The Great Battlefield: Recent Episodes
Nathaniel G. Pearlman
THE GREAT BATTLEFIELD PODCAST - A PODCAST ABOUT THE PROGRESSIVE RESISTANCE A great political battle is being fought right now for the soul of our country.
Kim Alexander joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about implementing online access to campaign finance data and founding the California Voter Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to improve the voting process.
Ben Bilbrough joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in entrepreneurship, founding Action Tank where they help nonprofits with tech and collaborating with Activate America where they're targeting young voters in swing districts for the midterms.
Pablo Correa joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, organizing in rural areas and co-founding Rural Arizona Engagement where they're building power in rural Arizona.
Morgan Ramsey-Elliot Joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career at ReD and the recent ethnographic study they conducted with SNF Agora about conservatives' relationship to democracy.
Leslie Martes joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role as CEO at Forward Majority, where they're working to help Democrats win state legislatures.
Kate Barr joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a Behavioral Scientist, former candidate for the North Carolina State Legislature and founding The Can't Win Victory Fund, where she's working to make sure every office in her state is contested.
Bill McKibben joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a writer, co-founding the climate group 350.org, and founding Third Act, a group organizing people over 60 to protect the climate and our democracy.
David Rochkind joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Photojournalist and founding his agency Ground Media, where they use research backed storytelling to help mission driven organizations and their new tool StoryHeat that analyzes messaging through storytelling.
Samantha Conyers and Bella Wang join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about The Movement Cooperative, a key progressive enterprise that works to provide independent organizations data and tech infrastructure.
Pamela Shifman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role as President of Democracy Alliance, a network of philanthropists, labor unions and organizations that support progressive organizations working to build power.
Erika Harrison joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an attorney in employment law and creating Black Girls Who Brunch, a set of food and politics social media sites that educates her following.
Rich Kotchmar joins The Great Battlefield to talk about his political organizing firm, Kinetic 21 and building a new AI and map powered organizing tool called Groundview.
Jonah Seiger joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career building communication agencies and now as an adviser, investor and founding partner at Fuse Strategy Group.
Brad Woodhouse joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and how Protect Our Care is working to protect the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid from repeal, cuts and sabotage.
Dan Barkhuff and Matt Hanauer join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and building Civly, an AI platform for progressive candidates and organizations that provides opposition research, donor prospecting and polling.
Nick Van Zandt joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a US Army Intelligence Officer and co-founding Unruled Masses, a nonprofit focused on fighting corruption while facilitating peaceful civic engagement.
Ian Fisk joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role at Mentor Capital Network, a nonprofit global network that helps early-stage for-profit mission-driven entrepreneurs.
Alexis Goldstein joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in finance before joining the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and then getting ousted by DOGE and now running for Congress in Maryland.
Vincent Jones joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his role at Beyond Impact, where they support leaders and organizations to build power and advance policies that work to bring equity and justice.
Cole Leiter joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, both in campaigns and in government and his role as ED at Americans Against Government Censorship, where they're helping to defend organizations against attacks by the Trump administration.
Michelle Kuppersmith joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career working to expose corruption and her role at Campaign for Accountability, a nonprofit watchdog organization working to hold the powerful accountable.
Jesse Hassinger and LaToia Jones join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how the employees of Hustle (a peer to peer texting service), purchased the organization and where they see it going.
Jed Alpert joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Mobile Commons (one of the earliest political texting platforms), selling it and recently buying it back and how he plans to lead Mobile Commons in a new technical age.
Heather Nelson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in business education and now building Poll The Vote, a nonpartisan platform connecting people to their elected officials.
Chuck Borges joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in the military, data science, calling out the DOGE data breach at the Social Security Administration and running for State Senate in Maryland.
Aisha Coffey joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about working at the FDA before it was attacked by the Trump administration and why she joined FWAD (Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy), a coalition that supports federal workers to uphold their oath by protecting the public good.
Nick Richardson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about running digital media programs at the DCCC and founding Context, a tool to make better decisions on social media spending and to identify trends online that impact a paid media budget.
Liam Kerr joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in social entrepreneurship and co-founding Welcome, where they're building a community of Democrats focused on winning majorities, reducing polarization and governing well.
Nic Zateslo returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about regulating AI and building tech for his campaign to run for Congress in Florida.
Tom Carroll joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about co-founding Convos, where they're building an AI based texting tool that facilitates two way conversations between campaigns and causes and their supporters at mass scale.
Aubrey Cox Ottenstein joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, running Globally, a nonprofit focused on public service careers and co-founding Hilltop, where they're building an AI tool to enable constituents to deliver personalized messages directly to lawmakers.
Jaclyn Friedman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an activist, advocate and organizer and founding EducateUS, a group that is working to transform sex education for good.
Craig Dorfman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a teacher before getting into politics with Mandate Media and eventually purchasing the firm with a coworker. Mandate Media is a political consultancy for Democrats that specializes in digital strategy and email fundraising.
Greisa Martinez Rosas joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share her struggles with our immigration system and working her way up to Executive Director at United We Dream, a youth led immigration group with more than a million members.
Dan Castleman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his role at Clarity Campaign Labs, a political data science firm that helps progressive campaigns and organizations through customized polling and analytics.
Kevin Holst joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his role at the Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association, where they recruit, support and elect Democratic Lieutenant Governors.
Tom Perriello joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his run to represent Virginia again in the U.S. House.
Michael Lahanas-Calderón joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his role at Inequality Media, where their mission is to engage and inform the public about economic inequality and imbalance of power.
Paul Westcott joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in media and his role at L2, a nonpartisan political and commercial data company.
Emily Suttle-Braun joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and founding Doodle Mom Strategies which provides outsourced sales assistance to political tech companies and related enterprises.
Nathan Chappell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, how he's working to bring AI to nonprofits and founding Fundraising.AI, a think tank that promotes responsible and beneficial AI for Fundraising.
Megan Clasen and Patrick McHugh join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Gambit Strategies, a digital media firm specializing in persuading and mobilizing voters by defining candidates, causes and issues.
Alex Salerno joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role at Civitech, where they use data to target and engage unregistered Democratic voters.
Dan Cantor joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, co-founding The Working Families Party and his role at the Center for Ballot Freedom, where they advocate for fusion voting, which allows a candidate to appear on the ballot as a nominee of more than one party.
Ash-Lee Henderson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in activism, being the first black woman to serve as Co-Director at Highlander Education and Research Center (the storied movement school in Tennessee) and founding Utopian Visions, where they're building web tools and curricula for power building.
Shaughnessy Naughton returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how she's grown 314 Action, where they recruit, train and elect Democratic Doctors and Scientists to help defeat Trump's agenda.
Chris Nolan Joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in journalism and founding Spot-On, where they connect political advertisers to individual voters by placing ads on local news papers.
Dawn Peacock joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and running the tech side of Campaignalytics, where they've built a software platform that enables the use of an enhanced voter file and related data and analytics for political organizing.
Karen Kornbluh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her tech policy and career including as policy staffer to Senator Obama in charge of the 2008 Democratic Party platform, Ambassador to the OECD, and Senior Advisor to President Biden, deputy CTO, and head of his AI office.
Reverend Susie Hayward joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a peace scholar, activist and serving as Minister for Justice Organizing at the Creekside United Church of Christ and being in the middle of the resistance to the ICE surge in Minneapolis.
David Janovsky joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his role as Director of The Constitution Project at POGO (Project on Government Oversight), where they're working to counter the corruption and constitutional challenges posed by the current administration.
Alan Khazei joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career co-founding City Year, which became the model for Clinton's AmeriCorps program, running for US Senate and is currently the Co-Chair of More Perfect, where they're focused on renewing democracy through five pillars including service, bridge building and trusted information.
Chris Talbot joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics starting at Google managing digital strategies, his role at Allied Media where he helps plan media buys and his own firm Talbot Digital, a full service digital agency.
Leena Barakat and Rajasvini Bhansali join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their funding group's The Women Donors Network and Solidaire, and coming together to lead a new funder coalition called Block and Build, where they're taking on authoritarianism.
Liz Purdy joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in New Hampshire politics, working on campaigns for Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Jeanne Shaheen and starting Reconciliation Media Lab, where she's working to build progressive media infrastructure.
Mike Vlacich joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Political Operative in New Hampshire, including Senior Advisor for Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Executive Director for the New Hampshire Democratic Party and now Principal at Cornerstone Government Affairs.
Julie Scelfo joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a reporter, media ecologist and founding Mothers Against Media Addiction, where they're fighting to prevent the poisoning of our kids with cell phones and addictive media platforms.
Liz Walters joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, politics in Ohio and her role as CEO at TargetSmart, the voter data and tech services company that serves Democrats and allied organizations.
Roger Berkowitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Human Rights at Bard College, founding the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and writing about the crisis of democracy and free speech.
Raghu Devaguptapu joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his substantial career in politics, his campaign experience as political direct at two national party committees and his work at other media consultancies before co-founding his current firm, TKO Political.
Josef Lentsch joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics abroad, starting a new political party in Austria and founding The Political Tech Summit, which is a marketplace where politics meets technology in Europe.
Michelle Roos returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the dismantling of the EPA under Trump and what she's been up to at the Environmental Protection Network, where they're working to protect the environment and safeguard public health.
Alan Jenkins joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a law professor and human rights advocate and publishing his graphic novel series about what might have happened if the January 6th attack on the capitol was successful.
Matt Grossman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career at Michigan State as Professor of Political Science, Director of The Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, and also hosting the Science of Politics podcast, and writing books about American politics.
Danielle Butterfield joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role as Executive Director at Priorities USA, where they're working to build progressive power by redefining how Super PACs contribute by training digital operatives and developing new apps and tools.
Ben Resnik joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in political tech, AI in politics, and his new role at Social Currant, where they connect progressive organizations with mission aligned creators.
Murshed Zaheed returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he's been up to and starting his own consultancy, Pacifica Strategies.
Aaron Parnas joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Lawyer turned Independent Journalist, where he distills the news into comprehensible chunks.
Dmitri Mehlhorn returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about why he thinks the fight against fascism is over and co-founding the Atoll Society, where they hope to rally reason, law and human dignity in the face of rising authoritarianism.
Samantha Hancox-Li joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about hosting the Neon Liberalism podcast and being a writer and editor at Liberal Currents, where they publish writers who promote pluralistic democracy over authoritarianism.
Mari Manoogian joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, serving as a State Representative in Michigan and her role at The Next 50, where they provide high impact support to up and coming political leaders.
Emily Cherniak returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what she's been up to at New Politics, where they're working to empower and inspire the next generation of political leaders.
Tiffany Muller returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what she's been up to at End Citizens United, where their mission is to get dark money out of politics and expand voting rights.
Shripal Shah joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his role at House Majority PAC, where they're fighting for a Democratic majority in the House.
Danny Hogenkamp returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about why he stepped down as CEO of Grassroots Analytics to become CEO of dumb.co, where they're building a movement for people to adopt dumb phones and reclaim their time.
Yasmin Radjy returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what she's been up to at Swing Left, where they empower volunteers to help elect Democrats, and managing Vote Forward, where they test the effectiveness of voter turnout programs.
Vinay Orekondy joins The Great Battlefield to talk about his career in politics in the U.S. and Australia and founding Better Together America, where they're working to bridge divides and combat authoritarianism from the bottom up.
Emma Welsh-Huggins joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in organizing, starting her campaign consultancy and co-founding Nontoxic Media, an AI platform that monitors content on social media.
David Kusnet joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an author and political speechwriter including for President Bill Clinton.
John Chrastka joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding the EveryLibrary PAC, where they work to support public libraries and help fight against book bans.
Shikha Dalmia joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in journalism from India to The Detroit News to founding The UnPopulist, a Substack publication defending free and open societies against forms of authoritarianism.
and her social media platforms, where she aims to educate young women and others on the issues that matter to them.
Caleb Brock joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, leading digital strategy for Ro Khanna and the changes he feels need to be made for the Democratic party to be successful.
Claire Shorall joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a teacher, activist and now co-founder and CEO of Sway, a voting group platform that aims to mobilize people with shared views, a new social network for politics.
(pseudonym) joins The Great Battlefield to talk about being an organizer at NYC ICE Watch, a community based network that does rapid response, cop watch and ICE watch.
Asli Aydintasbas joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the similarities between Erdogan in Turkey, Orban in Hungary, and Trump, in the backsliding of democracy but why she sees hope for United States.
Amy Pritchard returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what she's been up to at GAIN Power, leadership development, staffing pipelines and political consulting, including direct mail. And she has a health update.
Chris Torres joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his role as Executive Director at Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice, where they're building power with the next generation of leaders.
Heather Cronk joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her path that led her to progressive organizing and founding Project 21:12, which is building community and organizing capacity for millions of Exvangelicals.
Gaby Pacheco joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career fighting for immigrants rights and her role at TheDream.US where they provide scholarships for undocumented immigrants.
Brianna Hutchison joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, fundraising and now entrepreneurship with the founding of The Big Black Idea, where she's working to strengthen black political giving through strategy and collaboration.
Pamela Smith joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role at Verified Voting, where they're working to strengthen democracy by promoting the responsible use of tech in elections.
Max Levy joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Digital Consultant working for Stacey Abrams, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren and now starting his own digital communications firm Max Levy Strategies.
Dakota Hall joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role at the Alliance for Youth Action, where they work on student organizing to confront authoritarianism and build power to transform our future.
Alan Greenblatt joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a political journalist and resigning his position as Editor at Governing when they refused to publish his work for fear of angering the Trump administration.
Gaby Zutrau joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a Digital Strategist working for MoveOn and the Mamdani Campaign, and how she turns social engagement into impact.
Emmet Sandberg joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and co-founding Mutuals Media, where they create viral vertical video shows with progressive values.
EJ Juarez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his role as Executive Director at State Innovation Exchange (SiX), a progressive group working with state legislators across the country.
Rebekah Caruthers joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role as President and CEO at Fair Elections Center, a nonpartisan organization focused on voting rights, election reform and civic engagement.
Theo LeCompte joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role as Executive Director at LOFT, where they offer a paid fellowship for Senior Campaign and Capitol Hill Staff to improve their leadership skills.
Dan Check joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and tech and his role as CEO at Slate Magazine, an online news magazine covering current affairs, culture and politics.
Scott Duncombe joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and tech and co-founding Pizza to the Polls, where they provide free food to people at GOTV events or long polling lines.
Michael Agosta joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career working at the intersection of voter files, political targeting, digital advocacy and legislative policy.
Anthony Robinson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his new role as Executive Director at Netroots Nation, where they provide a variety of services to progressives.
Adam Mizel joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in finance and private equity before founding US United, a movement for unity that aims to build bridges and break down barriers in a divisive world.
Caitlin Legacki joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in political communications, starting her own firm and her recent article in The Wall Street Journal explaining why Democrats need to change their relationship with big business.
Nathan Bowman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and co-founding TouchStone, a comprehensive paid canvassing tool that provides privacy, anti-spoofing and GPS tracking capabilities.
Yardena Wolf joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, serving as Eric Swalwell's Chief of Staff and co-founding Findraiser, where they provide AI based tools to help you easily search your donor database.
Brian Derrick returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how he's been growing Oath, a political and advising giving platform that empowers Democratic donors to maximize their impact.
David Javerbaum joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a comedy writer, working on The Daily Show, his play An Act of God and his view of comedy and satire in politics.
Scott Dikkers joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in comedy, owning and running The Onion and his book "Trump's America: The Complete Loser's Guide".
Vijay Ravindran joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech, being the founding CTO of Catalist (the longest running data trust in progressive politics) and founding Floreo, a firm that brings VR tools to help neurodiverse learners.
Megan Castle joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career path that led her to her role as CEO at Soapboxx, a video and photo storytelling platform for campaigns and nonprofits to leverage their own communities' stories to support a mission.
Meghan McAnespie and Mike Nellis return to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about Grassroots Analytics acquisition of Quiller, an AI tool to help nonprofits and campaigns with communications, especially fundraising emails.
Pat Dennis returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what's been happening at American Bridge, where they conduct opposition research on what Republicans are saying.
Pete Backof joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about being the fourth employee at The Analyst Institute, serving as the Director of Analytics at The Voter Participation Center and starting Camden Strategy, where he provides strategic consulting to funders, campaigns and organizations.
Becky Pittman returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how she's continued to evolve features and grow her user base at Good Change, a payment processing and fundraising tool which includes a spare change round up feature.
Karissa Raskin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role as CEO at the Listen First Project, a network of over 500 bridging organizations working to build trust and relationships.
Meredith Sumpter joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role as President and CEO of FairVote, a nonpartisan organization working for better election systems.
Adam Green joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding the PCCC (Progressive Change Campaign Committee), a million member grassroots organization supporting bold candidates and organizing for progressive priorities.
Jose Vazquez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in the military and his role as Executive Director at Common Defense, the largest grassroots movement of veterans for progressive values.
Gary Lucks joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an environmental lawyer, activist and his recent book "You Are Not Alone: Your Roadmap to Effective Political Action".
Hilary Braseth joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in entrepreneurship, public service and her role at Open Secrets, a non-profit repository of campaign finance data.
Doug Linney returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he's been up to at Activate America, where they work to empower progressive activists and help them learn how to organize.
Will Robinson returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he's been up to at The New Media Firm and his Substack where he's calling for change to how we communicate with voters.
Andy Borowitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a comedian, writer and creator of The Borowitz Report, where uses humor to combat right wing politics.
Dave Leichtman returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his role as Director of Global Elections at Microsoft, where they're working to secure elections and many other societally important issues.
In this episode Nathaniel Pearlman shares some thoughts about The Great Battlefield podcast and temporary changes to the podcast going forward due to upcoming surgery.
Bart Myers returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what's been happening at Countable and his new role leading CrowdBlue, a platform for Democratic and Independent candidates to connect, mobilize and build power.
Peter Levine joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, which includes helping to found CIRCLE, and his work as Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Tufts University.
Julian Fortuna joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career running several progressive organizations and his role at The Youth Democracy Lab, where they're working on pro-democracy infrastructure in the south.
Scot Nakagawa joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an activist and organization builder and his role at The 22 Century Initiative, where they're working to defeat authoritarianism and improve democracy.
David LeBender joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, fundraising with Cory Booker and co-founding Pingdex, where they provide a fundraising call time tool.
Julia Roig joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career working to advance social change and democracies all over the world and founding The Horizons Project, where they work at the intersection of movement building, narrative strategy and bridge building to support a more pluralistic democracy in the U.S.
Martín Carcasson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in academia and his role as Director at the Colorado State University Center for Public Deliberation, where he trains students to facilitate constructive community dialogue around complex public issues.
Mildred Otero joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her path in politics and philanthropy that led her to the role as President at LEE (Leadership for Educational Equality), a nonpartisan network of leaders that provides coaching, connections and skill building opportunities for their members.
Emily Lee Joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, her time at the Chinese Progressive Association and co-founding Seed the Vote, where they mobilize thousands of volunteers to door knock and phone bank with partners in swing states.
Gaby Goldstein returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her role at State Futures, where they're working on building capacity in the states to govern boldly in the public interest.
Alex Reich and Dan McSwain join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and founding Genara, where they're working to help philanthropic organizations move dollars faster and with greater effectiveness.
Joel Rogers joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding multiple progressive organizations while Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he's taught democracy related theory and practice for nearly four decades.
Abdul El-Sayed joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he learned about campaigning, running for Governor of Michigan and how he's campaigning now in his run for the U.S. Senate.
Aliza Shatzman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share her story of clerking for the D.C. Superior Court that led her to founding The Legal Accountability Project, where she works to improve the experience of law clerks and hold judges accountable for their actions.
