PRJ.DARKPOE // PARTIES

Endorsed by parties.
Trusted by candidates.

Most party websites are embarrassing — built in 2014, last updated in 2019, broken on mobile. The Allied Program rebuilds your party's web infrastructure for the way parties actually work: year-round, multi-cycle, with a referral framework that benefits you and the candidates you support.

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// WHY IT EXISTS
FILE 006
A campaign website expires on Election Day. A party website is permanent infrastructure — built once, maintained across every cycle, signaling competence to every candidate considering whether to run under your banner. It deserves to be treated that way.
— Doctrine, File 006

Built for the operation,
not the cycle.

Party websites have requirements campaign sites don't. We built the package around them, not around the candidate template.

01

Endorsed Candidate Directory

A central, filterable roster of every candidate your party endorses — federal, state, local — with bios, donation links, and event feeds, all updating as people file and withdraw.

02

Year-Round Event Calendar

Conventions, county committee meetings, candidate forums, voter registration drives. Filterable by chapter, county, and event type. RSVP integration, calendar sync, recurring event support.

03

Primary Endorsement Pages

Dedicated pages for primary endorsements with the rationale, the candidate's bio, and direct links to donate or volunteer. Updated cycle by cycle. Archive of historical endorsements.

04

Resource Library

A controlled-access library for campaign training materials, party handbooks, candidate filing guides, and downloadable tools. Public sections for voters, gated sections for active candidates and party officers.

05

Voter Registration Integration

Direct links to your state's online voter registration system, with embedded tracking so you know which referrals come from your site. Reminder workflows for upcoming registration deadlines.

06

Multi-Author CMS

Built for parties where the chair, the comms director, the events coordinator, and the youth chapter lead all need to post. Role-based permissions, editorial review queues, and post scheduling.

07

Officer & Committee Roster

Public-facing leadership directory with bios, roles, and contact methods. Internal-facing committee structure with rotating positions and term tracking. Updated annually after officer elections.

08

Bylaws & Platform Hosting

Permanent, versioned hosting of party bylaws, platform documents, resolutions, and convention records. Searchable. Public archive of historical versions.

Built for the long arc.

Most party committees can't afford agency rates — and they shouldn't have to. Pricing here is structured around a low upfront build plus an ongoing maintenance retainer, scaled to your annual budget and population. The build gets you launched. The retainer keeps it operating, current, and watched over. Quote yourself live below.

// QUOTE INPUTS
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Your committee's annual operating revenue. If you're not sure, use your last full year's TRACER, FEC, or state filing total.

Type any US county or pick a state for state-party pricing.

Adjust if you serve a non-standard region (multi-county, congressional district, etc.).

// LIVE QUOTE
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Pilot Cycle

First three Allied parties booked in 2026 receive a 15% discount on the build and locked retainer pricing for three years. We want anchor partnerships at the state and county level. If your party fits, you'll know.

The Allied Program.

Every party we work with becomes an Allied Party. The arrangement is formalized in a written MOU, structured to comply with campaign finance rules in your state, and built to benefit you, your candidates, and us.

BENEFIT 01

Endorsed Vendor Status.

Your party officially recognizes Project DarkPoe as a preferred web vendor for candidates in your jurisdiction. Documented in writing. Promoted in your candidate onboarding materials, training sessions, and party communications.

BENEFIT 02

Pass-Through Candidate Discount.

Allied parties receive a discount code worth 15% off any candidate tier (Tactical, Operational, or Strategic). The party passes this to its candidates as a benefit of running with your support. Stackable with the Founders' Cycle discount through 2026.

BENEFIT 03

Referral Recognition.

For each referred candidate engagement, the party receives a structured benefit — typically delivered as additional retainer credit, expanded scope, or rolled into renewal pricing. The exact structure is determined with your treasurer to ensure clean compliance with state law and party bylaws.

BENEFIT 04

Election Cycle Priority.

Allied parties receive priority response on rapid-response page deployments, infrastructure incidents, and integration changes during peak election cycles. We hold position for you when it matters most.

