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OPB asked Dean Nielsen, a founding partner of CN4, on what could have led to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s successful reelection campaign: “On a campaign attack website, Kent decried “woke and weaponized government” and during debates he focused on the need to secure America’s southern border. More often, Gluesenkamp Perez focused on bread-and-butter economic issues without

Recently, our founding partner Dean Nielsen was asked by the Seattle Times to give his thoughts on this year’s rare, even-year Seattle City Council race. “Standing out in the nonpartisan race when the presidential election is sucking much of the oxygen out of the room is a challenge, said Democratic political consultant Dean Nielsen, who’s

Friends, If you’ve worked on a campaign, you know the sting that comes with big checks that arrive close to Election Day. If only it had come earlier, the thought goes, the practical uses could have been immense. But faced with the choice of spending it vs. not spending it, we usually argue to spend.

Hi there- My friend David Kim is working for the Harris team in Georgia. They came across this woman in line for early vote today.   This is why we do what we do. – Dean

Watching Kamala Harris and Tim Walz first big interview on CNN was a fascinating experience. After five weeks of avoiding sitdowns with MSM journalists, the anticipation from both the public and the press had built up significantly and the interview probably took on greater importance than it would have otherwise.   Our takeaways: Harris was smart

Folks, Music is more than a soundtrack. It’s emotional, complements a message, and creates energy.  Campaigns use music to help create connections with voters, and who can blame them? It’s one thing that stood out to me at the DNC in Chicago last week: music was being used as more than a playlist. Music in

Here at CN4, we are proud to invest in the future, whether it is helping recruit and train campaign staff, to hosting summer internships at our firm. Investing in young people now will only strengthen the movements and the campaigns we work so hard to build. We wanted to take a moment and share a letter from

Friends, While we are mostly known for our cutting-edge political strategy and ads, we also help businesses communicate too. Dusty Hoerler, a member of UA32 and owner of Craftsman Plumbing, came to us with a challenge – how to communicate his business’s values. He had invested a significant amount of time and energy in recruiting

Folks, I started my career in education politics, and nothing has prepared me for what we are seeing in Texas right now. A self-made crisis, fomented from the Governor’s bully pulpit, impacting school districts across the state as we close out the academic year, all because Abbott didn’t get to siphon public tax dollars for

The defeat of an outspoken progressive prosecutor in Portland, Mike Schmidt, has everyone weighing in — from the Biden White House, “Progressives, we told you so on crime” to celebrity Judge Judy, “When you have elected district attorneys who don’t know what their job is, they should go find another job. Fill ice cream cones