Esteban Kelly joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in many organizations in the worker cooperative space and his current role at the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, where they've created a thriving ecosystem for worker-owned businesses.
Andrew Greenway joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and co-founding Public Digital, where they work with governments to help them become more responsive.
Joan C Williams joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a Professor of Law, the Director of the Equality Action Center and her recent book "Out-classed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back".
Sunil Sadasivan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in political tech, serving as Deputy CTO on Cory Booker's campaign and accepting the role as VP of Enineering at Bonterra, where he's responsible for all the products at the progressive political software company.
Insha Rahman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in criminal justice reform at Vera and how they're fighting back at the recent DOGE attempts to infiltrate the organization.
Grant Williams joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a long time leader at the SEIU and how he's recently been working on close elections in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Amanda Brink joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role at Empower Project, where they execute large relational organizing programs and provide free software tools and training.
Matt Leighninger joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role at the Center for Democracy Innovation at The National Civic League, where they work to make democracy more participatory, equitable and productive.
Leah Bae and Oluwakemi Oso join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding The Higher Ground Institute, where they're working to improve innovation and adoption in progressive political tech.
Tim Gaull joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his work in the LGBTQIA community, running for US Senate and founding Advocacy Atlas, where he's advocating the "church planting" model for establishing Democratic organizations in areas where the party has little presence.
Tom Goldenberg joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about teaching Sanskrit in India, working on tech startups, running for Mayor and founding Victory Waves, where they're building an AI Voter CRM.
Griff Bohm joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a serial entrepreneur, starting a brewery in Chile, Defeat by Tweet (which was aimed at motivating fundraising against Trump) and co-founding Momentum, a new AI fundraising firm.
Amanda Litman returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her recent book "When We're in Charge: The Next Generations Guide to Leadership".
Marty Santalucia joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, starting his fundraising firm MF Strategies and his recent venture Twig Intelligence, which provides clients with AI based personas to query about politics and related matters.
Sol Erdman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career from success on Wall Street to conflict resolution to now starting Grand Bargain Project, which aims to unite Americans through policy change.
Sondra Goldschein joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her 20 year career at the ACLU before transitioning to run the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, where they advocate for paid family medical leave, lower cost prescription drugs and affordable elder and child care.
Emma Bloomberg joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her entry into politics through her fathers mayoral campaign, her time at Robin Hood (an anti-poverty organization) and founding Murmuration, a non-profit that works to improve local organizing by providing a software, data and analytics platform.
Kate Conway joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in graphic design, building the creative team for the Biden Campaign and the switch to the Harris Campaign.
Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, being a leader at Human Rights Watch, her award winning book "There Are No Dead Here" (about human rights in Columbia) and her role at RepresentUS, where they're working to fight corruption and defend democracy.
Seth Johnson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his decades of work at AFSCME and now as a consultant, and what he's been thinking about in this difficult time for our nation.
Max Borowitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech entrepreneurship and founding Caucus, which helps campaigns and causes send direct messages through social media to their supporters, donors and voters to raise money and win votes.
Jeff Jarvis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his long career in journalism, media and teaching, authoring 6 books and how he feels the media is doing in this moment in our democracy.
Zsuzsanna Szelényi joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in Hungarian politics and her book "Tainted Democracy, Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary".
Catherine Vaughan and Ryder Kessler join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and founding Abundance New York, where they're bringing abundance ideas to politics to improve the quality of life of New Yorkers.
Sarah Oates joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a specialist in Russian media and propaganda, being a Professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and her recent book "Seeing Red: Russian Propaganda and American News".
Gareth Gore joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an author and journalist and his latest book "Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church".
Terry Szuplat joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, as a speechwriter for Obama and his book "Say It Well: Find Your Voice, Speak Your Mind, Inspire Any Audience".
Dan Gillmor joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in journalism and tech, authoring several books and his latest project, The Cornerstone of Liberty, a newsletter that he publishes curating the best content in this area.
Macon Phillips joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, being an early employee at Blue State Digital, Director of Digital Strategy at The White House and founding his firm Starling Strategy.
Dean Spade joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an activist and professor, his book about mutual aid and his most recent book "Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together".
Cooper Teboe joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding Arkenstone, where he works with Silicon Valley on behalf of his clients.
Daniel Schuman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a government transparency advocate and his role at the American Governance Institute, where they're working to make a more efficient and transparent government.
Lorelei Kelly joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in working to build a more informed and responsive democracy and founding Georgetown Democracy, Education and Service to continue working on congressional reform.
Ben Darr joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a tech entrepreneur, the series of enterprises he's created, including his current one, CredoIQ, which provides intelligence about what is happening politically on TikTok and other social media platforms.
Joshua Tauberer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech and founding GovTrack.us to follow Congress and his plan now to expand that to cover executive orders from the White House.
Roberta Braga joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and founding Digital Democracy Institute for the Americas (DDIA), an organization run by and for Latinos to strengthen democracy online.
Martin Hamburger joins The Great Battlefield Podcast to talk about his career in politics and as a ski instructor, throwing clay, blowing glass and founding Hamburger Group Creative, where some of their ads are humorous.
Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a historian, author and the Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library.
Brynna Quillin and Jaime Lopez join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their experiences running digital organizing on Kamala Harris' presidential campaign.
Yamani Yansá Hernandez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the path that led her to her role at Groundswell Fund, which works to strengthen movements for reproductive and social justice.
Jerren Chang joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role at Partners in Democracy, where they're working in Massachusetts to renovate democracy to show how it can be better done.
Pantheon Founder Zack Rosen joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Pantheon, a web ops platform, working with California YIMBY to work on the housing crisis and his current role at Abundance Network which he sees as a new source of ideas for the Democratic party.
Neil Malhotra joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Professor at the Stanford University Business School, his writings on social impact entrepreneurship, business ethics, political polarization and his current study on the political views of small business owners.
Claudia Yoli Ferla joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about immigration and her role at MOVE Texas, a nonpartisan, nonprofit, grassroots organization working to build power in underrepresented youth communities through civic engagement, leadership development, and issue advocacy.
Alex Aronson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and the law and about co-founding Court Accountability, where they are dedicated to combating corrupt abuse of judicial power.
Katherine Stewart joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her latest book "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy", a key book that helps make sense of what's been going on and what the new administration is doing.
David Lytel joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his lengthy career in politics and technology, which includes building the first website for The White House, co-founding Democrats.com, Redefeat Bush, and Redefeat Trump, and his current start-up idea Deliverability, to help Democrats with email.
Tom Cochran joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and tech, working in The White House and State Department and co-founding Civic Sunlight, which is using AI to create summaries of Town Hall meetings to make local government information more accessible.
Mike Nellis returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his work in the 2024 election, AI in campaigns and how he's worked to deal with challenges in physical and mental health.
Billy Wimsatt returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how political communication is changing, how he's working to contend with the fear we're facing and how to counter it with organizing and love.
Eleanor Clift joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a reporter for Newsweek, covering Jimmy Carter in the 1976 primary, being a panelist on The McLaughlin Group and now as a columnist for the Daily Beast.
Peter Enns joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as Professor of Government and Public Policy at Cornell University, a few of the books he authored and founding Verasight, a survey research firm.
Erik Balsbaugh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in campaign management, voter protection and ballot curing, the best practices institute at the DNC, working with streaming platforms and co-founding At Dawn Campaigns.
Bill Smith joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and why he founded Inseparable, where they advocate for better mental health policies.
Bob Fertik joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about email list building, chaperoned email and other tools at Democrats.com, an online community for progressive organizers with millions of supporters.
Daria Dawson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role at America Votes, where they work to coordinate efforts to increase voter participation and advocate for fair elections.
Josh Hendler returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the future of progressive political tech and the race for Chair at the DNC.
Jake DeGroot of Reach and Amanda Silva of the DNC join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how the DNC used Reach for digital content distribution and relational organizing.
Jonathan Rauch returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his latest book "Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy".
Kindred Motes joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career philanthropy and founding KM Strategies, where they help social impact organizations drive engagement and impact.
Grayson Barnette joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding his consulting firm Express Lane Strategies based in North Carolina.
Meena Yi joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as Design Director at the DNC, Creative Director for the Cory Booker campaign and as outgoing Creative Director at The White House.
Natasha Hakimi Zapata joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in journalism and her book "Another World is Possible: Lessons for America From Around the Globe".
Jose Nunez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career organizing for campaigns and organizations and co-founding Contrast Campaigns, where they help candidates build organizing programs.
Mini Timmaraju joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role as CEO and President of Reproductive Freedom for All, formerly NARAL.
Nomiki Konst joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her varied career in politics as a political analyst, candidate, DNC Commissioner and most recently as a documentary filmmaker.
Charles Amuzie joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his role at Color of Change, the nation's largest online racial justice organization.
Shawon Jackson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his startup Vocal Justice, where they're working to educate and inspire young black and brown youth to become leaders.
Mariah Levison and Rob Fersh join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their new book and their roles at Convergence, where they convene groups with conflicting views to build trust, identify solutions, and form alliances for action on national issues.
Teresa Purcell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and starting Rural Strong where she's working to build up a new Democratic brand.
Tom Spencer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his startup, AdvocacyAI, an AI-native platform built for advocacy professionals.
Kim Wehle joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a law professor and her recent book "Pardon Power: How the Pardon System Works and Why".
Giselle Hale joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, technology, as Mayor of Redwood City, CA and her role at Abundance Network, where they're working to build a more effective government.
Betsy Hoover returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the future of Higher Ground Labs, their investment thesis, M&A, AI in politics and a lot more.
Josh Cook joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Good Influence has been connecting influencers with progressive causes and launching Chorus, a platform for progressive creators.
Ryan Davis returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to catch us up on what's been happening at People First, where they're working at the intersection of progressive politics and the creator economy.
Ellie, Ashwath and Vidyut join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their roles at Social Currant, a platform for progressives to find creators that align with their mission.
Liz Joyner joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding The Village Square where they work to forge relationships with those that think differently and understand that we're all human.
Tom Lindenfeld joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his long career in politics, including running a company that specialized in voter contact -- until he hit legal troubles. Tom has been active as an independent consultant since then. He also shares his thoughts on why Kamala Harris lost the election.
Spencer Kimball joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role as director of polling at Emerson College, where they work hard to be accurate and innovative in how they obtain their information on public opinion.
Nina Jankowitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to tell her story of how she came to the fight against political disinformation and founding American Sunlight Foundation, where they work to educate the public about the threats and effects of disinformation.
Mark Strama joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and tech, his time as a Texas State Representative and his current role at the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life at UT Austin.
Thomas Mills returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the changes at PoliticsNC.com and his thoughts about the 2024 election.
Garima Verma joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in the entertainment industry, moving into politics and working for the Biden campaign, in the White House, Stacey Abrams for Governor, the DCCC, and now as an independent consultant.
Mark Sump joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the ups and downs of his life in political entrepreneurship and his work at Sump's Phones in partnership with CyberDial, where they are able to make one million calls in a minute.
Gary Brown joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his journey at Political Data Inc, from an early employee to owner and CEO. PDI is a voter file data and political software company based in California.
Marshall Ganz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and academia, starting in the civil rights movement, then with The United Farm Workers and at Harvard. His new book is "People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal".
Regina Wallace-Jones joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in tech, politics and business and her current role as CEO of ActBlue, a nonprofit fundraising platform for progressives, and where she wants to take it.
Chris Figueredo returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her role at BISC and the ballot initiatives across the country for the 2024 election.
Jordan Wood joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, as Chief of Staff for Katie Porter during January 6th and how democracyFirst is working to confront the anti-democracy movement and protect free and fair elections.
Bryan Bennett joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about polling in 2024 and his role as the lead pollster at Navigator Research, which is a message development resource for progressives.
W. Joseph Campbell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a journalist, professor at American University and his recent book "Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections".
Aarti Sharma and Saul Balcarcel join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their experiences at Rhizome, a nonpartisan organization working to increase civic engagement among students.
Jacob Merkle joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the founding and building of Rhizome, where they are working to activate young people's identities into action and help youth treat civic service as the work of a lifetime.
Kathleen Borschow joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and the work she's done in voter protection services and elsewhere.
Garrett Gruener joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a successful entrepreneur (including ask.com) and venture capitalist, becoming a Democratic donor, and funding training for relational organizing for the 2024 election.
Dave Fleischer returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how he's using deep canvassing in Philadelphia to turn out voters.
Sri Kulkarni returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to give a tutorial using a relational organizing app.
Josh Cowen joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Professor of Education Policy at Michigan State and his book "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers."
Leah Bae joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in tech and politics and her role at Higher Ground Labs, and their Progressive AI Lab, where they work on funding start-ups and improving the political tech ecosystem for Democrats and progressives.
Lorenza Ramirez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and launching Blueline Fellows, where they're working to help progressive and social impact organizations recruit talented staff from out of season campaign workers.
Michele Hornish and Jonathan Zucker join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Every State Blue is working to create a basic funding floor for every candidate in the state legislature so that we can contest all the seats.
Lily Mason joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career path that led her to study how political parties have become so bound up in their identities and what she's been working on at SNF Agora Institute.
Rachel Kleinfeld joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role at The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she advises governments, philanthropists and activists.
Craig Snyder joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in Republican politics and how Haley Voters for Harris is encouraging voters across the political spectrum to vote for Kamala Harris.
Dmitri Mehlhorn returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his work funding the defense of our democracy through his new project Oakland Corps. I also ask about his recent split with Reid Hoffman.
Scott Warren joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Generation Citizen, a civics education group, advising leadership at non-profits and what he's up to at SNF Agora.
Myles Bugbee joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a political digital strategist and his firm Persuasion and Pixels, where they help digital campaigns use paid media effectively.
Hudson Munoz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his current role as Executive Director at Guns Down America, where they're working to build a future with fewer guns.
Carol Joyner joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how Family Values @ Work Action is advocating for workplace policies.
Chris Koob joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his firm MBA Consulting Group, where they help campaigns and organizations follow state and federal laws around financial disclosure.
Progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his latest book "The Hidden History of the American Dream: The Demise of the Middle Class―and How to Rescue Our Future".
Shion Deysarkar returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Unified, where they're building a social network with tools for activists.
Bradley Tusk joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a political strategist and venture capitalist and his recent book "Vote With Your Phone: Why Mobile Voting Is Our Final Shot at Saving Democracy".
Mark Jablonowski returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what they've been up to at DSPolitical, where they provide the tech and data to connect political advertisements to individual voters with targeted ads.
Audra Archuleta joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, and her start up Luminarity AI, where they're working to leverage AI to help with political research.
Hahrie Han returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what she's been up to at the SNF Agora Institute and her recent book "UNDIVIDED: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church".
Christina Coloroso joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role at the Analyst Institute, where they study the impact of voter contact programs through experimentation and evidence.
Juri Schnöller joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, both in the US and Germany and co-founding his digital communications firm Cosmonauts and Kings.
Aaron Berger and Will Schrepferman join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding DonorAtlas, a new company that uses technology and data science to provide fundraising data online and direct to Democratic campaigns.
Sarah Towle joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her book "Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands" where she writes about how unwelcoming our government is to people fleeing danger and seeking refuge at our border with Mexico.
Sara Gifford joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in commercial software and co-founding ActiVote, where they're building free software to engage low-propensity voters.
Chris Jones joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding PoliTemps, where they connect people with temporary jobs and political organizations.
A.J. Carillo joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and finance and founding Treasury Blue, where they help progressive causes grow their funds through earning interest.
Nic Zateslo joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in political technology and his role at Votivate, where they're building field software that incorporates AI for Political campaigns.
Brian Young returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he's been up to at Action Network, where they provide powerful, flexible tools to help progressives engage with their
Andy Barr joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and starting and growing Uplift, a digital first agency that delivers creative content, ad buying services and strategic communications to Democratic campaigns.
Roger Stone joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his long career in politics and founding Advocacy Data, where he helps progressives with trusted political data and also now introducing Political Explorer.
Anna Scholl joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about moving from the state level with Progress Virginia to her role as President of ProgressNow at the national level, where they coordinate with 28 state hubs to build progressive communications infrastructure.
Rhiannon Ruff joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her role at Lumino, a digital agency, and her expertise in Wikipedia, an important platform for progressive candidates and organizations.
Julia Rosen joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her ups and downs in digital political entrepreneurship and co-founding Meadowlark Strategies, a full-service digital agency focused on storytelling.
Jordan Krueger joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and starting CampaignHelp, where he provides technology and help desk support for progressive organizations.
Debra Cleaver returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about being ousted from Vote.org, which she founded and ran for a decade, and starting VoteAmerica where they work to increase voter turnout through the use of tech.
Kristin Turner joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and founding the MisfitMinds Collective, a civic studio and lab that's working to facilitate a bigger political conversation.
Documentary Filmmaker Kim Snyder joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and directing her current film about Maxwell Frost, our first Congressman from Gen Z.
Steve Anderson returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the changes they've made at New/Mode, a civic advocacy platform, to make the platform more accessible to smaller sized customers.
David Callahan returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding People's House, where they work to support progressive candidates in GOP held congressional districts and catching us up on Blue Tent, where they connect donors strategically to progressive causes.
Jeremy Smith returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about Civitech's new product, RunningMate, software for running a political campaign and what he thinks we need to do to fix the ongoing voter registration deficit.
Maya Hutchinson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and co-founding BattlegroundAI, where they provide AI powered tools to help create effective digital advertising campaigns.
Christina Baal-Owens joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and co-founding Public Wise, where they work to secure the rights of the people through education, research and partnerships that support more voting and equitable representation.
Rachel Roberts and Zach Blume join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and founding Raise More, where they're building a donor database with integrated dialer, email and texting to help progressives streamline their fundraising.
Craig Johnson, Aram Fischer and Tyler McFadden join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their roles at Change Agent, where they've built a generative AI chatbot with a progressive mindset.
Michael Kaiser joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in cybersecurity and how Defending Digital Campaigns works to protect campaigns from attacks by providing them with free resources and tools.
Scott Anderson returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how the Strategic Victory fund is working to invest in state based communications and their project Megaphone which amplifies progressive messaging.
Lucille Wenegieme and Tappan Vickery join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and how, for the last 20 years, Headcount has been registering voters at concerts, festivals and community events.
Nicole Carty and Anthony Torres join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Get Free is building a youth led movement to repair past harms and realize a future where freedom is for all.
Zoe Stein and Yoni Landau of Movement Labs join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how you could win $25,000 if you have a testable, scaleable idea to help win this fall's presidential election.
Chris Maggiano joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, his advocacy work for the LGBTQ+ community and founding his firm Cormier & Company, where they advise clients to achieve their political and philanthropic goals.
Andrea Nix-Fine and Sean Fine join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers as documentary filmmakers, founding their company Change Content and their recent film "The Sixth", which documents the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Alan Reger joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, founding his research firm Reger Research and a new project he's working on called The Deep Narrative Project, an AI assisted method for gathering public opinion.
Jenna Fullmer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role as President of Blue Compass Strategies, where they provide high quality research for unions and progressives.
Alyssa Batchelor-Causey joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, founding Hill and State, a political research firm and developing Rivalmind, an AI powered political research tool.
Jen Burton joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a media consultant and starting her own firm where they produce TV, radio and digital content for Democrats.
Ned Howey joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his path to co-founding Tectonica and his book "Fixing Our Democracies and Winning Elections in The Age of Junk Politics - A Guide to Transformational Campaigning".
Michael Sifry returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss an article he recently published called "Living with VANxiety: The Present and Future of Progressive Movement Tech".
