Feldman Strategies

09/03/2026

We’re sending a big congratulations to our longtime partner, President and CEO of Democracy Forward Skye Perryman on her new book, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/826249/ordinary-people-extraordinary-times-by-skye-perryman/), becoming a New York Times bestseller (https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/advice-how-to-and-miscellaneous/).

It takes a village, but Feldman Strategies has loved being part of the team driving attention to this book. This how-to guide is meant to empower everyday Americans – not just lawyers or Washington insiders – to engage in our democracy.

As Skye says, “The only way out is through. The work of justice has always been urgent. The ultimate action that strikes the blow to injustice — and, yes, to autocracy — will make its mark because of the work of ordinary people like you who in this extraordinary time took singular steps, day by day, conversation by conversation, to move the mountain of despair.”

Check out an excerpt from Skye’s book in Rolling Stone, and some of her recent new media appearances highlighting this critical read!

Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/how-to-overcome-hopelessness-trump-era-1235611788/

07/17/2026

It was a busy day this Thursday at Feldman Strategies! Our team was spread out across DC working alongside labor leaders and advocates taking a stand for our democracy and our rights.

Nathan Janda was alongside former DOJ Pardon Attorney Lawyer Oyer as she testified in opposition to Todd Blanche’s nomination to become the next Attorney General in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Meanwhile, you could find Hazel Smith and Anna Gephart on the House side, lifting up the voices of former State Department and USAID workers at AFGE one year after their mass firings by DOGE and the Trump administration.

And you could catch Founder & Principal Andrew Feldman running around Day 1 of AFT’s Convention — amplifying the work of the 1.88 million member union to fight for worker’s rights and to stand up against threats to our democracy.

06/01/2026

In this media landscape, it’s not enough to solely focus on cable news and traditional media. You have to make sure you are meeting people where they are, and that your voice is being heard across platforms — not just longstanding outlets. More and more people around the country, and the world, are getting their daily news from independent sources across Youtube, Substack, TikTok, Instagram, and podcasts.

As always, our team is making sure the voices we work with are heard, no matter where people may get their news. Whether it’s calling out dangerous Supreme Court rulings, or shining a light on the corruption inside Trump’s DOJ, we’ll be sure the alarm bell is sounded anywhere and everywhere.

1️⃣Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson joined I’ve Had It Podcast News & Under the Desk News – calling out the SCOTUS decision to invalidate a Colorado law to protect children from the dangerous practices of so-called "conversion therapy,” and diving into how we stand up for LGBTQ+ people across the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVgXsYchaLQ&list=PLa2mr0CgSHfgNL0ORZF2EA4tIFIYQOhYg&index=1

2️⃣You could find former US Pardon Attorney Lawyer Oyer on a range of new media shows – breaking down all the latest around Trump’s outrageous $1.776 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ slush fund on The PoliticsGirl Podcast, The Don Lemon Show, Slate’s What Next, Strict Scrutiny, Katie Couric, The Jim Acosta Show and MeidasTouch’s Scott MacFarlane Reports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM525RHp-yM

3️⃣AFT President Randi Weingarten joined MeidasTouch’s Scott MacFarlane Reports to dive into her major address outlining her first-of-its-kind framework for AI in the classroom that stresses the importance of keeping up with technology while also protecting our next generation’s education and growth from unchecked AI and Big Tech private interests.
https://macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/your-kids-and-their-screens-live

4️⃣And Democracy Forward’s President & CEO Skye Perryman joined Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner, diving into Trump’s weaponization of the DOJ. She also joined Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast and previewed Democracy Forward’s historic counter-protest to Turning Point USA’s tour stop on Baylor University campus on Lincoln Square’s The Revolution.
https://youtu.be/XgRJxYFnXDc?si=3NKxvQiesD5r0nw3

05/29/2026

We’re fired up to be a part of the grassroots movement to , fight corporate greed & get dark money out of politics. Our team joined the Michiganders for Money out of Politics - MMOP campaign in Lansing this week to turn in over 560k voter signatures. Onward to the ballot!

