This article is the fourth installment of the VICI Report, a comprehensive multi-part series exploring the sophisticated use of technology in political operations. This series aims to uncover the processes, mechanisms, tools, and technologies used by Democrats to master our political processes and to develop strategies, which answer and ultimately defeat their manipulations in 2024 and beyond.
Read the previous article in this series, The Early History of Technology in Politics, which explores technology from Tammany Hall to the ‘94 Republican Revolution, or start from the beginning of our series.
The 1990s and early 2000s saw the rise of the internet as a powerful tool for political engagement, fundamentally altering how information was disseminated and how communities mobilized. This period of transformation began with the advent of Conservative digital activism, where…