Show Me Victories (SMV) is an experienced communications and digital media agency focused on public communications. SMV provides organizations and campaigns with a unified positive brand across all forms of communications, including social media platforms, digital advertising, email services, and text messaging services. SMV currently manages the social media accounts of over four-dozen organizations.

SMV has extensive organizing experience and specializes in communications for labor union organizations, political campaigns, non-profits, and progressive advocacy groups. Our team has the capability and flexibility to provide strategic tested messaging. We place digital advertising to focus on a targeted audience, garnering their attention and translating that attention into taking action.

SMV has years of experience in both opposition research and policy/issue research.  An election is a choice. Opposition research allows you to communicate why you are the best choice. A thorough understanding of your opponent’s weaknesses and strengths, as well as your own, will prepare you for possible attacks. It will also equip you with the tools to respond with your own. Whether it is drafting a campaign platform, preparing for a debate, or researching the players, hurdles and possible outcomes of a current issue, SMV provides you with policy expertise.

Our issue and policy research is not limited to a political campaign. We have experience researching on behalf of labor unions, non-profits, and progressive advocacy groups. This research helps shape the narrative on the desired topic.

Show Me Victories has a wealth of experience researching the opinions of the public on behalf of state leaders, institutions, and for a wide spectrum of issue campaigns. We have been sought out by various groups and political candidates for our successful tradition of providing the messaging, targeting, and strategy to win elections.

The research generated by SMV informs strategy and ensures decisions are data-driven. Our analysis provides detailed demographic and attitudinal subgroup evaluations and regional breakdowns of the results. The analysis includes a detailed assessment of the issues, thorough strategic recommendations, precise targeting, identification of objectives and key messages. In short, we provide a clear road map to help our clients make informed decisions and determine the best course of action.

Today’s campaigns have more options than ever to talk to voters. Nevertheless, targeted and creative direct mail continues to be an effective campaign tool. SMV designs and targets direct mail for candidates, ballot measures, independent expenditures, labor unions, and others. We deliver the right message to the right voter.

Our direct mail campaigns are visually captivating, based on research, polling, and voter modeling, and contain messages that are uniquely tailored to our targeted households. Your mail budget will be used in the most effective and cost-efficient manner.

Show Me Victories (SMV) and Braxton Payne served as the Digital Director for the Proposition A campaign in Missouri to repeal the “right-to-work” law. We Are Missouri was the “no” on Prop A campaign committee that led the charge to repeal “right-to-work.”

On August 7th, voters of Missouri sent a clear message. With a victory of 67.5% to 32.5% voters repeal “right-to-work.” Missourians sent a clear message by winning 99 of our 114 counties in the state. A state that just two years ago elected Trump by 19% with Trump winning 110 of our 114 counties.

In 2017, the polling provided by Show Me Victories helped to elect the first-ever female mayor of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, Lyda Krewson. Our team began with a benchmark poll in late 2016 to measure the attitudes and perceptions of the electorate.

This polling dictated the tenor, tone, and substance of the campaign advertisements. Throughout the campaign, SMV continually polled the electorate to determine the effectiveness of the campaign advertisements (such as digital, television, and mail) and to determine if adjustments to the campaign tactics or strategy needed to be made to ensure the core issues the candidate stood for could be better received. 

Keep Government Accountable (KGA) is an “independent expenditure” political action committee (IE PAC) that supported the election of State Auditor Nicole Galloway. As an IE PAC, Keep Government Accountable was prohibited from coordinating with the campaign with one exception. Galloway could fundraise for the PAC, but she could not, nor could any member of her campaign: direct spending, provide non-public data, or coordinate any other campaign-related materials.

Proposition Z was a ballot initiative passed in St. Louis County in November 2018. It was a 1/8th of 1% sales tax to provide sustainable funding for the Saint Louis Zoo. Proposition Z will not only contribute to the operation of the Saint Louis Zoo’s campus in Forest Park, but also its expansion into St. Louis County. The multimillion-dollar investment in a new facility in north county will include a conservation and animal science center with a public safari park and outdoor family adventures. Proposition Z passed by a vote of 61% to 39%.