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.
