 Hiltzik teamed up with the U.K.-based publicity company, Freud Communications, to start up their U.S. operations.He went out on his own in early 2008 to start up Hiltzik Strategies.Hiltzik maintains his political roots advising Jose Antonio Vargas's DefineAmerican campaign to elevate the national conversation about immigration policy and to pass the DREAM Act, and Thomas DiNapoli in his successful bid for New York State Comptroller.