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The Great Battlefield
THE GREAT BATTLEFIELD PODCAST - A PODCAST ABOUT THE PROGRESSIVE RESISTANCE A great political battle is being fought right now for the soul of our country.
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The Daily Show, Tweets of God, and Other Comedy of David Javerbaum
David Javerbaum joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a comedy writer, working on The Daily Show, his play An Act of God and...

Comedy and Satire with Scott Dikkers
Scott Dikkers joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in comedy, owning and running The Onion and his book "Trump's America: The...

Helping Found Catalist and now Using VR to Help Neurodiverse Learners with Vijay Ravindran
Vijay Ravindran joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech, being the founding CTO of Catalist (the longest running data tru...

Leveraging Community Stories to Support a Mission with Megan Castle of Soapboxx
Megan Castle joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career path that led her to her role as CEO at Soapboxx, a video and photo storytel...

AI and Campaign Communications with Meghan and Mike of Grassroots Analytics and Quiller
Meghan McAnespie and Mike Nellis return to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about Grassroots Analytics acquisition of Quiller, an AI tool to help...

Holding Republicans Accountable with Pat Dennis of American Bridge
Pat Dennis returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what's been happening at American Bridge, where they conduct opposition research on...

Strategy, Analytics and Engagement with Pete Backof of Camden Strategy
Pete Backof joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about being the fourth employee at The Analyst Institute, serving as the Director of Analytics...

An Alternative Solution for Contribution Processing with Becky Pittman of GoodChange
Becky Pittman returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how she's continued to evolve features and grow her user base at Good Change, a p...

Building Relationships and Bridging Divides with Karissa Raskin of Listen First Project
Karissa Raskin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role as CEO at the Listen First Project, a network of over 500 bri...

Advocating For Ranked Choice Voting and More with Meredith Sumpter of FairVote
Meredith Sumpter joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role as President and CEO of FairVote, a nonpartisan organizatio...

Supporting Bold Progressives with Adam Green of the PCCC
Adam Green joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding the PCCC (Progressive Change Campaign Committee), a million membe...

Veterans Fighting for Progressive Values with Jose Vazquez of Common Defense
Jose Vazquez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in the military and his role as Executive Director at Common Defense, the la...

Author of You Are Not Alone: Your Roadmap to Effective Political Action, Gary Lucks
Gary Lucks joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an environmental lawyer, activist and his recent book "You Are Not Alone: Y...

Following Money in Politics with Hilary Braseth of Open Secrets
Hilary Braseth joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in entrepreneurship, public service and her role at Open Secrets, a non-pr...

Empowering Volunteers to Take Action with Doug Linney of Activate America
Doug Linney returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he's been up to at Activate America, where they work to empower progressive ac...

Responding to Changes in Digital Communications with Will Robinson
Will Robinson returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he's been up to at The New Media Firm and his Substack where he's calling fo...

Resisting Right Wing Politics with Humor with Andy Borowitz
Andy Borowitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a comedian, writer and creator of The Borowitz Report, where uses humor...

Societal Resilience and Election Security with Dave Leichtman of Microsoft
Dave Leichtman returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his role as Director of Global Elections at Microsoft, where they're working to...

An Update About The Great Battlefield Podcast with Nathaniel G Pearlman
In this episode Nathaniel Pearlman shares some thoughts about The Great Battlefield podcast and temporary changes to the podcast going forward due to...

A Possible Next Generation Solution to Digital Democracy with Bart Myers of CrowdBlue
Bart Myers returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what's been happening at Countable and his new role leading CrowdBlue, a platform fo...

Professional Study of Civics with Peter Levine of Tufts
Peter Levine joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, which includes helping to found CIRCLE, and his work as Professor of Citize...

Youth and Democracy with Julian Fortuna of The Youth Democracy Lab
Julian Fortuna joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career running several progressive organizations and his role at The Youth Democr...

Defeating Authoritarianism with Scot Nakagawa of The 22 Century Initiative
Scot Nakagawa joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an activist and organization builder and his role at The 22 Century Init...

Simplifying Call Time with David LeBender of Pingdex
David LeBender joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, fundraising with Cory Booker and co-founding Pingdex, where t...

Advancing Social Change and Democracy with Julia Roig of The Horizons Project
Julia Roig joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career working to advance social change and democracies all over the world and foundi...

Collaborative Problem Solving with Martín Carcasson
Martín Carcasson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in academia and his role as Director at the Colorado State University Ce...

Supporting Leaders to Engage in their Communities with Mildred Otero of LEE
Mildred Otero joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her path in politics and philanthropy that led her to the role as President at LEE (Le...

Building Power in Battleground States with Emily Lee of Seed the Vote
Emily Lee Joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, her time at the Chinese Progressive Association and co-founding Seed the Vote,...

Empowering State Policymakers with Gaby Goldstein of State Futures
Gaby Goldstein returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her role at State Futures, where they're working on building capacity in the sta...

Helping Philanthropy Move Faster and More Accurately with Alex and Dan of Genara
Alex Reich and Dan McSwain join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and founding Genara, where they're working to help philanthr...

Political Entrepreneur, Activist, and Academic, Professor Joel Rogers
Joel Rogers joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding multiple progressive organizations while Professor at the University of Wiscons...

Running for U.S. Senate in Michigan with Abdul El-Sayed
Abdul El-Sayed joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he learned about campaigning, running for Governor of Michigan and how he's camp...

A Glassdoor for Judges with Aliza Shatzman of The Legal Accountability Project
Aliza Shatzman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share her story of clerking for the D.C. Superior Court that led her to founding The Legal Accou...

Worker Cooperatives with Esteban Kelly of the USFWC
Esteban Kelly joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in many organizations in the worker cooperative space and his current role...

Digital Transformation and Reform of Governments with Andrew Greenway of Public Digital
Andrew Greenway joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and co-founding Public Digital, where they work with governments to help...

Class and Politics with Joan C Williams
Joan C Williams joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a Professor of Law, the Director of the Equality Action Center and her...

Improving Political Tech with Sunil Sadasivan, Newly of NGP VAN
Sunil Sadasivan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in political tech, serving as Deputy CTO on Cory Booker's campaign and ac...

Fighting DOGE and for Humane Immigration and Criminal Justice Systems with Insha Rahman of Vera Action
Insha Rahman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in criminal justice reform at Vera and how they're fighting back at the rece...

How Unions Fit into Our Politics with Grant Williams of the SEIU
Grant Williams joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a long time leader at the SEIU and how he's recently been working on cl...

Relational Organizing Programs, Tech, and Training with Amanda Brink of Empower Project
Amanda Brink joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role at Empower Project, where they execute large relati...