The Great Battlefield

Macon Phillips joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, being an early employee at Blue State Digital, Director of Digital Strategy at The White House and founding his firm Starling Strategy.

Dean Spade joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an activist and professor, his book about mutual aid and his most recent book "Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together".

Cooper Teboe joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding Arkenstone, where he works with Silicon Valley on behalf of his clients.

Daniel Schuman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a government transparency advocate and his role at the American Governance Institute, where they're working to make a more efficient and transparent government.

Lorelei Kelly joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in working to build a more informed and responsive democracy and founding Georgetown Democracy, Education and Service to continue working on congressional reform.

Ben Darr joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a tech entrepreneur, the series of enterprises he's created, including his current one, CredoIQ, which provides intelligence about what is happening politically on TikTok and other social media platforms.

Joshua Tauberer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech and founding GovTrack.us to follow Congress and his plan now to expand that to cover executive orders from the White House.

Roberta Braga joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and founding Digital Democracy Institute for the Americas (DDIA), an organization run by and for Latinos to strengthen democracy online.

Martin Hamburger joins The Great Battlefield Podcast to talk about his career in politics and as a ski instructor, throwing clay, blowing glass and founding Hamburger Group Creative, where some of their ads are humorous.

Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a historian, author and the Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library.

Brynna Quillin and Jaime Lopez join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their experiences running digital organizing on Kamala Harris' presidential campaign.

Yamani Yansá Hernandez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the path that led her to her role at Groundswell Fund, which works to strengthen movements for reproductive and social justice.

Jerren Chang joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role at Partners in Democracy, where they're working in Massachusetts to renovate democracy to show how it can be better done.

Pantheon Founder Zack Rosen joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Pantheon, a web ops platform, working with California YIMBY to work on the housing crisis and his current role at Abundance Network which he sees as a new source of ideas for the Democratic party.

Neil Malhotra joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Professor at the Stanford University Business School, his writings on social impact entrepreneurship, business ethics, political polarization and his current study on the political views of small business owners.

Claudia Yoli Ferla joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about immigration and her role at MOVE Texas, a nonpartisan, nonprofit, grassroots organization working to build power in underrepresented youth communities through civic engagement, leadership development, and issue advocacy.

Alex Aronson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and the law and about co-founding Court Accountability, where they are dedicated to combating corrupt abuse of judicial power.

Katherine Stewart joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her latest book "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy", a key book that helps make sense of what's been going on and what the new administration is doing.

David Lytel joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his lengthy career in politics and technology, which includes building the first website for The White House, co-founding Democrats.com, Redefeat Bush, and Redefeat Trump, and his current start-up idea Deliverability, to help Democrats with email.

Tom Cochran joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and tech, working in The White House and State Department and co-founding Civic Sunlight, which is using AI to create summaries of Town Hall meetings to make local government information more accessible.

Mike Nellis returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his work in the 2024 election, AI in campaigns and how he's worked to deal with challenges in physical and mental health.

Billy Wimsatt returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how political communication is changing, how he's working to contend with the fear we're facing and how to counter it with organizing and love.

Eleanor Clift joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a reporter for Newsweek, covering Jimmy Carter in the 1976 primary, being a panelist on The McLaughlin Group and now as a columnist for the Daily Beast.

Peter Enns joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as Professor of Government and Public Policy at Cornell University, a few of the books he authored and founding Verasight, a survey research firm.

Erik Balsbaugh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in campaign management, voter protection and ballot curing, the best practices institute at the DNC, working with streaming platforms and co-founding At Dawn Campaigns.