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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Digital Marketing and Politics with Garima Verma
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Autonomous Dialing and a Life in Politics with Mark Sump
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Voter Data and Political Tech in California with Gary Brown of PDI
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Activist and Author of People, Power, Change, Professor Marshall Ganz
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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".By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Ambitions for Actblue with Regina Wallace-Jones
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Analyzing Ballot Initiatives with Chris Figueredo of BISC
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Protecting the Republic with Jordan Wood of democracyFirst
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Message Development for Progressives with Bryan Bennett of Navigator
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Author of Lost in a Gallup, Professor W. Joseph Campbell
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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".By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Civic Engagement Among Our Youth with Aarti and Saul of Rhizome
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Building Community for Young Leaders with Jacob Merkle of Rhizome
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Voter Protection and Ballot Curing with Kathleen Borschow
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Leveraging Relational Organizing with Garrett Gruener
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Deep Canvassing in Philadelphia with Dave Fleischer
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Dave Fleischer returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how he's using deep canvassing in Philadelphia to turn out voters.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Training for Relational Organizing with Sri Kulkarni of Relational Futures
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Sri Kulkarni returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to give a tutorial using a relational organizing app.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Author of The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers Josh Cowen
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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."By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Supporting Progressive Tech and AI Entrepreneurs with Leah Bae of Higher Ground Labs
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Staffing for Progressive Organizations with Lorenza Ramirez of Blueline Fellows
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Supporting Democrats in the Reddest Places with Jonathan and Michele of Every State Blue
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Partisan Identity and Political Violence with Lily Mason of SNF Agora Institute
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Protecting Democracy with Rachel Kleinfeld
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Haley Voters for Harris with Craig Snyder
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Fighting for American Democracy with Dmitri Mehlhorn of Oakland Corps
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Civics Education and Leadership with Scott Warren of SNF Agora
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Effective Paid Media with Myles Bugbee of Persuasion and Pixels
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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A Future with Fewer Guns with Hudson Munoz of Guns Down America
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Advocating for Workers Benefits with Carol Joyner of Family Values @ Work Action
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Compliance Entrepreneurship with Chris Koob of MBA Consulting Group
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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The Demise of the Middle Class with Author Thom Hartmann
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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".By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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A Social Network for Activists with Shion Deysarkar of Unified
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Shion Deysarkar returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Unified, where they're building a social network with tools for activists.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Voting with Your Phone with Philanthropist Bradley Tusk
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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".By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Targeting Digital Political Ads with Mark Jablonowski of DSPolitical
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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AI for Political Research with Audra Archuleta of Luminarity AI
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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.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Hahrie Han, Professor at John Hopkins and Author of UNDIVIDED
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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".By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Data Analytics for Organizing and GOTV with Christina Coloroso of Analyst Institute
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Christina Coloroso joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role at the Analyst Institute, where they study the impact of voter contact programs through experimentation and evidence.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Digital Communications with Juri Schnöller of Cosmonauts and Kings
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Juri Schnöller joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, both in the US and Germany and co-founding his digital communications firm Cosmonauts and Kings.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Tech for Finding Donors with Aaron and Will of DonorAtlas
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Aaron Berger and Will Schrepferman join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding DonorAtlas, a new company that uses technology and data science to provide fundraising data online and direct to Democratic campaigns.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Author of Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands, Sarah Towle
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Sarah Towle joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her book "Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands" where she writes about how unwelcoming our government is to people fleeing danger and seeking refuge at our border with Mexico.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Engaging Low-Propensity Voters with Sara Gifford of ActiVote
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Sara Gifford joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in commercial software and co-founding ActiVote, where they're building free software to engage low-propensity voters.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Political Staffing Services with Chris Jones of PoliTemps
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Chris Jones joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and founding PoliTemps, where they connect people with temporary jobs and political organizations.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Earning Interest on Campaign Funds with A.J. Carrillo of Treasury Blue
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A.J. Carrillo joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and finance and founding Treasury Blue, where they help progressive causes grow their funds through earning interest.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Field Software for Political Campaigning with Nic Zateslo of Votivate
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Nic Zateslo joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in political technology and his role at Votivate, where they're building field software that incorporates AI for Political campaigns.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Flexible Tools to Engage Community with Brian Young of Action Network
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Brian Young returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he's been up to at Action Network, where they provide powerful, flexible tools to help progressives engage with theirBy Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Digital Communications in the Progressive World with Andy Barr of Uplift
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Andy Barr joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and starting and growing Uplift, a digital first agency that delivers creative content, ad buying services and strategic communications to Democratic campaigns.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Exploring Political Data with Roger Stone of Advocacy Data
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Roger Stone joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his long career in politics and founding Advocacy Data, where he helps progressives with trusted political data and also now introducing Political Explorer.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Building Progressive Communications Infrastructure in the States with Anna Scholl of ProgressNow
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Anna Scholl joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about moving from the state level with Progress Virginia to her role as President of ProgressNow at the national level, where they coordinate with 28 state hubs to build progressive communications infrastructure.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Best Practices for Progressives on Wikipedia with Rhiannon Ruff of Lumino
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Rhiannon Ruff joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her role at Lumino, a digital agency, and her expertise in Wikipedia, an important platform for progressive candidates and organizations.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Lessons Learned in Digital Political Entrepreneurship with Julia Rosen of Meadowlark Strategies
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Julia Rosen joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her ups and downs in digital political entrepreneurship and co-founding Meadowlark Strategies, a full-service digital agency focused on storytelling.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Expanding Operational Capacity for Campaigns with Jordan Krueger of CampaignHelp
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Jordan Krueger joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and starting CampaignHelp, where he provides technology and help desk support for progressive organizations.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Using Tech to Drive Voter Turnout with Debra Cleaver of VoteAmerica
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Debra Cleaver returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about being ousted from Vote.org, which she founded and ran for a decade, and starting VoteAmerica where they work to increase voter turnout through the use of tech.By Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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