Alexander McCoy helps organized people beat organized money.

Political Strategist · Campaign Leader

I build and run national campaigns. Over a decade leading field programs of hundreds of organizers, raising millions of dollars for movement organizations, and winning two fights Washington considered closed: the first impeachment of Donald Trump and the end of the war in Afghanistan. Since 2023 I have worked on the politics of artificial intelligence.

The Track RecordWork With Me
The Politics
of AIdata centers · labor · big tech money
Progressive
Foreign Policyending the forever wars
National Campaign
Leadershiphundreds of organizers · union workforces
// Now

The politics of AI.

Alexander has spent the past year working full-time on AI politics: as the founding head of the left coalition at Humans First, then helping incubate its successor organizations. His focus is where AI meets working people. Hiring and firing by algorithm, surveillance on the job, data centers in the neighborhood, and a tech industry spending hundreds of millions to keep all of it unregulated.

He came to the issue before it was one. In 2023 he advised New York State Senator Kristen Gonzalez, chair of the Senate Technology Committee, on AI regulation.

"This is not left versus right. It's bottom versus top."
Alexander McCoy speaking at a town hall on AI
Town hall · 2026
// The record

Campaigns that won.

Alexander McCoy with veterans holding End the Forever War signs at the Capitol
End the Forever War · Capitol Hill
Alexander McCoy with fellow veterans and families at a march
Marching with veterans and families

Federal legislation through a gridlocked Congress. The first impeachment of Donald Trump. The end of America's longest war. A national youth-vote operation across eight battleground states. See the full record →

// As seen in
The New York Times · Reuters · Foreign Policy · HuffPost
MSNBC · CNN · BBC · NPR · TEDx

Named one of Washingtonian's "Most Influential People in Washington." His campaigns are covered in Alexander Ward's The Internationalists (Penguin, 2024) and George Packer's Afghanistan reporting in The Atlantic.

Work with Alexander

Campaign strategy for organizations, donor advising for funders, and advisory support for candidates — with a specialty in the politics of AI. Consulting →

Writing & press

Bylines, broadcast, the TEDx talk, and a press kit built for fast turnarounds. Writing & Press →