Joe Drymala joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding Share of Voice, where they help Democrats by analyzing online conversations to improve their communications.
Max Wood returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to tell the story of the end of his company, Deck and starting a new company Indigo, where they help progressives with data, analytics and engineering.
Lindsey Cormack joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, creating DCinbox, where she archives e-newsletters sent by members of Congress and her recent book "How to Raise a Citizen (and Why it's Up to You to Do it)".
Robert Reynolds, Executive Director of Vote Rev returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to catch us up on the behavioral science based innovations they're making in in person relational organizing tactics to boost voter turnout.
Navin Nayak joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, how the Democrats are doing on messaging and his role at CAP Action, a progressive think tank.
David Nir and David Beard join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and hosting The Downballot podcast, where they cover elections around the country below the presidential line of the ballot.
Isabel Alter, Annika Cole and Jarae Hines join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding The School Board Project, where they work to support progressive school board candidates.
Genny Mayhew joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in data and analytics for many unions, getting her PhD in Political Science and her role as CTO at the SEIU.
Ryan Davis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and co-founding People First, where they provide precision micro-influencer marketing at scale.
Skye Perryman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role as President and CEO of Democracy Forward, where they use the law to protect and advance our democracy.
AJ Kahle joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in data, analytics and tech and co-founding Winnable, a website builder for smaller campaigns and causes.
Christina Hartman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her Congressional run in Pennsylvania, her work in international democracy and her role at BroderickHaight, where they provide guidance to nonprofits, universities and other organizations.
Jess O'Connell, Maju Varghese, Travis Brock and Mo Shatara join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about starting the Democracy Security Project, where they're working to provide solutions for security, safety and training for political operatives and candidates.
David Goldstein joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding We Defend Truth, where they work to fight disinformation with targeted counter narrative ads.
Professor of Law, Podcaster and Author, Josh Douglas joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his latest book "The Court v. The Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights".
Sarah Jaynes and Anthony Flaccavento join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the work they're doing in rural America and to push back on the book "White Rural Rage".
Paul Waldman and Tom Schaller join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their recent book "White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy".
Ken Block joins The Great Battlefield to talk about his recent book "Disproven: My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud for the Trump Campaign, the Data that Shows Why He Lost, and How We Can Improve Our Elections".
Robin Leeds joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a Senior Political Strategist, Organizer and Advocate with more than 30 years of work in the government, labor and non-profit sectors.
Josh Berezin and Mary Bogus join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about scaling up Grow Progress, an online tool and services for progressives to test the effectiveness of their messaging.
Ben Lazarus joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and running the polling operation at TargetSmart, where they provide voter data and technology to Democrats and allied organizations.
Taifa Butler joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role as President of Demos, a non-profit public policy organization working to build a just, inclusive, multiracial democracy and economy.
Tom Lopach joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his role as CEO at the Voter Participation Center, where they're dedicated to large scale voter registration work.
Lauren Kunis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role as CEO at VoteRiders, a nonpartisan organization that helps citizens secure voter ID and provide information about elections.
Xena Ni joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and co-founding Trestle Collaborative, where they provide technology and consultants from the private sector to progressive technology and movement groups.
Dr. Melissa Michelson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an expert in Latinx mobilization, LGBTQ politics and as head of Team Michelson, where they engage in national research projects that doubles as mentoring efforts for younger scholars.
Malia Fisher and Tyler Steinhardt join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Vocal Media is aligning creators with progressive campaigns and causes to create powerful marketing.
Lynsy Smithson-Stanley and Jack Zhou join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their work in the climate space and Climate Advocacy Lab, where they've created a blueprint for better coalition work.
Tamer Mokhtar returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he's been up to and his role at All Americans Vote, where they're focused on registering the black community to vote.
Jim Kitchens joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, founding his polling firm The Kitchens Group, what it takes to win in a red state and how he's feeling about our current politics.
Previous guests of The Great Battlefield podcast turn the tables and ask host Nathaniel G Pearlman questions about his personal and professional life. Part 3.
Cheyenne Davis-Eubanks joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career working at the DNC, the Kansas Democratic Party and now as ED of DMO, where they connect, elect and empower Democratic municipal officials.
Ari Trujillo-John returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about growing and scaling her company OpenField, where they provide tech to help progressives with canvassing.
Nathan Gonzales joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Political Analyst and now Editor and Publisher at Inside Elections, where they provide non-partisan analysis of our politics and elections.
Anat Shenker-Osorio joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics in the U.S. and abroad, her podcast Words to Win By and her role as CEO at ASO Communications where they help progressives with their messaging.
Previous guests of The Great Battlefield podcast turn the tables and ask host Nathaniel G Pearlman questions about his personal and professional life. Part 2
Liuba Grechen Shirley joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, her 2018 Congressional run and founding Vote Mama, where they work to break down barriers to mothers engaging in politics, particularly as candidates.
Walter Ley joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his transition into political tech and founding Ballot Builder, where they help organizations create non-partisan voter guides.
Sasha Issenberg returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his new book "The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age".
Previous guests of The Great Battlefield podcast turn the tables and ask host Nathaniel G Pearlman questions about his personal and professional life. Part 1.
Anne Lewis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and founding MissionWired, a data integrated digital first marketing and fundraising agency.
Heidi Beirich joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and co-founding the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, where they track and expose hate and far-right extremist movements.
David Eichenbaum joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an actor, then in political communications and starting his own media consultancy, Village Square.
Brad Caldana joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding the Center for Digital Strategy, where they provide digital training for thousands of practitioners at progressive campaigns and organizations.
Michael Wear joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, his role at The Center for Christianity and Public Life and his recent book "The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life".
Frank O'Brien joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, running his own direct mail firm, selling it, and starting O'Brien on Message, a forum for talking about how Democrats should be communicating.
Nandini Jammi joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and why she co-founded Check My Ads, an ad tech watchdog working to defund purveyors of misinformation and help advertisers gain insight on what websites their ads are landing.
Uriel Epshtein joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role as CEO at the Renew Democracy Initiative, where they're building a movement to renew democracy through commentary, events and direct aid.
Robert Arnow joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding Designed to Run, a campaign website builder for progressives.
Colin Rogero joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and co-founding Conexión, a new media and communications firm that specializes in reaching out to Hispanic audiences and beyond.
Joshua Kaufman and Isaac Troncoso join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Blue Raven Campaigns, a political consultancy and building Call Smart AI, software that uses AI to help with campaign fundraising.
Hillary Lehr returns to the Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her time at Higher Ground Labs and then joining Quiller as CEO where they help Democratic campaigns produce fundraising emails and other content through the use of AI.
Luis Lozada joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role as CEO at Democracy Works, a nonpartisan nonprofit that builds tech for democracy, focusing on voters and voting.
Howie Stanger joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding Pocketbook Strategies, a full service political operations and accounting firm for progressive organizations and campaigns.
Sam Drzymala joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding Progressive Victory, an online community of content creators and volunteers on Twitch and Youtube Streaming who are using the power of the internet to win elections.
Charlie Cook Joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding the Cook Political Report, now with Amy Walters, which provides non-partisan analysis of campaigns and elections.
Jeremiah Johnson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding the Center for New Liberalism, a community started on Reddit that is advocating for more pragmatic policies and politics for Democrats.
Gerry Tyson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and how The Tyson Organization has been helping progressives with their phone programs for over forty years.
Pete Brodnitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in polling, how he thinks about public opinion and campaigning in the age of Trump and starting his own firm Expedition Strategies.
Don Green joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Professor of Political Science at Yale and Columbia University and using experiments to measure the efficacy of campaign tactics.
Robert Gass joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career coaching progressive leaders and co-founding the Rockwood Leadership Institute, where they help numerous progressives run their organizations.
Robert Schwartz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding PrimaryPivot, where they're working to turnout undeclared voters for Nikki Haley in the New Hampshire primaries to defeat Trump.
Griff Gray and Daniel Deriso join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers in politics and founding VoteShift, a firm that focuses on winning campaigns for progressives in the southeast.
Kat Calvin returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Spread The Vote is working to help thousands of Americans get their ID and her new book "American Identity in Crisis: Notes from an Accidental Activist".
David Nickerson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about using experiments to determine the efficacy of different campaign tactics and his substantial career in the field.
Mindy Finn joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, running as an Independent vice presidential candidate and her role at Citizen Data, where they provide research, data and guidance to pro-democracy organizations.
David Pepper joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a writer, elected official, party chairman and activist and his books "Laboratories of Autocracy," and "Saving Democracy."
Josh Nelson returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Civic Shout is helping nonprofits grow their email and SMS communities.
Ken Grossinger joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in the labor movement and his book "Art Works: How Organizers and Artists are Creating a Better World Together".
Mike Marotti joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech, providing IT and Cybersecurity for Elizabeth Warren and founding Personified, where they offer managed IT services for progressives.
Meghan McAnespie joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role at Grassroots Analytics, where they provide tech and data to progressives with a focus on increasing digital fundraising.
Tali DeGroot joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, fundraising and her current role as Political Director of J Street, where they support pro-Israel, pro-peace policies.
Billy Rogers joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his long history in politics and founding Advanced Micro Targeting, where they gather signatures to qualify ballot initiatives and candidacies.
Amy Friedman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and working her way up to Executive Director of Virginia House Democrats, where they helped Democrats get elected in the state legislative elections.
Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their recent book "Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World".
Lauren Gepford joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her role as Managing Director of Contest Every Race and Rural Power Lab at Movement Labs, a movement incubator and digital consultancy.
Julia Barnes joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role as CEO at The Movement Cooperative where they provide data and tech infrastructure to progressive organizations.
Lauren Baer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her legal and policy career at the State Department and elsewhere, as a congressional candidate, and her current role running Arena where they recruit and train campaign staff.
Aaron Strauss returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about using evidence to inform campaigning and is then joined by Elaine Perlman of Waitlist Zero, where they advocate for living kidney donation.
Larry Williams Jr joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career advocating for workers' rights and co-founding the Progressive Workers Union as well as UnionBase, a tech and education hub for Unions.
Data and Analytics for Progressives with Russ Rampersad of Catalist by Nathaniel G. Pearlman
Patrick Ruffini joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Republican pollster and his book "Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP".
Rich Logis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about why he left Trump and founded Perfect Our Union where he's working to help others leave the MAGA movement.
Jack Cocchiarella joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Political Strategist, working to align social media influencers with progressives and founding PocketCast News a progressive media organization.
Taegan Goddard joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding Political Wire, a popular news website focused on politics.
Hal Malchow returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his recent book "Reinventing Political Advertising", where Hal says it's time to change the nature of our ads and how we target them.
Bill Hing joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in immigration law, being a Professor of Law and his recent book "Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System".
Stephanie Gerber Wilson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how she got into politics, her podcast "Freedom Over Fascism" and co-founding Hoosier Victory Alliance where they are working to flip Indiana from red to blue.
Morgan Searcy joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a graphic designer working on the Warren and Ossoff campaigns and her book "One Year in Politics" where she interviewed first time Democratic staffers.
Stuart Perelmuter joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding atAdvocacy where they connect social media influencers to progressive campaigns and causes to amplify their messaging.
Kari Chisholm joins The Great Battlefield to talk about his career in politics, building his digital and email fundraising firm Mandate Media, selling it and his new role at Strategies 360.
Lynn Vavreck joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a Professor of Political Science, her research into the effect of campaigns on presidential election results and a few of her books about recent presidential elections.
Adam Friedman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, founding Rank the Vote, where they advocate for ranked choice voting and founding Civera where they build software to publish election statistics and other public records.
Madi Eden joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and tech including helping to found Civitech and her current role as CTO at Movement Labs, an incubator and consulting firm working to stop fascism.
David Cay Johnston joins The Great Battlefield to talk about his career as an Investigative Journalist and his recent book "The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family".
Michelle Stephenson and Mike Liddell join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and founding Grow for Good where they're helping social impact companies and organizations successfully scale.
Jahnavi Rao joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her start in political activism, founding New Voters, which registers high school students to vote and now running New Voters Research Network where they use behavioral science tools to solve challenging problems.
Joshua Bartley joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech and co-founding Campaign Deputy, a online software platform to help progressives with fundraising, communications and compliance.
Amanda Litman returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what Run For Something has been up to, recruiting and supporting young, diverse candidates for office.
Taylor Ourada and Brian Derrick join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and founding Oath, a political and advising platform that empowers Democratic donors to maximize their impact.
Jon Warnow and Nathan Woodhull join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and founding Daisychain, a new platform that connects data from a bunch of political technology applications.
Sam Oliker-Friedland joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and how the Institute for Responsive Government is working to create a more user-friendly government by providing research and analysis in key areas like election policy.
Tareq Alani and Aaron Myran join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers in politics and founding Chorus AI, where they're applying artificial intelligence and news analysis to political communications and organizing.
Chris Scott joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding Advance The Electorate PAC where they are dedicated to recruiting, training and electing the next generation of Democratic candidates.
Simon Rosenberg returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about our successes as a party and country -- Hopium Chronicles on Substack.
Denver Riggleman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career being a former Congressman for Virginia, a tech advisor to the January 6 Committee, owning a distillery and building his firm Riggleman Information and Intelligence Group.
Nate Levin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding Campaign Brain where they aim to use artificial intelligence to help small campaigns win.
Ted Blaszak joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and building Trailblazing Canvassers where they collect signatures to qualify candidates and ballot measures.
Ben Kobren and Tanmay Chopra join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers in politics and tech and founding Common Ground where they're applying AI to voter contact.
Host of The Great Battlefield podcast, Nathaniel Pearlman, gives a health update and talks about the podcast going forward.
Kevin Pujanauski joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and how Movement Labs is using technology and experimentation to stop fascism and build progressive power.
Dahlia Lithwick, who writes about law and the courts for Slate, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss the jurisprudence of Trump's Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, and what his confirmation would mean for the future of the Supreme Court.
Ann Lewis stops by The Great Battlefield podcast and shares her story of becoming the CTO of MoveOn and the use of technology in grass roots organizing.
Rebecca Pittman and Emily Wineland join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers in politics and founding GoodChange, which adds a wallet and spare change round up feature to donation processing.
The Great Battlefield Podcast traveled to New Orleans and sat down with Nia Weeks to discuss her journey of serving those in need which ultimately led her to creating Citizen SHE.
The Great Battlefield podcast stops by the home of Billy Wimsatt to hear about his career as an author, entrepreneur, activist and how his current endeavor, Movement Voter Project, is aligning donors and grassroots organizations.
Ackeem Evans joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding Election Bridge where they build tools for organizations that want to create their own civic networks.
Justin Florence joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his work as the Legal Director of Protect Democracy - a non-profit organization which is tracking the rise of authoritarian-style politics in America, and fighting back with legal action
Chris Wegrzyn joins The Great Battlefield to talk about his career in Democratic politics and founding BlueLabs where they're using data to help solve problems for businesses, campaigns and government.
Laura Brill joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, creating her own law firm and how The Civics Center is working to pre-register high school students.
Professor Steven Teles joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his years studies of conservatives and his new book "Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites".
Barbara Res joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her time working as Executive Vice President of Construction for Donald Trump and the release of her memoir "Tower of Lies: What my 18 Years Working with Donald Trump Reveals about Him".
Sonia Van Meter joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how Stanford Campaigns is working to help Democrats by providing opposition research.
Evan McMullin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share his experience as a CIA Officer, running against Trump as an Independent in the 2016 election and how Stand Up Republic is fighting to defend the ideals that our country was founded on.
Jamal Watkins joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in the progressive ecosystem and what he's working on at the NAACP in these crazy times of Trump, the pandemic and civil unrest.
Progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann, returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his latest book "The Hidden History of American Democracy".
David Nevins joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his career as an entrepreneur and how his Bridge Alliance has created a hub for groups defending democracy to collaborate, network and form strategic partnerships.
Chris Lundberg joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how he was ousted from his own firm Salsa, but bounced back with Frakture, a company helping progressive organizations build digital infrastructure and coordinate data.
Former New York State Senator Daniel Squadron returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he's been up to and how The States Project is working to elect progressive state lawmakers.
Anat Shenker-Osorio, Founder and Principal at ASO Communications, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss how her background in linguistics informs her work as a political messaging consultant. She shares what her research and campaign experience has taught her about how to re-frame the debate to give progressives the advantage
Maurice Mitchell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his history, his philosophy on leadership and how the Working Families Party fits in the progressive ecosystem.
Rose Clouston joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how DEMpower labs is working to protect voting rights.
Deepak Bhargava joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and organizing, from running Center for Community Change to CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and an important article he's writing on how Democrats should govern once they regain power.
Occupy Democrats' Omar Rivero joins Nathaniel to talk about founding Occupy Democrats, the biggest grassroots political organization/information website in the country. and their mission to promote progressivism.
Mike Pfohl returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he's been up to at the Organizing Empowerment Project, a nonprofit that helps organizations with relational organizing by providing free software, training and funding.
Eitan Hersh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his new book "Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change", which aims to change the behavior of people who consume politics but don't work to build power.
Teddy Schleifer returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the new media enterprise that he's part of called Puck, which aims to cover the intersection of money and power in Washington, Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
Graham Elwood joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in comedy, his podcast The Political Vigilante and his stand up special "Manifest It".
Anthony Leiserowitz, Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his research in to public opinion on climate change and his radio show which produces 90 second episodes about global warming.
This episode of The Great Battlefield podcast features a conversation with Republican political consultant Patrick Ruffini, recorded in front of his class of students at Johns Hopkins University. Patrick discusses his longtime career in political technology, working at the RNC, founding his firm -- Echelon Insights, and why he elected not to vote for Donald Trump.
Pat Dennis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in opposition research and his new role as President of American Bridge 21st Century, where they track Republicans and hold them accountable for their actions.
Robby Mook joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss serving as Hillary Clinton's national campaign manager in 2016, his thoughts on modern campaigning, and his new initiative: the Defending Digital Democracy Project, which is developing strategies to protect systems against cyber and information attacks.
Randi Weingarten, the President of the American Federation of Teachers, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss her career, the recent teacher strikes, and the many threats public sector unions currently face. She also explains why she feels the 2018 midterms are the most important elections of her lifetime.
Larissa Baldwin-Roberts joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an activist and her role as CEO at GetUp, where they are working to build a progressive Australia, and how what happens in the United States affects Australian politics and vice-versa.
In Episode 24 of The Great Battlefield podcast we talk with Neal Conan, the former host of NPR's Talk of the Nation, about his response to the Trump Presidency, a new independent radio show and podcast called Truth, Politics and Power.
Episode 4 of The Great Battlefield: MoveOn’s Ben Wikler talks to us about Sen. Al Franken, The Onion and MoveOn's role in helping to mobilize the resistance to save millions of peoples’ healthcare, fight climate change, protect immigrants and demand accountability from the Trump.
Samantha Boucher joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in tech and politics and co-founding Shire where they're building a digital office tool for political campaigns to help onboard, communicate and train volunteers.
Julian Zelizer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his path to becoming a professor at Princeton, how his work helped to bring back the study of politics in history departments, and his parallel career as a editorialist and political commentator.
James Rucker joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his long career in progressive politics, from working at MoveOn to starting Color of Change and his current venture Springboard. James also talks about confronting a bully like Trump and race in politics.
Stephen Clermont joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and polling and how Change Research is helping progressives by providing affordable and accurate online polling.
Arnie Graf joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an organizer and shares one of the stories from his recent book "Lessons Learned: Stories from a Lifetime of Organizing".
Todd Gitlin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Professor and author of 18 books and how he's currently working against Trump.
