The Great Battlefield

Sarah Posner -- reporter with The Investigative Fund and contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Nation Magazine -- joins The Great Battlefield to discuss the rise of far-right religious groups in the United States. | Episode 94

Liz Jaff joins The Great Battlefield to discuss her career of risk-taking, disrupting, and learning new skills on the fly. Liz worked as an organizer on Obama’s ‘08, and ‘12 campaigns, ran for Vice Chair of the DNC, advised the DNC on tech, and co-founded 44 Renegades, and Lab 736. | Episode 93

The Democratic Attorneys General Association’s Sean Rankin joins The Great Battlefield to discuss the importance of recruiting, electing, supporting, and promoting Democratic attorneys general -- stressing that they are the first line of defense against the illegal maneuvers being attempted by the Trump administration. | Episode 92

Kelly Dietrich, founder and CEO of the National Democratic Training Committee, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss the interactive online courses his organization is providing to over 11,000 Democratic candidates, leaders, and activists -- for free. | Episode 91

Kelly Ward joins The Great Battlefield to discuss how she and the National Democratic Redistricting Committee -- with the support of former President Barack Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder -- are working to un-rig our electoral system and protect the sanctity of “one person, one vote.” | Episode 90

Scott Gale of The Fundraising Management Group joins The Great Battlefield to share the insights he’s earned from decades of consulting in the upper echelons of Democratic politics, including why he feels the donor/candidate relationship might not be as corrupting as many fear. | Episode 89

Ben Self, the recently elected Chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party, joins The Great Battlefield to recount his enviable career: from his time on Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, to co-founding Blue State Digital, to working as Head of Technology for the DNC, to eventually bootstrapping West Sixth Brewery in his hometown of Lexington. | Episode 88

The Tuesday Company’s Michael Luciani joins The Great Battlefield to discuss the problem of activating hard-to-reach constituents online and how his organization’s "Team" app is utilizing “social trust” to solve it. | Episode 87

Alberto Cairo, UM’s Knight Chair in Visual Journalism, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss the challenges inherent in designing intelligible infographics for the general public -- and the societal consequences of accidentally sending the wrong message. He also gives a tease of his lecture tour, “Visual Trumpery.” | Episode 86

Uday Singh Mehta, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center, CUNY, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss his early career in academia, and to offer his insights as a political theorist on the prevailing atmosphere of tension in American society. | Episode 85

GBA Strategies’ Michael Bocian joins The Great Battlefield to evaluate why the polling seemed “off” in the 2016 presidential election, to discuss the importance of avoiding “interpretation bias,” and to clear up a few misconceptions about the role pollsters play in campaigns. | Episode 84

Debra Cleaver, founder of Vote.org, joins The Great Battlefield to discuss the unique strategies her organization is deploying to establish Election Day as a work holiday, implement online voter registration in all fifty states, and create a government that reflects the diversity of its electorate. | Episode 83

Forward Majority’s David Cohen joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss the organization's strategy of “personalizing campaigns” and “playing offense” in order to win state legislative seats for Democrats. | Episode 82

Virginia House Democrat's Trent Armitage joins The Great Battlefield Podcast to talk about the 2017 election and his work to support and elect Democrats to the Virginia House of Delegates | Episode 81.

NGP VAN's Stu Trevelyan joins The Great Battlefield to talk about his career in Democratic politics and his work at the leading technology provider to progressive campaigns and organizations | Episode 80