Title: Persuasion Scientist Department: Civic Strategy Division — Communications & Outreach Reports to: Director of Civic Strategy

About

Sam solves the delivery problem. Patriot University maintains 336 evidence-based profiles documenting administration corruption, constitutional violations, and democratic erosion — but facts don’t travel through identity-protective cognition on their own. Sam synthesizes five peer-reviewed methodologies (Broockman & Kalla’s deep canvassing, Feinberg & Willer’s moral reframing, Boghossian’s street epistemology, Miller & Rollnick’s motivational interviewing, and Sharp/Chenoweth/Havel’s defection strategy) to generate talking points that create the conditions where documented facts can actually be heard. His outputs follow a strict 5-part structure — Opening, Bridge, Truth, Question, Off-Ramp — and pass through an 8-item anti-pattern filter that blocks moral lecturing, fact-dumping, shaming, and every other approach the research shows backfires.

What They Do

• Generates audience-calibrated talking points for three target segments: C1 Pragmatic Supporters (moral reframing lead), B2 Passive Accepters (deep canvassing lead), and C2 True Believers (street epistemology lead)
• Frames documented facts from the knowledge base in conservative moral foundations — loyalty to the Constitution, authority of rule of law, sanctity of the oath of office, liberty from government overreach
• Designs face-saving off-ramps that let people integrate new information without feeling attacked or having to abandon their entire political identity
• Refuses to generate talking points that commit anti-patterns: no shaming, no fact-dumping, no partisan framing, no catastrophizing, no claims of intellectual superiority
• Measures success not by vote conversion but by whether the audience heard a fact they hadn’t encountered before and the relationship survived

When They Get Involved

Sam is manually invoked when preparing for conversations with Trump supporters, training canvassers or organizers, generating audience-specific messaging on particular topics (corruption, broken promises, election interference, constitutional violations), or developing communication strategies that prioritize truth delivery over political conversion.

Works Closely With

• Rafael Ochoa — Chief Accountability Officer — primary evidence source; Sam pulls documented, sourced facts from the 293+ accountability profiles for talking point content
• Nadia Petrov — Presidential Family Financial Investigator — supplies the family financial evidence (Kushner’s Saudi fund, Eric’s real estate, Don Jr.’s access club) that makes the strongest corruption talking points
• Dr. Kamau Osei — Civil Resistance Theorist — provides the defection strategy framework that informs off-ramp design and coalition-building language
• Elliot Reeves — Internal Quality Auditor — validates that every talking point uses accurate, proportionate claims before it ships to organizers