Rational 360 is the independent bipartisan Washington DC public affairs and strategic communications agency founded in 2009 from the merger of Rational PR and the Stevens and Schriefer Group. CEO Patrick Dorton, former Special Assistant to President Clinton. Joe Lockhart associated.
Kivvit no longer operates as a standalone brand. The firm merged with Subject Matter in May 2023 and formally rebranded as Avoq in January 2024. Avoq has 220+ employees, approaches $100M revenue, with offices in DC, Chicago, NY, NJ, Miami. Kivvit co-founder Eric Sedler continues as Avoq managing partner.
Six acts of MBS's international diplomacy — from Trump's 2017 orb to the May 2025 chip deal — including Khashoggi, the Biden fist bump, the Beijing-brokered Iran rapprochement, the 2034 World Cup, and the stagecraft playbook behind it all.
Firehouse Strategies: Public Affairs Firm.
DOJ has not brought a new § 611 FARA charging case since September 2024 — while continuing to prosecute pending FARA and FARA-adjacent matters, including the April 2025 Bendler plea and the June 2025 Sun superseding indictment. What the Bondi memo changed, and what it did not.
Federal lobbying hit $4.4B in 2024. EPR's directory of the leading federal lobbying firms — Brownstein, Akin Gump, BGR, Holland & Knight, Ballard, Squire Patton Boggs, Cornerstone, Van Scoyoc — plus AI lobbying, FARA, and how modern firms actually operate.
EPR's Public Affairs and Political Communications pillar — the discipline, the seven sub-specialties, the press pool fragmentation, coalition operating principles, and how organizations win policy Citation Share in the AI Communications era.
Wire services and .gov own the facts. Think tanks own the framing.
Schedule III hit April 28, 2026. DEA June 29 hearing on adult-use. State-by-state. NCIA, USCC, MPP. The 2026 cannabis public affairs landscape.
Pillar: Crypto & Web3 Communications · everything-pr.com/crypto-web3
