Reviewed September 7, 2026. Features depend on your enabled modules, permissions, and configured integrations.
Press & embargoes
Press releases carry a status (draft, published) and an embargo-until timestamp: internal until it passes, then live on the public press feed automatically. Drafts and embargoed releases never leak through the public endpoint.
Set a Sunday 5 PM embargo for a Monday rollout and the release handles itself. No one has to remember to push a button at dawn, and reporters holding the embargo copy see it go live exactly when you told them it would.
Newsletters
Choose the newsletter audience explicitly: voters uses the office’s jurisdiction-scoped voter file and segment criteria; subscribers uses the office’s opt-in subscriber ledger. Review the recipient preview before sending. These are distinct audience sources.
A send records per-recipient outcomes and errors. A successful send records acceptance by the configured email transport; it is not proof that a person received or read the message. Review failures before retrying.
Opens & unsubscribes
Configured newsletter links support per-recipient open tracking; subscriber sends include an unsubscribe footer. Recorded opens indicate that the tracking image was requested, not a guaranteed human read.
Subscriber opt-outs are excluded from subsequent subscriber sends. Keep that ledger current and review the selected audience source on each newsletter.
Segments
Save named criteria for recurring newsletter audiences and inspect the preview. Voter audiences are constrained by the office’s structured jurisdiction; subscriber audiences resolve against the office’s own ledger, excluding opt-outs.
Available criteria depend on the audience source. Do not assume a subscriber segment supports every voter-file filter or engagement-based targeting.
Subscribers & opt-outs
The list holds name, email, ZIP, tags, and the opt-in date. It is legally the office's own, never imported from supporter lists without fresh opt-in. The opt-out list sits alongside and is enforced automatically on every send.
Treat the opt-in date as sacred; it is the paper trail that separates a constituent newsletter from campaign mail. When in doubt about a list someone hands you, don't import it. Invite those people to subscribe instead.
News & blog posts
Blog posts are separate from press releases. Draft and edit office news in Comms, then publish selected posts to the office’s public blog when public access is enabled. Kennedy can prepare a draft; a staff member publishes it.