04/10/2026

For over five weeks, TSA officers across the country were forced to show up to work without being paid to ensure the safety of the flying public and our airports – all because Congress refused to take swift action. The partial government shutdown has devastated the lives of TSA officers and they are still in the process of picking up the pieces of their lives. After just starting to bounce back from the last government shutdown in October, their lives were once again thrown into turmoil. Our team has worked tirelessly alongside AFGE to lift up their voices and share their stories across news platforms and outlets to spotlight the struggles they face everyday.

This shutdown, which still has not ended, has been a rapidly evolving situation that brought many twists and turns. Our mission has been, and will continue to be, to keep the impact the shutdown was and is still having on workers in the news week after week, while also being on the frontlines battling back against misconceptions and making sure reporters had the most up-to-date and accurate information.

You can hear directly from a handful of the TSA workers our team has the privilege of working with across the news, including Good Morning America, CNN, MS NOW, FOX News, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, People Magazine, New York Times, AP, PBS News, NPR, and many others.

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5767002/iran-war-week-5-trumps-mixed-messages-tsa-back-pay

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6392069138112

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tsa-officer-lost-drowning-works-without-pay-shutdown/

https://www.ms.now/news/tsa-worker-slams-lawmakers-missed-paycheck-homeland-security-shutdown-immigration

https://people.com/tsa-employee-is-at-risk-of-losing-child-custody-due-to-missed-payments-union-leader-says-11937608

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/politics/tsa-union-ice-airport-security-trump.html

04/08/2026

Job Alert🚨 We’re hiring! Join our team as a Communications Fellow as we work with leaders, advocates, & experts to fight for our democracy in a busy 2026 election year!

Check out the description below & send applications to [email protected].

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04/01/2026

It may be April Fools’ Day, but there’s no joke to be had in the massive organizing and demonstrating we saw this past weekend all across the country, in each corner of the United States. While millions of people showed up to the over 3,100 demonstrations, the No Kings protest also showed up in your news of the day, on your TV, and in your favorite Substack show.

Ahead of this past Saturday’s nationwide action, we booked the leaders we work with across national airwaves to preview the upcoming monumental protests and to sound the alarm against the Trump administration.

Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson joined MS NOW’s The Weeknight, The Joy Reid Show, Lincoln Square Media, and The Siren Network – pushing back against the administration’s relentless attacks on the LGBTQIA+ community.

AFT President Randi Weingarten joined The Siren Network and spoke with Spectrum News ahead of Saturday, telling Spectrum – “No Kings is about how we fight this kind of not listening to people across America and how we fight to regain our fundamental freedoms.”

Committee to Protect Health Care Executive Director Dr. Rob Davidson dove into why frontline doctors were taking to the streets in their communities on No Kings, telling Spectrum News – “As physicians, we swore an oath to our patients. We think the people in charge also swore an oath to their constituents, to the Constitution, and they’re not upholding it.”

And AFSCME President Lee Saunders joined MS NOW’s The Weeknight, spotlighting how working people are coming together, speaking up and standing up, to show the country that people care, and they are willing to fight for better.

And it didn’t end there! No matter what rally you attended, you could follow Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson, AFT President Randi Weingarten, and AFSCME President Lee Saunders as they joined on-the-ground coverage from MS NOW Reports and MS NOW’s PoliticsNation with Rev. Al Sharpton as they headlined in LA, Minneapolis, and DC.

https://www.ms.now/ms-now/watch/it-could-be-the-biggest-one-yet-jacob-soboroff-reports-from-the-no-kings-protest-in-los-angeles-2494199875855

https://www.youtube.com/live/gC1-ZSUb-tk?si=c7DDF7kYb6996PWy&t=2310

https://www.thesirennetwork.com/p/the-dam-is-breaking-no-kings-3-projected

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/no-kings-trump-must-go-human-rights

https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern-california/politics/2026/03/27/no-kings-march-28

03/06/2026

From a historic contract ratification for Southern autoworkers, to calling out the real problems facing everyday Americans that the Trump administration refuses to address, we were in the fight every day in February, making an impact and amplifying the voices of workers, advocates, and leaders. As we dive headfirst into March, here’s a snapshot of some of the highlights from last month:

1️⃣ UAW International Union at Volkswagen Chattanooga made history when they officially ratified their historic, first-ever contract, delivering 20 percent across-the-board wage increases, affordable health care, real job security, and more for the 3,200 workers at Volkswagen Chattanooga. You can read more about this historic win for Southern autoworkers here in NPR:

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/19/nx-s1-5711458/union-uaw-volkswagen-tennessee-contract-vote

2️⃣ AFT President Randi Weingarten joined The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali to dive into the real depth of the affordability crisis that’s hitting working families the hardest and the truly dire financial situations they are facing under President Trump’s failed economic policies.

