work hour spent drafting emails by as much as 300%. Our new enhancement tools are helping people rewrite, repurpose, and improve their writing in record time. Time saved equals... ↳ more money raised ↳ more voters converted ↳ more elections won We're on to something here and I'm excited to see what our team and others like Maya's accomplish in the coming years. ✌ Quotes below. Article link in the comments ↓

Real ones know we need to bring back "Kamoji Harris." 400+ Electoral Votes minimum.

I was live on CBS Chicago this morning talking about how to unify the Democratic Party and what the presidential race looks like with Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket. I talked about how we need to put aside the infighting and start laying out the stakes in this election. Like IVF access, for example. This issue is personal for me... My wife has gone through hell trying to start our family. My son's name means "Gift From God" because we wouldn't have him without the incredible doctors and fertility treatments we were able to access. Donald Trump, JD Vance, and the authors of “Project 2025” want to take away our right to the fertility treatments that allowed us to start our family. Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party will fight to protect that right, and I know they'll fight for other critical issues too — like abortion access, child care, student loan debt relief, and an economy that works for everybody. That’s the core of what I said this morning and it's the message I'm sending around to anybody who asks. Let's get back on offense and win this damn election. I’ll share the link when I have it, but here’s a photo in the meantime 👇

Trump has made some serious mistakes this week 👇 - Stuck to his usual rhetoric and missed an opportunity to win over new voters after Saturday's tragic shooting. - Selected a disaster of a running mate in JD Vance who isn’t going to help him expand the map. - Gave an absurdly long, incoherent acceptance speech that’s making people question his mental facilities. We can beat this guy.

I had a post all teed up today reflecting on a successful trip to Baltimore for Networks Nation. But given everything going on right now & over the last few weeks, it doesn't seem relevant to what's happening. So I just wanted to take a minute to brain dump my general thoughts & feelings about this moment in time that we're in. This has been said by many people very eloquently: there shouldn't be any room for violence in our society. Irrespective of whether it's an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, an attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband, or someone trying to kidnap Governor Whitmer, these things should not be happening in a healthy democracy & a functioning society. The same is true with school shootings. To me, I see a tremendous amount of similarities between the shooter in the Trump assassination attempt & any one of the people who does one of these school shootings—alone, isolated, on the fringes, no support for mental health, access to weapons of war, no support from their community. It's very, very sad. They become trapped by the internet. A particularly lunatic & far-right fringe part of the internet that drives people to do these things in order to destabilize society & that makes me incredibly sad. I don't know what the next steps are. I know that far too many people are trying to act as if the election is over, or trying to use this moment to paper over their own political agendas & rhetoric. That's wrong & it shouldn't be happening. I'd ask people to take a deep breath & remember that big moments in an age of polarization & the internet tend to shift things less because of people's attention spans. I would also remind everyone when you're scared & you're trying to figure out what to do, sometimes the best thing is to rely on, build & support your community. What a community looks like & means to people is very, very different. To me, it is my wife & my son who are the most important things to me. So I spent most of the day yesterday hanging out with Teddy, watching a movie, eating pizza, going on a walk, wrestling, & being silly. I think finding ways to support one another & to draw from each other's wells is going to be how we get through the next couple of days. It's going to be how we get through the next couple of months. It's going to be how we get through the next couple of years, however they play out. We are very resilient as human beings & we're going to be okay. We just have to stick by each other & keep doing the work to organize & create change because it's more important than ever in times like these. P.S. Two of the communities I’m a part of are our teams at Authentic & Quiller. I’m very proud of both today. Our team at ACI did an amazing job reacting on behalf of our clients over the weekend in a very stressful situation. Our team at Quiller had an amazing weekend in Baltimore & it was good to see so many old friends. Here’s a photo of our booth from Netroots, which looked great imho:

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I'll be in Baltimore later this week for Netroots Nation where I'll be giving two presentations Saturday morning. At 9am, I'll be leading a session called "AI Prompt Generation for Political Activists” that’s designed to empower activists with the latest AI tools and best practices for creating great content. At 11:30am, I'll be participating in "New Tools Showcase" to highlight the new Quiller features we've rolled out over the last several months, including our new "Review & Improve" tool (which is so, so cool.) Would love to connect with friends both old and new. Drop me a line if you want to get coffee or something — thanks!

Join us and our friends at Teal Media and Swayable NEXT FRIDAY for a special joint happy hour at #NN24! 🍻 When: July 12th @ 5:30p Where: Crossbar Baltimore See you soon, Netroots Nation!

🚨It’s Election Day in 4️⃣ states today! 🚨 If you live in Colorado, New York, South Carolina, or Utah, make sure you get out and make your voice heard at the ballot box! 🗳 Our friends at Vote.org have made it super easy for you to get all the information you need about when, where, and how to cast your vote. If you haven’t voted early, make sure you get your ballot in before polls close today! Every 👏 vote 👏 counts 👏 Let’s do this! 💪