The Great Battlefield

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.