The Great Battlefield

In Part 8 of our midterm election postmortem series, we're taking a look at The Tuesday Company's "Team" app, and the role it played in races across the country. We're joined by Shola Farber, Tuesday's Co-founder and COO; Kurt Bagley, who placed the app in targeted districts as the Field Director of the DCCC; and Will Katz, who used Team while serving as Field Director for Sean Casten's successful campaign for US congress in Illinois. | Episode 235

Ximena Hartsock joins The Great Battlefield to discuss immigrating to the United States from Chile at a young age, becoming an education advocate, and working her way to high level positions in the mayor's office in DC before founding the grassroots political technology platform, Phone2Action. | Episode 234

Sarah Audelo joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share her experiences working as the Millennial Vote Director for the 2016 Clinton campaign and her current work as the Executive Director of the Alliance for Youth Action -- a network of organizations striving to provide support for local organizers, and persuade young people to exercise their political power. | Episode 233

Michael Slaby joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his unusual path to the position of CTO for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. He also chats about his approach to his work as the Head Of Mission of Timshel - a social-impact digital technology company which developed some tools utilized by Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. | Episode 232

In Part 7 of our midterm election postmortem series, we're joined by Catherine Vaughan, who discusses Flippable's successes in turning state legislatures from red to blue. We're then joined by The Analyst Institute's Aaron Strauss to update us on what we can learn about 2018 from the perspective of data, voting trends, and research. | Episode 231

In Part 6 of our midterm election postmortem series, we're joined by the current CTO of the DNC, Raffi Krikorian, who discusses the DNC's efforts to improve their voter file and prevent hacks in the run up to the midterms. We're then joined by Josh Hendler -- himself a former DNC CTO, now Head of Product at Purpose -- to talk about Purpose's app "Crush the Midterms", and the future of relational organizing. | Episode 230

In part 5 of our midterm election postmortem series, we're discussing the digital and data efforts that contributed to Democratic victories. We're joined by ACRONYM founder Tara McGowan - who tells us about her organization's 10 million dollar "LEDGE" project, which helped raise name recognition among down-ballot candidates. We're then joined by the New Data Project's Mikey Dickerson to discuss his organization's app, Vote With Me, which was downloaded hundreds of thousands of times in the run up to the midterms. | Episode 229

In part 4 of our midterm election postmortem series, we're discussing more creative approaches which contributed to Democratic victories -- from testing progressive media's effectiveness, to making polling more affordable, to building technologies to connect voters with their peers. To discuss their work in these areas and more, we're joined by Swayable's James Slezak, Change Research's Mike Greenfield, and Voter Circle's Sangeeth Peruri. | Episode 228

In part 3 of our midterm election postmortem series, we're discussing creative approaches which contributed to Democratic victories -- from developing new political technologies, to connecting voters in blue states with voters in red states, to running candidates in every single congressional district. To discuss their work in these areas and more, we're joined by MobilizeAmerica's Alfred Johnson, Sister District's Rita Bosworth, and Resistance Labs' Yoni Landau. | Episode 227

In part 2 of our midterm election postmortem series, we're focusing on the dramatic rise in voter turnout in 2018 compared to past midterms. To shed light on how this happened, we're joined by two co-founders of organizations which focus on increasing voter participation: Vote.org's Debra Cleaver and BallotReady's Alex Niemczewski | Episode 226