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/trump-and-the-broligarchy-strike?r=d1al6&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

3️⃣ In an immediate reaction to Trump’s State of The Union, Kelly Dietrich, founder of the National Democratic Training Committee, called out Trump’s failure to address the real problems everyday Americans are facing ahead of the midterms in The Independent –

“The problems haven’t changed, no matter what he wants us to believe. The man is not in touch with what it means to be a normal person. He’s in his billionaire bubble.”

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-performance-state-of-the-union-b2927048.html

4️⃣Democracy Forward’s President & CEO Skye Perryman joined The Andy Beshear Podcast this month to break down the legal challenges her team at Democracy Forward has continued to spearhead and bring against the Administration, from defending voting rights, to protecting SNAP benefits, and restoring the right to legal counsel for those in ICE’s custody.

https://youtu.be/RnaCA4B8Keo?si=ymDWMTyrl8tclER4&t=2783

5️⃣And check out former US Pardon Attorney Lawyer Oyer in Vanity Fair and New York Magazine, uncovering the wild west and total decimation of the pardon system under the Trump administration.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/presidential-pardons-trumps-america

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-pardon-office-decimated-ghislaine-maxwell.html

02/06/2026

We have been cooking with gas to start the new year — proudly working alongside union leaders, advocates, experts, and legal defenders all in the fight for our democracy. As we wrap up the first week of February, we’re taking a moment to look back on the work we’ve done the past month to call out attacks and demand better for our country:

1️⃣Already hitting the shelves in The Atlantic’s February 2026 print edition, we are proud to have worked with The Atlantic and AFGE to spotlight hundreds of federal workers and show America the hard work and unique talents that have been lost due to the Trump administration’s purge of the federal workforce.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/02/trump-federal-worker-layoffs-interviews/685321/

2️⃣Dr. Erin Stevens, a Minneapolis–Saint Paul-based hospital OB/GYN and member of the Committee to Protect Health Care, joined Aaron Parnas amid the growing protests against ICE in Minnesota to share her critical, on-the-ground perspective of what patients and health care professionals are facing as ICE continues to invade their communities and now enters their hospitals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uAAWc0wqS4

3️⃣Ipas has kept their foot on the gas to call out the impacts of the Trump administration's devastating attacks on reproductive rights and global health. From an expanded Global Gag Rule, to the admin’s dangerous ‘America First’ strategy, Ipas has been at the forefront of pushing back on these attacks.

https://healthpolicy-watch.news/latest-us-restrictions-on-aid-bully-recipients-to-accept-extremist-ideology/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/health/health-agreements-us-africa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ElA.SZko.jRTxHqEHfcC_&smid=url-share

4️⃣Amid the swath of legal news, former US Pardon Attorney Lawyer Oyer continues to shed light into Trump’s corruption, breaking down his erosion of the DOJ and exposing his rapidly growing pardon economy. Check out some of her conversations with Sharon McMahon on The Preamble and Ben Meiselas on MeidasTouch.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DTtXAphge2L/?hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s63N4MteZFk

5️⃣As the Trump admin continues to wreak havoc nationally and internationally, including invading Venezuela last month, Kelly Dietrich, founder of the National Democratic Training Committee, joined The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali to break down how Democrats must meet this moment and mobilize the majority into action ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thelefthook/p/how-democrats-should-message-to-mobilize?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

6️⃣We’ve been privileged to start working alongside former FBI agent and DOJ prosecutor Tony Box. Tune into his interview on No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen to hear more of his expert analysis on the myriad of ways DHS and the DOJ has been straying from appropriate protocol as ICE’s occupation in MN has intensified.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7YvGAnR25U

01/07/2026

New year, New team member -- Welcome, Ella! 🎉