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, websites, apps, text messaging services, and more. Show Me Victories currently manages the social media accounts of over four dozen organizations.

Show Me Victories has extensive organizing experience and specializes in communications for labor union organizations, political campaigns, non-profits, and advocacy groups. We have a proven track record of providing crucial core research to our clients to ensure successful message development, coordination, and dissemination. We are a uniquely qualified team,  made up of experienced digital and traditional communication experts with varied backgrounds and over seven decades of combined experience.

Opposition research is a critical component of most campaigns as it enables a campaign to effectively juxtapose themselves with the opposition, showcasing why they are the best choice. By gaining a thorough understanding of an opponent’s strengths and weaknesses, a campaign can develop an effective strategy and hold their opponent accountable.

At SMV, we specialize in providing opposition research, self-research, and vulnerability assessments for campaigns and causes. Our research team has extensive experience conducting opposition research in Missouri and across the country, for a range of political candidates, elected officials, business leaders, and key political players. Our team has worked on research projects from local municipal races to gubernatorial races.

SMV is skilled at presenting large quantities of information to our clients in a usable and informative manner. We conduct thorough searches of legal and financial records, political records, media, newspaper articles, and other public records, including voting histories and rhetorical statements.

Our research book serves as the “campaign playbook” for campaign staff, providing the necessary research for message testing by pollsters and supplying content for media consultants to implement in an advertising plan.

Our issue and policy research is not limited to political campaigns. We have experience researching on behalf of labor unions, nonprofits, and advocacy groups. This research helps shape the narrative on the desired topic.

SMV has extensive experience conducting public opinion research on behalf of political leaders, institutions, and issue campaigns covering a wide range of topics. We have a proven track record of providing effective messaging, targeting, and strategic advice that has yielded long term, return clients who continue to utilize our research expertise. 

Our research is the foundation of our data-driven decision-making approach. We provide in-depth analysis of demographic and attitudinal subgroups, as well as regional breakdowns of research results. Our research generates strategic recommendations, precise targeting, and identification of key messages and objectives. In short, our clear roadmap helps our clients make informed decisions and determine the best course of action.

In today’s political landscape, campaigns have a multitude of platforms to reach out to voters. Targeted and imaginative direct mail remains a reliable and effective tool for political campaigns. At SMV, our experience in designing and targeting direct mail for candidates, independent expenditures, labor unions, and others makes us uniquely qualified to deliver customized, timely and effective direct mail campaigns to your targeted audience.

Our visually stunning direct mail campaigns are based on research, polling, and voter modeling, with tailored messages to our targeted households. We collaborate with our clients to ensure that their budget is effectively used to target likely voters, members, activists, and others. With our in-house creative team, we can transform your vision into an efficient and cohesive direct mail program that resonates with your audience.

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%.