BENEFIT 05

Annual Strategy Review.

Once a year, we sit down (in writing or on a call) and review the relationship: what worked, what to refine, what to add. The retainer pricing and scope are revisited at each review. No surprises mid-year.

BENEFIT 06

Mutual NDA Coverage.

The MOU includes mutual confidentiality covering party operational details, candidate referrals, and our internal frameworks. Indefinite term. Standard carve-outs.

One message.
Every site. Instantly.

The Allied Program isn't just a referral framework — it's a connected message infrastructure. State parties push a directive once. Every county and endorsed candidate site on the network updates automatically. Local override available. State lock available. No copy-paste. No drift. No off-message county embarrassing the state.

// STATE PARTY
Publishes directive
"New endorsement. Updated talking points. Press release. Banner. Event."
SYNC
// COUNTY SITES
Auto-update
Banners, press, events, endorsements appear immediately on every subscribed county site.
// CANDIDATE SITES
Auto-update
Endorsed candidates running with the party stay on the official message without lifting a finger.
CAPABILITY 01

Push, don't ping.

State party publishes a directive in their CMS. Every subscribed county site and candidate site fetches it and renders it within minutes. No emails to chairs asking them to update. No phone calls. No drift between when the state announces and when counties reflect.

CAPABILITY 02

Targeted syndication.

Tag directives by audience. "All counties." "Counties in Congressional District 3." "Endorsed congressional candidates only." "Statewide candidates only." The state party controls who sees what — and who doesn't.

CAPABILITY 03

Local override.

By default, county chairs and candidates can dismiss or customize state-pushed content on their own site. A county that disagrees with a state directive isn't forced to display it. Autonomy preserved.

CAPABILITY 04

State lock.

For directives that legally must propagate — withdrawn endorsements, mandated disclaimers, FEC-required updates — the state party can mark a directive as non-overrideable. Compliance enforced at the network level.

CAPABILITY 05

Full audit trail.

Every directive, every recipient, every override, every dismissal — logged with timestamp and user. State leadership has full visibility into what's syndicating where and which counties are out of step.

CAPABILITY 06

Bidirectional optional.

State parties can also subscribe to county and candidate news, surfacing local wins on the state homepage automatically. The network becomes a two-way infrastructure — central messaging down, local momentum up.

When Network Sync earns its keep.

SCENARIO 01

Rapid response.

A breaking news story hits at 6 PM. State party drafts and publishes a coordinated response by 7 PM. Every county and candidate site shows the same statement by 7:05. No 47 phone calls. No "I'll get to it tomorrow."

SCENARIO 02

Endorsement cascade.

State party endorses a slate. The endorsement appears on every county site that contains a candidate from the slate, on the official candidate's site, and on the state party's own endorsement page — published once, propagated everywhere.

SCENARIO 03

Withdrawn candidate.

A candidate withdraws or is removed from the ballot. State party pushes a non-overrideable directive. Their listing is removed from every county site automatically. No one is left displaying a stale endorsement.

SCENARIO 04

Compliance update.

FEC issues new disclaimer requirements. State party pushes an updated disclaimer block as a non-overrideable directive. Every site in the network is compliant within minutes — no county chair scrambling, no missed updates.

SCENARIO 05

Coordinated event drive.

State convention announced. The event syndicates to every county and endorsed candidate site with location-aware RSVP, transportation coordination, and a unified countdown. The whole network promotes one event simultaneously.

SCENARIO 06

Talking points push.

Issue of the week. State party publishes the official position with talking points, a shareable graphic, and approved language. Every endorsed candidate's "On The Issues" page reflects the unified position automatically.

// AVAILABILITY

Network Sync is included on every State Tier build at no additional cost. County and candidate sites in the Allied network plug in for free as subscribers. The state party owns and controls the network; every county and candidate retains full local override authority. No site outside the Allied network can publish to the network or receive directives from it.

How we structure this cleanly.

Referral arrangements between vendors and political committees have campaign finance implications that vary by state. The Allied Program is intentionally structured around a pass-through candidate discount and party-level service credits rather than direct cash referral fees, because the pass-through model is significantly cleaner from a compliance perspective in most jurisdictions.

