Ballot Initiatives and Referendums: A Complete Waste of Time

A Favorite Tactic for Many Conservatives, Referendums are a Complete Waste of Time and Set Your Cause Back! Serious activists understand that working to change public policy are usually long-term battles that require a long-term vision, and a focus on growing your organization’s lists, money, and people. Because many activists lack this long-term vision, they Read more about Ballot Initiatives and Referendums: A Complete Waste of Time[…]

Written Evaluations – How Do You Know if You Are Improving?

If you’re serious about fighting for freedom in your area, you must get serious about tracking your organization’s progress too. Having been involved in extremely long legislative sessions for years, I know that there comes a point when you just about don’t care about what happens to your bill anymore and you just want the Read more about Written Evaluations – How Do You Know if You Are Improving?[…]

You’re Going to Make Them Mad – Political Threats and How to Deal With Them

If you know what to expect in advance, it will be easier to deal with it with it happens to you. If you and your organization are following the tools that you are learning from this website, you are likely quickly growing your grassroots organization into a statewide powerhouse. That is great. But your political Read more about You’re Going to Make Them Mad – Political Threats and How to Deal With Them[…]

People Come and They Go –- So What?

If you work in confrontational politics at a high level for any length of time, you will lose friends. Expect it. People get involved in politics for different reasons. Maybe a legislator angered them or perhaps there was an issue that really fired them up, so they got involved in local or state politics for Read more about People Come and They Go –- So What?[…]

There Is No Shortcut to Building Grassroots Pressure — But Nothing is More Effective for Public Policy Change

The top 5 shortcuts activists make trying to solve problems in the statehouse (Viral videos, hiring contract lobbyists, billboards, stupid emails with 15 topics, giving books to politicians) “But you don’t understand, this celebrity speaker will make this video go viral and the people are going to come to the Capitol in droves! This will Read more about There Is No Shortcut to Building Grassroots Pressure — But Nothing is More Effective for Public Policy Change[…]

Get Out in Front!

Effective Grassroots Organizations Need Effective Leadership, Tactics for Leading from the Front If you’ve been following the tools and training offered on this website, then hopefully your organization is adding people to your lists rapidly. Hopefully, some of the new names are donors. Others are more inclined to be volunteers at events while others are Read more about Get Out in Front![…]

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Holding politicians accountable usually makes them mad, and they are going to attack, what to expect and how to deal with it. For a new political activist getting involved in your first legislative fight, you may be confused about the nature of your opponent. You may actually think that, more or less, we are all Read more about Can’t We All Just Get Along?[…]