Run the best campaign.
DC | Massachusetts | New Hampshire
New Jersey | New York | Nevada | Oregon
Run the best campaign.
DC | Massachusetts | New Hampshire
New Jersey | New York | Nevada | Oregon
DC | Massachusetts | New Hampshire
New Jersey | New York | Nevada | Oregon
DC | Massachusetts | New Hampshire
New Jersey | New York | Nevada | Oregon
We have guided campaigns facing the steepest challenges to victory, and led issue advocates to success despite appearing outmatched by their opponents. We work with clients around the United States, through every element needed at any point of the campaign. Whether it’s developing plans from scratch, general guidance to steer a team through troubled waters, or entirely overhauling an operation in need of a new start, your campaign will receive strategic advising and campaign management expertise in all facets of campaigns including media, field organizing, fundraising, communications, lobbying and operations. Whether you are a candidate for office or an organization championing progressive issue advocacy, our work together will elevate your campaign to the level needed to win.
Every goal requires execution, and in politics your objective will be faced with fierce opposition. Our experience in leading intensely competitive political campaigns in the most challenging environments will help you build and execute the apparatus needed to advance your issue, and fend off and react to those seeking to stop you.
Driving your narrative is essential. Public opinion can move mountains, the perception of individual powerbrokers can make or break a cause, and support can reach eruptive groundswells or collapse into defeat around a compelling or disastrous message. Together we can work with you to craft the most advantageous language and deliver that to audiences and outlets that will best shift the tides in your favor.
The power of a movement comes from the combined efforts of those involved. The greatest idea won’t advance without the work of a team moving it forward. We bring together grassroots activists, political officeholders, labor unions, nonprofits, business leaders and any other community members necessary to organize the coalition that will bring success to your cause.
In any environment – but in political advocacy in particular – things go wrong. We have worked with campaigns needing massive overhauls, helped candidates who were outspent and outstaffed, and supported new entrants into arenas of entrenched veterans. When collapse feels imminent, a campaign needs steady, experienced hands to rebuild and guide an operation to top form.
The cause you care about is incredibly important, and so is the investment you make in it. We all operate in a zero-sum, finite world of competing priorities. The resources that your organization is willing to put towards the issues that matter to you should be invested wisely, and we are here to help. Our firm can provide guidance on the most effective uses of your money to achieve strategic objectives, and suggest the areas of investment that best match your values.
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, casinos in Atlantic City, NJ temporarily disallowed smoking indoors. Until this time, casinos were one of the final remnants of an era when employees and patrons of businesses and public places were forced to breathe in deadly secondhand smoke. After one year without smoke, the ban was lifted, but workers had dealt with enough. A grassroots movement of casino workers began advocating for a permanent end to the choice that was forced upon them: their health or a paycheck.
With our client, Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, D.O. Strategies has led the campaign in New Jersey to pass legislation that will permanently close the casino smoking loophole. Since we began, we’ve worked with the grassroots casino worker group, Casino Employees Against Smoking Effects (CEASE), to train and guide them on advocacy strategies, organized and spearheaded a coalition of partner organizations, won backing from labor unions, and executed a legislative strategy to exponentially increase support in the state senate, general assembly and governor’s office. Now more than a majority of the state legislature cosponsors the bill.
Our work with our client and CEASE has helped build this effort into a national movement, with CEASE chapters and legislative, legal, or ballot efforts underway in states across the county.
With two months remaining in the 2020 campaign cycle, the incumbent mayor of Portland, Oregon had seen upheaval in the city from daily protests and riots, raging wildfires, the height of the pandemic, and the economic emergencies that followed. Public opinion on the state of the city was negative, but also entirely split – many held totally opposing views on why they disapproved. Differing pressures from across the political spectrum collapsed the mayor’s approval rating to only 1/3rd of the community. The reelection campaign trailed their challenger by 11 percentage points, was facing legal challenges, had virtually no cash-on-hand, and was being significantly outspent.
Seven weeks out from the election, D.O. Strategies took over management of the mayor’s campaign and led a complete overhaul. We emphasized drastically reorienting fundraising priorities, developed direct mail to reach a sliver of voters still able to be persuaded and digital advertising promoting positive messaging, found partnerships with labor unions and activist groups, intensely focused on proactive and reactive communications, and utilized in-depth opposition research.
Within a month we had closed the polling gap. On Election Day the mayor won a second term.
Danny O’Halloran has crisscrossed the United States leading campaigns on every level. His first campaign, a Boston-area municipal race, brought a 22-year-old first time candidate ahead of 12 opponents for a seat on the city council. He was the political director for a candidate for governor of New Hampshire, and later joined the political department for the successful Maggie Hassan for U.S. Senate campaign. Danny’s pathway around the country continued with managing the campaign for a Democratic Nevada secretary of state candidate, working as New Hampshire political director for Senator Cory Booker’s presidential primary campaign, and then as manager for a DCCC Frontline member of congress in Upstate New York. Later, he was hired to entirely overhaul the Portland, Oregon mayoral race. Outside of electoral politics, Danny worked in environmental advocacy at the National Wildlife Federation, and with the Scheduling & Advance Department of the Obama White House.
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