Shawon Jackson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his startup Vocal Justice, where they're working to educate and inspire young black and brown youth to become leaders.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Mariah Levison and Rob Fersh join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their new book and their roles at Convergence, where they convene groups with conflicting views to build trust, identify solutions, and form alliances for action on national issues.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Teresa Purcell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and starting Rural Strong where she's working to build up a new Democratic brand.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Tom Spencer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his startup, AdvocacyAI, an AI-native platform built for advocacy professionals.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Kim Wehle joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a law professor and her recent book "Pardon Power: How the Pardon System Works and Why".Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Giselle Hale joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, technology, as Mayor of Redwood City, CA and her role at Abundance Network, where they're working to build a more effective government.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Betsy Hoover returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the future of Higher Ground Labs, their investment thesis, M&A, AI in politics and a lot more.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Josh Cook joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Good Influence has been connecting influencers with progressive causes and launching Chorus, a platform for progressive creators.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Ryan Davis returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to catch us up on what's been happening at People First, where they're working at the intersection of progressive politics and the creator economy.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Ellie, Ashwath and Vidyut join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their roles at Social Currant, a platform for progressives to find creators that align with their mission.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Liz Joyner joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding The Village Square where they work to forge relationships with those that think differently and understand that we're all human.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Tom Lindenfeld joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his long career in politics, including running a company that specialized in voter contact -- until he hit legal troubles. Tom has been active as an independent consultant since then. He also shares his thoughts on why Kamala Harris lost the election.…

Spencer Kimball joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role as director of polling at Emerson College, where they work hard to be accurate and innovative in how they obtain their information on public opinion.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Nina Jankowitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to tell her story of how she came to the fight against political disinformation and founding American Sunlight Foundation, where they work to educate the public about the threats and effects of disinformation.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Mark Strama joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and tech, his time as a Texas State Representative and his current role at the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life at UT Austin.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Thomas Mills returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the changes at PoliticsNC.com and his thoughts about the 2024 election.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Garima Verma joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in the entertainment industry, moving into politics and working for the Biden campaign, in the White House, Stacey Abrams for Governor, the DCCC, and now as an independent consultant.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Mark Sump joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the ups and downs of his life in political entrepreneurship and his work at Sump's Phones in partnership with CyberDial, where they are able to make one million calls in a minute.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Gary Brown joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his journey at Political Data Inc, from an early employee to owner and CEO. PDI is a voter file data and political software company based in California.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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".Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Regina Wallace-Jones joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in tech, politics and business and her current role as CEO of ActBlue, a nonprofit fundraising platform for progressives, and where she wants to take it.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Chris Figueredo returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her role at BISC and the ballot initiatives across the country for the 2024 election.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Jordan Wood joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, as Chief of Staff for Katie Porter during January 6th and how democracyFirst is working to confront the anti-democracy movement and protect free and fair elections.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Bryan Bennett joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about polling in 2024 and his role as the lead pollster at Navigator Research, which is a message development resource for progressives.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

W. Joseph Campbell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a journalist, professor at American University and his recent book "Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections".Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Aarti Sharma and Saul Balcarcel join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their experiences at Rhizome, a nonpartisan organization working to increase civic engagement among students.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Jacob Merkle joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the founding and building of Rhizome, where they are working to activate young people's identities into action and help youth treat civic service as the work of a lifetime.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Kathleen Borschow joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and the work she's done in voter protection services and elsewhere.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Garrett Gruener joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a successful entrepreneur (including ask.com) and venture capitalist, becoming a Democratic donor, and funding training for relational organizing for the 2024 election.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Dave Fleischer returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how he's using deep canvassing in Philadelphia to turn out voters.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Sri Kulkarni returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to give a tutorial using a relational organizing app.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Josh Cowen joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Professor of Education Policy at Michigan State and his book "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers."Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Leah Bae joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in tech and politics and her role at Higher Ground Labs, and their Progressive AI Lab, where they work on funding start-ups and improving the political tech ecosystem for Democrats and progressives.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Lorenza Ramirez joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and launching Blueline Fellows, where they're working to help progressive and social impact organizations recruit talented staff from out of season campaign workers.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Michele Hornish and Jonathan Zucker join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Every State Blue is working to create a basic funding floor for every candidate in the state legislature so that we can contest all the seats.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Lily Mason joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career path that led her to study how political parties have become so bound up in their identities and what she's been working on at SNF Agora Institute.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Rachel Kleinfeld joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role at The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she advises governments, philanthropists and activists.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Craig Snyder joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in Republican politics and how Haley Voters for Harris is encouraging voters across the political spectrum to vote for Kamala Harris.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Scott Warren joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Generation Citizen, a civics education group, advising leadership at non-profits and what he's up to at SNF Agora.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Myles Bugbee joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a political digital strategist and his firm Persuasion and Pixels, where they help digital campaigns use paid media effectively.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Hudson Munoz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his current role as Executive Director at Guns Down America, where they're working to build a future with fewer guns.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Carol Joyner joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how Family Values @ Work Action is advocating for workplace policies.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Chris Koob joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his firm MBA Consulting Group, where they help campaigns and organizations follow state and federal laws around financial disclosure.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his latest book "The Hidden History of the American Dream: The Demise of the Middle Class―and How to Rescue Our Future".Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Shion Deysarkar returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Unified, where they're building a social network with tools for activists.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Bradley Tusk joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a political strategist and venture capitalist and his recent book "Vote With Your Phone: Why Mobile Voting Is Our Final Shot at Saving Democracy".Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Mark Jablonowski returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what they've been up to at DSPolitical, where they provide the tech and data to connect political advertisements to individual voters with targeted ads.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Audra Archuleta joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, and her start up Luminarity AI, where they're working to leverage AI to help with political research.Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Hahrie Han returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what she's been up to at the SNF Agora Institute and her recent book "UNDIVIDED: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church".Nathaniel G. Pearlman