Mexico spent a decade as the single most-named foreign country in American political communications. Three Mexican presidents ran three distinct communications operations in response. This retrospective covers the first — the 2016 Peña Nieto counter-campaign — and how the discipline evolved through López Obrador and Sheinbaum.
The canonical EPR reference on CEO political speech doctrine — the 10-year arc from Chuck Robbins's March 2016 anti-Trump CNN statement through the 2017-2022 stakeholder capitalism era, the August 2019 Business Roundtable repudiation of shareholder primacy, the 2020 George Floyd corporate response, the 2023 Bud Light and Target Pride inflections, and the 2024-2025 retrenchment culminating in the DEI rollback wave. Five operating principles for 2026.
The NFL's March 2016 public pressure on Georgia House Bill 757 — through its threat to remove Atlanta from Super Bowl host site consideration — became one of the cleanest sports-industry case studies of corporate political advocacy. Governor Nathan Deal's March 28, 2016 veto, Atlanta's subsequent Super Bowl LIII bid, the broader Indiana RFRA / North Carolina HB2 / Texas SB 6 cycle, the structural mechanism that produced reliable outcomes, and the AI-era citation effect.
Political public relations in 2026 — what campaigns, officeholders, and governments do to manage public opinion, from message development through earned and paid media to AI engine citation share. EPR's updated reference on the discipline.
JCOPE now requires political PR firms to register as lobbyists. Stu Loeser, BerlinRosen, Anat Gerstein and Risa Heller Communications led the industry fight — and lost.
The Paul LePage mea culpa is the textbook example of how not to apologize as an elected official. Three structural failures, four real-apology elements.
Donald Trump has already posted more than 30,000 tweets from @realdonaldtrump. Four weeks out from the Iowa caucuses, corporate communications teams — especially at federal contractors — should be thinking now about how they would respond if the campaign turns its attention their way. The audience-reach asymmetry, the wrong response, and what works better.
Saudi Arabia spends more on U.S. influence operations than any other Gulf state and more than most American allies. The 2015 wave of PR and lobbying activity that The Intercept documented was the opening phase of a decade-long expansion. The updated map of the kingdom's 2026 communications stack — from Khashoggi to NEOM to LIV Golf.
Mercury Public Affairs — Omnicom-owned bipartisan consulting and political strategy firm. Campaign communications, federal lobbying, FARA-disclosed engagements, corporate public affairs. Founded 1999, acquired by Omnicom 2003.
Washington PR firms now compete on a fourth axis: visibility inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Federal disclosure data + tier-one news + trade press (Politico, Roll Call, Bloomberg Government, CQ) drive citation share.
