The Great Battlefield

Nic Zateslo returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about regulating AI and building tech for his campaign to run for Congress in Florida.

Tom Carroll joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about co-founding Convos, where they're building an AI based texting tool that facilitates two way conversations between campaigns and causes and their supporters at mass scale.

Aubrey Cox Ottenstein joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, running Globally, a nonprofit focused on public service careers and co-founding Hilltop, where they're building an AI tool to enable constituents to deliver personalized messages directly to lawmakers.

Jaclyn Friedman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an activist, advocate and organizer and founding EducateUS, a group that is working to transform sex education for good.

Craig Dorfman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a teacher before getting into politics with Mandate Media and eventually purchasing the firm with a coworker. Mandate Media is a political consultancy for Democrats that specializes in digital strategy and email fundraising.

Greisa Martinez Rosas joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share her struggles with our immigration system and working her way up to Executive Director at United We Dream, a youth led immigration group with more than a million members.

Dan Castleman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his role at Clarity Campaign Labs, a political data science firm that helps progressive campaigns and organizations through customized polling and analytics.

Kevin Holst joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his role at the Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association, where they recruit, support and elect Democratic Lieutenant Governors.

Akaya Windwood joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, being President of Rockwood Leadership Institute for many years and her book "Leading with Joy: Practices for Uncertain Times".

Tom Perriello joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his run to represent Virginia again in the U.S. House.

Michael Lahanas-Calderón joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his role at Inequality Media, where their mission is to engage and inform the public about economic inequality and imbalance of power.

Paul Westcott joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in media and his role at L2, a nonpartisan political and commercial data company.

Mikey Dickerson returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his firm Layer Aleph, which helps enterprises through technical crises, and his new book "Crisis Engineering: Time-Tested Tools for Turning Chaos Into Clarity".

Emily Suttle-Braun joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and founding Doodle Mom Strategies which provides outsourced sales assistance to political tech companies and related enterprises.

Nathan Chappell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, how he's working to bring AI to nonprofits and founding Fundraising.AI, a think tank that promotes responsible and beneficial AI for Fundraising.

Megan Clasen and Patrick McHugh join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Gambit Strategies, a digital media firm specializing in persuading and mobilizing voters by defining candidates, causes and issues.

Alex Salerno joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role at Civitech, where they use data to target and engage unregistered Democratic voters.

Dan Cantor joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, co-founding The Working Families Party and his role at the Center for Ballot Freedom, where they advocate for fusion voting, which allows a candidate to appear on the ballot as a nominee of more than one party.

Ash-Lee Henderson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in activism, being the first black woman to serve as Co-Director at Highlander Education and Research Center (the storied movement school in Tennessee) and founding Utopian Visions, where they're building web tools and curricula for power building.

Shaughnessy Naughton returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how she's grown 314 Action, where they recruit, train and elect Democratic Doctors and Scientists to help defeat Trump's agenda.

Tara McGowan returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how she's grown Courier, her media and news company, and her new podcast "Gloves Off".

Chris Nolan Joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in journalism and founding Spot-On, where they connect political advertisers to individual voters by placing ads on local news papers.

Dawn Peacock joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and running the tech side of Campaignalytics, where they've built a software platform that enables the use of an enhanced voter file and related data and analytics for political organizing.

Pete Davis returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about producing the documentary film "Join or Die," which centers around Robert Putnam, author of "Bowling Alone," a nook that documented how Americans are dropping their civic engagement.

Karen Kornbluh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her tech policy and career including as policy staffer to Senator Obama in charge of the 2008 Democratic Party platform, Ambassador to the OECD, and Senior Advisor to President Biden, deputy CTO, and head of his AI office.

Reverend Susie Hayward joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a peace scholar, activist and serving as Minister for Justice Organizing at the Creekside United Church of Christ and being in the middle of the resistance to the ICE surge in Minneapolis.

David Janovsky joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his role as Director of The Constitution Project at POGO (Project on Government Oversight), where they're working to counter the corruption and constitutional challenges posed by the current administration.

Alan Khazei joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career co-founding City Year, which became the model for Clinton's AmeriCorps program, running for US Senate and is currently the Co-Chair of More Perfect, where they're focused on renewing democracy through five pillars including service, bridge building and trusted information.

Chris Talbot joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics starting at Google managing digital strategies, his role at Allied Media where he helps plan media buys and his own firm Talbot Digital, a full service digital agency.

Leena Barakat and Rajasvini Bhansali join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their funding group's The Women Donors Network and Solidaire, and coming together to lead a new funder coalition called Block and Build, where they're taking on authoritarianism.

Liz Purdy joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in New Hampshire politics, working on campaigns for Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Jeanne Shaheen and starting Reconciliation Media Lab, where she's working to build progressive media infrastructure.

Mike Vlacich joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Political Operative in New Hampshire, including Senior Advisor for Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Executive Director for the New Hampshire Democratic Party and now Principal at Cornerstone Government Affairs.

Julie Scelfo joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a reporter, media ecologist and founding Mothers Against Media Addiction, where they're fighting to prevent the poisoning of our kids with cell phones and addictive media platforms.

Liz Walters joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, politics in Ohio and her role as CEO at TargetSmart, the voter data and tech services company that serves Democrats and allied organizations.

Qasim Rashid joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Human Rights Lawyer, his Substack " Let's Address This", running as a candidate for office and his show on Sirius satellite radio.

Roger Berkowitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Human Rights at Bard College, founding the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and writing about the crisis of democracy and free speech.

Raghu Devaguptapu joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his substantial career in politics, his campaign experience as political direct at two national party committees and his work at other media consultancies before co-founding his current firm, TKO Political.

Matthew Taylor joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a scholar studying Christian Nationalism and his book about the New Apostolic Reformation: "The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy".

Josef Lentsch joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics abroad, starting a new political party in Austria and founding The Political Tech Summit, which is a marketplace where politics meets technology in Europe.

Michelle Roos returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the dismantling of the EPA under Trump and what she's been up to at the Environmental Protection Network, where they're working to protect the environment and safeguard public health.

Alan Jenkins joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a law professor and human rights advocate and publishing his graphic novel series about what might have happened if the January 6th attack on the capitol was successful.

Matt Grossman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career at Michigan State as Professor of Political Science, Director of The Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, and also hosting the Science of Politics podcast, and writing books about American politics.

Danielle Butterfield joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role as Executive Director at Priorities USA, where they're working to build progressive power by redefining how Super PACs contribute by training digital operatives and developing new apps and tools.

Ben Resnik joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in political tech, AI in politics, and his new role at Social Currant, where they connect progressive organizations with mission aligned creators.

Murshed Zaheed returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he's been up to and starting his own consultancy, Pacifica Strategies.

Aaron Parnas joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Lawyer turned Independent Journalist, where he distills the news into comprehensible chunks.

Dmitri Mehlhorn returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about why he thinks the fight against fascism is over and co-founding the Atoll Society, where they hope to rally reason, law and human dignity in the face of rising authoritarianism.

Samantha Hancox-Li joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about hosting the Neon Liberalism podcast and being a writer and editor at Liberal Currents, where they publish writers who promote pluralistic democracy over authoritarianism.

Carol Leonnig joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about leaving The Washington Post to join MS NOW as Senior Investigative Correspondent and her recent book "Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department".

Mari Manoogian joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics, serving as a State Representative in Michigan and her role at The Next 50, where they provide high impact support to up and coming political leaders.