Popular Comms provides strategic messaging, research, training, and organizing support for labor unions, social movements, and electoral campaigns that fight for working people.

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Check out our latest research

Over the past three years a growing authoritarian movement has targeted public schools, opening up new lines of attack on social wedge issues. We conducted a comprehensive study to test how different kinds of messages perform against this authoritarian rhetoric. In a word, our study shows that public education is popular, and our opponents know it. But our messaging choices matter. With strategic messages we can beat these new attacks and win well-resourced public schools where all children can thrive.

School Board Campaign Resources

Check out our tools and templates for running and winning progressive school board campaigns, developed in collaboration with HEAL To Win.

Powerful billionaires are bankrolling elections to install people who will do their bidding to dismantle public education while lining their pockets. That’s why we need people everywhere to recruit, support, and elect leaders in our communities who can serve as champions of public education as school board members. These tools are meant to help you and others in your community join the movement for public education by running a school board campaign.

Stay tuned for a full school board campaign toolkit to be released soon by HEAL To Win, authored by Popular Comms, in collaboration with Run for Something and the School Board Project.

Worker Power

We help build winning campaigns for workers and the labor movement. We support unions in developing worker-driven narratives for organizing drives, contract campaigns, and more. Our approach is to fully integrate communications strategy with worker organizing.

Electing People’s Champions

We support candidates who fight visibly and vocally for working people. Developing and testing messages that frame a popular fight against a powerful few, we help candidates animate their campaigns with a compelling story.

Building Popular Movements

To grow and win, social movements need to get more people to identify with their cause — as part of a big and inclusive us. We support grassroots organizations and movement leaders in developing powerful, resonant narratives and avoiding jargon.

The skills to win

Our participatory training workshops focus on how to persuade, mobilize, and organize broader bases — and overcoming the obstacles that stand in the way. We integrate research findings and analysis with practical organizing and communications skills.

Previous Clients and Partners

Pass The Torch PAC

HEAL Together / HEAL To Win

Working Families Party

SEIU Healthcare PA

National Education Association

Teamsters Against Trump

PA Stands Up

IfNotNow

Momentum

National Coalition Against Censorship

Education Voters PA

Pass The Torch PAC • HEAL Together / HEAL To Win • Working Families Party • SEIU Healthcare PA • National Education Association • Teamsters Against Trump • PA Stands Up • IfNotNow • Momentum • National Coalition Against Censorship • Education Voters PA •

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