The Great Battlefield

Jessica Post, Executive Director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss the field support, data, and resources the DLCC is providing to Democratic state legislative candidates, and why their work has the Republican party nervous. | Episode 109

Cristóbal Alex, President of the Latino Victory Fund, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss his life and career, from growing up as the son of migrant workers, to shedding light on police misconduct as a civil rights lawyer, to launching Latino Victory - an organization focused on growing Latino political power. | Episode 108

Karl Frisch joins The Great Battlefield to discuss his unique path to progressive communications strategist, and his work as Executive Director of Allied Progress to stand up to corporate special interests and their allies in Congress. | Episode 107

Denise Cardinal, executive director of WIN Minnesota, and former executive director of ProgressNow, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss her career and how to protect progressive policies in Minnesota, with two U.S. Senate seats, the governorship, many close U.S. House races, and the state legislature all on the line. | Episode 106

Thaís Marques, a director with PowerLabs, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss how growing up as an undocumented immigrant in the United States informs her work with Movimiento Cosecha - a decentralized network of organizers who promote non-violent strikes and boycotts to demonstrate the integral role immigrants play in our society. | Episode 105

Jeremy Bird joins The Great Battlefield to discuss his life and career, from growing up in a trailer park in High Ridge, Missouri, to serving as National Field Director for President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, to founding 270 Strategies -- a political consulting firm that stresses the power of grassroots organizing. | Episode 104

Murshed Zaheed, political director of CREDO Mobile, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss how the customers of CREDO’s products and services become part of a unique five-million-member group of activists. | Episode 103

Deepak Puri, Co-Founder of The Democracy Labs, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss how DemLabs is finding and testing low-cost, commercially available technologies and distributing them to progressive campaigns and organizations. | Episode 102

Mark Riddle joins The Great Battlefield to discuss how climbing the political ranks -- from campaign driver to state party executive director -- prepared him for his current role as President of the New Leaders Council, an organization dedicated to training and developing progressive millennials. | Episode 101

Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Co-Director of Caring Across Generations, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss what can be done to protect the rights - and the dignity - of domestic workers, caregivers, and the elderly. | Episode 100

Renowned Democratic media strategist Joe Slade White joins The Great Battlefield to reflect on his 400+ campaign career, his lifetime 75% winning record, and his decades-long working relationship with former Vice President Joe Biden. | Episode 99

Michael Silberman, Global Director of the Mobilisation Lab, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss the new campaign models Moblab is designing to accelerate social change movements worldwide. | Episode 98

Winnie Wong joins The Great Battlefield to discuss the founding roles she played in Occupy Wall Street, Ready for Warren, and the two million member strong People For Bernie Sanders community. She also shares with us the story behind her creating the #FeelTheBern hashtag, and how it helped propel Senator Sanders onto the world stage. | Episode 97

Jill Hanauer, CEO of Project New America, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss the strategies she has developed to comprehend, and meaningfully communicate with, the citizens who comprise our rapidly changing electorate. | Episode 96

Ken Martin joins The Great Battlefield to discuss the local Democratic party from his position as chair of the Minnesota DFL and nationally as president of the Association of State Dem Chairs and Vice Chair of the DNC. | Episode 95