We’ve nearly doubled the size of the firm and today have offices in New York, DC, Houston, and Seattle. And, we celebrated 15 years of winning, together.

As we leave 2025, we wanted to share with two stand out races from 2025, and some of our greatest hits from the last 15 years.

We’d love to discuss 2026 and 2028 with you too – if you’re running for office, have a political problem that needs solving, or just want to have a cocktail, give me a call at (206) 423-0120.

—Dean Nielsen

Georgia Conservation Voters Won the First Statewide Democratic Victory in 20 Years

Years of litigation held up the elections for the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC), leading to unprecedented statewide special elections in 2025. Democrats Peter Hubbard and Dr. Alicia Johnson were not expected to raise large resources, so Georgia Conservation Voters Action Fund stepped in to fill the void by setting messaging and running the only statewide persuasion mail for the Democratic nominees.

We centered our messaging on the intersection of affordability and accountability and engaged over one million Georgia voters.  Democrats Peter Hubbard and Alicia Johnson smashed expectations and won with a 26-point mandate.

Pennsylvania Judicial Races

We helped the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) with member communication surrounding statewide elections for retaining and electing judges. These elections were critical to protect the future of Pennsylvania public schools and PSEA members. We were thrilled that all of PSEA’s judicial recommendations were successful in retaining or winning their seats.

The Top 15

To mark our 15th year, we’re highlighting the work that mattered most—the campaigns that broke through, changed the conversation, and delivered results.

Helping AFSCME flip Governorships in Wisconsin and Michigan

In 2018, we were asked by AFSCME to help them communicate a pro-union, pro-worker message and defeat the odious Scott Walker with Tony Evers and elect Gretchen Whitmer.

Beating an incumbent Oregon DA with his employee

One of our favorite races was working for Nathan Vasquez, the DA in Portland, Oregon. He came to us as a senior prosecutor in the office, but disagreed with his boss, Mike Schmidt’s, policies. We helped Nathan win with 53% in 2024.

Flipping seats from red-to-blue every cycle since 2015

Beating an incumbent of any party is no joke. They have money, name ID and electoral success. That’s why we are proud to say we are one of very few firms that has flipped seats from red-to-blue every cycle for 10 years, including in seats where the Democratic presidential candidate lost.

Driving early communications

In 2016, we tested a theory: that early communications can have a big impact on the final outcome. Working across seven districts in two states, we sent mail months before the election, at a time with no other political communications. With funding for doing pre- and post- testing, we discovered that early communications could move voters by as much as 10% in these races.

Helping elect Andy Kim

The New Jersey Education Association asked us to help communicate an education message for Andy Kim, running in New Jersey’s 3rd District against an incumbent Republican. Kim won with less than 4,000 votes in the closest Congressional race of 2018. Today, he is a United States Senator.

Using in-language communications to elect Governor Jay Inslee

Polling showed that candidate Jay Inslee was underperforming with API populations, so we worked for SEIU and API community groups to communicate in-language to groups of Korean, Vietnamese and Chinese voters. Inslee ultimately won the hard-fought race with 51.4%.

Beating vouchers in Texas

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is one of the worst, consistently coming up with terrible ideas like a voucher scheme to shift money from public education to private and religious schools. Working with Texas AFT, we targeted rural Republican districts to help boost public support and give GOP members some cover to stop Abbott.

Winning a too-close Governor’s race

We are proud to have worked with our longtime client and partner, the New Jersey Education Association, to help re-elect Governor Phil Murphy in an election that was far closer than it should have been. Murphy was reelected with 51% in 2021.

Turning out voters in Colorado

Working with the Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable, Colorado Conservation Voters, Colorado Immigrant Rights Project and others, we targeted the Rising American Electorate with turnout campaigns for 10 years, helping Colorado withstand “bad” Democratic years like 2010 and 2014.

Beating Right to Work in Montana

We started laying the groundwork with union members in Montana long before a vote on right-to-work by communicating pro-union messages to members by mail and digital video. We wanted members to feel a sense of belonging and that their union fights for them. With this early strategy, we got more than 10% of the members to take action during the legislative battle and defeated right-to-work (for less) legislation. This was the first time right-to-work had been beaten in a state with a GOP trifecta.

Dan Strauss for Seattle City Council

Dan was a 34-year-old legislative aide running for an open seat against a former city councilmember, Heidi Wills, who was strongly backed by business. Despite being outspent 6:1, we won a close election, and in the process were recognized by Campaigns & Elections Magazine as producing  the “Toughest Mail Piece in America” and the best “Bare Knuckled Street Fight Victory.” Our mail that year was the most-awarded advertising in America and won a hard fought race.

Electing Supreme Court judges in Montana

Winning elections in a ruby red state is no joke. That’s why we are proud to have helped win statewide elections in Montana, including beating bad ballot initiatives and electing progressive Supreme Court justices.

Working for Julian Castro

We were honored to work with Secretary Julian Castro on his campaign for President. We were tasked with creating media that sparked engagement on social media and to get press.

Professor and Consultant Dr. Robert Marbut told CBS News that Julian Castro’s “Ya Basta” advertisement was “the best three to four thousand dollar buy any candidate has made in probably 20 years.”

Beating bad initiatives

Conservative activists put not one, not two, not three but four anti-tax ballot issues on the 2024 Washington state ballot. These would roll back the climate commitment act, which is a cap-and-trade style system and the recently implemented estate tax, among other terrible policy ideas. Polling showed one key path to victory was to consolidate base voters to vote NO on all four measures, so resources between the four campaigns were pooled to execute a direct mail and digital campaign. We beat three of the four at the ballot box and the fourth was later thrown out in the courts.

Passing Levies

While not the most sexy work that we do, it might be the most impactful. We’ve passed over $40 billion in bond and levy campaigns for public education, transit, parks, public health, road projects, libraries, community centers, hospitals, college tuition, fire and EMS services and public safety. And, we’ve won in notoriously tax sensitive communities like Great Falls, Montana.