Helen Brosnan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role at Fight Corporate Monopolies where they work to ensure that our democracy and our economy work for regular people, not just big corporations.
Crystal Patterson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, working at Facebook's political arm, working on the internet presence of Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton, and her current role at FSB Public Affairs.
Katie Harbath joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about running Public Policy at Facebook after joining them from the NRSC, starting Anchor Change and how she's working to solve the problems in the intersection of technology and democracy.
Gina Pak joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and becoming the CEO of Tech for Campaigns, where they help progressive candidates at the state level get elected through help with digital communications.
Dan Sena, the outgoing Executive Director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss how under his leadership the DCCC helped the Democratic Party retake the US House of Representatives in the 2018 Midterms.
Guy Cecil joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his work as Chairman of Priorities USA, a key progressive super PAC founded in 2011 to support Barack Obama's re-election. He tells us how Priorities has altered their digital strategy since the election of Trump, their approach to supporting candidates in the midterms, and how they are laying the groundwork for 2020.
Jane Hughes and Zack Carroll join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers in politics and building Liftoff Campaigns where they combine strategic communications with digital fundraising to help progressives win.
Anna Galland joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, her 7 years as Co-Executive Director at MoveOn and transitioning out of that role to Chair of the Board and other projects.
Ryan Grim joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in journalism, from covering Congress at Politico and The Huffington Post and now The Intercept. Ryan also discusses his book "We’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to AOC, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement".
Geri Prado joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics working for ActBlue, EMILY's List, Hillary Clinton, the DSCC and AFL-CIO.
Nse Ufot joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how The New Georgia Project is registering and engaging voters across Georgia.
Heather Booth joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share stories and insights from her six decade career in political activism. She compares the Trump era to the fights for civil rights in the 1960's, and discusses her work with The Midwest Academy -- a school she founded to train progressive organizers.
Caroline Fredrickson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as Chief of Staff for Senator Maria Cantwell, serving as President for the American Constitution Society and currently teaching at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Ann Morning, Professor of Sociology at NYU joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career studying race and her two books on the subject "The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference" and "An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States"
Mark Sullivan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding and building the Voter Activation Network (the VAN side of NGP VAN) and what he's been up to since stepping back from the company.
Lou Levine joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how he was NGP's first hire and helped the company grow from two people in Nathaniel's attic to what it is now, over 350 employees. Lou also talks about how they're helping Democrats win by providing them with web-based software tools.
Matthew Dallek, Professor at George Washington University joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his book "Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right".
Stuart Stevens joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about running a Republican media consultancy and leading strategy for Mitt Romney and why he's left his party and written an upcoming book "IT WAS ALL A LIE: How The Republican Party Became Donald Trump".
Sarah Longwell of Defending Democracy Together joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how she's working to recruit a serious primary challenger on the republican side.
Emily Kaufman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in political communications and her role as Executive Director at the Groundwork Project where they work to support progressives in red states.
Bob Perkowitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career running large businesses and founding ecoAmerica where they're working to grow support for climate solutions.
Varshini Prakash joins The Great Battlefield to discuss her work as co-founder of the Sunrise Movement - an organization of young people focused on preventing climate change and holding elected officials accountable for accepting contributions from the oil, gas, and coal industries.
Conscious Lee joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a debate coach, public speaker and content creator on TikTok where he uses his influence to advance diversity and inclusion.
Doran Schrantz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an organizer and her role as Executive Director at ISAIAH where they've built a multi-racial, state-wide, coalition of faith communities, black barber shops, and other community based constituencies fighting for racial and economic justice in Minnesota.
Nse Ufot joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how The New Georgia Project is registering and engaging voters across Georgia.
Chelsea Peterson Thompson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career managing campaigns to becoming General Manager at NGP VAN, where they provide tech to Democrats and progressive organizations.
Anastasia Golovashkina joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in social media and politics from her time at 270 Strategies and Trilogy Interactive, working with high profile candidates, to running social media for the Elizabeth Warren Campaign.
Judy Heumann joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her role in the disability rights movement, being in the film "Crip Camp" and her memoir "Being Heumann".
Joe Sanberg joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, working to raise the minimum wage in California and founding mission based companies like Aspiration where they connect large companies with carbon credits as part of the fight against global warming.
Ann Marie Habershaw, COO of Bully Pulpit Interactive, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss her career. She details her unusual path to the world of politics and how she climbed the ranks to senior leadership positions of the DNC, DCCC, Emily's List and others. She also tells us the challenges she faced in overseeing a 1.2 billion dollar budget as the COO of President Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.
Joe Slade White returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about being Joe Biden's Media Consultant for over 25 years, how he thinks the Biden Campaign did and why he is a fan of the Bidens.
Russ Feingold joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics serving as a Wisconsin State Senator, a US Senator and now President of the American Constitution Society, a group of progressives working to rebalance our legal system.
Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about governing and his decision to remove confederate statues, leadership, race and politics.
This episode of The Great Battlefield features an in-depth conversation with Governor Martin O'Malley. He discusses cutting crime rates as the Mayor of Baltimore, serving as the Governor of Maryland during the Great Recession, and running for President in the turbulent 2016 cycle. He also tells us why he chose to launch Win Back Your State - a PAC focused on training and supporting Democratic candidates at the state and local level.
Arthur Thompson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech and now serving as the Chief Technology Officer at the Democratic National Committee.
Monica Ramirez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an Activist, Lawyer and Social Entrepreneur and founding a number of organizations including Justice for Migrant Women where they're working to improve the lives of migrant farm workers.
Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Co-Director of Caring Across Generations, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss what can be done to protect the rights - and the dignity - of domestic workers, caregivers, and the elderly.
Dom Kelly joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career fighting for disability rights since he was four, working as a Fundraiser Senior Disability Advisor for Stacey Abrams campaign and founding New Disabled South where they advocate for the rights of disabled people.
Andy Stern joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, being the President of the SEIU, fighting for workers rights and now a fellow at the Economic Security Project where they're advocating for a universal basic income.
Steve Rosenthal joins The Great Battlefield to talk about his experience in progressive politics over the past 40 years, including building labor's political infrastructure at the AFL-CIO; founding ACT massive voter mobilization project in 2004, starting the Atlas Project a research hub, and his new effort, the Worker's News Network
Michael Podhorzer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in the labor movement, the use of data and analytics and recently stepping down as Political Director at the AFL-CIO.
On this episode Host, Nathaniel Pearlman shares his thoughts about The Great Battlefield podcast after producing 900 episodes and temporary changes to the podcast going forward.
Pollsters Ed Goeas and Celinda Lake join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their book "A Question of Respect: Bringing Us Together in a Deeply Divided Nation".
Rakim Brooks joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his leadership story and his current role as President of the Alliance for Justice, a national association of progressive organizations advocating for a fair and independent justice system.
Melody Oliphant, Myla Williams and Harrison Tran join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their roles at GYJC, a coalition of students ages 14-22 working to build power from the classroom to the capitol.
Zack Exley joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the use of the internet in political organizing and fundraising, including on several Democratic presidential campaigns and at Wikipedia as well as founding Justice Democrats and now New Consensus, a think tank that works to achieve economic renewal and transformation.
Elias Crim joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding Solidarity Hall, a podcast, publishing project and community of people with interests in localism, municipalism and the solidarity economy.
Michael Thatcher joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and becoming CEO of Charity Navigator, where they evaluate and rate nonprofits and help donors align with the causes they care about.
Karthik Ganapathy joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, working on the Bernie Sanders campaign and co-founding Left Flank Strategies where they help progressives with communications and strategy.
Michael Michaelson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about starting Progressive Pipeline, where they work to recruit students and place them in paid fellowships at progressive organizations.
Ashwath Narayanan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his start in political entrepreneurship and co-founding Social Currant, a platform that connects progressive organizations with mission aligned creative influencers.
David Meyers joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in journalism and recently leaving The Fulcrum, a nonprofit news organization where they cover efforts to fix our political system.
Doug Turner joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and co-founding EveryVoice, where they are working to turn around politics in the south through improved data and analytics.
Amaury Dujardin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and being Executive Director at Downballot Progress, where they work to oust state legislators who don't align with progressive values.
Assistant Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins BIPR, Nina Hall joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her book, "Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era: Think Global, Act Local".
Mike Berkowitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and co-founding Third Plateau, where they connect donors with progressive causes that align with their values.
Kalani Tissot joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about fundraising for Democrats and progressive causes and founding his own firm Tissot Solutions.
Professor of Governance and Foreign Affairs, Sidney Milkis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his book "What Happened to the Vital Center?: Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America".
Jessica Post returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how she's grown the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, where they support state legislative races around the country.
Jerry Hauser joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, founding The Management Center, where they coach leaders of progressive organizations and now starting his new practice 2050 Advisors.
Former US Senator Doug Jones joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he's been up to since leaving the Senate, campaigning for Democrats during the midterms and working on a project called Every Voice to turnaround politics in the south.
Jeremy Suri joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Professor of History and Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin and his latest book "Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy".
Filmmaker Rachel Lears joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her latest film "To The End" where she follows AOC, Varshini Prakash of Sunrise Movement and others in their push for a Green New Deal and ultimately the passage of The Inflation Reduction Act.
Pete Davis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding the Democracy Policy Network, where they're building an interstate policy network to deepen democracy in statehouses.
Alex Renirie and Linn Davis join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and how Healthy Democracy is working to elevate the voices of everyday people in creating policy using lottery-selected advisory panels.
Eve Samborn McCool joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in digital politics from being Digital Director for Tammy Duckworth to co-founding Assemble the Agency, a key progressive media agency.
Brendan McPhillips joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Campaign Manager, working for Pete Buttigieg and more recently running the Fetterman Campaign.
Stephanie Schriock joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics working with Howard Dean, Al Franken, and Jon Tester, running EMILY's List for over a decade, and her current passion for improving the media landscape.
Kat Atwater returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what she's been up to since leaving the DNC and founding Community Tech Alliance where they're building better data systems to help the progressive cause.
Caron Butler joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his life experience and career as an NBA player and now Assistant Coach. Among his good works, he is now a trustee with the Vera Institute of Justice where they are working on criminal justice reform and ending mass incarceration.
Ana Sofia Palaez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a food and culture writer and co-founding the Miami Freedom Project where they are working to organize the Cuban community in Miami.
Ali Mortell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her current role as Research Lead at Blue Rose, where they test progressive messaging for their effectiveness.
Molly Coleman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her role as Executive Director at the People's Parity Project, a group of lawyers and law students organizing nationwide to end how the law enables injustice.
Noam Lee joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and running the Democratic Governors Association, where they work to elect Democratic Governors around the country.
Ashley Menzies Babatunde joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her legal career and starting The No Straight Path Podcast where she interviews people about the intersection of humanity and career and how they have altered their paths to find more humanity.
Kenneth Pennington joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics working on the Sanders and Fetterman campaigns and starting Middle Seat, a digital media and fundraising firm for progressive causes and candidates.
Tom Latkowski joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how Los Angeles for Democracy Vouchers is working to reform campaign finance by giving each citizen the ability to donate to campaigns regardless of wealth.
Nick Turner joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career working to reform our justice system and now serving as President of the Vera Institute for Justice, where they're working to end mass incarceration and strengthen communities.
Teddy Schleifer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he's been up to at Puck and his coverage of the downfall of crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried who gave to progressive causes and candidates.
Ross Morales Rocketto returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the complexities and challenges of being co-executive director of the growing organization Run For Something, where they recruit and support progressive candidates.
Phil Radford joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an activist and political entrepreneur, including as CEO of Greenpeace, and building Champion.us, a donor advisor platform for small donors looking to make an impact.
Dave Karpf joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an environmental organizer at Sierra Club, an Associate Professor at GWU's School of Media and Public Affairs and his books "The MoveOn Effect" and "Analytic Activism".
Rick Smith joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a truck driver and hosting The Rick Smith Show, a progressive and pro union radio show.
Laura Pearl joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about starting Flip the Vote, a donor network that raises money for grassroots organizing groups in key swing states.
Lukas Haynes joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and starting his firm Leveraged Philanthropy where they're working to protect democracy using philanthropy.
Professor of Sociology and Psychology Robb Willer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about improving political persuasion and how the Polarization and Social Change Lab at Stanford is running experiments to find out what brings people together and what drives them apart.
Gustavo Torres joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and being Executive Director of CASA, a grassroots advocacy organization supporting immigrant families.
Karen Jagoda joins The Great Battlefield Podcast to talk about her nonpartisan career in digital politics and hosting the Digital Politics Podcast where she covers tech innovations in political and advocacy campaigns.
David Slifka joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and running Bluem Ventures where they find progressive political projects that have traction and help them to grow.
Haley Bash joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and founding Donor Organizer Hub, a support network for people who fundraise for progressive causes from their communities.
Andrea Miller joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role at the Center for Common Ground where they work to educate under-represented voters to engage in elections.
Jason Berkenfeld joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech and politics and his role at Schmidt Futures where they are searching for up and coming leaders and helping to support them.
David Yankovich joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how he got in to politics and co-founding Endeavor Digital Group, a social media strategy firm that advises clients on how to better use all social media platforms.
Aria Florant joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and co-founding Liberation Ventures where they're helping to fund organizations that are advancing the reparations movement.
Sarah Lipton-Lubet joins The Great Battlefield to talk about her career in politics and her role at Take Back The Court where they are working to expand The Supreme Court.
Robert Fox joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as COO of MoveOn and Greenpeace and starting his own firm Robert Fox Consulting where he helps organizations with growth, fundraising and problem solving.
Patti Crane joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in marketing for nonprofits and how she came to take her skills to politics with Grassroots Messaging Works.
Alissa Quart joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an author and her role at The Economic Hardship Reporting Project where they hire journalists to report on their lived experiences of poverty and inequality.
Tanya Tarr joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and then leaving politics due to burnout and founding Cultivated Insights where she consults around organizational burnout and helps build stronger organizations.
Documentary Filmmakers Margo Guernsey and Sara Archambault and Liz Howard of the Brennan Center for Justice join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the film "No Time To Fail" which documents election workers in Rhode Island during the 2020 Presidential Election.
Meagan Hatcher-Mays joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, working to add 4 seats to The Supreme Court and what she's up to at Indivisible.
Kyle Tharp joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and running FWIW (For What It's Worth) Media where they publish a newsletter that tracks digital trends in our elections and how voters are reached online.
Dave Troy joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a tech entrepreneur and investigative journalist working to uncover the sources of disinformation online and his podcast "Dave Troy Presents" covering the same subject.
Jackie Salit and Thom Reilly join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their book "The Independent Voter" and the work they're doing at ASU's Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy.
Corey Nathan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about keeping tough conversations going with his podcast "Talkin' Politics and Religion Without Killin' Each Other."
Tara McGowan returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Courier Newsroom, where they're working in 8 battleground states to fight back against disinformation by publishing good information.
Lana Hansen and Sri Kulkarni join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their project 2 Million Texans, which is the first attempt to relationally organize the whole state.
Alex Kouts joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a tech entrepreneur and founding Indigov, a relations tool that allows constituents to connect with elected officials and vice versa.
Wayne Liebman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a doctor turned activist and founding Blue Voter Guide, a platform that makes voting easier by showing the endorsements of a wide range of progressive organizations.
Kedar Reddy joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and co-founding Organiz where they provide progressives with a platform and tools to amplify their message on social media.
David Donnelly joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, advocating for public financing of elections and founding The Pro Democracy Campaign where they work with state-based organizations to strengthen our democracy.
Jeremy Smith returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about growing Civitech, raising money, the state of voter registration and what his plans are for the future.
Jenn Brandel joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, reforming journalism, and co-founding Hearken and Zebras Unite.
Jack Knoxville joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his path that led him to founding the Trans Empowerment Project where they provide support for the trans community.
Katie Fahey joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Voters Not Politicians where they successfully banned partisan gerrymandering in Michigan and now running The People where they help others to do related work in other states using ballot initiatives.
Robert Shrum joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a strategist and speech writer, challenges to our democracy and teaching politics and running The USC Center for the Political Future.
Bob Perkowitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career running large businesses and founding ecoAmerica where they're working to grow support for climate solutions.
Angelique Hinton joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career working in client services at Vanguard for 20 years then moving to politics and co-founding PA Youth Vote where they are working to form a coalition of students and educators to give them the tools to become advocates in their communities.
Marcel Wieder joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, running his consultancy Aurora Strategy Group in Canada and handling communications at The International Association of Political Consultants.
Chloe Cockburn joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and founding Just Impact Advisors, where they pull together funders interested in criminal justice reform and help direct their money to innovative leaders working to make change on this front.
Deirdre Schifeling returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what she's been up to since leaving Planned Parenthood, serving as Advocacy Director at The White House and running Road Map to American Democracy where they are working to raise a billion dollars to support and protect democracy.
Aviva Rosman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and co-founding BallotReady, where they work to inform voters on every candidate and ballot measure.
Leigh Owens joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, overcoming incarceration and founding PENNfranchise where they are working to build power, create voters and leaders in communities disenfranchised by the criminal justice system.
Luis Herrero joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, founding 303.Digital where they do political consulting in Latin America, as well as his political podcast and daily radio show.
Vash Bandy, Neil Kole and Carolyn Stillwell join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about organizing Tuesdays with Toomey, a Pennsylvania group where they're protesting Republican Senator Patrick Toomey over his decisions that are not in the best interest of the country.
Eric Schnurer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, being Chief of Staff for the Governor of Pennsylvania and founding Public Works LLC where they help states with public policy and budget issues.
Kadida Kenner joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and current role at The New Pennsylvania Project, where they're working to expand the electorate by mobilizing youth and people of color.
Jamie White joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding Unit, where they've developed a unique platform to help workers form a union.
Sara Schreiber joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role as Executive Director at America Votes, where they work with over 400 local organizations to organize and mobilize voters.
E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their book "100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting" and how having full participation in our elections would protect us from voter suppression and create a more representative electorate.
David Callahan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career analyzing philanthropy and now founding Blue Tent, where they help progressive donors find impactful organizations and candidates.
Isaac Saul joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding Tangle, a newsletter and podcast that gives the view of both the left and right sides, along with his own view, on the big debates in the news.
Jay Costa joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and co-founding eQual, where they've developed software to help gather signatures for ballot initiatives.
Progressive Talk Show Host Thom Hartmann returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his latest book "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore its Greatness".
Scott Anderson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and serving as Executive Director at Strategic Victory Fund, where they've built a network of progressive donors.
Arjun Moorthy joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and co-founding The Factual, where they've created an algorithm that scans over 10,000 news articles daily rates them for quality and shares the best ones with subscribers.
Dmitri Mehlhorn returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what Investing in US has been up to and what he believes works and doesn't work to defeat Trumpism.
Steven McAlpine joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in data science, working at Hawkfish and now as CEO of INTRVL where they provide tools to measure an ads effectiveness and help with optimization.
Bill Strathmann joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and growing Network for Good, which helps nonprofits with fundraising, then spinning a for profit business out of that and being acquired by Bonterra.
Greg Miller joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech, business and the law, and co-founding OSET where they are working to rebuild our elections infrastructure through open source software to increase trust in our elections.
Yasmin Radjy joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career working as Political Director at Planned Parenthood, The Department of Treasury and now as the Executive Director of Swing Left, where they are recruiting volunteers to help win the midterm elections.
Ava Mateo joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about 18byVote, a youth led organization that helps 16 to 18 year olds understand how and why to vote.
Claire Atkin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and how Check My Ads is working to defund purveyors of disinformation.
Tung Nguyen returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how AAPI Victory Alliance has been working to empower the AAPI community and also serving as Chair at PIVOT where they work to empower Vietnamese Americans.
