Upper Left Strategies
Strategy for winning campaigns and organizations.
Campaigns, independent expenditures, public affairs and voter texting since 2018.
Seattle, Washington
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Girmay Zahilay, “Leaders We Trust”TV, King County Executive2025
Public affairs
Nez Perce Tribe, Snake RiverAdvocacy mail2025 to 2026
Public affairs
Protect Pay TransparencyMail for Emery Reddy2026
Text video
Southwest WA Priorities, “Bad for Our Kids”Independent expenditure, MMS2026
Mail
Sharon Tomiko SantosState House, 37th LD2026
Mail
Toshiko HasegawaKing County Council, District 22026
Michael Fertakis, Senior Principal, and Michael Charles, Partner.
By the numbers, since 2018
In campaign and client programs managed.
Text messages sent to voters through Downballot.
Mail pieces designed and dropped.
Commercials and videos produced for TV, digital and text.
Upper Left Strategies is a Seattle firm built on Democratic campaign experience and trusted by business. We have guided winning campaigns from local races to statewide office, run the independent expenditures that decide legislative majorities, and represented tribes, companies and institutions before city halls, county councils, the Legislature in Olympia and decision-makers across the Pacific Northwest.
Numerous national political awards, including three 2026 Reed Awards and three Pollies from the American Association of Political Consultants.
What we do
Three practices, one senior team. The people who write your plan are the people who run it.
Managed political texting, built for the races further down the ballot.
Downballot is our texting practice. We handle 10DLC compliance, the copy, the send and the replies, then report back. Programs start as low as 8¢ a text and can launch in as little as 48 hours.