The Great Battlefield

Shaunna Thomas returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding her new organization Guardrails Alliance, where they're advocating for sensible regulations of AI.

Professor of Political Science Seth Masket joins the Great Battlefield Podcast to talk about his Substack " The SMOTUS Report" and his recent book "The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party From Republican Leaders."

Paul M Katz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in the music industry, authoring two books on civic engagement and founding Commit Together, where he works to connect the moderate middle to activities that strengthen democracy.

Brendan Ballou joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, including his time at the DOJ and founding the Public Integrity Project, a nonprofit law firm built to raise the legal and reputational cost of corruption in America.

Doug Linkhart joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role as President of the National Civic League, where he works with cities to help them better address the needs of their citizens.

Shane Reisman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and building VoterForce, a new, fast and lightweight organizing tool incorporating AI.

Sarah Stamper joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role at Murmuration, where they work to improve local organizing by providing software, data and analytics platforms and services to civic organizations.

Jared Polis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about being a successful entrepreneur, a Congressman and now Governor of Colorado, where he's working to improve education and housing among other things.

Clint O'Brien joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and role and Engaging Networks, where they help nonprofits engage with their supporters through their tech platform.

Nadine Bridges joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role at One Colorado, where they work to protect the LGBTQ+ community from discrimination.

Chandra Chouhan and Aryan Ranjan join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Baraza, an all in one organizing platform for candidates and causes.

Eli Stonberg returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he's been up to at Hovercast, where they build tools to help progressive candidates and causes raise more money through live stream events.

Kim Norton joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her entry into politics, serving as a State Representative and now as Mayor of Rochester, Minnesota and fighting trolls online.

David Skaggs joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about serving in the Colorado Legislature and in the U.S. House of Representatives and his role at Keep Our Republic, where the work to safeguard the foundations of our democracy.

Civic Innovator Eric Liu joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, founding Citizen University and his new book "Live Like a Citizen: 8 Ways to Change Your Mindset and Our Country."

Matt Lackey joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding Tavern Research, a polling, message testing, creative production and ad placement firm.

Ryan Fanning joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role at DSPolitical, where they help connect political advertisers to individual voters for targeted ads.

Jesse Leyrich joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, his newsletter "Nobody's Listening" about who will lead the Democratic party and co-hosting the "Nobody Knows Anything" podcast.

Jackie Payne returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how the voting block of moderate white women is changing and what Galvanize is doing to reach them.

Jen Thompson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in Republican politics, higher education and now as author of her memoir "Wild Pivot: Notes from a Political Life Rewritten".

Ty Cobb joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, his opinions about Trump, and the importance of the 2026 midterm elections.

Ben Brodsky joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Political Digital Consultant and founding Common Sense Empathy, where he's built a set of tools for monitoring and managing user activity on Facebook pages.

Susannah Randolph joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in Florida politics and now as Director of the Florida Chapter of the Sierra Club.

Doug Gordon joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in political communications and co-founding Upshift Strategies, where they help progressive organizations develop compelling messaging.

Eric Ming joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and how the State + Local Election Alliance is working to elect local officials who will protect democracy.