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Team ColdSpark continues to grow! 🚨

We are pleased to welcome Max Oberg as our newest Public Affairs Associate!

Max is a native of northwestern Wisconsin and a proud graduate of Louisiana State University. ! 🐯

A lack of ethical guidelines has left the environment of online giving fractured and fatigued. At ColdSpark, ethical decision-making is a core value of ours, and we are proud to play a part in fixing what’s wrong with digital fundraising.

Partner Mark Harris helped contribute to the American Association of Political Consultants' new Digital Fundraising Guidelines to provide essential principles and ethical standards for individuals and organizations engaged in political fundraising online. Read the full guidelines here:

AAPC Digital Fundraising Guidelines – AAPC The AAPC Board of Directors has adopted the following guidelines to provide essential principles and ethical standards for individuals and organizations engaged in digital fundraising activities through email, social media, and phones (texting). Given the explosive growth and importance of these cha...

Congratulations to our very own Mor Greenberg for making the City and State PA's Forty under 40 list!

Read Mor's full profile here: https://bit.ly/3xylKwO

ColdSpark is proud to observe and honor the lives of those who gave everything for our freedom. May their legacy live on. 🇺🇸

Promotion alert 🚨

Congratulations to Jose Durbin on his promotion to senior political strategist! We are so grateful for his leadership, strategic insight, and all-in attitude. Way to go, Jose!

Congratulations to Erika Holzer for completing her first week as ColdSpark's newest project manager!

A Pittsburgh native and alumna, Erika dove head-first into the world of production by starting the week off with a visit to our friends down at Raff Printing. 📬

Learn more about Erika here: https://coldspark.com/team-members/erika-holzer/

More news out of West Virginia last night:

ColdSpark was proud to play a small part in some big wins in and . 🚨

Another win tonight for our friends in West Virginia. 🚨

Michael Simms sealed the nomination for WV Circuit Court Judge in Monongalia County!

Congratulations to ColdSpark client McCuskey for WV for securing the GOP nomination for West Virginia Attorney General. 🔐 👏

Coldspark Partner on Fox: "I've never seen in our data any evidence that there's any sense of Biden being the hometown boy in PA ...I know they lean on it a lot, but it isn't something that I think is an effective gambit for them"
Read more: https://shorturl.at/qsBZ4

Biden campaign leans into Pennsylvania roots to woo critical battleground state voters Experts discussed whether President Biden's strategy of emphasizing his connection to swing state Pennsylvania will give him an edge in the competitive 2024 matchup he faces with former President Donald Trump in the state.

The latest from Coldspark's VP Phil Valenziano in Campaigns and Elections:
"Bottom line, said Valenziano, this cycle will be about getting the details right" "Make sure you’ve just got a rock-solid plan for the mechanics of the election.”
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How One GOP Operative Sees Little Things Making the Difference In '24 One GOP operative believes the buy-in is now there on the Republican side to start investing early in a banked-votes program.

Congratulations to our Pennsylvania clients on winning their primaries last night! Onwards to November!

Scenes from tonight's victory party for Dave McCormick! Congratulations! On to November!

We're proud to highlight Coldspark employee Colin Simes who led a presentation to students at Millbrook High School on careers in politics as part of their Civic Expo!

ICYMI: We're thrilled to share that in addition to our team's 40 Under 40 awards, we also won Pollie Awards for our grassroots efforts with Belev Echad, and best meme! These awards are evaluated based on “Creativity, production value, and most importantly, effectiveness.”

More great news for the Coldspark team! Join us in congratulating Cordell Haaz on his promotion to Project Manager!

Scenes from the Coldspark reception at the Pollie Awards! Thank you everyone who joined, and congratulations again to our 40 Under 40 winners, Carrie and Jose!

We’re proud to share that our very own Jose Durbin and Carrie Tucker have been honored by the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) as among the 40 best and brightest campaign professionals under 40 years old!

We're thrilled to welcome Phil Valenziano to Coldspark as Vice President! With over 20 years of advising governors, presidential candidates, and more, Phil brings a wealth of strategic insight to our team.
Read more: https://coldspark.com/phil-valenziano-joins-as-vp/

Congratulations to our newly promoted members of the Coldspark Team! We're proud of your work and leadership in amplifying the voices of our clients, and helping support their victories!

On the Air: Coldspark client Dave McCormick named in The Hill's ranking of Senate seats most likely to flip as both candidates hit the airwaves earlier this week. Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4564443-senate-rankings-seats-flip/

“This is going to be a close race. Trump and Biden have to win over voters that aren’t coming naturally to them. ... And it would be insane, and professional negligence, to say no we don’t need those voters.” - Coldspark Partner Nachama Soloveichik

Biden campaign claims Trump is snubbing Haley supporters - Washington Examiner Donald Trump and Nikki Haley have not united after their contentious primary. The Biden campaign is pouncing on the disunity.

Check out the latest piece from Coldspark partner Nachama Soloveichik:
"It’s no surprise that one of Israel’s harshest critics in Washington doesn’t understand Judaism, even as he uses it to obscure his antisemitism. "
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Jamaal Bowman, Jews are not victims The congressman who denied Hamas’s mass rapes dares to wish us a happy Purim.

We’re excited to share we won four awards at the 2024 Reed Awards!

The Reed Awards - one of the largest assemblies of campaign professionals in the US - wrapped up yesterday and four pieces created by our digital and creative teams won best in their category!

Congratulations to our client Adam Niemerg on winning his Illinois State House (IL-102) primary! Even after special interests conspired to kick Adam off the ballot, he won with a write-in campaign despite being outspent 3-1!

Coldspark at the Reed Awards! Leading the discussion on the cutting edge of targeted outreach.

Congratulations to our client Blaine Wilhour on winning his Illinois State House (IL-110) primary! Outspent 3-1 by interest groups, Blaine withstood a barrage of attacks and still won with a commanding 80% of the vote.

ColdSpark client Dave McCormick beat long-time incumbent Senator Bob Casey in Q4, bringing in an unprecedented $6.4M. We are proud to work with strong candidates dedicated to putting America back on track.

GOP's McCormick Beats Casey in Fundraising, Gaining in Polls – DV Journal Pennsylvania Republicans got a double dose of good news Monday, and it suggests a good year ahead for the GOP. For U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick,

Presidential debates, caucuses, and canvassing. We couldn’t be more excited for 2024! Happy New Year from the team at ColdSpark. 🎉