Status: on call · A human at the helm
We look at the whole board and play five moves ahead. This is what 25 years of reading races looks like: instinct, recon, triage. PTGR Strategies is that discipline in the shape of a firm: full-engagement Democratic campaign consulting. Federal, state and local. And PTGR STAT: the ER for campaigns in crisis.
Jenn K. · Founder · 25 years in Democratic politics
We don't sleep. Ever.
"We read races."
Intelligence, on call
There is an intelligence layer under everything we run. See it working, live →
Anger without a target is noise.
Anger with a target is mobilization.
First light
Every engagement begins the way a medic begins: assess before you act. The vitals tell you where the race is. The conditions tell you how it got there. Only then does anything else fire. That order is not a style. It is the protocol.
Speed
A crisis compounds by the hour. We read the race, reach the decision, and move while other firms are still scheduling the call or polishing the pitch deck. The speed is not bravado. It is the protocol, working.
The units
Federal. State and local. And the emergency room for when it all goes wrong. Different theaters. The same brain walks into every one of them.
Strat · Federal
Full campaign engagement for competitive Democratic candidates. Your race gets read the way she reads every race: conditions first, then the plan, then the execution. The firm runs all of it, from your first announcement to the last ballot counted.
First announcement → last ballot counted
CTU · State & Local
State Senate. State House. Mayor. City Council.
The same brain, the same discipline, the same protocol that runs federal races, scaled to the race in front of you and never watered down. A smaller theater does not get a smaller read.
Every race we take, we show up to win
Stat · Emergency
This is the unit closest to the founder's first career. When there is no time left, we arrive the way a medic arrives: assessing on the way in, protocol already written, treating what kills the campaign first.
Response window: STAT (we could not resist)
The founder
All three shaped the same discipline: you do not guess under pressure. You assess before you act. You run the protocol until it becomes automatic. Then you run it again. If you have not heard her name, that is the point. She was the architect on races where someone else's name was on the press release.
In emergency medicine, the mechanism of injury tells you what to look for before the injury announces itself. The vitals tell you where the patient is. The scene tells you how they got there. She brought that exact discipline into politics: the district condition tells you how the voter got there. The score tells you where they are. Together they tell you how to reach them. The brain moving across this page is that discipline, running where you can see it.
Triage is not instinct. It is protocol.
Read the interview →Get in touch
Election day does not move. Every week your race goes unread is a week your opponent keeps. We do not take every race; we take the ones where we know we can win. Every inquiry is confidential, and you will hear back from a human. If it cannot wait, say so.
We read races. Ready when you are.