Dan Seals joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and tech, providing cyber security at the DSCC and his current role as Chief Information Security Officer at Bonterra.
Lucas Kunce joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his life as a Marine veteran and anti-monopoly advocate and why he's running for the U.S. Senate in Missouri.
Michael Isikoff joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in investigative journalism, writing two best sellers and how he feels the press should be covering politics in the time of Trump.
Mohan Seshadri joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how API PA is working to build power for the Asian Pacific Islanders of Pennsylvania.
Matthew Stafford joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech and politics and recently leaving the Democratic Data Exchange, which facilitates a blind exchange of voter data among progressives.
Nealin Parker joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, the key challenges to peace in the USA and what she's up to at Common Ground USA.
Kate Gage joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career working at USAID, organizing the March for Our Lives, helping to build The Movement Cooperative and her current role at the Cooperative Impact Lab working on new ways to build progressive power.
Max Wood returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his continued path in political entrepreneurship and his app, Deck which provides Democratic campaigns information on who to reach and how to win.
Former Republican Miles Taylor joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about authoring the anonymous letter to The New York Times saying he was part of the resistance inside The Trump Administration and now running the Renew America Movement, where they are trying to break Trump's hold on the Republican Party.
Christine Chen joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and co-founding APIAVote where they are working to mobilize Asian and Pacific Islander communities to strengthen their political voices.
Professor of History and Italian Studies, Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her book "Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present" which shows how authoritarian leaders around the world came to power and governed through propaganda, violence, corruption, and machismo.
Eliot Nelson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a journalist at The Huffington Post and founding Wayside Press where they are developing Political Arena, the first video game universe set in U.S. politics.
Ken Rudin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a journalist at NPR, hosting his podcast, The Political Junkie and why he's changed his nonpartisan orientation in the Trump era.
Logan Lahive joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a tech entrepreneur and founding Frank, where they're building software for union workers and organizers.
Nick Knudsen and Lori Coleman join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding and building DemCast, where they connect volunteers and causes to amplify messaging on social media.
Professor Larry Jacobs joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Political Scientist and his latest book "Democracy Under Fire: Donald Trump and the Breaking of American History".
Johnnie Turnage and Averett Barksdale join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how the came to found EvenScore to connect small dollar donors where they will have most political impact.
Tudor Mihailescu joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how and why he founded SpeechifAi to help organizations share organic messages on social media.
Ralph Neas joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics-- including Chief Legislative Aid to two Senators, Executive Director for The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, head of People for the American Way, and more, and his current concerns about our democracy.
Siva Vaidhyanathan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as Professor of Modern Media Studies, his podcast Democracy in Danger and his book "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy".
Professor Peter Coleman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career researching and practicing conflict resolution and his latest book "The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization".
Michelle Deatrick joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a poet and farmer and becoming a political activist and is now the DNC Climate Council Chair.
Nate Rifkin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, working on campaigns for Bernie, Warren and Biden and his current role at Scale to Win where they're building texting and calling tools to help Progressives win.
Daniel Laurison joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an Associate Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College and his book "Producing Politics: Inside The Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us".
Ray Buckley joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in state and national politics and serving as the chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party.
Evan Burfield joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an entrepreneur, investor and author. And his work co-founding Helm, where with co-founder Emma Bloomberg, he has 90 people working to provide pro-democracy organizers and education and other advocates and activists with data, tools and software.
Vicky Hausman and Daniel Squadron return to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how their organizations are working to get Democrats elected to state legislatures and why it is important.
Lee Drutman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, co-founding Fix Our House and how they're advocating for proportional representation and his book "Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America".
Corbin Trent joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, joining the comms team for Bernie Sanders in 2016, being Director of Communications for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and founding the No Excuses PAC to take on Senators Sinema and Manchin.
Phil de Vellis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in media in politics and founding his firm Beacon Media where they create TV and internet ads for progressive campaigns and causes.
Rob Richie joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding FairVote and how they've been working for many years to advance voting reforms to make our democracy more functional and representative.
Shaunna Thomas joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her path to political entrepreneurship and founding UltraViolet, a community of over 1 million women and their allies working to advance gender justice and fight sexism.
Laura Ligouri joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and founding Mindbridge, which works to apply psychological and neurobiological research to human rights and solve conflicts between groups.
Jamie McGonnigal joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in acting and voice work turned to politics and now VP of Sales at Impactive (formerly Outvote), where they provide tools for relational organizing, peer to peer texting and phone banking.
Kurt Bagley returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to look back at the 2018 elections when he was filed director at the DCCC, heading up organizing on the Biden Campaign in 2020 and founding his own firm BFD Strategies where he helps progressives with organizing.
Suzy Gold returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her new enterprise HomeField, an all in one platform to manage volunteers and allow them to call and text with voters.
Keith Mestrich joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in the union movement, serving as President of Amalgamated Bank and co-founding Percapita, where they are building a digital financial services platform to empower everyday people to realize their financial aspirations.
Dr. Silas Lee joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, teaching Sociology at Xavier, polling for presidential campaigns, and running his public opinion firm Dr. Silas Lee and Associates.
Scott Simpson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics starting as a pollster and co-founding Resonance Campaigns where they provide direct mail and digital communications for Democrats.
Amy Gonzalez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the path that led her to founding Blueprint Interactive, which helps Democratic campaigns by providing digital strategy, fundraising, social media and targeted ads.
Mike Madrid joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in Republican politics specializing in the Latino vote, co-founding The Lincoln Project and running GrassrootsLab.
Nathan Lockwood joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how Rank the Vote is working to help people build a movement for ranked choice voting in their own states.
Ben Ostrower joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career building websites for progressive candidates and founding Wide Eye where they help progressive causes with branding and design.
Kristina Wilfore joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career fighting for democracy and against disinformation around the world.
Tomas Robles and Alejandra Gomez join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and what led them to LUCHA (Living United for Change in Arizona) where they're fighting for social, racial and economic justice.
Robert P. Jones joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, founding Public Religion Research Institute and his books "The End of White Christian America" and "White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity".
Anna Galland joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, her 7 years as Co-Executive Director at MoveOn and transitioning out of that role to Chair of the Board and other projects.
Amanda Coulombe returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her time at NGP VAN and EveryAction, recent changes, and the parent company recently changing its name to Bonterra.
Adam Bobrow joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a lawyer, working in The White House and founding Osprey where they're building tech for the voter protection space.
Zac McCrary joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, becoming partner at Impact Research, a polling firm and his Pro Politics Podcast where he brings on consultants and politicians to tell their war stories.
Kim Brace joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding Election Data Services, where they've been doing Redistricting for over 44 years.
Mike and Dave Baumwoll join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and founding Rep'd, an online platform that allows voters to ask candidates questions and the candidates can directly respond with a video message.
Cynthia Buiza joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career fighting for immigrants rights and being Executive Director at the California Immigrant Policy Center where they're working to demonstrate that treating immigrants well benefits the rest of the country.
Michael Teter joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in law and politics and his current role as Managing Director at The 65 Project, where they're working to hold lawyers accountable who engage in fraudulent lawsuits to overturn election results.
John Della Volpe joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, polling the youth vote for The Biden Campaign, founding SocialSphere, a public opinion firm and his book "FIGHT: How Gen Z is Channeling Their Fear & Passion to Save America".
Eric Sapp joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding Public Democracy where they collect data to understand people's values and develop more meaningful technology for political persuasion.
Joshua Karp joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, coaching candidates like Jon Ossoff for their debates and founding his political communications firm Hone Strategies.
Joe Williams joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his time in the military, getting his PhD in government and his current role as Director of Polling at YouGov.
Parker Butterworth joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and building Front Row, a NFT marketplace to help support progressive campaigns and causes.
Ethan Zuckerman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech, his book "Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them" and how he's working to build healthy social media platforms.
Marielena Hincapié joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and being Executive Director of the National Immigration Law Center, where they are defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income.
Jon Soltz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in the military and founding VoteVets, the largest group of progressive veterans in America.
Fred Wellman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in the military and then into politics, being Executive Director at The Lincoln Project and founding the Beer Hall Project, where they are working to push back against Trumpism and the far right.
Professor Kristin Du Mez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her book "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation".
Jiore Craig joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, working on causes and campaigns around the world and how she and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue are working to find solutions to combat extremism, hate and disinformation.
Kyle Strickland joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career fighting for racial justice and how The Roosevelt institute is working to advance policy that would rebalance power in our economy and democracy.
Jackie Payne Joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a lawyer working to advance gender and racial justice and founding Galvanize USA where after extensive research she's created platforms to support women to vote their values.
J Toscano joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Political Media Strategist and founding his own firm Backstory Strategies, where they produce creative media for progressives to help tell their story.
Professor Ellen Goodman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and how we can combat disinformation on social media through media policy, platform policy and algorithmic governance.
Sean Eldridge returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how he's grown Stand Up America to a community of over 2 million progressives fighting voter suppression and corruption and what they are up to now.
Denise Feriozzi joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how The Pipeline Initiative is working to be a funding, data, and convening hub for groups that recruit and train progressive leaders.
Arisha Hatch joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role at Color of Change, the largest online justice organization working to create a more human and less hostile world for black people in America.
Eli Stonberg and Jeff Greco join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers producing music videos and founding Hovercast, a platform that helps Democrats create live interactive fundraising events.
Ryan Busse joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as VP of Sales at a gun manufacturer and writing "Gunfight" -- a memoir about how the gun industry radicalized a large swath of America and what can be done about it.
John Opdycke joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how Open Primaries is advocating for third parties and Independents to have a place in our democracy.
Nick Carmody joins The Great Battlefield podcast to tell his story of overcoming two traumatic brain injuries, becoming a lawyer and now a psychotherapist and writing on Twitter about the political psychology of Trump and the Republican Party.
Cynthia Wallace joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, running for Congress in 2020 and founding the New Rural Project where they are working to engage young and marginalized residents in rural North Carolina.
Matt Hildreth joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and how RuralOrganizing.org is working to mobilize progressives and improve life in rural America.
Stephanie Grasmick joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and becoming CEO of Rising Tide Interactive where they provide digital services to progressive candidates and causes.
John Ray joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the career path that led him to be Director of Polling at YouGov Blue and what he learned in a recent polling of rural America.
Professor Hahrie Hahn returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her book "Prisms of the People" and her new role at SNF Agora Institute, where they are working to strengthen democracy through civic engagement and inclusive dialogue.
Sarah Jaynes joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how Rural Democracy Initiative is working to build permanent progressive infrastructure in rural communities.
Scott Nielsen joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and how Arabella Advisors works to align donors with the causes they care about.
Eric Mayefsky joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, why he pivoted from private to political tech and founding Switchboard, where they're building tools to help Democrats win.
Aaron Belkin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an advocate, founding The Palm Center, which plays a big part for LGBTQ rights in the military and founding Take Back The Court where he's working to expand The Supreme Court.
Solomon Lieberman and Aaron Menenberg join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how The Institute for Political change is working to create healthy competition in our elections by introducing final five primaries and rank choice voting.
Brian Lemek joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, running Brady PAC, where they worked on gun regulation and now founding Defend The Vote.
Evan Wolfson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Freedom to Marry, setting the gay marriage strategy and serving as President until their 2015 victory and how he now helps other social movements with their strategy.
Irene Lin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, being Campaign Manager for recent guest JD Scholten and currently as Campaign Manager for Tom Nelson for Senate in Wisconsin.
JD Scholten joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his two runs for Congress in Iowa and how RuralVote.org is working to improve the Democratic brand in rural communities.
Kirk Cheyfitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in journalism, advertising and now at Political Narrative where he's working to bring about progressive change through storytelling.
Christine Neville joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, heading the campaign compliance department at Perkins Coie and how she's now taking that department independent under the banner of Premier Political Compliance.
Benjy Messner joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, working on the Beto for America campaign and founding New River Strategies, where they help campaigns through data and analytics.
Barbara Res joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her time working as Executive Vice President of Construction for Donald Trump and the release of her memoir "Tower of Lies: What my 18 Years Working with Donald Trump Reveals about Him".
Bill Frischling joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding Factbase, where they collect what is said by politicians and companies, transcribe it and make it searchable.
Professor Allan Lichtman returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his latest book "13 Cracks: Repairing American Democracy After Trump".
Professor Todd Gitlin, Professor Jeff Isaac and Bill Kristol, Editor of The Bulwark join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the Open Letter in Defense of Democracy they recently wrote together.
Branden Snyder and Jennifer Disla join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about politics in Michigan and how Detroit Action is working to build power for Detroiters and transform communities.
Adrienne Bogen joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a political organizer, and how Florida Ground Game is working to take back the state legislature by registering voters in targeted districts across the state.
Kristina Williams joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her path to entrepreneurship and founding Unpacking, an online interactive platform for diversity, equity and inclusion training.
Bobby Clark joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in progressive politics, working on the Howard Dean Campaign, starting ProgressNow, fighting for marriage equality, and what lessons from that fight apply to other social movements.
Katie Paris joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in progressive politics and founding Red Wine and Blue where they're mobilizing women through compelling content and fun connections.
Taryn Vogel joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and doing compliance for Obama, Clinton and the DNC and founding her own compliance firm BlueBird Consulting.
Nejeed Kassam joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his path in entrepreneurship in tech that led him to founding Keela, a company that provides software to smaller nonprofits to help them manage their business.
Gretchen Barton joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, how she moved to the progressive side, how she uses metaphor elicitation to gain insights from voters and her role as Research Director at Future Majority where they're focused on storytelling and policy to advise progressives.
Max Kamin-Cross joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the recent acquisitions at EveryAction and the looming texting regulations for campaigns.
Crystal Patterson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, working at Facebook's political arm, working on the internet presence of Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton, and her current role at FSB Public Affairs.
Doran Schrantz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an organizer and her role as Executive Director at ISAIAH where they've built a multi-racial, state-wide, coalition of faith communities, black barber shops, and other community based constituencies fighting for racial and economic justice in Minnesota.
Adam Conner joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech and politics, founding Facebook's first Washington office and his current role at the Center for American Progress where he works on building a progressive tech policy platform and agenda.
Bruce Sinclair joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career managing campaigns, including running U.S. Senator Mark Warner’s campaign and founding his consulting firm Blue Vanguard.
Erek Dyskant joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in data and analytics in politics, working at Catalyst, the DNC and on the Obama campaign, and founding BlueLabs where they're using data science to help campaigns, businesses and the government solve problems.
David Winkler joins the Great Battlefield for his first interview in five years to discuss rugged thinking, the Stockdale paradox, the activist dilemma, and the secret to winning a Senate majority. David has spent two decades influencing US public policy as a political activist and analyst , beginning as a teenager speaking on the South Lawn of the White House in the aftermath of tragedy. He advises clients on public affairs.
Molly Fleming joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, putting together the Missouri Organizing and Voter Engagement Collaborative, and the state of politics in Missouri.
Damola Ogundipe joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his entrepreneurial journey in founding Civic Eagle, a platform for legislative intelligence that allows organizations to coordinate around legislation in the states and nationally.
Jesse Ferguson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics from being Deputy National Press Secretary for Hillary for America to running the DCCC independent expenditure arm and founding his own political consultancy Jesse Ferguson LLC.
Andy Stern joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, being the President of the SEIU, fighting for workers rights and now a fellow at the Economic Security Project where they're advocating for a universal basic income.
Rob Fersh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and how Convergence is bringing groups together with conflicting views to build trust and find solutions to critical national issues.
Andrew Grossman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, including being the National Platform Director for the Democratic Convention and founding his firm Grossman Solutions where he's helping progressives with strategy, campaign management and recruitment.
Katie Harbath joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about running Public Policy at Facebook after joining them from the NRSC, starting Anchor Change and how she's working to solve the problems in the intersection of technology and democracy.
Brice Barnes joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in fundraising and how GiveBlue is developing an app that connects supporters to the progressive campaigns and causes they care about.
Josh Hoe joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how spending time in prison led him to working on criminal justice reform at Safe and Just Michigan and starting his podcast Decarceration Nation.
Sammy Alderson and Malia Fisher join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and how Vocal Media is helping progressives find influencers that align with their values to create effective campaigns.
Harley Blakeman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to tell his story of being incarcerated, turning his life around and founding Honest Jobs where he's connecting people with a criminal record with fair-chance employers.
Mike Pfohl joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how Organizing Empowerment Project is helping progressives with relational organizing by providing tech tools and training.
Sarah Audelo returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what The Alliance for Youth Action has been up to since the end of 2018, how she views the youth politically, National Voter Registration Day, and why she is making way for a new Executive Director.
Heather Holdridge joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in progressive politics and the challenges Planned Parenthood faces in the time of new anti-abortion laws in Texas and elsewhere.
Josh Nelson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, how The Juggernaut Project is helping progressives grow email lists and what he thinks is ethical fundraising online.
Shion Deysarkar joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and co-founding Blue Squad where they've built a tool to help with relational organizing and are now building a social media platform for progressive organizers.
Chris Wegrzyn joins The Great Battlefield to talk about his career in Democratic politics and founding Blue Labs where they're using data to help solve problems for businesses, campaigns and government.
Hudson Cavanagh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his current role as the Director of Data Science at the Texas Democratic Party where they're using data and analytics to model partisanship among voters to help turn Texas blue.
Kelly Hall joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in progressive politics and her current role at The Fairness Project where they're using ballot measures to expand healthcare and increase the minimum wage and related efforts.
Tatenda Musapatike returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about why she set out on her own to create The Voter Formation Project where they're working to register and mobilize under-represented communities through digital communication and experimentation.
Betsy Hoover returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the new cohort of progressive tech startups they're investing in and their 2020 Political Tech Landscape Report which looks at the current state of the progressive political tech landscape.
Josh Nerpel joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career from doing advance work for both Hillary and Obama, heading operations for nonprofits and his current role at Graphicacy where they're helping organizations tell their story in visual form.
Sri Kulkarni joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Foreign Service Officer and what he learned from his two US Congressional races in Texas and why he's passionate about relational organizing.
Teddy Schleifer returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the new media enterprise that he's part of called Puck, which aims to cover the intersection of money and power in Washington, Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
Sonal Shah joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and being the Founding President of The Asian American Foundation where they've raised over a billion dollars to invest in the AAPI Community, mobilize against hate and advocate for better representation.
Progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the latest book in his series "The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich".
Adam Miller joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech at LinkedIn and founding Universe where they're building tech solutions for local progressive campaigns.
Kelly Gibson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a Democratic Media Consultant and founding Stronger Than Communications, a women only collective for her media consulting.
Samar Ali joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an Entrepreneur, Lawyer, in academia, federal and state government, and her current roles including at Millions of Conversations where they're working to unite Americans by fostering dialogue among those who hold different views or beliefs.
Josh Kravitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in the progressive political tech ecosystem from his time at DigiDems and Bluebonnet Data to most recently being a Congressional Digital Innovation Scholar at TechCongress.
Hal Malchow joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how the way Democrats advertise is ineffective and that we need to focus our advertising efforts on switching voters to The Democratic Party.
Sam Frank joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in progressive political technology from working on The Women's March and March for Our Lives to his current role as Product Manager at Auth0. Stick around to the end to hear Sam's bone to pick with NGP/VAN Everyaction after their recent valuation.
Joe Lestingi joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in direct mail and targeted communications and his startup Campaign X Collective where he's working to establish an egalitarian, participatory and transparent business.
Michael Zeldin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career from fighting money laundering to CNN Legal Analyst to Prosecutor with the DOJ to host of the podcast "That Said with Michael Zeldin" where he interviews authors of books about politics and society.
