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Swalwell beats 20-term Rep. Stark

Update: Swalwell took the 15th District race with 53 percent of the vote with all precincts reporting. In one of the most watched races in the county due to California's new "top two" primary system, City Councilor Eric S...

Kathleen O'Connor Ives wins competitive MA state senate seat

Kathleen O'Connor Ives Kathleen O'Connor Ives, candidate for the First Essex seat in the Massachusetts state senate, won the democratic nomination for her district in a surprise victory in September. She beat out two c...

NJ Assembly candidate Marie Corfield turns YouTube fame into award-winning grassroots campaign

Marie Corfield, NJ Assembly candidate Marie Corfield is a lifelong New Jersey resident, school teacher, progressive public education advocate and single mother of two. In 2010, her passionate defense of public school f...

Maine State House candidate: ‘Every legislator needs to be accessible on the web’

John Logan Jones Although 26-year-old John Logan Jones is running for elected office for the first time, he’s not a stranger to politics. Jones spent the last year working on U.S. Rep. Ron Paul’s presidential campaign ...

Social media and campaign databases making a difference for SF school board challengers

This year, the race for open positions on the San Francisco city school board is highly competitive, with eleven candidates, three of them incumbents, competing for four seats. And in a race that's sometimes seen as a jump...

NationBuilder in Nova Scotia: Building an entire election team from scratch

From the BC Young Liberals to the fledgling Alberta Party to the scrappy campaign of NDP leadership candidate Nathan Cullen, Canadian politicos and reformers are a significant chapter in NationBuilder's early history. Last...

From Steve Ngo in San Francisco to Steve Farley Arizona: Be your own media with NationBuilder

San Francisco College Board Trustee Steve Ngo and family. In the San Francisco Bay Area, where more than 80 candidates, campaigns, and political clubs use NationBuilder for their websites and supporter databases, Colle...

St. Louis NationBuilders gear up for heated primary races

NationBuilder's cutting edge community organizing system is taking over St. Louis - a city traditionally better known for big businesses, sports, and the blues than for high-tech - as Missouri prepares for primary election...

Revolution in Scotland

The Scottish National Party was down 15 points in the polls to Labour in February when Kirk Torrance approached me about using the still-in-alpha NationBuilder to power a new snp.org website and their plans for a social me...