"Exploring Your Run" Is Out Now
Explore Your Run
It’s time to figure out whether or not you’re ready to run for office.
time for a little bit of homework.
If you’ve been following PoliticsNOW for a little while, you know how hard we’ve been working on this product. After three months of writing, revising and testing, it’s finally here —
Everything you need to explore your run, make confident decisions, and prepare for a successful campaign — all in one digital workbook.
Running for municipal office is exciting, meaningful, and yes — a little intimidating. That’s why I created this workbook: to help you explore the possibility, ask the right questions, and get organized before making any big commitments.
The 2026 edition is fully updated, with clearer guidance, new resources, and a brand-new chapter on protecting your peace — because running for office is serious work, and you deserve to feel good doing it.
What’s Inside:
Updated Guidance: Refreshed examples, links, and resources relevant to 2026.
New Chapter: Protecting your peace, including a worksheet to help you set healthy boundaries.
Bonus Audio: A reworked workshop in audio format, perfect for listening on the go.
Clear Explanations: Simplified, step-by-step guidance to take the guesswork out of early campaign decisions.
Practical Worksheets: Define your mission, map your community, and build your campaign team.
Why This Workbook Works:
Helps you make a confident decision to run
Breaks down complex campaign steps into simple, actionable exercises
Created by Amanda Kingsley Malo — educator, campaign veteran, and your personal guide through local politics
Format:
30+-page PDF
Instant download
Works on computer, tablet, or phone
Explore Your Run With Us
The first module of our planned How To Run For Municipal Council workbook series is called Exploring Your Run, and it’s all about helping set you up for success before you officially make the decision to run for office.
The workbook was written by our founder, Amanda Kingsley Malo who took every single thing that she learned about preparing a candidate and a campaign and infused it with her over a decade of experience working in education — which means that you’re not only getting the step by step of preparing for a run for office, but you’re also getting original, complete and engaging resources that are going to help set you up for success.
What you will get in this resource:
30 pages of content that give you the step by step on how to explore a run for municipal council.
an overview of how to discover your mission and vision for your campaign, how to better understand the community that you want to represent, how to go after leadership roles and expand your knowledge, an outline of how to get to know more about politics and policy, understanding the rules of running for municipal office and an overview of the campaign team that you’ll have to assemble.
10+ worksheets to guide you through the process.
links to inspiring videos, lessons and articles that help guide further learning.
our very best resources that we adapted for this workbook (including some great new ones— like a win vote number calculator and a news resource list).
a special bonus gift as a “congratulations on doing the work!” — our way of wishing you luck for the next chapter of your journey.
Amanda couldn’t find anything else like this out there — so she made it.
She the product that she knew she would need to help support her if she ever decided to run for office. And she backed all of that up with tons of research, all of the experience she has from nearly a decade of running political campaigns, and all of my knowledge about learning styles, resources and creating engaging materials from her 12 years as a teacher.
This workbook is for you if you’ve ever dreamed of running for office but:
didn’t know where to start.
weren’t sure if you were ready.
felt like you needed to do some introspective to make sure that this is the next step.
We’ve been stuck there. We get it.
And we want to help you break through that uncertainty.
We want you to be confident when you declare your candidacy.
We want you to be ready to run and win.