Emily Del Beccaro joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and tech and co-founding OpenField where they are providing progressives with tools to help with deep canvassing.
Former Republican and Federal Prosecutor Ron Filipkowski joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career now as a defense attorney and how he's working to expose The Republican Party's most radical candidates through opposition research on social media.
Kim Rogers joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and how the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State is working to elect Democratic Secretaries of State to protect fair elections and voting rights.
Greg Khalil joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career from working to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict to founding The Telos Group where they're working to form communities of peacemakers to help reconcile seemingly intractable conflict in the U.S. and abroad.
Thomas Kramer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in social media and founding Measure Studio where they helped the Biden Campaign measure which social content worked and what did not.
Ryan Thompson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and working his way up to become Chief Digital Officer at the DCCC.
Josh Grossfeld joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in progressive politics and his new startup, Goodstock & Co where they are helping Democratic Campaigns sell merchandise to help with fundraising.
Lindsay Owens joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and how The Groundwork Collaborative is working to advance a progressive economic worldview.
Brandon Harris joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding Votus, a communication platform that helps progressives engage their supporters across multiple social media platforms.
Tamer Mokhtar returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the investments that Investingin.Us made with Reid Hoffman and others in the 2020 elections and their upcoming new podcast about it.
Mike Nellis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in progressive politics, founding Authentic and what kinds of fundraising programs are ethical and successful.
Erin Vilardi returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about Vote Run Lead and launching Run/51 where they are working to achieve female majorities in all 50 state legislatures.
Professor of Sociology David Weakliem joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about public opinion, political polarization and why sociologists think people pick up their opinions from the people around them.
Zoe Stein joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how she put together a multi-thousand person mobilization team to help Jon Ossoff win the Senate runoff in Georgia.
Whitney Quesenberry joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a User Experience Designer and how her Center for Civic Design is working to design voting systems to simply and effectively capture voter intent.
Stefanie Brown James joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career from the NAACP to Obama 2012 to co-founding The Collective where they are working to promote and fundraise for black candidates to build black political power.
Brothers Lance and Brandon Kramer join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding their production company, Meridian Hill Pictures, making documentaries and their most recent film "The First Step" which tells the story of Van Jones' efforts to enact criminal justice reform during the Trump Administration.
Jon Karush joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career from founding Liberty Concepts in the late 90's, building websites for Democratic campaigns and what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur in the political tech space.
Jonathan Petts joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding ImmigrationHelp.org where they are helping low income immigrants legally immigrate to the US.
Morra Aarons-Mele joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, anxiety and entrepreneurship, her books and her podcast.
Deanna Hoskins joins The Great Battlefield podcast to tell her story from being a convicted felon to becoming Senior Policy Advisor at the Department of Justice and her current role at JustLeadershipUSA where they are working to drive policy reform to reduce our prison population.
Cris Concepcion joins The Great Battlefield to talk about his career, why he worked on technology in politics as Director of Engineering at the DNC, and what he did in that role.
Cameron Hickey joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and what he's learned about our online misinformation problem and the tools he's developed to help track and combat it.
Professor of Statistics and Politics, Andrew Gelman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career including a political science paper he co-wrote called "Why are American Presidential Campaign Polls so Variable when Votes are so Predictable".
Anatole Jenkins joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an organizer, including his time on both the Harris and Biden Campaigns and his current role as Political Chief of Staff at the DNC.
Jonathan Rauch joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Journalist and Author and his most recent book "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth".
Eli Zupnick joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and how Fix Our Senate is working to abolish the filibuster so that progressive legislation can pass.
Monica Ramirez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an Activist, Lawyer and Social Entrepreneur and founding a number of organizations including Justice for Migrant Women where they're working to improve the lives of migrant farm workers.
Yair Ghitza and Jonathan Robinson join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers at Catalist and a recent voter analysis report they published called "What Happened in 2020", where they break down the demographics of who voted for whom in the 2020 Election.
Salewa Ogunmefun joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how Pennsylvania Voice is working with more than 40 organizations to expand the power of communities of color.
Professor of Political Science, Daron Shaw joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, campaigns and elections, voting behavior and the state of the Republican Party.
Adrianne Shropshire joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how BlackPAC is engaging black voters and working to hold politicians accountable.
Melissa Morales joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in progressive politics and how Somos Votantes is working to turn out more Democratic voters in the Latino community.
Walter Powell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career from playing in the NFL to co-founding Politiscope, a nonpartisan political information startup.
Giovanna Salucci joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, founding ChangeDigital and how they're building a tool to allow local campaigns launch websites quickly and inexpensively.
Trey Nix joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Democratic Campaign Manager and co-founding Declaration Media Group, a political consulting firm.
Ciaran O'Connor joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Braver Angels runs workshops, debates and events designed to bring Liberals and Conservatives together.
Jill Normington joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a pollster and campaign strategist at Normington Petts and Associates.
David Radloff joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a political tech entrepreneur and founding Clarity Campaign Labs where they provide custom analytic solutions to progressive campaigns and causes.
Emily Persuad-Zamora joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her current role as Executive Director at Silver State Voices, an organization working to represent the interests of the progressive community in Nevada.
Craig Unger joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a journalist and author and his latest book "American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery".
Andre Banks joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a political entrepreneur and founding A/B Partners, a communications firm led by people of color working to change the narrative and bring about social change.
Michael Luciani and Shola Farber return to The Great Battlefield podcast for part two to talk about the future of Helm, a team of scientists, engineers and campaigners working to build an organizing platform.
Michael Luciani and Shola Farber join The Great Battlefield podcast for part 1 of their story founding Tuesday Company, a tool for relational organizing, how they built it and then sold it to Helm.
Matthew Colbert joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding Spend Consciously, which allows consumers to use their smartphones to make purchases that align with their values.
Doug Linney joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career fighting for environmental causes and founding Activate America, a grassroots organization focused on mobilizing volunteers to help Democrats get elected to the U.S. Congress.
Heather Colburn joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in progressive politics and founding Run The World, where they help their clients, particularly women and people of color, fundraise through direct mail and digital.
Thom Hartmann returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the latest book in his series "The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class".
Hector Sanchez Barba joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an activist working to empower latino and immigrant communities and his current role as CEO/ED of Mi Familia Vota.
Annafi Wahed joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and founding The Flip Side, where they research key issues and produce a newsletter that provides two sides of a key news story each day.
Ben Katz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about building Complete Campaigns in the 2000s, selling it to Aristotle, and now founding ISPolitical and building a new version.
Laura Delucia joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and out, from working on the first Obama Campaign and the Obama White House to running operations on the Biden Campaign.
Ashish Jaiman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech and civic life where he's had leadership roles at several startups, including NGP Software, to his longtime role at Microsoft helping startups, defending democracy and combating disinformation.
Julian Walker joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how PushBlack is engaging millions of voters through storytelling and black history.
Nicole Systrom joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in the climate space and founding Sutro Energy Group where they work to connect entrepreneurs building climate tech with funders looking to make a positive impact.
Alexis Anderson-Reed joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an activist and her current role as CEO at State Voices, which runs a network of State Tables promoting civic engagement, civic access and civic representation.
Gerard Niemira returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his current product management role at Political Data Inc. where they are the leading provider of voter information in California and their recent decisions to acquire Outreach Circle and work only with Democrats and Progressives.
Joseph Geevarghese joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in progressive politics, union organizing and his current role as Executive Director at Our Revolution, the Bernie Sanders related entity working for progressive candidates and causes.
Sarah Williams joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career including co-founding and leading Propel Capital where they're investing in startups to improve our democracy and economy.
Antonia Koch and Nick Theisen join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the mobile app they're building at NGP VAN to help fundraisers change the way they do call time.
Michael Slaby returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his new book "For ALL the People" which is about the changes in our media ecosystem brought about by the digital revolution that are not serving us and how we can reform that system.
Steve Rosenthal returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Union 2020 to help Biden win, what organizing going forward should look like and reforming the filibuster.
Professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her book "Hate in the Homeland" and founding the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) at American University, where they're working to find ways to prevent far right extremism and violence.
Eileen Huang joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding The WeChat Project and how they're working to combat right wing misinformation and racism in the Asian community.
Jonae Wartel joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and being Runoff Director for the Democratic U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia.
Jacky Chang joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in tech, making the move from private to political tech and being the CTO for the Biden for President campaign.
Robert Reynolds returns to The Great Battlefield podcast along with Kristina Bigdeli and Heba Mohamed to talk about Vote Tripling, an organization that uses behavioral science techniques to turnout voters.
Irene Tollinger joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career from working at NASA to CEO of Bluelink where they're helping progressive organizations flow data across multiple software applications.
Yadira Sanchez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and how Poder Latinx is working to build power in the Latinx community with a variety of programs.
Ashley Robinson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics from working with Stacey Abrams to her current role at America Votes Georgia and the BLUE Institute where they are recruiting young people of color to leadership positions.
Daniel Kirschner joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and creating Greenfly, a commercial content and collaboration platform that helped progressives -- including Biden and the DNC -- get their message out.
Michael Steele joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in Republican politics from Lt Governor of Maryland to RNC Chairman to Political Analyst for MSNBC and whether his party can leave Trump behind.
Shreyes Seshasai joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech from working at Google and Quora to then working for the Buttigieg and Biden Campaigns.
Matt Hodges joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech, working for the Biden Campaign and the technology his team built for it.
Lala Wu joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and how Sister District is helping Democrats win in state legislatures by connecting their campaigns with volunteers.
Derek Pugh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in progressive politics and how Bend the Arc, a political action committee focused on domestic policy, is recruiting and funding candidates and coordinating with campaigns.
Abigail Wuest and Jason Britton join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers in progressive politics and why Abigail co-founded Goods Unite Us, an app and website that allows users to see a brands politics to help inform their purchasing decisions and then provides that data to Jason at Demz where he helps investors with Democratic values based investing.
Dr. Ben Dworkin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in New Jersey politics and founding the Rowan Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship where they are engaging students on public policy and helping to support them through scholarships.
Jeff Nesbit joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and how Climate Nexus is working to change the conversation on climate and clean energy from an argument to a constructive search for solutions.
DeJuana Thompson returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Woke Vote has grown and how they're engaging low propensity voters in communities of color to get out and vote.
Dr Bandy Lee joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a Forensic Psychiatrist, her books "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" and "Trump's Mind, America's Soul".
Eric Wilson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in Republican politics from working on Marco Rubio's Presidential Primary Campaign to founding Startup Caucus where he's investing in tech for the other side.
Yoni Landau returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Movement Labs is combining data, technology and experimental methods to help Progressives build power.
Ludovic Blain joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how California Donor Table is investing in communities of color to elect candidates that represent their values.
Susan McWilliams Barndt joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about our current politics, being a Professor of Politics at Pomona College and what you can learn about political thought by reading great works in American road trip literature.
Daniel Hogenkamp, Carni Klirs and Richard Elliot join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how they built PrimaryCast, a website that aims to predict the winners of Democratic primaries across the country.
Caroline Spears joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career fighting climate change and founding Climate Cabinet where they provide tech-enabled climate policy solutions to candidates across America.
Nancy Rosenblum joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in academia, as Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard and co-authoring the book "A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy".
Mondale Robinson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding the Black Male Voter Project where he's developed a technique to engage black men to participate in the electoral process.
Constitutional Law Professor Richard Pildes joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about our democracy, his legal career from clerking for Justice Thurgood Marshall, to arguing voting rights and election law cases before The US Supreme Court, to the tests Trump has posed.
Sarah Williams joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as Director of Civic Data Design Lab where they collect and synthesize data into tools that have a public benefit and her book "Data Action: Using Data for Public Good".
Greg Weiner joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career from working on Capitol Hill for Senator Bob Kerrey to being Provost and Professor of Political Science at Assumption University to his numerous books and articles focused on the intersection of political theory and The U.S. Constitution.
Shannon Bow O'Brien joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in academia and her book "Donald Trump and the Kayfabe Presidency: Professional Wrestling Rhetoric in the White House" which examines Trump's ties to professional wrestling and how he uses its theatrical tactics.
John Koza joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a computer scientist, being a professor at Stanford and founding National Popular Vote, where he's working to reform the electoral college so the candidate with the most popular votes in all 50 states will be guaranteed the Presidency.
Mary Mancini joins The Great Battlefield Podcast to talk about her career from starting a record store to hosting a progressive radio show to being Chair of The Tennessee Democratic Party.
Ian Simmons joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how The Blue Haven Initiative is investing to bring about social and environmental change.
John Anzalone returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to look back at the 2020 Presidential Election, advising on The Biden Campaign, what went right for Biden and what went wrong for Trump.
Gary Sheng joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career change from being an engineer at Google to building Civics Unplugged which aims to discover and empower Gen Z leaders to work on our democracy.
Amy Siskind joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career from Wall Street Executive turned activist, co-founding The New Agenda, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting sexism and her work chronicling Trump's bad behavior in "The List."
Shireen Mitchell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in tech and politics from founding Digital Sisters, a nonprofit focusing on women of color in tech, to starting Stop Online Violence Against Women and working to stop digital voter suppression.
Benjamin Kleinerman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he does as Professor of Political Science at Baylor and why he created The Constitutionalist as a place to discuss constitutional democracy.
Sandy Ungar joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his noteworthy career as prominent journalist, Goucher College president, host of NPR's "All Things Considered," head of Voice of America, and what he's currently doing at The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University.
Ysiad Ferreiras joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an entrepreneur in the political tech space and how Bigtent is using new social platforms to engage GenZ.
Joe Slade White returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about being Joe Biden's Media Consultant for over 25 years, how he thinks the Biden Campaign did and why he is a fan of the Bidens.
Lisa Greer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, becoming a philanthropist and her book "Philanthropy Revolution: How to Inspire Donors, Build Relationships and Make a Difference".
Jeremy Smith returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Civitech did registering voters running up to the 2020 Election.
Arnie Graf joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an organizer and shares one of the stories from his recent book "Lessons Learned: Stories from a Lifetime of Organizing".
Max Kamin-Cross joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in progressive politics and EveryAction's acquisition of Mobilize, a successful events and supporter engagement platform.
Terry Sullivan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how The White House Transition Project helps incoming staff prepare for their roles and how the Trump transition compares to previous administrations.
Melissa Byrne joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in progressive politics from working on the Bernie Presidential Campaign to what she's doing now to help cancel student loan debt.
John Bisognano joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how the National Democratic Redistricting Committee is working to level the playing field and create fair districts in which Democrats can compete.
Betsy Hoover returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the state of progressive technology, Higher Ground Labs role in the 2020 election, and how they're working to move political technology forward.
Amber McReynolds returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her role at The National Vote At Home Institute, the 2020 election and what she and her team have been tackling with election officials around the country.
Tom Jensen joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a political pollster, running the firm Public Policy Polling and what went wrong and right in the 2020 polls.
Nse Ufot joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how The New Georgia Project is registering and engaging voters across Georgia.
Naeim Khanjani and Soraya Bagheri join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their app Electo, a nonpartisan platform designed to provide information to voters on elected officials and candidates.
Philipp Tsipman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Outfox AI, an advertising automation company, and how they're helping progressive organizations and Democratic candidates extend their digital advertising dollars.
Kim Scott joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a Political Consultant and founding DemList, a daily national political column and resource site for progressives.
Neha Patel and Jessie Ulibarri join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how State Innovation Exchange works to advance progressive policies in the states.
Dmitri Mehlhorn joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Investing In Us has provided over 100 million dollars to progressive organizations to defeat Trump and Trumpism and what lessons he has learned in the process.
Maurice Mitchell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his history, his philosophy on leadership and how the Working Families Party fits in the progressive ecosystem.
David Becker joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an elections expert and how the Center for Election Innovation and Research is working to ensure our elections are secure and voters have confidence in the outcomes.
Laura Hatalsky joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in progressive politics from working on Capitol Hill to her current role at The Hub Project to her podcast "Made to Fail".
Lawrence Douglas joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought and his most recent book "Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020".
Chris Melody Fields Figueredo joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) is supporting progressive ballot measures and working to strengthen our democracy.
Emily Tisch Sussman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her podcast "Your Presidential Playlist" featuring all women guests and how listeners can make a difference.
Mark Sullivan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding and building the Voter Activation Network (the VAN side of NGP VAN) and what he's been up to since stepping back from the company.
Isabel Byron, Michelle Kedem and Ava Eisenson join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Red2Blue is helping Democratic campaigns by providing free resources such as websites, text campaigns, graphic design and social media services.
Suzy Smith joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and co-founding Vote From Home where they are targeting Democratic voters in swing states, sending ballots directly to them and following up to make sure their ballots are received free of errors.
Becca Blais joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and how Bluebonnet Data recruits volunteers to help progressives with their data, then we here from Lisa Vo of GrassRoutes, an application that helps campaigns canvass and call voters that was spun out of Bluebonnet Data.
Igor Volsky joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, his role at Guns Down America and his book "Guns Down: How to Defeat the NRA and Build a Safer Future with Fewer Guns".
Lavora Barnes joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, her current role as the Chair of The Michigan Democratic Party and how they're working to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.
Todd Gitlin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Professor and author of 18 books and how he's currently working against Trump.
Andy Bernstein joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding HeadCount a non-partisan organization dedicated to voter registration through the power of music and how they work with well known artists to drive fans towards political engagement.
Bryan Whitaker joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics from working on campaigns to being CTO at The DNC to his current role at TargetSmart where they're improving the national voter file.
Professor Jeffrey Isaac returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his concerns for the Presidential Election and how he's mobilizing others in his profession to protect the country.
Sam Petsonk joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about why he entered the race for Attorney General of West Virginia, what he'd like to change and how his race fits in nationally.
Abdul El-Sayed joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Public Health Expert, running for Governor of Michigan, his book "Healing Politics" which diagnoses our country's epidemic of insecurity and his podcast "America Dissected" exploring what really matters for our health.
Greg Speed joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and how America Votes provides permanent infrastructure for progressive collaboration.
Bill Schneider joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics -- including his role in saving Joe Biden's life -- from being a Political Analyst at CNN to now being a Professor of Policy, Government and International Affairs at George Mason University.
Ashton Lattimore joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in law and journalism and how Prism - a Daily Kos partner- centers people who are underreported by the media as the experts in their own fight for justice.
Joe Solmonese joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in progressive politics from running Emily's List, Planned Parenthood and The Human Rights Campaign to most recently as the CEO of The 2020 Democratic Convention.
Tajh Taylor joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how Catalist is strengthening progressive organizations by providing data services to help them better understand and communicate with the people they want to persuade and mobilize.
Jen Ancona joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how Way to Win has created a homebase for donors, funding about 80 groups that are key parts of the progressive infrastructure.
Rodrigo Camarena joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how the Immigration Advocates Network is supporting immigrants by providing access to legal resources and information through technology.
Progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his newest book "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream".
Elaine Kamarck joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics from working in The White House under The Clinton Administration to one of her books "Why Presidents Fail And How They Can Succeed Again" to her current role at The Brookings Institution.
Gideon Blocq joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in technology and co-founding VineSight, where they're using AI to catch misinformation early and alert their clients.
Vanessa Otero joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and founding Ad Fontes Media where she rates the media for bias and reliability and produces the Media Bias Chart.
Allan Lichtman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Historian from being an expert witness in civil rights cases to his numerous books and articles to how his Keys to The White House predict a win for Biden in 2020.
Kathleen Warner joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in entrepreneurship from helping to found the Startup America Partnership to her current role at Inspire Ventures helping progressive organizations by providing access to funding and entrepreneurial expertise.
