The Great Battlefield

Varshini Prakash joins The Great Battlefield to discuss her work as co-founder of the Sunrise Movement - an organization of young people focused on preventing climate change and holding elected officials accountable for accepting contributions from the oil, gas, and coal industries.

Conscious Lee joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a debate coach, public speaker and content creator on TikTok where he uses his influence to advance diversity and inclusion.

Doran Schrantz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an organizer and her role as Executive Director at ISAIAH where they've built a multi-racial, state-wide, coalition of faith communities, black barber shops, and other community based constituencies fighting for racial and economic justice in Minnesota.

Nse Ufot joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how The New Georgia Project is registering and engaging voters across Georgia.

Chelsea Peterson Thompson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career managing campaigns to becoming General Manager at NGP VAN, where they provide tech to Democrats and progressive organizations.

Anastasia Golovashkina joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in social media and politics from her time at 270 Strategies and Trilogy Interactive, working with high profile candidates, to running social media for the Elizabeth Warren Campaign.

Judy Heumann joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her role in the disability rights movement, being in the film "Crip Camp" and her memoir "Being Heumann".

Joe Sanberg joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, working to raise the minimum wage in California and founding mission based companies like Aspiration where they connect large companies with carbon credits as part of the fight against global warming.

Ann Marie Habershaw, COO of Bully Pulpit Interactive, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss her career. She details her unusual path to the world of politics and how she climbed the ranks to senior leadership positions of the DNC, DCCC, Emily's List and others. She also tells us the challenges she faced in overseeing a 1.2 billion dollar budget as the COO of President Obama's 2012 reelection camp...

Joe Slade White returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about being Joe Biden's Media Consultant for over 25 years, how he thinks the Biden Campaign did and why he is a fan of the Bidens.

Russ Feingold joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics serving as a Wisconsin State Senator, a US Senator and now President of the American Constitution Society, a group of progressives working to rebalance our legal system.

Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about governing and his decision to remove confederate statues, leadership, race and politics.

This episode of The Great Battlefield features an in-depth conversation with Governor Martin O'Malley. He discusses cutting crime rates as the Mayor of Baltimore, serving as the Governor of Maryland during the Great Recession, and running for President in the turbulent 2016 cycle. He also tells us why he chose to launch Win Back Your State - a PAC focused on training and supporting Democratic cand...

Arthur Thompson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech and now serving as the Chief Technology Officer at the Democratic National Committee.

Monica Ramirez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an Activist, Lawyer and Social Entrepreneur and founding a number of organizations including Justice for Migrant Women where they're working to improve the lives of migrant farm workers.

Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Co-Director of Caring Across Generations, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss what can be done to protect the rights - and the dignity - of domestic workers, caregivers, and the elderly.

Dom Kelly joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career fighting for disability rights since he was four, working as a Fundraiser Senior Disability Advisor for Stacey Abrams campaign and founding New Disabled South where they advocate for the rights of disabled people.

Andy Stern joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, being the President of the SEIU, fighting for workers rights and now a fellow at the Economic Security Project where they're advocating for a universal basic income.

Steve Rosenthal joins The Great Battlefield to talk about his experience in progressive politics over the past 40 years, including building labor's political infrastructure at the AFL-CIO; founding ACT massive voter mobilization project in 2004, starting the Atlas Project a research hub, and his new effort, the Worker's News Network

Michael Podhorzer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in the labor movement, the use of data and analytics and recently stepping down as Political Director at the AFL-CIO.

On this episode Host, Nathaniel Pearlman shares his thoughts about The Great Battlefield podcast after producing 900 episodes and temporary changes to the podcast going forward.

Pollsters Ed Goeas and Celinda Lake join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their book "A Question of Respect: Bringing Us Together in a Deeply Divided Nation".

Rakim Brooks joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his leadership story and his current role as President of the Alliance for Justice, a national association of progressive organizations advocating for a fair and independent justice system.

Melody Oliphant, Myla Williams and Harrison Tran join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their roles at GYJC, a coalition of students ages 14-22 working to build power from the classroom to the capitol.

Zack Exley joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the use of the internet in political organizing and fundraising, including on several Democratic presidential campaigns and at Wikipedia as well as founding Justice Democrats and now New Consensus, a think tank that works to achieve economic renewal and transformation.