Before any MOU is signed, we coordinate with your party's treasurer or general counsel to confirm the structure aligns with your state's election laws and your bylaws. If the standard structure needs to be adjusted for your jurisdiction, we adjust it. We don't sign anything that puts your party at compliance risk.

We are not your election attorney. The final responsibility for your party's compliance with campaign finance law rests with you and your retained counsel. Our role is to deliver web infrastructure and to operate within the framework your counsel approves.

How a party engagement runs.

01Initial Channel

Party reaches out.

Party leadership — chair, executive director, or comms director — opens a channel. We get a sense of the operation: chapters, candidate volume, current website state, regulatory environment, ambitions for the cycle ahead.

  • Initial brief intake
  • Scope assessment
  • Compliance pre-check
  • Quote & MOU draft
02MOU & Counsel Review

Your counsel signs off.

We deliver the Allied Program MOU and the engagement contract. Your treasurer or counsel reviews both. We adjust as needed to fit your state and bylaws. Nothing is signed until both sides are clean on compliance.

  • MOU draft
  • Engagement contract
  • Counsel revision rounds
  • Final execution
03Build & Launch

Standard deployment, party-scaled.

Same four-phase deployment protocol we run for every engagement, scaled to the party scope. Architecture, build, launch. Your staff is trained on the CMS during launch. Your committees know the system before Day One.

  • Architecture approval
  • Staging build
  • Staff training session
  • Production launch
04Ongoing Operation

Retainer kicks in.

Monthly maintenance starts the day after launch. Event additions, candidate updates, news posts, security patches, election cycle refreshes — all included in the retainer scope. Allied Program activates: discount codes deployed, candidate referral pipeline open.

  • Monthly retainer scope
  • Discount codes issued
  • Referral tracking
  • Annual strategy review

Before you engage.

Do you work with parties of any affiliation?

We work with Republican, conservative, and independent party organizations. We do not work with Democratic Party committees. Our tooling, partnerships, and focus are aligned accordingly.

How does the candidate discount work without violating finance law?

The discount is structured as a pass-through: we offer it directly to candidates referred by Allied parties. The party isn't paying us a fee or receiving a kickback — they're recognizing a vendor that happens to offer a discount to candidates they refer. In most states this is a clean structure, but your treasurer or counsel reviews the specific MOU language before signing.

What if our state has unusual campaign finance rules?

We adjust the MOU structure to fit your state. Common adjustments include eliminating the referral recognition tier (in stricter jurisdictions), structuring benefits as in-kind credits rather than discounts, or formalizing the discount through a separate candidate-facing voucher program. Your counsel drives the structure; we adapt.

Can we keep our existing CMS or hosting?

Sometimes. If your current platform is sane and structurally sound (WordPress with a maintainable theme, NationBuilder, Webflow), we can build on top of it. If it's a fragile mess from a previous vendor, we'll quote a rebuild — almost always faster and cheaper than untangling someone else's work.

What about counties or chapters within our state party?

We can structure the engagement so your state party hosts a unified platform with sub-sites for counties and chapters. Each gets its own admin access and editorial workflow. Pricing scales modestly with the number of sub-sites; talk to us for a custom quote.

What if we change leadership or want to end the engagement?

You own the website outright. Code, hosting, domain, all credentials transferred to you on launch. The retainer is month-to-month after the first year — cancel with 30 days' notice. The MOU has a clean termination clause that doesn't strand you in mid-cycle.

How do we know our referrals are being tracked correctly?

Each Allied party gets a unique discount code. Every candidate engagement that uses that code is tagged in our system to your party. Quarterly reports go to the party showing referral activity, redemptions, and any earned credits. Transparent and auditable.

What happens if we don't refer enough candidates?

Nothing. The Allied Program has no minimum referral requirement. The benefits accrue when referrals happen; if they don't, you still have a quality website and a working retainer. No clawbacks, no penalties.

Build the infrastructure your candidates will inherit.

Engage