Dmitri Mehlhorn returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his work funding the defense of our democracy through his new project Oakland Corps. I also ask about his recent split with Reid Hoffman.

Fighting for American Democracy with Dmitri Mehlhorn of Oakland Corps

Marshall Ganz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and academia, starting in the civil rights movement, then with The United Farm Workers and at Harvard. His new book is "People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal".


Activist and Author of People, Power, Change, Professor Marshall Ganz

Meena Yi joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as Design Director at the DNC, Creative Director for the Cory Booker campaign and as outgoing Creative Director at The White House.

Design in Politics with Meena Yi

Josh Hendler returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the future of progressive political tech and the race for Chair at the DNC.

Progressive Political Tech and the Race for DNC Chair with Josh Hendler

Daria Dawson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role at America Votes, where they work to coordinate efforts to increase voter participation and advocate for fair elections.

Coordinating Progressive Voter Outreach with Daria Dawson of America Votes

Bob Fertik joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about email list building, chaperoned email and other tools at Democrats.com, an online community for progressive organizers with millions of supporters.

Online Community and Tools for Progressives with Bob Fertik of Democrats.com

Bill Smith joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and why he founded Inseparable, where they advocate for better mental health policies.

Improving Mental Health Policy with Bill Smith of Inseparable

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.

Campaign Management and New Political  Communications with Erik Balsbaugh of At Dawn Campaigns

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.

Public Opinion Research with Professor Peter Enns

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.


Political Reporter, Author, and TV Pundit, Eleanor Clift

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.

Rebooting Organizing with Billy Wimsatt of Movement Voter Project

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.


Digital Persuasion and AI Content Generation with Mike Nellis of Authentic

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.

Making News of Local Government more Accessible with Tom Cochran of Civic Sunlight

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.

Political Email Deliverability with David Lytel

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.


Katherine Stewart, Author of Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy

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.

Fighting Corruption in the Courts with Alex Aronson of Court Accountability

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.

Politics, Social Impact Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics with Neil Malhotra

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.

Making Government Effective as a Model for Democratic Governance with Zack Rosen of Abundance Network

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.

Renovating Our Democracy with Jerren Chang of Partners in Democracy

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.

Funding Reproductive and Social Justice with Yamani Yansá Hernandez of Groundswell

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

Digital Organizing for the Harris Campaign with Brynna and Jaime

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.

Applying the Study of Presidential History to Today with Lindsay Chervinsky

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.


Using Humor in Political Ads with Martin Hamburger

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.

Improving Visibility into Our Government with Joshua Tauberer of GovTrack.us

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.

Modernizing Congress with Lorelei Kelly

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".


Love, Activism, and Mutual Aid with Dean Spade

Dan Gillmor joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in journalism and tech, authoring several books and his latest project, The Cornerstone of Liberty, a newsletter that he publishes curating the best content in this area.


Curating the Best Political Journalism with Dan Gillmor

Terry Szuplat joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, as a speechwriter for Obama and his book "Say It Well: Find Your Voice, Speak Your Mind, Inspire Any Audience".

Better Political Communication with Terry Szuplat

Gareth Gore joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an author and journalist and his latest book "Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church".

Investigating the Right Wing Catholic Cult Opus Dei with Gareth Gore

Sarah Oates joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a specialist in Russian media and propaganda, being a Professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and her recent book "Seeing Red: Russian Propaganda and American News".


Political Journalism and Combating Propaganda with Sarah Oates

Catherine Vaughan and Ryder Kessler join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and founding Abundance New York, where they're bringing abundance ideas to politics to improve the quality of life of New Yorkers.

Abundance Ideas in Politics with With Catherine and Ryder of Abundance New York

Zsuzsanna Szelényi joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in Hungarian politics and her book "Tainted Democracy, Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary".

Lessons for Us in the Rise of Viktor Orbán with Zsuzsanna Szelényi

Jeff Jarvis joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his long career in journalism, media and teaching, authoring 6 books and how he feels the media is doing in this moment in our democracy.

Journalism and the Political Crisis in the US with Jeff Jarvis

Max Borowitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech entrepreneurship and founding Caucus, which helps campaigns and causes send direct messages through social media to their supporters, donors and voters to raise money and win votes.


Leveraging Social Media DM's for Fundraising with Max Borowitz of Caucus

Seth Johnson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his decades of work at AFSCME and now as a consultant, and what he's been thinking about in this difficult time for our nation.


Data and Analytics in Labor and Progressive Campaigning with Seth Johnson

Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, being a leader at Human Rights Watch, her award winning book "There Are No Dead Here" (about human rights in Columbia) and her role at RepresentUS, where they're working to fight corruption and defend democracy.

Defending Democracy and Fighting Corruption with Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno of RepresentUs

Amanda Coulombe joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss her work as the General Manager of Organizing for NGP VAN and Every Action. She tells us about the importance of marrying technology and organizing, and shares details of her experience serving as the Statewide GOTV Director for both Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Ed Markey. | Episode 262

Marrying Technology and Organizing, with NGP VAN's Amanda Coulombe

CTO Nell Thomas and deputy CTO Kat Atwater join The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss their careers and what they're doing to improve tech at The DNC.

Data, Analytics and Tech at The DNC with Nell Thomas and Kat Atwater

Patrick McHugh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his career in politics and his current role at Priorities USA and what they're doing to prepare for 2020.

Preparing for 2020 with Patrick McHugh of Priorities USA

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