Political Strategy

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Elle HarriganFINAL NOTICE: your hiring profile is incompleteWe noticed you haven't downloaded my resume yet. Was it something I said?
Elle HarriganRe: did you see my last email?Only following up because the stakes are, frankly, enormous (for me).
Elle HarriganFWD: FWD: [FIRST NAME|Friend], I wouldn't email you if it weren't importantTen years of political work. One ask. Faster than your other 47 unread fundraising emails.

Forwarding this in case it got buried. I know your inbox is a war zone.

— Elle

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Elle Harrigan <harriganelle@gmail.com> To: [FIRST NAME|Friend] Subject: [FIRST NAME|Friend], I wouldn't email you if it weren't important
ELLE HARRIGAN for Political Strategy

I've written a lot of these emails. This one's about me.

Ten years in politics. One ask. It'll take less time than reading your other 47 unread fundraising emails.

[FIRST NAME|Friend], I'll be quick.

I spent a decade in political work — running volunteers on a presidential campaign, writing and optimizing email programs for progressive clients, designing a national messaging study that rebuilt an advocacy group's voice — before bringing all of it to political and public-sector advertising. I know how to get someone to open, read, and act. Including you, right now.

Will you chip in?
If you've saved my resume, your interview request will go through immediately.
Elle grinning into the camera at a parade, Educators for Hillary marching behind herField office poster: a fist gripping a phone, EACH CALL MAKES US STRONGERIowa field office the night before Get Out the VoteField office window on Election Day, covered in Stronger Together signs
Hillary for America, 2016: dozens of weekly volunteers, hundreds of doors and thousands of calls a week.

Here's what you'd actually be getting:

I've run the programs. At Clarify Agency I owned email strategy, copy and in-flight optimization for multiple progressive clients at once — built in NGP VAN, EveryAction and ActionKit, down to the fundraising asks, dollar handles and landing pages. (So yes, I have opinions about your subject lines.)

I've done the research. At Hacked Off in London, I designed and fielded a nationwide messaging study — methodology, question logic and focus groups across thousands of UK respondents — then used it to direct a complete rebrand of the organization's digital voice and visual identity.

I've organized. On Hillary for America I went from intern to organizer to Regional Get Out the Vote Director for Northwest Iowa in the final month. Before that: campaign and legislative internships with Senator Elizabeth Warren, Congressman Richard Neal, Simon Hughes MP and Sarah Jones MP.

I've taken it to the big screen. In ad tech I directed digital content strategy and multi-screen user flows for political and institutional work, including Harris for President, plus public-sector campaigns at the state and county level.

And I write about it. The Political Text Message Apocalypse Is Here (2026) and In 2024's Political Ad Climate, CTV Is the Platform to Watch (2024).

NGP VAN EVERYACTION ACTIONKIT ACTBLUE ACTION NETWORK HUSTLE SPOKE GETTHRU

I've vetted the robots. For a growth-stage AI startup, I live-tested a text-message AI assistant for conference lead capture. I audited exactly which account permissions it gets (the default setup asks for far more than it needs), flagged a documented prompt-injection risk, read the fine print, and wrote a deployment spec that lets the AI draft while people do the sending.

We all do better when we all do better. Paul Wellstone said it first; I've just put it in a lot of emails.

Thank you for everything you do,
Elle

P.S. If you skipped straight here — everyone does, I've seen the heatmaps — here's the whole thing in one line: a decade of political work, now pointed at whatever you're trying to win next. Download the Political Strategy resume →

P.P.S. This is a real inbox. I will write back.

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