Notes on the craft of policy advocacy, what AI changes about the work, and what it does not.
Most advocacy is won or lost in state legislatures, not Congress. Here is why state policy moves faster, touches members more directly, and gets far less attention than it deserves.
Read the piece →A binder does not win a meeting with a lawmaker. One tailored page does. Here is why the one-page brief is the most underrated tool in state and federal advocacy.
Read the piece →The 4th grade civics version of the legislative process leaves out the part where most bills actually die. Here are the real chokepoints, the rooms the cameras are not in, and what advocates should be watching for.
Read the piece →Why the in-person meeting is still the load-bearing wall of policy advocacy, what AI can and cannot do for the prep work, and what the 95/5 split means for the craft.
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