Nicco Mele joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his extensive career in tech and progressive politics and media from the Howard Dean for President Campaign to Harvard, the LA Times, and his current role at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation supporting early stage, high impact social enterprises.
Hal Malchow joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics from chairing one of the largest direct mail consultancies to his latest book "42 Million to One" a political thriller about voting machine manipulation.
Hillary Lehr joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in political technology and how Higher Ground Labs is working to grow and improve the progressive political tech ecosystem.
Matt Meyers joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how BlueNC is working to take the North Carolina State Legislature, creating a domino effect of wins for Democrats.
Sarah Stern joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how Cultivate is helping progressive organizations recruit and maintain talent.
Eric Boehlert joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in journalism and founding PressRun.Media where he's working to hold the political press accountable in the age of Trump.
Rachel Bitecofer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her nonstandard path to political science and predicting elections and her role at The Lincoln Project.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Carol Leonnig joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about Trump's character, reporting on this administration, and her recent best seller "A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America".
Nimit Sawhney joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a technologist and how Voatz has created the technology seeking to provide safe and secure voting via mobile phones.
Rogers Smith joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Professor of Political Science at The University of Pennsylvania and his latest book "That Is Not Who We Are! Populism and Peoplehood".
Greta Carnes joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in progressive politics and how she and her team helped Pete Buttigieg win the Iowa Caucus and become a serious presidential contender.
Elena Grewal joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in data science from her time at Airbnb to founding Data 2 the People where they provide high quality data analytics services to progressive candidates.
Matt Mawhinney and Nancy Stalnaker join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers in politics and how Generation Data is working to train the next generation of progressive data management professionals. Stick around until the end to hear a special rendition of their theme song.
Ben Wessel and John Brougher join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers in progressive politics and how NextGen America is working to engage and mobilize young voters.
Professor Corey Brettschneider joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career teaching at Brown University, constitutional law and the presidency and his new book "The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents".
Ben Miller joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his career in politics and mental health from helping Pete Buttigieg form his policy on mental health to how Well Being Trust is investing in those advancing policy on the mental, social and spiritual health of the nation.
Kristopher Purcell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in Republican politics and founding 43 Alumni for Joe Biden, a group of Republicans who worked in The White House under the most recent Bush, supporting Joe Biden for President.
Peter Schurman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, including Founding E.D. of MoveOn.org, and how Contest Every Race is working to recruit Democratic candidates to run in elections.
Jerry Taylor joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and leaving the Cato Institute to found the Niskanen Center, a think tank home to Never Trumpers creating environmental and other policies that conservatives can support.
Stefan Smith joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and working on The Buttigieg for President Campaign, helping his supporters defend themselves online.
Teddy Schleifer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in journalism and writing for Recode covering how Silicon Valley billionaires spend their money on elections and philanthropy.
Alex Morgan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Progressive Turnout Project and how they've raised over $50,000,000 in small donations to get inconsistent Democratic voters to the polls in 2020.
Daniel Kreiss joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in technology and politics, researching how technology is changing campaigns and writing two books on the subject, "Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy" and "Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama".
Ryan Hampton joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his battle with opiod addiction, his recovery which led him to start The Voices Project and the Recovery Advocacy Project and his book "American Fix".
Betsy Southerland joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career at the EPA, retiring in 2017 and now helping the Environmental Protection Network fight back against Trump's EPA rollbacks.
Jon Queally joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and Common Dreams, a nonprofit reader-supported progressive news outlet.
Anastasia Golovashkina joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in social media and politics from her time at 270 Strategies and Trilogy Interactive, working with high profile candidates, to running social media for the Elizabeth Warren Campaign.
Swati Mylavarapu joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in technology, venture capital and politics and how Incite is working to support and help build new progressive organizations.
Steven Olikara joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a political entrepreneur, his podcast "Meeting in Middle America" and how the Millennial Action Project is working to restore collaboration across party in American politics.
Nate Lubin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in progressive politics and the technology Survey 160 has built enabling surveys via text.
Bud Jackson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Democratic Media Consultant, achieving work-life balance and what he sees happening in the upcoming elections.
Keesha Gaskins-Nathan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in progressive politics and how the Rockefeller Brothers Fund is providing grants to organizations that strengthen our democracy.
Jamal Watkins joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in the progressive ecosystem and what he's working on at the NAACP in these crazy times of Trump, the pandemic and civil unrest.
Andrew Kim joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in progressive politics and how Flip The West is working to help Democrats take the Senate by flipping targeted seats in the west.
Professor Steven Teles joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his years studies of conservatives and his new book "Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites".
Michael Slaby returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Harmony Labs is working to transform media systems as well as his vision for a progressive future.
Phil Francis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his 40 year career working for our National Parks and how The Coalition to Protect America's National Parks is working to preserve our Parks and Park Service at a time when they are under attack.
Steve Phillips joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in progressive politics, his organization and podcast, Democracy in Color and his book "Brown is the New White".
Judy Heumann joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her role in the disability rights movement, being in the film "Crip Camp" and her memoir "Being Heumann".
Joe Goffman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career working on environmental legislation and how the Harvard Environmental and Energy Law program is tracking the rollbacks at EPA.
Solomon Messing, James Barnes and Harry Hantman join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Barometer is running online ads of trusted news sources to persuade voters to vote against Trump.
Ed Maibach joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in public health and how the George Mason University Center for Climate Change is working to educate the public about climate change.
Professor Jack Pitney joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a professor at Claremont McKenna, why he left the Republican Party and his most recent book "Un-American: The Fake Patriotism of Donald J. Trump".
Michelle Roos joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career working to save the environment and how the Environmental Protection Network has assembled over 500 volunteers of former EPA workers, scientists and lawyers to interpret environmental legislation and keep the EPA from going backwards.
Beth Becker joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how Becker Digital Strategies is working to train progressives and nonprofits in digital strategy and social media.
Jeffrey Isaac joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in higher education, his anti-Trump political writings and the current state of politics.
Amy Pritchard joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and building GAIN Power an online platform connecting progressives with jobs, training and events.
Brian Reich joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and tech, from what it was like to have endless resources on the Bloomberg Campaign to how Murmuration is working to ensure every child has a quality education. Brian is also the author of three books.
Reed Galen joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics from working on the McCain, Schwarzenegger and Bush Campaigns to then leaving the Republican Party and co-founding The Lincoln Project, a group of prominent Republicans working to defeat Trump.
Manny Garcia and Olivia Stitilis join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how the Texas Democratic Party is getting ready for the 2020 Elections, how they're changing plans due to the coronavirus and if Texas is winnable for the Democrats.
Daniel Katz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career working to save the environment from founding the Rainforest Alliance to his current role at The Overbrook Foundation providing funding to environmental nonprofits.
Sunil Mehta, Sangeeta Ramakrishnan and Shrina Kurani join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how They See Blue is engaging South Asians to vote Democratic.
Nina Smith joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics from building Megaphone Strategies, a progressive media relations firm, to her time as Traveling Press Secretary for Pete Buttigieg.
Jay Parmley joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics helping to build the Democratic state parties in Oklahoma, Alaska, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina. Jay also shares some insight in to Joe Biden's victory in South Carolina.
Jennifer Mandelblatt joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and co-founding Platform, a political training and lobbying organization making sure that the voices of all young women are heard.
John Anzalone joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding ALG Research, a public opinion research firm that's worked on many top races including Obama and Clinton and currently the Biden Presidential Campaign.
Stuart Stevens joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about running a Republican media consultancy and leading strategy for Mitt Romney and why he's left his party and written an upcoming book "IT WAS ALL A LIE: How The Republican Party Became Donald Trump".
John Hlinko joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics from working to draft Wesley Clark for President to running Grassroots Enterprise to building the online group Left Action, an email list and Facebook group of over a million activists fighting against the extreme right.
Shawn Kemp joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and tech from his time at Microsoft to founding ActionSprout, a platform that helps nonprofits and campaigns engage their supporters through Facebook.
Lisa Conn joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and tech, from her time at Facebook to co-founding Icebreaker, a new way of bringing people together online.
Michael Turk joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in Republican politics from MIS Director on the Dan Quayle Campaign to E-Campaign Manager on the Bush-Cheney Campaign to his current role at Opinion Mover Strategies.
Alissa Stollwerk joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about leading survey methodology on the Hillary Campaign in 2016 and running YouGov Blue, which provides custom research for progressive organizations.
Lucy Caldwell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics from being Chief Strategy Officer at Crowdskout to Campaign Manager for Joe Walsh, who ran against Trump in the Republican primary, to her current startup Mockingbird Lab.
Drew Linzer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics from being a Professor of Political Science at Emory University to his current role at Civiqs, a team of pollsters and data scientists providing progressive organizations with online survey research.
Thomas Mills joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding Politics NC, the site to follow for politics in North Carolina.
Elana Levin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career from putting together Organizing 2.0, a volunteer run event offering training in online organizing, digital strategy and online tools, to her role at New Media Mentors, helping nonprofits expand their reach online, to her podcast Graphic Policy Radio.
Allen Kramer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how Mobilize has built a platform to help progressive organizations manage events and volunteers.
Tony McMullin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, why he started Postcards to Voters and how he assembled over 70,000 volunteers, hand writing postcards to voters.
Gloria Totten joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics from Political Director at NARAL to founding Public Leadership Institute where they are working to develop progressive leaders.
Juan Proaño joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career from helping to found Plus Three, which provides software to nonprofit organizations and his consultancy Latino Strategies.
Doug Rivers joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, teaching at Stanford and starting Polimetrix, which is now part of YouGov a global public opinion and data company.
Jeremy Smith joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career from graduating at West Point to serving in the Special Forces to starting Civitech, a platform helping candidates manage their campaigns more efficiently.
Thom Hartmann joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about "The Hidden History" series of books he's writing on topics relevant to progressives. Thom is also a popular progressive political talk show host.
Phil Aroneanu joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in progressive politics from co-founding 350.org, an organization working to fight climate change to what he was doing recently at The ACLU.
High-schooler Zev Shapiro joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about TurnUp, a hub for communication, resources and events for young activists.
Rachel Haltom-Irwin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and how Organizing Corps 2020 is recruiting, training and compensating 1,000 organizers.
Donna Smith joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share her story of working as a journalist, to her part in Michael Moore's film "SiCKO" to her current role at Progressive Democrats of America.
Anthony Leiserowitz, Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his research in to public opinion on climate change and his radio show which produces 90 second episodes about global warming.
Kristee Paschall joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career organizing in the progressive ecosystem and how Community Change Action is fighting for immigrant rights, affordable housing and racial justice.
Deepak Bhargava joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and organizing, from running Center for Community Change to CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and an important article he's writing on how Democrats should govern once they regain power.
Joe Palazzolo and Michael Rothfeld join The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss their book "The Fixers: The Bottom-Feeders, Crooked Lawyers, Gossipmongers, and Porn Stars Who Created the 45th President".
Mark Jablonowski joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a progressive technologist and how DSPolitical is helping Democratic campaigns and progressive organizations through targeted digital ads.
Sean Kosofsky joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Climate Advocacy Lab is helping to improve the communications of many organizations in the climate crisis arena.
Activist and Entrepreneur Mark Karlin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share his story of starting and running and relaunching BuzzFlash, a progressive news site.
Dana R Fisher, Professor of Sociology, joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her research in to the resistance against the Trump Administration and her new book "American Resistance: From the Women's March to the Blue Wave".
Mike Liddell joins The Great Battlefield to discuss his career in online politics and how NGP VAN is providing tech tools to progressive organizations.
Lauren Pully joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how The Texas Democratic Party is investing in tech to turn the state blue.
Kevin Killer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his journey to the South Dakota state legislature, representing Native Americans and being a fellow at Prism.
Micah Sifry joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and tech and how Civic Hall is bringing progressive entrepreneurs and leaders together to share knowledge and solve public interest problems.
John Bonifaz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Free Speech For People is working to overturn Citizens United, getting money out of politics and fighting for free and fair elections.
Harrison Hickman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his decades long career as a pollster working on big Democratic campaigns and how Hickman Analytics is providing research and winning advice to their clients.
Vicky Hausman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her career and how Forward Majority is working to support Democrats in taking back state legislatures.
John Pudner joins The Great Battlefield to discuss his career in politics on the Republican side and how Take Back Our Republic is working on campaign finance reform and to bring transparency to our elections.
Iara Peng joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a political entrepreneur and how Prism is sharing the stories of the underrepresented so we have a more accurate record of what's really happening in our country.
Adam Barbanel-Fried joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Changing The Conversation Together is working to persuade voters through deep canvassing.
Dave Fleischer of The Leadership Lab joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how he's spent most of his life fighting for equal rights for LGBTQ people and how deep canvassing can help us find common ground and reduce prejudice.
Celinda Lake joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how her firm, Lake Research Partners, a Democratic polling company, is working to help progressive candidates and organizations.
Professor Lawrence Lessig joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career from teaching Constitutional and Contract Law at Harvard Law School to his brief run for President to his latest book "They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy".
Tom Liacas, Umme Hoque and Alison Brzenchek join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Blueprints for Change has put together a library of how-to's to help progressive organizers be more effective.
Sarah Rosier joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Ballotpedia has built a digital encyclopedia of American politics and elections to provide accurate information and keep people informed at all levels of government.
Craig Varoga joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career from Press Secretary and Campaign Manager to running his consulting firm and the progressive super PAC Patriot Majority.
Lucy Flores joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share her story of escaping the school to prison pipeline, becoming a State Representative in Nevada to now a political entrepreneur starting Luz Collective, a digital media company sharing the stories of Latinas.
Eitan Hersh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his new book "Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change", which aims to change the behavior of people who consume politics but don't work to build power.
Maria Fernanda Cabello joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her career fighting for immigrants rights and how Momentum is training progressive organizers and giving them the tools to build massive social movements.
Peter Weichlein joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how the Association of Former Members of Congress is working to strengthen Congress and is helping people understand how Congress works through civic education.
Leah Greenberg joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Indivisible is helping thousands of local groups elect progressive leaders and support progressive policies to defeat the Trump agenda. Leah also discusses her new book "We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump".
Ryan Grim joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in journalism, from covering Congress at Politico and The Huffington Post and now The Intercept. Ryan also discusses his book "We’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to AOC, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement".
Bob Blaemire joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, how his firm Blaemire Communications has provided progressive organizations with voter data and his book "Birch Bayh: Making a Difference" a biography of the liberal senator from Indiana.
Andrea Hailey joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her new role as acting CEO at Vote.org, and her career in politics and fundraising which includes starting Civic Engagement Fund, an incubator that worked with political entrepreneurs.
Anasa Troutman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a writer, music producer and entrepreneur. Anasa has worked in progressive politics, been a fellow at the Movement Strategy Center, and has a TED talk, podcast and her own company, Culture Shift Creative.
Sally Kohn joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her career in progressive politics as an activist, TED talker, TV commentator and author of the book "The Opposite of Hate".
Robert Atkinson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how the Information Technology & Innovation Fund is working to create and evaluate tech policies that accelerate innovation and boost growth. Robert also talks about his latest book "Big is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business"
Michael Hoffman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Gather Voices is helping political and other organizations by providing a platform to collect, manage and deploy user generated video.
Chris Massicotte joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, how DSPolitical is helping organizations reach voters, and his other work with LGBTQ Victory Fund and End Citizens United.
Danielle Winterhalter joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how SpeakEasy Political is making it easier and more affordable for small campaigns to communicate through direct mail and digital advertisements.
Sarah Baker joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how We The Action, a team of over 8,000 volunteer lawyers, is helping progressive organizations one project at a time.
Kristin Oblander joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her career at The Oblander Group and working with many candidates from local to presidential as a fundraiser and political consultant.
Marci Harris joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss civic tech and how POPVOX is providing tech tools for Congress to see who supports or opposes upcoming bills.
Author Martha Brockenbrough joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss how and why she wrote "Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump" for young adults and the behavioral patterns she sees in Trump.
Taj James founder of Full Spectrum Labs, Movement Strategy Center and Full Spectrum Capital Partners joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his career including his political entrepreneurship and how he's working to drive investment into local communities rather than harmful activities.
Froma Harrop joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her work writing a syndicated column and sharing her political views.
Jenny Kaplan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about why she started Wonder Media Network and how they're using podcasts to tell stories that inspire change.
Hannah Fried joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how All Voting is Local is fighting to ensure all eligible voters are able to vote, no matter who they are.
David Hawkings founding editor in chief joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about The Fulcrum, a non partisan, non profit digital news agency, covering problems in our democracy and the organizations and people working to reform them.
Anne Gearan, the White House Correspondent at The Washington Post joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about politics and how she covers this unusual president.
Rachel and Claire join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how their firm Wethos, facilitates the quick formation of teams of freelance creative talent to help progressive organizations market themselves.
Matt Stoller a fellow at the Open Markets Institute joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his career in politics and his book "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy".
Thomas Gensemer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career from helping to found and run Blue State Digital to the marketing and sale of the company to his time at Burson-Marsteller and what he's up to now at Blue Labs and elsewhere.
Larry Huynh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share his story, from refugee camp to Harvard to starting Trilogy Interactive, one of the top firms providing digital strategy, creative and tech to progressives.
Jefrey Pollock joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his large firm Global Strategy Group where he and his team serve as pollsters and strategists for many Democratic campaigns across the ideological spectrum.
Nick Penniman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Issue One, a bipartisan organization, is working to reform our democracy by strengthening ethics laws, reducing money in politics and modernizing elections.
Rick and Mike join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Torch, an intelligence and communications platform for mission-driven organizations, is providing tools to help them strengthen their fundraising, communications and advocacy.
Carolyn Fiddler joins The Great Battlefield to talk about Daily Kos, her career, state politics, and Prism.
Aaron Smith joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Savi, a new software as a service company, is providing technology to help student loan borrowers lower their payments and enroll them in a plan to help them.
Elyssa Feder joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Rising Organizers is developing progressive leaders by teaching organizing strategies and skills. She also shares some success stories and what drew her in to politics.
Daniella Ballou-Aares joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Leadership Now Project, a membership organization of business professionals, is working to fix the fundamentals of democracy that are preventing meaningful policies from advancing.
Lou Levine joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how he was NGPs first hire and helped the company grow from two people in Nathaniel's attic to what it is now, over 350 employees. Lou also talks about how they're helping Democrats win by providing them with web-based software tools.
James Rucker joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his long career in progressive politics, from working at MoveOn to starting Color of Change and his current venture Springboard. James also talks about confronting a bully like Trump and race in politics.
David Moore joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Sludge, a new investigative journalism startup, is digging up examples of what they say as the pernicious influence of big money on politics.
Sang Peruri returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how his revised and renamed friend to friend outreach platform is helping progressive organizations recruit, engage and mobilize their supporters.
Angelica Morales Amuzie joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in data and tech and how Indivisible is working to provide thousands of progressive organizations with the technology resources they need to succeed.
Professor Jeffrey Tulis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss presidential communication and the long term power of some notable political losers, very relevant to today's politics.
Curtis Hougland joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how the right has weaponized the internet with disinformation and how Main Street One is helping progressives to win the internet back.
Julian Zelizer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his path to becoming a professor at Princeton, how his work helped to bring back the the study of politics in history departments, and his parallel career as a editorialist and political commentator.
The Great Battlefield podcast goes to Vermont to talk with Sarah Copeland-Hanzas about her path to office and how she plans to make her state a leader in climate change action and other progressive issues.
Daniel Souweine joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how GetThru grew out of the Bernie campaign and how they're helping progressive organizations engage their constituents through their peer to peer texting platform.
