Organizer Sandbox

thoughts on digital engagement and social action

Jeff SwiftApr 14 min read

Meet Adriel Hampton

Civic Startup Whisperer, Former Congressional Candidate

Jeff SwiftMar 252 min read

Micromanaging at Scale

In Micah Sifry’s excellent interview with Zack Exley and Becky Bond, the three talked about the Sanders campaign’s tech advantage in the 2016 election.

Andrew MillerMar 224 min read

Where’s My Tax Refund? Redesigning IRS.gov

It’s tax season. Which means for three months, IRS.gov is the most visited government…

Jeff SwiftMar 122 min read

Conversation with Bill Ayers: How Chicago Protesters Did What the GOP Couldn’t

Protesters in Chicago…

Michael MoschellaMar 83 min read

The Big Swing States Vote on March 15… Here’s the Breakdown of Each One

For Super Tuesday I created a very simple model, published here on Medium.com, of Hillary’s core coalition vs. Bernie’s coalition in each of the 11 states.

Digging into the L2 Voter…

David MooreMar 96 min read

OpenCongress → OpenGovernment

Thoughts on nine years’ of OpenCongress, on the day Sunlight retires it.

Friends at Sunlight: our offer stands, to maintain OpenCongress.org as a non-profit, open-source public resource, offering complementary info to GovTrack and others.

Jason AndrewsMar 13 min read

“Redefining Democracy”

When we first started at Advocate, we had a rallying cry that we’d repeat over and over again to describe why we were taking on this immense challenge. “Democracy is broken!” we would scream to anyone who would listen to us. “Money has too big an influence in politics. We will fix it!” It…

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Pete RossMar 67 min read

Demonising The Different: It Isn’t Just for Donald Trump

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Andrew MillerMar 75 min read

Let’s Redesign the U.S. Government | CIA.gov

In the past few years, 18F and The U.S. Digital Service…

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Peter WellsMar 64 min read

Improving UK voter registration

Voter registration is a problem in the UK.

If we opened up aggregated data and registration APIs then we could build a network of services to help get people registered. As a result we would get more people registered and, hopefully, more people…

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