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Kansas City Voters Pass Five City Questions In Contentious Primary Election

On Tuesday, voters in Kansas City and across Missouri turned out for a partisan primary election that included controversial statewide ballot initiatives and primaries for dozens of federal offices. Even in this environment, they were united on Kansas City’s future, passing a slate of ballot questions to issue new municipal bonds and renew an existing municipal sales tax by wide margins.

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A Lone Star Rising: James Talarico Wins the Democratic Nomination for US Senate in Texas

Convergence is proud to have assisted James Talarico’s historic come-from-behind victory in Texas’s US Senate primary. Serving as the direct mail consultant for Lone Star Rising, the pro-Talarico super PAC, we targeted high-propensity primary voters with Talarico’s values-based messaging, underscored by an electability contrast. Late polling showed that this strategy worked: voters held very positive views of both candidates, but ultimately chose the one they thought had a better chance of winning the seat in November.  See some of the mailers below:

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Convergence Clients Victorious Across the Country and Up and Down the Ballot

Convergence is proud of the part we played in delivering wins for our clients in an election night characterized by big wins for Democrats across the country.

As Democrats respond to an unprecedented assault on the simple “one person, one vote” principle and work to protect the national will of the voters in Congress, Convergence was proud to work alongside longtime client and California Senator Tim Grayson to encourage voters to support Proposition 50, a temporary measure that will keep the 2026 midterm elections on a more level playing field and reaffirm California’s long-term commitment to independent redistricting.

Victories didn’t stop in the widely publicized elections in California, New Jersey, and Virginia. Convergence clients helped win municipal elections up and down the east coast, including:

  • Jared Littmann for Annapolis, MD Mayor
  • Dustin Ingalls for Wendell, NC Town Board
  • Dawn Geschwindt for Maidencreek, PA Township Supervisor
  • Leslie Skardon for Charleston, SC City Council

Supervisor-elect Geschwindt’s hard-earned victory was just one part of a larger victory in Berks County, Pennsylvania, where Convergence worked with the county’s Democratic Committee to produce persuasion and GOTV mail on behalf of a slate of candidates that won dozens of races countywide and delivered Berks County voters’ support for the retention of three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices.

We’re proud of these results, and of all the wins we helped deliver in 2025. Onward!

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Convergence Recognized for Direct Mail Excellence in US Senate and Mayoral Campaigns

Convergence is proud to have been recognized with awards for excellence in direct mail in the 2024 elections, including a “sweep” of the AAPC Pollies and Campaign and Elections Reed Awards for best mail in an independent expenditure for Mayor. This recognition continues a decade-long run of award-winning mail in Mayoral races around the country.

Ruben Gallego, “Between”
Winner, Gold, 2025 Pollies (Candidate Division – US Senate)

This piece was one in a series of pieces we did to help propel Senator Ruben Gallego to his victory over Republican Kari Lake in November 2024. We physically inserted Kari Lake between the patient and doctor to call attention to her support for extreme abortion bans and her past inflammatory statements.

Before the paid media was in full swing for either campaign, Lake’s highest recalled issue for voters was the border. By September, that changed to abortion, indicating that our campaign made serious inroads in publicizing Kari Lake’s anti-choice views and pulling swing voters away from her.

Anyone But Aaron Peksin, “Timeline”
Winner, Gold, 2025 Pollies (IE Divison – Mayoral)
Winner, 2025 Reed Awards (IE Division – Mayoral)

The 202 San Francisco mayoral race saw record-breaking spending and crowded mailboxes. This piece utilized humor and old pop culture references to catch voters’ attention and highlight the worsening crises of homelessness, affordability, and crime since the year 2000 – the year Supervisor and Mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin first took office. The goal of this piece was to place the blame squarely at the feet of Peskin with a simple and succinct message: he’s been in office for far too long and San Francisco’s issues have only gotten worse on his watch.

Thank you to the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) and Campaigns & Elections Magazine for the honor as well as our peers, who judged our work anonymously. Congratulations to our fellow winners!

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First Latina Elected to Fort Worth City Council

Jeanette Martinez made history in Fort Worth, Texas on Saturday, becoming the first Latina elected to serve on the City Council. Jeanette was born and raised in Fort Worth and is a leader who will continue giving back to her community in this new role. 

Convergence Targeted is proud of our work for an independent expenditure supporting Jeanette’s campaign, creating mail pieces that complemented the campaign, highlighting  Jeanette’s experience, her plan to address the issues Fort Worth is facing, and making contrasts to her opponent. 

Congratulations to Councilmember-Elect Jeanette Martinez on her historic win!

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Voters across Kansas City Metro Approve Common-Sense Marijuana Sales Taxes

Yesterday, voters in 30 jurisdictions across the Kansas City, Missouri metro area approved a common-sense sales taxes on recreational marijuana. Convergence is proud of the small part we played in these wins, serving as a consultant to Show Me Stronger Communities, a PAC that communicated the benefits of these taxes to voters in Independence, Missouri and across Jackson County. 

Convergence created a campaign site, direct mail, and campaign literature for SMSC that highlighted the concrete benefits of marijuana sales taxes for the entire region and for individual municipalities, and employed imagery and language that addressed the concerns of voters who may not have supported Missouri’s vote to legalize recreational marijuana last year.

Congratulations Show Me Stronger Communities on this incredible win!

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Tucson Voters Pass Prop 411 – “Fix our streets, without raising taxes!”

Voters in Tucson overwhelmingly passed Prop 411 yesterday after a month of voting by mail. Convergence Targeted’s team was very proud to work alongside a broad coalition of elected officials, advocacy organizations, professional associations, and community leaders to support Prop 411, which will fund repairs and improvements to every neighborhood street in Tucson over the next ten years, without raising taxes.

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