Matt Stoller is a political consultant and blogger. He has worked in liberal internet politics for five years in a variety of institutional and outsider roles, including blogging for Jon Corzine for Governor in 2005, working in communications and blog outreach for the Democratic National Convention in 2004 where he started the first blog for a national political convention, and embedded himself in the campaigns of Ned Lamont in 2006 and Donna Edwards rom 2006-2008. He has worked on media reform and telecommunications issues, including serving as a lead blog advocate in the Save the Internet coalition during the hot-button fight over net neutrality in 2006. His consulting clients include or have included MSNBC, Free Press, Actblue, Working Assets, the Sunlight Foundation, NDN, Miramax Books, and They Work for Us.
He currently serves as lead strategist for a Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, a plan to end the war endorsed by 60 Democratic House and Senate candidates and 50,000 citizens. He been quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Roll Call, The Nation, The New Republic, The American Prospect, CBS News, and Salon, and has appeared on CNN, C-Span, MSNBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, the BBC, and PBS. He has been published in the American Prospect, the New Republic, and the Nation. He got his start in politics working for the Draft Clark campaign to bring Wesley Clark into the campaign for President in 2004.
Here's another one, from Radio Open Source, on Lamont-Lieberman.
Press Clippings
I don't do a particularly good job of keeping press clippings on myself. Here's one article in New York Magazine, one in The Stranger, and another in The New York Times. And then there's this one from Time Magazine, in which anonymous Democratic staffers complain that I'm never satisfied that Democrats are being tough enough.
Blogging Work
I blog at OpenLeft on electoral politics andd MattStoller.com on personal stuff. Sometimes I write for the Huffington Post. Aside from my blogging, I speak at conferences and to progressive groups and companies (you can invite me at stoller at gmail.com). And yes, that's me trying to hypnotize Al Gore.
Articles and Speeches On Spam Media versus Social Media, speech delivered on February 7, 2008, at the University of Connecticut Law School on the beginnings of a new framework for regulating campaign finance. Dems Get New Tools, New Talent, The Nation: This is about the transformation of political campaigns away from media and towards field. The Broken Market for Democratic Primaries, OpenLeft.com: The lack of instraparty democracy is an important gap that needs to be fixed in the Democratic Party. Debate Train to Crazy Town, MyDD: This is about the 10.19.06 debate between Joe Lieberman, Alan Schlesinger, and Ned Lamont. Jersey Boy, The American Prospect: This article is about a mayoral race in New Jersey and how a progressive Korean-American reshaped one suburban city's politics. I wrote it with Adam Green, a very smart guy from New Jersey. The Role of Labor in a Political Campaign, MyDD: This piece is about how labor plays a pragmatic and tangible role in the mechanics of a political campaign.
Republicrat Reactionaries, The Clarksphere: This article is about the internet as a new frontier, and how some political figures foster the growth of political space and some do not. Republicrat Reactionaries, Redux, The Clarksphere: I wrote this to analogize Paul Wellstone to Barry Goldwater, and the internet to Arizona in the 1950s.
Here's more stuff about me:
Here's What I've Been Up to Over the Past Few Years.
2008
I worked heavily on the Donna Edwards - Al Wynn primary in Maryland's fourth to defeat the incumbent, Al Wynn, who was backed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. Donna won, 61-35 percent.
2006
With Jennifer Nix, I co-founded the site Open Letter to ABC to protest ABC's decision to run the propaganda movie 'Path to 9/11' on the fifth anniversary of September 11th.
Working as one of thousands of bloggers to prevent telcos from destroying net neutrality.
Made this video of me delivering a basket of rubber stamps to Arlen Specter.
2004
Created with John Aravosis and Kyle Shank the web campaign EnjoytheDraft.com
Credentialled bloggers at the 2004 Democratic National Convention
Created with Christopher Lydon, Stirling Newberry, and Jay Rosen the blog and radio show BOPnews.com, which was broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio and syndicated nationally