Anna Greenberg joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her role at GQR, the polling industry and the politics of our time.
Rachel Laser joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about why the separation of church and state is so crucial and how Americans United is fighting for religious freedom.
Joe Goldman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how The Democracy Fund is investing in organizations that work to strengthen our democracy.
Rohan Pavuluri joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about political entrepreneurship and how Upsolve is helping low income families file for bankruptcy for free.
Liz Alercón joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Pulso is empowering the Latinx community by building digital relationships through their phones.
Karundi Williams joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how re:power is training people of color, especially women of color to become progressive leaders in their communities.
Ari Trujillo-Wesler joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her time at Wellstone Action, The Bernie Campaign and how OpenField is helping to facilitate deep canvassing for progressives.
Jeff Blodgett joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his time working for the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, creating Wellstone Action and how WIN Minnesota helps to keep Minnesota moving in a progressive direction.
Roy Speckhardt joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss how the American Humanist Association aligns with progressive values and how they're advocating for humanists, atheists and freethinkers.
Steve Anderson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his career and how New/Mode is helping progressives reach decision makers through technology tools for engagement.
Tobi Konitzer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how PredictWise is leveraging new data collection for custom polling, analytics and actionable insights to help progressives.
Alex Hertel-Fernandez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his book "State Capture", which is about how the conservative movement influences state legislatures.
Jim Pugh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how he's advocating for universal income and how ShareProgress helps progressives through tech tools and A/B testing.
Max Wood joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss political entrepreneurship and how his company, Deck is making predictive analytics more affordable, accurate and actionable.
David Nevins joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his career as an entrepreneur and how his Bridge Alliance has created a hub for groups defending democracy to collaborate, network and form strategic partnerships.
Andrea Catone joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her career and how The Action Together Network is connecting leaders to find the resources they need to succeed.
George Goehl joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how eating in and working in a soup kitchen led him to creating People's Action and how they're fighting for the rights of the poor and working class.
Daniel Schlozman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss U.S. political parties and his book "When Movements Anchor Parties".
Daniel Squadron and Melissa Walker join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers, Giving Circles and how Future Now is turning State Legislatures blue.
Cammie Croft joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, including time at The White House and how FWD.us is working to reform immigration and our criminal justice system.
Patrick Kane joins The Great Battlefield podcast to take us through his career in political tech, building ActionKit and ultimately getting acquired by EveryAction.
Deborah Barron joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about why she got in to politics and how New Left Accelerator is helping progressive startups by providing them with the resources they need to grow.
Kathleen Unger and Dave Griggs join The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss their careers in politics and how VoteRIders is making sure citizens aren't denied their right to vote for lack of ID.
Alicia Rockmore joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her career as an entrepreneur before she got in to politics, how she got in to politics and her current role at DigiDems.
Patrick McHugh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his career in politics and his current role at Priorities USA and what they're doing to prepare for 2020.
Matt Martin and Josh Berezin join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Grow Progress is helping campaigns and organizations by crafting messages based on different voters values.
Meg Ansara joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, political entrepreneurship and what 270 Strategies is doing to help candidates, organizations and causes do big things.
CTO Nell Thomas and deputy CTO Kat Atwater join The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss their careers and what they're doing to improve tech at The DNC.
Cheryl Contee of Do Big Things and Netroots Nation joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her career in politics, entrepreneurship and her book "Mechanical Bull: How You Can Achieve Startup Success".
Arshad Hasan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about running Democracy for America, Progress Now, the Netroots Nation board, and how his current endeavor, Convey Communications, is helping progressives on their public communication skills.
Colin Delany joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about all things digital in the political and advocacy space and his guide book "How to Use the Internet to Change the World - and Win Elections".
Patrick Stevenson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to give us a look inside the DNC, what you should know about them and what a Chief Mobilization Officer does.
Danny Hogenkamp joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Grassroots Analytics is helping progressive candidates find their donors using data driven analytics.
Jason Berlin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share his story of how Trump winning motivated him to leave his career in comedy writing and work on the 2018 election and now to create Field Team 6 to register Democrats to vote.
Political Strategist Peter Fenn joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about starting his firm Fenn Communications (which has worked on over 300 campaigns), being a political analyst on TV and the importance of ousting Trump.
Ryan Aquilina joins The Great Battlefield to talk about what the Ditch Mitch Fund is doing to remove Mitch McConnell from the U.S. Senate.
Outgoing Executive Director of The House Majority PAC, Charlie Kelly joins the Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how HMP is coordinating with outside Democratic groups to make sure they're having the biggest impact on House elections.
Ben Fuller and David Shor join The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss how Civis Analytics uses data science related tools to help allocate resources and win elections.
Professor Lara Putnam, Chair of the History Department at the University of Pittsburgh joins the Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her studies of grassroots organizing
Brynne Craig joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her admirable career working as an organizer for Clinton in '07, Obama in '08, Hillary's personal office and her current role at Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Chris Lundberg joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how he was ousted from his own firm Salsa, but bounced back with Frakture, a company helping progressive organizations build digital infrastructure and coordinate data.
Zack Malitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his work on Beto's senate campaign and Bernie Sanders primary campaign in 2016. He also talks about how his firm The Social Practice is helping organizations and candidates strategize and organize at scale.
Andrew Blumenfeld joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss how CallTime.AI is making fundraising calltime more efficient so candidates can spend more time in front of voters.
Pete Martin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Votem is building a mobile voting platform to make voting easier, more secure, and verifiable.
Joan Blades founder of MoveOn and MomsRising joins The Great Battlefield podcast. Joan talks about how her latest passion, Living Room Conversations, is helping people engage in conversations across various divides to help heal and understand our differences.
Amanda Litman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her career in email communication on campaigns for Obama and Hillary and how Run for Something is recruiting and supporting young progressive candidates.
Genevieve Thiers returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her new #Techyourself Guide, written by the top digital campaign managers and her new TV series "Run" which transforms womens campaigns in the style of "Queer Eye".
Megan Clasen joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a digital expert working on campaigns for J.B. Pritzker (the governor of Illinois), Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and her more recent role as VP of Digital at GMMB.
The Great Battlefield podcast visits Naomi Wolf at her home in Manhattan, N.Y. to discuss her career as an author and how DailyClout is empowering real people to build real influence on legislation.
Nick Troiano joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his involvement in the political reform movement, running for U.S. Congress as an independent and what Unite America is doing to reduce partisan extremism.
The Great Battlefield podcast stops by the home of Billy Wimsatt to hear about his career as an author, entrepreneur, activist and how his current endeavor, Movement Voter Project, is aligning donors and grassroots organizations.
Ashindi and Hali join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how they've researched, reached out and built a community for donors across race and experience, through their organization Donors of Color.
Mike Monetta joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Wolf-PAC, started by Cenk of the Young Turks, is working to make politicians accountable to people. He wants to fix our election financing system by adding a 28th amendment after state initiated Constitutional convention.
Mike Sager sits down with The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his extensive career in tech and politics and what he's doing as CTO at EMILY'S List, an organization dedicated to electing pro-choice women to office.
Tatenda Musapatike joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career including time at the New Media Firm, Facebook and now at ACRONYM building a digital program for voter registration.
The Great Battlefield podcast sits down with author John Judis to talk about his career as a political analyst, journalist and historian. As well as his recent books "The Populist Explosion" and "The Nationalist Revival".
Cristina Sinclaire joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her career and how Clarity Campaign Labs is helping Democrats and other progressive organizations through polling, advanced modelling and analytics.
Jake Sandler joins the Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how he feels ChangeRoots is providing effective, immediate and consequential feedback to politicians using micro donations.
Aidan and Liam McCarty join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how ePluribus verifies constituents, integrates with media and gets your message to your local representatives.
At just 19 years of age, Katie Eder joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how she is helping to coordinate and assist youth led social change organizations and initiatives through Future Coalition.
Marlon Marshall joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share his experience working for the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the White House, political entrepreneurship and how 270 Strategies is helping progressive organizations win.
Sarah Longwell of Defending Democracy Together joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how she's working to recruit a serious primary challenger on the republican side.
Matt Morrison stops by The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Working America, with over 3.5 million members, is engaging the workforce and going door to door to bring about progressive political change in the country.
Mike Conlow joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his career from working on the voter file and analytics at the DNC to the Obama campaigns to his current role at Blue State Digital.
Sean McElwee joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how to sell progressive policies and promote them correctly by understanding public opinion. Sean also hosts a well known weekly progressive happy hour in New York City.
Vanessa Wruble joins The Great Battlefield podcast to tell her story of how she helped to organize the Women's March on Washington in 2017, how she helped to redefine the narrative of African culture and what March On is doing now.
Bart Myers joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the open political community platform he built, Countable, and how some groups use a version for engaging their own communities and driving action for their political causes.
Another in the Louisiana series, The Great Battlefield podcast sits down with Erick Sanchez at his home in New Orleans to discuss some of his independent projects, like getting Kenny Loggins to play in his living room, viral marketing and how his firm Quixotic is getting teachers in to local office.
Mike Katz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how he believes we have a short time to fix what's broken in our country, what he calls "our golden hour" and how he's going door to door to heal America.
Evan McMullin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share his experience as a CIA Officer, running against Trump as an Independent in the 2016 election and how Stand Up Republic is fighting to defend the ideals that our country was founded on
Joe Fuld stops by The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career from managing campaigns and working for the DNC to creating The Campaign Workshop where they craft direct mail, digital and creative strategies. Stick around until the end for a taste of Joe's Stand Up comedy!
Another in The Great Battlefield Louisiana series. Lynda Woolard, the democratic party's Organizer of the Decade in Louisiana joins the podcast to talk about the importance of organizing and politics in her state.
Stephanie Valencia joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her new organization Equis that focuses on Latino opinion and engagement and her ongoing work directing investment in political technology
Emily Cherniack, founder of New Politics, joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss how she is recruiting and helping servant leaders get elected to help transform and revitalize our democracy.
Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about governing and his decision to remove confederate statues, leadership, race and politics.
Shaun Dakin stops by The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his fight for data privacy and consulting for Moms Clean Air Force as a digital marketing strategist through his firm Dakin Associates
Chris Casey joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his storied career in tech, from working for Ted Kennedy to building the first official website for congress to joining his latest endeavor at ToSomeone.com
The fourth in a series of podcasts recorded in New Orleans, Westley Bayas talks about his career as a Campaigner, Activist and Trainer and why he started his own consulting firm, Magnolia Strategies
The Great Battlefield podcast meets up with Ellen Kurz of iVote to discuss how she's fighting to end voter suppression by electing better secretaries of state across the U.S.
The third in a series of interviews in Louisiana, Jennifer Greene and Melanie Oubre discuss their efforts in recruiting, training and supporting women to get elected and even out the ratio of women to men in office in Louisiana
Ann Lewis stops by The Great Battlefield podcast and shares her story of becoming the CTO of MoveOn and the use of technology in grass roots organizing.
Allyson Kapin of Rad Campaigns joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her work in the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship and social good.
This is the second in a series of episodes The Great Battlefield Podcast recorded in New Orleans. In this episode Ashley Shelton joins us to discuss her efforts rebuilding New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina and her current position at The Power Coalition and how they're helping to give the people of Louisiana a voice through voter engagement.
The Great Battlefield Podcast traveled to New Orleans and sat down with Nia Weeks to discuss her journey of serving those in need which ultimately led her to creating Citizen SHE
Sasha joins The Great Battlefield Podcast to discuss his career as a journalist covering with an emphasis on the use of data, analytics and software in political organizing and campaigning.
Tony Carrk joins The Great Battlefield Podcast to talk about Obama debate prep, running the Clinton 2016 Campaign Research department and advocating for The Affordable Health Care Act.
Arun Chaudhary joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share his story of working on the Obama campaign, being the Official White House Videographer, and Creative Director for Sanders 2016.
Jess Kutch joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her work as the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Coworker.org - a non-profit supporting collective bargaining, and advocating for improvements in the workplace. | Episode 267
Former Democratic Strategist Mark Penn joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his career - from his time advising President Clinton, to serving as a strategist for Hillary Clinton's senatorial and 2008 presidential run, to his tenure at Microsoft, to creating his own company, The Stagwell Group. | Episode 266
Tory Gavito joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her role as the Co-founder and President of Way to Win - a coalition of funders and organizations working to empower the resistance to Trump in the Southwest and accelerate the progressive movement. | Episode 265
Brendan Lind joins The Great Battlefield to discuss his work as the Founder of Human Agency - a firm devoted to democratizing advertising. He also tells us about his previous venture, the non-profit Launch Code, an organization that helps create upward mobility through technical trainings. | Episode 264
Jim Kessler, Co-founder and Executive Vice President for the center-left think tank Third Way, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss the current state of the Democratic party, opportunity in America, and the policy positions he believes will be most effective in defeating Trump in 2020.
Amanda Coulombe joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her work as the General Manager of Organizing for NGP VAN and Every Action. She tells us about the importance of marrying technology and organizing, and shares details of her experience serving as the Statewide GOTV Director for both Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Ed Markey. | Episode 262
Christy Setzer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her 20 years experience in the world of political communications and media relations. She shares with us how the field has changed over the course of her career, analyzes the messaging of the potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, and tells us about founding her own company, New Heights Communications.
Jonathan Zucker returns to The Great Battlefield to give us an update on It Starts Today - a project he founded to direct recurring small dollar donations to every single Democratic candidate for US congress and senate. He tells us how It Starts Today’s model worked in the 2018 midterms, and how they are adjusting for 2020.
Jonathan Westin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his role as Executive Director of New York Communities for Change. He tells us about NYCC's history of building grassroots movements together with low income communities to fight for fair and just policies. | Episode 259
Natalie Foster joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her work as the Co-founder of The Economic Security Project -- an organization devoted to re-thinking the American economy, advancing ideas such as unconditional cash and basic income, in an effort to dramatically reduce poverty and middle-class anxiety. | Episode 258
Scott Forman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his role as the Founder and CEO of Vote Forward - a non profit aiming to boost voter turnout by providing a mechanism for people to send personalized letters urging infrequent voters to go to the polls. | Episode 257
Steven Petrow, an author and columnist for The Washington Post and USA Today, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss civility in politics. He dissects how to balance being civil while still being effective, shares highlights from his career in journalism, and gives us a preview of his recent Ted talk. | Episode 256
Ben Wikler returns to The Great Battlefield podcast and gives us an update on his work with MoveOn.org. He breaks down the role MoveOn played in the 2018 midterms, how they're preparing for 2020, and gives his views on the current state of politics in America. | Episode 255
Nathan Woodhull joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his career - from his time at Act Blue, to running a software lab for the DNC, to founding Control Shift, a public benefit company that provides software for movement enterprises across the world. | Episode 254
Anat Shenker-Osorio, Founder and Principal at ASO Communications, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss how her background in linguistics informs her work as a political messaging consultant. She shares what her research and campaign experience has taught her about how to re-frame the debate to give progressives the advantage. | Episode 253
Brian Young joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his work as the Executive Director of the Action Network - a nonprofit organization that builds technology tools used by numerous progressive organizations. | Episode 252
In Part 11 of our 2018 midterm postmortem series, we're looking at the elections from the perspective of Sean Eldridge, Founder and President of the progressive advocacy group Stand Up America - and Ethan Todras-Whitehill, Co-founder and Executive Director of Swing Left. | Episode 251
Dan Sena, the outgoing Executive Director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss how under his leadership the DCCC helped the Democratic Party retake the US House of Representatives in the 2018 Midterms. | Episode 250
Joel Clement, now of Harvard and the Union of Concerned Scientists, joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss the Trump administration's purging of climate experts at the Department of the Interior. Joel, who was the department's head of policy, describes the unprecedented actions taken against senior executives, and why he chose to blow the whistle. | Episode 249
Jamie Henn joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his role as co-founder and strategic communications director of 350.org -- an organization focused on building a global grassroots climate movement, and pressuring political leaders to heed the warnings from the scientific community. | Episode 248
Bob Bland joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss how the 2016 presidential election results led to her leaving the world of fashion design and manufacturing to enter the world of politics. She recounts the origin of the original Women's March from her perspective as a founding co-chair, and tells us what the March has planned for 2019 and beyond. | Episode 247
In Part 10 of our midterm postmortem series, we're looking at the elections from the perspective of Neal Conan, host of the pro-democracy show, Truth, Politics and Power - and John Rowley, Founder and President of Counterpoint Messaging. | Episode 246
Jess Riegel joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her work as the Co-founder and CEO of Motivote -- a new political technology platform which aims to close the gap between voters who intend to vote, and those who follow through. | Episode 245
Teddy Goff joins The Great Battlefield to discuss his time as the Digital Director for Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign and his path there. He also discusses Co-founding Precision Strategies, where he leads their digital practice. | Episode 244
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman joins The Great Battlefield to discuss her years as an activist, her founding and service as executive director for the corporate watchdog SumOfUs, and her current role as the Senior Product Manager at Change.org
Robert Reynolds joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss how his background in behavioral science informed his co-founding Vote Tripling - a tool that encourages voters to recruit three of their friends to vote as well. | Episode 242
Jake DeGroot joins The Great Battlefield to discuss his journey from theatrical lighting designer to political technologist. He shares with us the founding story of Reach - an innovative canvassing app he initially developed for the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign. | Episode 241
In Part 9 of our midterm election postmortem series, we're joined by the Democratic Attorneys General Association's Executive Director Sean Rankin, who discusses the Republican effort to strip power from newly elected Democratic attorneys general. We're then joined by Deepak Puri, Co-founder of Democracy Labs, who tells us how DemLabs supported down-ballot campaigns by connecting them to existing technologies. | Episode 240
Amber McReynolds joins The Great Battlefield to discuss her time as the Director of Elections for the city and county of Denver, Colorado - where she implemented new practices that helped make voting easier and elections run more smoothly. Amber explains how she's now helping others improve their voting administration as the Executive Director of the National Vote at Home Institute. | Episode 239
Naseem Makiya joins The Great Battlefield to discuss his path to the world of political technology, founding Outvote - a relational organizing tool, landing major clients, and how relational organizing is changing the political landscape. | Episode 238
This episode of The Great Battlefield podcast features a conversation with Republican political consultant Patrick Ruffini, recorded in front of his class of students at Johns Hopkins University. Patrick discusses his longtime career in political technology, working at the RNC, founding his firm -- Echelon Insights, and why he elected not to vote for Donald Trump. | Episode 237
Jeremy Heimans joins The Great Battlefield to discuss his work building and supporting movements as the Co-Founder and CEO of Purpose. He also shares with us his thoughts about shifting power dynamics in modern politics, as detailed in his book, New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World - and How to Make It Work for You. | Episode 236
In Part 8 of our midterm election postmortem series, we're taking a look at The Tuesday Company's "Team" app, and the role it played in races across the country. We're joined by Shola Farber, Tuesday's Co-founder and COO; Kurt Bagley, who placed the app in targeted districts as the Field Director of the DCCC; and Will Katz, who used Team while serving as Field Director for Sean Casten's successful campaign for US congress in Illinois. | Episode 235
Ximena Hartsock joins The Great Battlefield to discuss immigrating to the United States from Chile at a young age, becoming an education advocate, and working her way to high level positions in the mayor's office in DC before founding the grassroots political technology platform, Phone2Action. | Episode 234
Sarah Audelo joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share her experiences working as the Millennial Vote Director for the 2016 Clinton campaign and her current work as the Executive Director of the Alliance for Youth Action -- a network of organizations striving to provide support for local organizers, and persuade young people to exercise their political power. | Episode 233
Michael Slaby joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his unusual path to the position of CTO for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. He also chats about his approach to his work as the Head Of Mission of Timshel - a social-impact digital technology company which developed some tools utilized by Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. | Episode 232