The Great Battlefield

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.

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.