End-to-End Campaign Leadership
Full-service campaign management, message development, media oversight, and voter targeting designed to navigate modern, highly volatile electorate dynamics.
About us
More than field execution
Trailblazing Canvassers is not a passive advisory firm — we are a battle-tested campaign management and direct field engine built to win.
Who we are
A field engine built to win
In an industry plagued by unverified voter contacts, low signature validity rates, and bloated operational budgets, our firm delivers relentless execution, verified data integrity, and the scale to run multi-state programs. When high-stakes political campaigns, ballot committees, and corporate initiatives cannot afford to fail, they partner with us to secure decisive victories.
Over 25 years of field leadership, we have built a track record defined by results: qualifying 75 municipal, regional, and statewide ballot measures, while spearheading successful field operations for over 100 political candidates, major advocacy organizations, and corporate entities nationwide. Our work has delivered game-changing policy wins — from expanding healthcare access and protecting public lands to minimum wage reform — earning national recognition from our industry peers through four AAPC Pollie Awards and the prestigious Campaigns & Elections Reed Award.
We engineer victories by bridging top-tier political strategy, media execution, and budgeting with rigorous direct voter contact operations. Every petition sheet, survey, and door contact undergoes multi-tiered human and electronic verification, so problems surface in our office rather than at the clerk’s desk. Whether deploying vetted field teams locally or scaling multi-state operations on short notice, Trailblazing Canvassers puts boots on the ground, eliminates operational waste, and puts winning numbers on the board.
In the press
As heard on NPR's All Things Considered
When NPR looked at why the price of a ballot signature has climbed so steeply — and what that cost pressure does to the integrity of a petition drive — correspondent Ashley Lopez called our founder. NPR introduced Ted Blaszak as what he is (opens in a new tab) — the founder of a signature-gathering company, two decades deep in the trade — and asked him to explain the economics from the inside.
He described “a radical increase in cost to qualify a measure” over the previous five years — signatures that once cost $2 or $3 now routinely running $20 to $30 — and put the cause squarely on labor: “that’s a direct reflection of much higher costs being paid to the individual canvasser as their labor is more in demand.” On the work itself: “It’s hard work. It really is. It’s often discouraging work. So, people need to be well compensated to do challenging work in today’s economy.”
That is not a throwaway line about wages. NPR reported that Trailblazing paid about $50 an hour on its last campaign, and that Ted — along with Tammy Patrick, CEO of programs at the Election Center, the national association of election officials — points to hourly pay rather than per-signature pay as the policy that does the most to prevent fraud. Paying by the signature is precisely what rewards a circulator for inventing one. It is why several states ban the practice outright, and why we build crews around hourly pay and multi-tiered verification instead. The cheapest signature on the street is the one most likely to be thrown out.
Read the full story at NPR (opens in a new tab), or listen on SoundCloud (opens in a new tab).
How we work
Our three pillars of excellence
Verified Field Execution
Precision door-to-door canvassing, rapid-scale petition gathering, and GOTV drives powered by real-time GPS tracking and multi-tier validity auditing.
Strategic Lobbying & Public Affairs
Expert facilitation for high-stakes political disputes, corporate coalition building, labor negotiations, and public affairs impasses.
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