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.
