Company Profile: Main Street One
Main Street One tracks false narratives and their online impact, develops authentic, ideologically combative, and wholly accurate content backed up by analytics, and then disseminates this content out to its network of 3.5 million influencers who subsequently sway the online discourse.
Announcing Our 2019 Fellows
Political tech start-ups begin with bold ideas that address critical areas of need. Their success depends on motivated entrepreneurs who thoroughly research the key issue they are trying to solve, before going to market. HGL is proud to announce our 2019 Fellows, who will participate in a 3-month “Entrepreneurship-in-Residence” research program. This year, our fellows […]
Company Profile: OpenField
Ari Trujillo Wesler, a third generation engineer, got her start in organizing by banning non-organic grapes and raisins… from her elementary school. Before she was even old enough to vote, her first major campaign led her to Nevada in 2008 for then-presidential candidate Barack Obama. Since then, she’s managed several data projects at the AFL-CIO […]
Impact Profile: Change Research
Political polling was in a state of disrepair after the 2016 election. The costs of bad polling were severe – bad polling led the Clinton campaign to misallocate resources in key states, caused inconsistent media scrutiny towards Clinton and Trump, and may have even driven nonchalance among progressive base voters. Traditional pollsters faced insurmountable selection […]
Impact Profile: MobilizeAmerica
Volunteers are the lifeblood of progressive campaigns. In 2016, the process of volunteering remained clunky and outdated, which created unnecessary barriers to entry. On the campaign side, volunteer recruitment and retention was equally tedious. Syncing paper sign-in sheets with NGP VAN, constantly calling supporters to remind them of their shifts, and converting new leads take […]
Impact Profile: BallotReady
A healthy democracy relies on voters making informed decisions. There has never been a reliable repository of information on all 500,000+ candidates running for every office in every state. It is no wonder that close to 30% of voters often leave down-ballot candidate decisions blank. BallotReady is here to change all of that. By simply […]