In this episode Nathaniel Pearlman shares some thoughts about The Great Battlefield podcast and temporary changes to the podcast going forward due to upcoming surgery.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Hilary Braseth joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in entrepreneurship, public service and her role at Open Secrets, a non-profit repository of campaign finance data.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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 activists and help them learn how to organize.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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 for change to how we communicate with voters.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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 to combat right wing politics.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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 secure elections and many other societally important issues.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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 for Democratic and Independent candidates to connect, mobilize and build power.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Peter Levine joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, which includes helping to found CIRCLE, and his work as Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Tufts University.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Julian Fortuna joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career running several progressive organizations and his role at The Youth Democracy Lab, where they're working on pro-democracy infrastructure in the south.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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 Initiative, where they're working to defeat authoritarianism and improve democracy.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

David LeBender joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, fundraising with Cory Booker and co-founding Pingdex, where they provide a fundraising call time tool.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Julia Roig joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career working to advance social change and democracies all over the world and founding The Horizons Project, where they work at the intersection of movement building, narrative strategy and bridge building to support a more pluralistic democracy in the U.S.…

Martín Carcasson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in academia and his role as Director at the Colorado State University Center for Public Deliberation, where he trains students to facilitate constructive community dialogue around complex public issues.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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 (Leadership for Educational Equality), a nonpartisan network of leaders that provides coaching, connections and skill building opportunities for their members.…

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, where they mobilize thousands of volunteers to door knock and phone bank with partners in swing states.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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 states to govern boldly in the public interest.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Alex Reich and Dan McSwain join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and founding Genara, where they're working to help philanthropic organizations move dollars faster and with greater effectiveness.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Joel Rogers joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding multiple progressive organizations while Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he's taught democracy related theory and practice for nearly four decades.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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 campaigning now in his run for the U.S. Senate.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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 Accountability Project, where she works to improve the experience of law clerks and hold judges accountable for their actions.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Esteban Kelly joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in many organizations in the worker cooperative space and his current role at the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, where they've created a thriving ecosystem for worker-owned businesses.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Andrew Greenway joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and co-founding Public Digital, where they work with governments to help them become more responsive.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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 recent book "Out-classed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back".By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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 accepting the role as VP of Enineering at Bonterra, where he's responsible for all the products at the progressive political software company.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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 recent DOGE attempts to infiltrate the organization.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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 close elections in Michigan and Wisconsin.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Amanda Brink joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role at Empower Project, where they execute large relational organizing programs and provide free software tools and training.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Matt Leighninger joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role at the Center for Democracy Innovation at The National Civic League, where they work to make democracy more participatory, equitable and productive.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Leah Bae and Oluwakemi Oso join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding The Higher Ground Institute, where they're working to improve innovation and adoption in progressive political tech.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Tim Gaull joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his work in the LGBTQIA community, running for US Senate and founding Advocacy Atlas, where he's advocating the "church planting" model for establishing Democratic organizations in areas where the party has little presence.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Tom Goldenberg joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about teaching Sanskrit in India, working on tech startups, running for Mayor and founding Victory Waves, where they're building an AI Voter CRM.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Griff Bohm joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a serial entrepreneur, starting a brewery in Chile, Defeat by Tweet (which was aimed at motivating fundraising against Trump) and co-founding Momentum, a new AI fundraising firm.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Amanda Litman returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her recent book "When We're in Charge: The Next Generations Guide to Leadership".By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Marty Santalucia joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, starting his fundraising firm MF Strategies and his recent venture Twig Intelligence, which provides clients with AI based personas to query about politics and related matters.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Sol Erdman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career from success on Wall Street to conflict resolution to now starting Grand Bargain Project, which aims to unite Americans through policy change.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Sondra Goldschein joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her 20 year career at the ACLU before transitioning to run the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, where they advocate for paid family medical leave, lower cost prescription drugs and affordable elder and child care.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

Emma Bloomberg joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her entry into politics through her fathers mayoral campaign, her time at Robin Hood (an anti-poverty organization) and founding Murmuration, a non-profit that works to improve local organizing by providing a software, data and analytics platform.…

Kate Conway joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in graphic design, building the creative team for the Biden Campaign and the switch to the Harris Campaign.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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.…

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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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".By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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".By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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".By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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".By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman

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".By Nathaniel G. Pearlman