<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>ConstituencyData — Articles &amp; research</title><description>ConstituencyData is the AI-native campaign platform. Data, donor intelligence, field operations, message AI, legal review, and compliance — built by operators who have run campaigns and stood for office. One platform, every tool a modern campaign needs.</description><link>https://constituencydata.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Why voter data should be open to every campaign</title><link>https://constituencydata.com/articles/open-voter-data-thesis/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://constituencydata.com/articles/open-voter-data-thesis/</guid><description>The legacy vendor model locks $30,000 behind the same public records a freedom-of-information request can produce. We think that&apos;s a structural problem — and this piece lays out the thesis.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Open data</category><category>open data</category><category>thesis</category><category>policy</category><author>ConstituencyData Research</author></item><item><title>Donor propensity: the math behind smart call time</title><link>https://constituencydata.com/articles/donor-propensity-math/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://constituencydata.com/articles/donor-propensity-math/</guid><description>Every donor deserves a two-dimensional score — probability of giving, and expected gift size. Here&apos;s how we build it from FEC and state filings, and why most campaigns are calling the wrong people.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Methodology</category><category>donors</category><category>FEC</category><category>modeling</category><category>methodology</category><author>ConstituencyData Research</author></item><item><title>Home versus business: why field ops needs two address points</title><link>https://constituencydata.com/articles/field-ops-geography/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://constituencydata.com/articles/field-ops-geography/</guid><description>A voter&apos;s home address tells you where they sleep. Their business address tells you where they spend Tuesday at 2pm. A smart canvass plan uses both.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Field guide</category><category>field operations</category><category>canvassing</category><category>yard signs</category><category>geocoding</category><author>ConstituencyData Research</author></item><item><title>Why your mailer sounds like a 2008 attack ad (and how to know)</title><link>https://constituencydata.com/articles/message-stress-testing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://constituencydata.com/articles/message-stress-testing/</guid><description>Political language is a solved corpus. Training language models on decades of speeches, ads, and mail lets Civitas tell a first-time candidate — before they print 40,000 pieces — exactly how their message will land.</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Research</category><category>LLMs</category><category>messaging</category><category>rhetoric</category><category>methodology</category><author>ConstituencyData Research</author></item><item><title>A plain-English guide to state voter-file law</title><link>https://constituencydata.com/articles/state-voter-file-legal-guide/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://constituencydata.com/articles/state-voter-file-legal-guide/</guid><description>Every state controls access to its voter file differently. This is a practical, non-lawyerly walk-through of what campaigns can and can&apos;t do with the data — and how Civitas enforces the rules at query time.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Policy</category><category>legal</category><category>compliance</category><category>voter file</category><category>policy</category><author>ConstituencyData Research</author></item><item><title>Introducing Civitas: the platform we wish we&apos;d had</title><link>https://constituencydata.com/articles/civitas-beta-launch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://constituencydata.com/articles/civitas-beta-launch/</guid><description>Civitas is an AI-native constituency intelligence workspace — chat over voter data, donor scoring, smart field routing, and message stress testing, all in one browser tab. Here&apos;s how to think about it, and how to get in.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Product</category><category>Civitas</category><category>product</category><category>launch</category><author>ConstituencyData Research</author></item><item><title>How we process 40 years of FEC filings, weekly</title><link>https://constituencydata.com/articles/fec-weekly-methodology/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://constituencydata.com/articles/fec-weekly-methodology/</guid><description>The FEC data pipeline inside ConstituencyData: ingestion, deduplication, entity resolution, and why we rebuild it every week instead of patching.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Methodology</category><category>FEC</category><category>pipeline</category><category>methodology</category><category>engineering</category><author>ConstituencyData Research</author></item></channel></rss>