The Great Battlefield

Kristopher Purcell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in Republican politics and founding 43 Alumni for Joe Biden, a group of Republicans who worked in The White House under the most recent Bush, supporting Joe Biden for President.

Peter Schurman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, including Founding E.D. of MoveOn.org, and how Contest Every Race is working to recruit Democratic candidates to run in elections.

Jerry Taylor joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and leaving the Cato Institute to found the Niskanen Center, a think tank home to Never Trumpers creating environmental and other policies that conservatives can support.

Stefan Smith joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and working on The Buttigieg for President Campaign, helping his supporters defend themselves online.

Teddy Schleifer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in journalism and writing for Recode covering how Silicon Valley billionaires spend their money on elections and philanthropy.

Alex Morgan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Progressive Turnout Project and how they've raised over $50,000,000 in small donations to get inconsistent Democratic voters to the polls in 2020.

Daniel Kreiss joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in technology and politics, researching how technology is changing campaigns and writing two books on the subject, "Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy" and "Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama".

Ryan Hampton joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his battle with opiod addiction, his recovery which led him to start The Voices Project and the Recovery Advocacy Project and his book "American Fix".

Betsy Southerland joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career at the EPA, retiring in 2017 and now helping the Environmental Protection Network fight back against Trump's EPA rollbacks.

Jon Queally joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and Common Dreams, a nonprofit reader-supported progressive news outlet.

Anastasia Golovashkina joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in social media and politics from her time at 270 Strategies and Trilogy Interactive, working with high profile candidates, to running social media for the Elizabeth Warren Campaign.

Swati Mylavarapu joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in technology, venture capital and politics and how Incite is working to support and help build new progressive organizations.

Steven Olikara joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a political entrepreneur, his podcast "Meeting in Middle America" and how the Millennial Action Project is working to restore collaboration across party in American politics.

Nate Lubin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in progressive politics and the technology Survey 160 has built enabling surveys via text.

Bud Jackson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Democratic Media Consultant, achieving work-life balance and what he sees happening in the upcoming elections.