Our Programs
Mod Comms
Building the premiere network promoting moderate voices and ideas across the media landscape, with a special focus on new media
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
For too long, the far left and far right have dominated online conversations, promoting extreme voices and crowding out the mainstream middle. The Moderate Communications Center (“Mod Comms”) is here to change that. Mod Comms is a versatile communications shop filling an important void by amplifying dynamic and compelling center-left leaders and ideas across the new media landscape. We focus on finding, curating and building a pipeline of digital content featuring a new generation of talented moderates on major new media platforms to challenge the dominance of the extremes. Our aim is simple and ambitious—to become the loudest, smartest, and most effective communications machine promoting moderates in America.
What sets Mod Comms apart?
We are building Mod Comms to be a first-mover in the political media space—proactively championing moderate leaders and ideas through a dynamic mix of timely clips, creative content, and strategic press engagement to ensure the centrist movement cuts through the noise. From YouTube shorts to Instagram reels and the latest podcasts, our mission is to be the dominant network amplifying center-left voices across the platforms that shape public discourse. Along with our promotional work, our team continuously monitors digital, traditional and emerging outlets to capture breakthrough moments, highlight trends, surface talent, and identify strategic opportunities to drive our national conversation toward the center.
Contact Us
Reach out with questions about Mod Comms
Kate deGruyter | Senior Director of Communications
Press Contact
Lily Cohen | Press Advisor
MOD COMMS IN ACTION
Helping Get the Messaging Right through our Signal Project
To fight back effectively against Trump and Republicans’ chaotic and damaging policies, Democrats must separate the signal (things that matter to swing voters) from the noise (things that matter to those who work in and around government but lack political salience with everyone else). To that end, we created the Signal Project, an 18-month campaign that identifies which Trump Administration actions are most resonant with key voters. Our public opinion research has found that the best way to persuade voters in the middle is by focusing on the GOP actions that will drive up costs and jeopardize the safety and security of Americans, their families, and their communities. We’re pushing Democrats to go on offense and arming them with compelling stories and data that expose Republicans on the issues that matter the most to the voters they need to win back power.
Elevating a New Generation of Moderate Leaders
During the 2024 presidential election, Mod Comms orchestrated media tours to help book talented center-left Democratic mayors on local television and radio shows in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to promote the Harris-Walz campaign. The media tours featured Mayor Paige Cognetti of Scranton, PA and Mayor Cavalier Johnson of Milwaukee, WI and generated over a hundred thousand viewer and listener impressions. Mayor Cognetti, a NewDEAL Leader, appeared on the Rick Smith Show as part of our push to reach working-class voters who have tuned out of national media outlets.
Interested in building a megaphone for moderates?
We’re hiring!