HOW to Hold Successful Voter Registration Drives
By Drew McKissick
Making sure that conservatives are registered to vote is one of the most fundamentally important activities for the future political success of the conservative movement. And that means voter registration drives. One of the unpleasant truths of political life is that conservatives tend to be just as bad (or apathetic) about registering and voting as…
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How to Have a Productive Meeting with Elected Officials
By Drew McKissick
When it comes to lobbying, the squeaky wheel tends to get the grease. And while many different forms of lobbying can produce positive results, the most effective method is to meet with your elected officials personally. But if you’re going to have a personal meeting with elected officials, you want to do what you need…
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HOW to Have Meetings that Matter
By Drew McKissick
It’s hard to have an organization without meetings, and you can’t have meetings without people. But meetings that aren’t organized or run well can be one of the quickest ways to kill interest and run people away from any organization. As I have mentioned several times, “politics is people” – and if you can’t attract…
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How to Develop a Message
By Drew McKissick
When you’re trying to have an impact on pretty much anything in politics it usually involves a need to communicate a clear message – whether to a group of people, the media, or both. But in order to cut through the clutter of competing messages and communicate in a way that will make a difference,…
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How to Write Great Letters to the Editor or Op-Ed Columns
By Drew McKissick
Write great letters or columns and get your message out! Ever get an itch to let people know what you think on an issue you care about? Ever thought about writing it down and sending it to a newspaper to be published? You can do this with “letters to the editor” (LTEs) and guest op-eds…
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How the Legislative Process Works
By Drew McKissick
Legislating is a messy business. As Otto Von Bismarck once said, “Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made”. But it’s a messy business because it involves people who represent lots of other people with different points of view. And this process has to accommodate them all. There are a…
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The Three Types of Media
By Drew McKissick
If you are involved in politics in any capacity – whether election campaigns, grassroots lobbying efforts, or just actively supporting the things that you believe in – you have a message to communicate. So how will you do it? There are three basic types of media for getting any political message out to the public:…
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The Truth about American Political Participation
By Drew McKissick
So often many Americans tend to chalk up “the way things are” to someone pulling the strings behind the scenes. Of course we are usually naturally suspicious of power and probably watch too many movies with conspiracy theories for our own good. But the truth is that no single person or even a few individuals…
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Political Resolutions for Conservatives
By Drew McKissick
Sometimes we get so caught up in campaigns or what’s going on in politics at the moment that we lose sight of what’s important and what to do next. In other words, conservatives need to stay focused in order to be politically successful. With that in mind, here are some political resolutions for conservatives: Pick…
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The Fundamentals of Grassroots Lobbying
By Drew McKissick
When you are working to try to influence elected officials there is a long list of things that you can do, but there is a shorter list of basic grassroots lobbying principles that you should keep in mind in order to be more effective. Here’s a checklist… Identify Your Targets Before you start storming barricades,…
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