Anat Shenker-Osorio
@anatosaurus.bsky.social
Host of Words to Win By, a podcast about progressive wins around the world and how we achieved them. https://wordstowinby-pod.com/
Researcher, message maker, campaign strategist to progressive and Democratic causes here and abroad.
Researcher, message maker, campaign strategist to progressive and Democratic causes here and abroad.
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Words to Win By, formerly Brave New Words, takes listeners on a journey around the globe with renowned communications researcher and campaign advisor Anat Shenker-Osorio as she unpacks real-world narr...
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New around here, hi! For those who'd like a big old dose of "yes we can" energy, please check out Words to Win By where every episode details a campaign we've won somewhere and delves into the research, messaging & strategies used to do it.
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Pedophile protector says what?
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Pedophile protector says what?
You know how watching a new comedian bomb at Open Mic makes your whole body crunch with second-hand embarrassment? Yeah. That. But with an equal dose of rage.
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
You know how watching a new comedian bomb at Open Mic makes your whole body crunch with second-hand embarrassment? Yeah. That. But with an equal dose of rage.
UK's Zack Polanski understands the most basic rule of messaging: if you want to touch a nerve, you have to touch a nerve. Of course they're coming after him and of course his Green Party is rising in polls and members.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right can mock my teeth all it wants – it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski
As a politician, I expect opposition and debate. But when it centres on personal insults, not policies, something else is going on, says the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
UK's Zack Polanski understands the most basic rule of messaging: if you want to touch a nerve, you have to touch a nerve. Of course they're coming after him and of course his Green Party is rising in polls and members.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The most literal definition of a leader is to go first. Thank you @indivisible.org for your steadfast leadership, courage & clarity about what this moment requires.
indivisible.org/statements/i...
indivisible.org/statements/i...
Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
indivisible.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The most literal definition of a leader is to go first. Thank you @indivisible.org for your steadfast leadership, courage & clarity about what this moment requires.
indivisible.org/statements/i...
indivisible.org/statements/i...
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What was behind Tuesday's Dem sweep? Borrowing a page from Bonnie Rait, winners pursued the "Let's Give 'Em Something to Talk About." And didn't get caught flat, or foot in mouth, when MAGA trotted out their divide to conquer hate baiting.
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
What was behind Tuesday's Dem sweep? Borrowing a page from Bonnie Rait, winners pursued the "Let's Give 'Em Something to Talk About." And didn't get caught flat, or foot in mouth, when MAGA trotted out their divide to conquer hate baiting.
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When CA launched Prop 50, it was polling at 38%. And so, we did it anyway. Winning campaigns requires that your GOALS define your actions, recognizing opinion - including who agrees to vote - is malleable. In other words, be a thermostat, not a thermometer.
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight, Part I
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Tuesday Showed the Power of Magnetism.
contrarian.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
When CA launched Prop 50, it was polling at 38%. And so, we did it anyway. Winning campaigns requires that your GOALS define your actions, recognizing opinion - including who agrees to vote - is malleable. In other words, be a thermostat, not a thermometer.
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
Hey Roberts Court, if you'll launder Trump's crimes, we'd like some of the same!
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Immigrant detention firm seeks immunity in case before Supreme Court
A lower court denied Geo Group’s claim that it couldn’t be sued for forced-labor allegations at an ICE detention center because it was working for the government.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Hey Roberts Court, if you'll launder Trump's crimes, we'd like some of the same!
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
When CA launched Prop 50, it was polling at 38%. And so, we did it anyway. Winning campaigns requires that your GOALS define your actions, recognizing opinion - including who agrees to vote - is malleable. In other words, be a thermostat, not a thermometer.
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight, Part I
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Tuesday Showed the Power of Magnetism.
contrarian.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
When CA launched Prop 50, it was polling at 38%. And so, we did it anyway. Winning campaigns requires that your GOALS define your actions, recognizing opinion - including who agrees to vote - is malleable. In other words, be a thermostat, not a thermometer.
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
Many of us start our days with coffee. Let the coffee makers lead the way to start much bigger things too!!!
BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Many of us start our days with coffee. Let the coffee makers lead the way to start much bigger things too!!!
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hell yeah!
(one great resource on this)
(one great resource on this)
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
hell yeah!
(one great resource on this)
(one great resource on this)
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Starve the corporations, not your neighbours.
We must Move Our Money, away from the forces of destruction aiding this regime & into our communities. From Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday, folks are collectively committing to avoid Target, Amazon and Home Depot. If this leaves you $ to spare, local food banks, shelters, & community groups need it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Starve the corporations, not your neighbours.
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Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.
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"The job of a good message isn’t to say what is popular. The job of a good message is to make popular what we need said."
