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.
The Great Battlefield podcast is an absolute gem that I will never tire of listening to. From its breadth of topics and guests to the relaxed and conversational tone, this podcast stands out as a beacon of perfection in the world of political podcasts. Each episode has been illuminating, providing unique perspectives on our current political crisis and pushing the boundaries of who I would typically listen to. The host's easygoing approach brings out the best in his guests, creating an atmosphere reminiscent of a captivating dinner party where interesting and intelligent people discuss what they love. It truly feels like the world's most giant toolbox for change.
One of the greatest strengths of The Great Battlefield podcast lies in its ability to bring in high-quality guests who provide genuine insights into the tactics being employed to win in 2020. Nathaniel does an amazing job at curating a diverse range of changemakers in the political arena, connecting their efforts into themes of resistance. As a listener, I have learned so much about political entrepreneurship and post-2016 strategies from different organizations. In particular, the interview with Jason Berlin from Field Team 6 was superbly informative and engaging.
While it is challenging to find any faults with this podcast, one minor drawback might be that some listeners initially hesitate when confronted with the relaxed hosting style of Nathaniel. His vocal fry may give off a sense that he could nod off at any moment, but strangely enough, it becomes endearing over time. While episodes with a more upbeat tone are preferable, there is something uniquely captivating about Nathaniel's conversational approach that consistently draws out the best from his guests. However, this personal preference may not resonate with everyone.
In conclusion, The Great Battlefield podcast is an exceptional platform for anyone seeking involvement with progressive politics. With its wide range of topics and insightful interviews, it serves as both a source of information and inspiration for change-makers in today's tumultuous political landscape. Nathaniel's ability to bring together a variety of changemakers and connect their efforts is commendable. If there is one thing I wish for, it is for Nathaniel to compile all the knowledge he has accumulated from these interviews into a central location. It would be fascinating to see a comprehensive collection of the wisdom shared on this podcast.

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.

Emily Cherniak returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what she's been up to at New Politics, where they're working to empower and inspire the next generation of political leaders.

Tiffany Muller returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what she's been up to at End Citizens United, where their mission is to get dark money out of politics and expand voting rights.

Shripal Shah joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his role at House Majority PAC, where they're fighting for a Democratic majority in the House.

Danny Hogenkamp returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about why he stepped down as CEO of Grassroots Analytics to become CEO of dumb.co, where they're building a movement for people to adopt dumb phones and reclaim their time.

Yasmin Radjy returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what she's been up to at Swing Left, where they empower volunteers to help elect Democrats, and managing Vote Forward, where they test the effectiveness of voter turnout programs.

Vinay Orekondy joins The Great Battlefield to talk about his career in politics in the U.S. and Australia and founding Better Together America, where they're working to bridge divides and combat authoritarianism from the bottom up.