

The Great Battlefield
Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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.
A great political battle is being fought right now for the soul of our country.
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Jul 10, 2023 • 1h 8min
Progressive Politics in Australia with Larissa Baldwin-Roberts of GetUp
Larissa Baldwin-Roberts joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an activist and her role as CEO at GetUp, where they are working to build a progressive Australia, and how what happens in the United States affects Australian politics and vice-versa.

Jul 7, 2023 • 29min
Resistance is More than Opposing Trump with Neal Conan of Truth, Politics and Power
In Episode 24 of The Great Battlefield podcast we talk with Neal Conan, the former host of NPR's Talk of the Nation, about his response to the Trump Presidency, a new independent radio show and podcast called Truth, Politics and Power.

Jul 5, 2023 • 48min
Rallying the Resistance in the Age of Trump with MoveOn's Ben Wikler
Episode 4 of The Great Battlefield: MoveOn’s Ben Wikler talks to us about Sen. Al Franken, The Onion and MoveOn's role in helping to mobilize the resistance to save millions of peoples’ healthcare, fight climate change, protect immigrants and demand accountability from the Trump.

Jul 3, 2023 • 1h 9min
A Digital Tool for the Campaign Office with Samantha Boucher of Shire
Samantha Boucher joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in tech and politics and co-founding Shire where they're building a digital office tool for political campaigns to help onboard, communicate and train volunteers.

Jun 30, 2023 • 47min
An Activist Political Historian with Julian Zelizer of Princeton
Julian Zelizer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his path to becoming a professor at Princeton, how his work helped to bring back the study of politics in history departments, and his parallel career as a editorialist and political commentator.

Jun 28, 2023 • 1h 36min
Progressive Political Entrepreneurship with James Rucker of Springboard
James Rucker joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his long career in progressive politics, from working at MoveOn to starting Color of Change and his current venture Springboard. James also talks about confronting a bully like Trump and race in politics.

Jun 26, 2023 • 1h 7min
Online Polling with Stephen Clermont of Change Research
Stephen Clermont joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and polling and how Change Research is helping progressives by providing affordable and accurate online polling.

Jun 23, 2023 • 53min
Stories from a Lifetime of Organizing with Arnie Graf
Arnie Graf joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an organizer and shares one of the stories from his recent book "Lessons Learned: Stories from a Lifetime of Organizing".

Jun 21, 2023 • 54min
Activist and Professor Todd Gitlin of Columbia University
Todd Gitlin joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Professor and author of 18 books and how he's currently working against Trump.

Jun 19, 2023 • 55min
Helen Brosnan, Executive Director of Fight Corporate Monopolies
Helen Brosnan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and her role at Fight Corporate Monopolies where they work to ensure that our democracy and our economy work for regular people, not just big corporations.