Read Part 1 of Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight by @anatosaurus.bsky.social in @contrariannews.org
Read Part 1 of Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight by @anatosaurus.bsky.social in @contrariannews.org
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight, Part I
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Tuesday Showed the Power of Magnetism.
contrarian.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"The job of a good message isn’t to say what is popular. The job of a good message is to make popular what we need said."
Read Part 1 of Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight by @anatosaurus.bsky.social in @contrariannews.org
Read Part 1 of Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight by @anatosaurus.bsky.social in @contrariannews.org
We must Move Our Money, away from the forces of destruction aiding this regime & into our communities. From Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday, folks are collectively committing to avoid Target, Amazon and Home Depot. If this leaves you $ to spare, local food banks, shelters, & community groups need it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We must Move Our Money, away from the forces of destruction aiding this regime & into our communities. From Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday, folks are collectively committing to avoid Target, Amazon and Home Depot. If this leaves you $ to spare, local food banks, shelters, & community groups need it.
40* Senate Dems said no. House Dems have said they will fight & we should encourage them. Meanwhile, Reps have gone all in on Trump's efforts to turn our government into a weapon against our people.
*Yes, I know. No vote on stage may still hide helping cloture backstage.
*Yes, I know. No vote on stage may still hide helping cloture backstage.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
40* Senate Dems said no. House Dems have said they will fight & we should encourage them. Meanwhile, Reps have gone all in on Trump's efforts to turn our government into a weapon against our people.
*Yes, I know. No vote on stage may still hide helping cloture backstage.
*Yes, I know. No vote on stage may still hide helping cloture backstage.
How long till we learn American, United & Delta worked the phones on Senate Dems?
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
How long till we learn American, United & Delta worked the phones on Senate Dems?
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Do not help your opposition is politics 101. Do not help fascists who have turned government into a weapon against our people is human 101. So is, don't draw a line you claim represents your unwavering principles and hurl yourself across it.
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Do not help your opposition is politics 101. Do not help fascists who have turned government into a weapon against our people is human 101. So is, don't draw a line you claim represents your unwavering principles and hurl yourself across it.
Yes, feel all the fury.
And also, know that Democrats who came of age and of power in this pay-to-play system were never going to be what saves us. Only those of - whatever our day jobs - actually willing to confront this regime will bring us out.
And also, know that Democrats who came of age and of power in this pay-to-play system were never going to be what saves us. Only those of - whatever our day jobs - actually willing to confront this regime will bring us out.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Yes, feel all the fury.
And also, know that Democrats who came of age and of power in this pay-to-play system were never going to be what saves us. Only those of - whatever our day jobs - actually willing to confront this regime will bring us out.
And also, know that Democrats who came of age and of power in this pay-to-play system were never going to be what saves us. Only those of - whatever our day jobs - actually willing to confront this regime will bring us out.
My kingdom for a parliamentary system with a no confidence vote.
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
My kingdom for a parliamentary system with a no confidence vote.
There but for the grace of working in international politics, electoral & confronting authoritarianism, go I. Genuinely grateful I know we were never going to vote (alone) our way to democracy. It takes unrelenting resistance, refusal & ridicule of regime & all its enablers.
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
There but for the grace of working in international politics, electoral & confronting authoritarianism, go I. Genuinely grateful I know we were never going to vote (alone) our way to democracy. It takes unrelenting resistance, refusal & ridicule of regime & all its enablers.
Fool me 700 million times, you aren't fucking fooling me. I'm taking orders from the billionaires who want their planes flying & profits soaring.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Fool me 700 million times, you aren't fucking fooling me. I'm taking orders from the billionaires who want their planes flying & profits soaring.
In 2024, swing & disaffected Dem focus groups kept saying "it seems to me 'this' happened on Dems' watch." This being fall of Roe, anti-voter laws, more month than check. Coupled with "in 2020 they said turn out to protect our freedoms, we did & it didn't work. Now they're saying it again?"
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
In 2024, swing & disaffected Dem focus groups kept saying "it seems to me 'this' happened on Dems' watch." This being fall of Roe, anti-voter laws, more month than check. Coupled with "in 2020 they said turn out to protect our freedoms, we did & it didn't work. Now they're saying it again?"
"Our constituents want us to take this vote" really tracks well with shielding anyone up for re-election from taking this vote.
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
"Our constituents want us to take this vote" really tracks well with shielding anyone up for re-election from taking this vote.
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This moment demands fighters, not folders.
Official statement from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on shutdown negotiations
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
This moment demands fighters, not folders.
Thank you New Jersey for picking this leader and allowing her to send a very clear message about what "real Americans" (TM) want.
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Thank you New Jersey for picking this leader and allowing her to send a very clear message about what "real Americans" (TM) want.