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Email outreach lets you send campaign messages to voters and supporters from within Culper, using your voter lists as the audience.

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Setup

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Connect your sending domain

For best deliverability, verify your campaign’s domain:
  1. Go to Dashboard → Settings → Email
  2. Enter your campaign domain (e.g., smithforcouncil.com)
  3. Add the provided DNS records to your domain registrar
  4. Click Verify
Verification usually takes 15–30 minutes.
Don’t have a campaign domain? Culper can send from a shared domain (campaign@mail.theculpernetwork.com), but your own domain significantly improves open rates.

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Set your sender name and reply-to

In Settings → Email, set:
  • Sender name — what recipients see in the From field (e.g., “Jane Smith for City Council”)
  • Reply-to email — where replies go (can be your personal campaign email)

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Creating a campaign

  1. Go to Dashboard → Outreach → New Email Campaign
  2. Select your audience — any saved voter list
  3. Choose or create a template
  4. Write your subject line and email body
  5. Preview to see it on desktop and mobile
  6. Send or Schedule for later

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Templates

Culper includes a simple drag-and-drop template editor. Start from a blank canvas or use one of the provided starters:
  • Fundraising ask
  • Event announcement
  • GOTV reminder
  • Issue update

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Personalization tokens

TokenReplaced with
{{first_name}}Voter’s first name
{{full_name}}Full name
{{city}}Voter’s city
{{candidate_name}}Your candidate name

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Tracking

After sending, the campaign dashboard shows:
  • Open rate
  • Click rate
  • Unsubscribes
  • Bounces

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Unsubscribes

Culper automatically adds an unsubscribe link to every email and honors opt-outs immediately. Unsubscribed voters are removed from future email audiences automatically — you don’t need to manage a suppression list manually.