The Great Battlefield

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.

Ray La Raja joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Professor of Political Science at UMass Amherst and his book "Small Donors in U.S. Politics: Myth and Reality".

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.

Akaya Windwood joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, being President of Rockwood Leadership Institute for many years and her book "Leading with Joy: Practices for Uncertain Times".