Using AI to Build My Own Midterm Elections Newsletter

Description and use

The author built a personalized midterm elections newsletter using Claude to fetch polling data, Email Chart Builder to render HTML bar charts, and MailJet to send the email, resulting in a lightweight, fast‑loading newsletter with race summaries.

Problem

The author needed a personalized midterm elections newsletter with up‑to‑date polling data and minimal commentary, but existing newsletters did not meet these preferences.

Outcome

The author received a fully generated, personalized midterm elections newsletter with up‑to‑date polling data presented as lightweight HTML bar charts, delivered automatically via MailJet.

Workflow

• 1. Created a boilerplate HTML email template with placeholders for election content.
• 2. Built a SKILL.md file with guidelines for the AI agent to use the Email Chart Builder tool.
• 3. Taught the AI agent to fetch polling data using Claude Opus 5.5 and render it as HTML bar charts.
• 4. Instructed the AI to insert two‑sentence race summaries between charts and add brief source notes.
• 5. Ran the build task via the AI agent, producing a complete HTML newsletter.
• 6. Sent the final newsletter to the author’s email using MailJet’s Send API.

Evidence

I will leverage Claude to fetch the polling data for these races, use my Email Chart Builder data viz tool to render everything into HTML bar charts, package everything together in a boilerplate HTML template, and finally send me the newsletter via the MailJet API.

Source

Finally, I created a SKILL.md file with the specific guidelines, instructions, and rules for the AI agent to build and send me this polling election newsletter.

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After the build task was finished, Claude sends the final HTML newsletter to my email address through MailJet's Send API.

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