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Campaigns Spend Millions to Influence Voters. This Works Better | Katie Paris | TED

Katie Paris quit her career in Washington, DC, to figure out how to make politics feel less like strangers shouting at each other and more like friends looking out for each other. In this practical talk, she reveals why conversations between real people can have a bigger impact on elections than anything millions of campaign…

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Katie Paris quit her career in Washington, DC, to figure out how to make politics feel less like strangers shouting at each other and more like friends looking out for each other. In this practical talk, she reveals why conversations between real people can have a bigger impact on elections than anything millions of campaign dollars can buy. (Recorded at TED Democracy Philadelphia on June 13, 2026)

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  1. @bayzidhossainrifat

    October 17, 2026 at 11:05 am

    🎉❤

  2. @SteeleHand

    October 17, 2026 at 11:07 am

    Politics give women and weak men the ick because women and weak men feel that the personal is the political.

    The personal IS political to emotionally incontinent people.

    • @cheeselovingtree

      October 17, 2026 at 11:12 am

      @SteeleHand ah of course, you are the arbiter of right and wrong and everyone who disagrees with you is “emotional”

    • @SteeleHand

      October 17, 2026 at 11:26 am

      ​@jasons6229do you have children? If not your shallow interpretation will finally deepen when you do.

    • @CeeJMantis

      October 17, 2026 at 11:31 am

      ​@cheeselovingtreeYou can check their comment history. They’re just a repugnant person. There’s no point engaging with them. That only gives the perception that what they have to say has validity. People like them don’t deserve your time.

    • @SteeleHand

      October 17, 2026 at 11:58 am

      ​@jasons6229so no you don’t have children. Children have everything to do with everything….. the future they will live in is being decided every day in the world of politics.

      But, a government school standout like you would be blind to that reality. Cause your government school teacher taught you to be so.

      Forgive your mother. She knew not what she was doing to you.

    • @56whs

      October 18, 2026 at 5:59 pm

      @SteeleHand women and weak men? 🙄 Seriously? Politics is extremely personal. Our personal freedoms, our bodily rights and protections, and the decisions about how our collective tax dollars are allocated are about as personal as you can get.

  3. @MidNightRider2001

    October 17, 2026 at 11:24 am

    This woman said absolutely nothing about fixing the problems with government. She’s frightening.😂

  4. @saiskanda

    October 17, 2026 at 11:29 am

    hmm the timing

  5. @TardigradeTough

    October 17, 2026 at 11:32 am

    I miss the old Ted when it was interesting and not ran by woke ideologs

  6. @murdog62

    October 17, 2026 at 11:32 am

    I got “the ick” from her 30 seconds in. And I’m in violent agreement with her about politics.

  7. @dougclem7711

    October 17, 2026 at 11:43 am

    HOWARD L ICK NUT. OR IS IT NUT L ICK?❤🇨🇦🌈💙🐈‍⬛

  8. @ExistentialWolf-d1w

    October 17, 2026 at 11:50 am

    ♻🎟 I _get;_ indigestion from guilt or age, struggling to remember mood, and effort of social encounters, but politics is someone’s job. Elect someone competent … don’t drag the Kraken up with the catch. :[]

  9. @Jasonxbr

    October 17, 2026 at 11:57 am

    You mean the oligarchs are influencing and corrupted with their self-serving- selfishness- 🐔🕳🐷👻🐕🐀🔥🗑🤡🎪💀💔💩🐩🪱👎😈💯

  10. @pumbabill

    October 17, 2026 at 12:03 pm

    So confused and ignorant.

  11. @Air-MinecraftYT

    October 17, 2026 at 12:19 pm

    The best channel for improve my english

    • @doubleuenbeeeh

      October 18, 2026 at 9:59 am

      Clearly not😂

  12. @BeforeYouGetHere

    October 17, 2026 at 1:09 pm

    I’ve turned it out. I got my ballot in the mail yesterday and filled it out. Lick the envelope, signed it and mailed it. The choice was obvious. And mail in voting should be protected at all costs.

    • @BonnieShadow33

      October 21, 2026 at 2:40 pm

      Mine is filled out and I’ll drop it off tomorrow (not gonna trust the mail with something this important).

  13. @chasmenear7130

    October 17, 2026 at 2:03 pm

    Allow me to condense. Because IT SUCKS.
    Greed driven, power driven, a manual of errors, and a litany of deceit. It stands in line right up there with religion and money as the third in a trio of human created destroyers.

    • @BonnieShadow33

      October 21, 2026 at 2:41 pm

      And can you summarize what she said to do about it? 🙃

  14. @KathyForTruth

    October 17, 2026 at 6:18 pm

    Politics is fighting over who should tell us what to do. It’s about deciding who steals out money. It’s naturally ick. Nobody wants to be part of a cesspool.

  15. @Enidx10

    October 18, 2026 at 12:43 am

    The epitome of suicidal empathy.

  16. @doubleuenbeeeh

    October 18, 2026 at 9:59 am

    That unhinged Karen energy in full force out there

  17. @h3lene

    October 21, 2026 at 12:16 am

    this is very important to learn

  18. @BonnieShadow33

    October 21, 2026 at 2:44 pm

    I agree with this, but I can’t organize a group (for many reasons, including chronic illness). How would I go about finding an existing group to join?

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