We're Supporting Powerful New Voices
American democracy needs more candidates who stand up for their communities, and those candidates deserve a competitive edge.
The Most Powerful Tools
For too long, sophisticated campaign tools have only been accessible to well-funded establishment candidates. Slingshot Strategies offers an array of high-level campaign capabilities to the candidates that American communities need most.
The Best Candidates
Slingshot Strategies empowers candidates and causes from overlooked and underserved constituencies. These candidates and causes provide new perspectives and energy to tackle America's greatest challenges—Slingshot Strategies provides the tools and resources they need to overcome all barriers in their way.
Our Team
Evan Roth Smith
Co-Founder
Evan Roth Smith is a Democratic campaign consultant and pollster whose work includes federal, state, and local races, as well as independent expenditures non-profit advisory. He has run polling, data, and targeting operations in every state and hundreds of districts, as well as France, Japan, Israel, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Canada, India, China, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. Roth Smith is the co-author of Putin’s Master Plan, and his polling and writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Politico, Daily Kos, and Newsday, among other outlets.
Sam Haass
Co-Founder
Sam Haass is a Democratic political operative and strategist with experience in elections at the municipal, state, and federal levels, as well as with national issue organizations and independent expenditures. He has run campaigns as well as field, finance, advance, and political teams, and his prior campaign work includes Cory Booker in New Jersey, Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, and Suraj Patel in New York. Haass has appeared as a political commentator on SiriusXM radio.
Our Work
Our clients have included:
