Norm Eisen, Special Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee on Impeachment
2020-08-06 | BigTent Zoom Room

Spotlight Speaker: Roger McNamee
2021-03-04

Spotlight Speaker: Anne Applebaum
2021-04-14

Tent Talk: Judd Legum
2021-04-27

Tent Talks: iCivics with Louise Dube
2021-05-11

Spotlight Speakers: Sarah Longwell and Bill Kristol
2021-09-29

Spotlight Speaker: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI-D)
2022-01-12

Spotlight Speaker: Alexander Vindman
2022-02-09

Forum: Democracy Won't Save Itself Hosted by Hagar Chemali
2022-03-01

Spotlight Speakers: Fiona Hill, Norm Eisen and Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT)
2022-03-07

Spotlight Speaker: Future Now- Daniel Squadron
2022-03-16

Spotlight Speaker: Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch
2022-05-05

Tent Talk: Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson
2022-05-10

Spotlight Speaker: Norm Eisen and Joyce Vance
2022-05-16

Spotlight Speaker: Norm Eisen, Barbara McQuade and Danya Perry
2022-06-10

Spotlight Speaker: Ryan Busse
2022-06-15

Tent Talk: Reverend Gregory Lewis, Souls to the Polls
2022-07-12

Spotlight Speaker: Michael Lewis
2022-07-13

Spotlight Speaker: Dan Pfeiffer
2022-08-03

Tent Talk: Plan A
2022-09-13

Spotlight Speaker: Cecile Richards
2022-09-14

Tent Talk: Kate Fellman- You Can Vote
2022-09-27

Spotlight Speaker: David Pepper
2022-09-28

Tent Talk: Make The Road PA
2022-10-18

Tent Talk: PA Youth Vote
2022-11-01

PA Midterm Election Debrief and Q&A: Jen Devor, Better Civics
2022-11-29 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Jen Devor, President & Co-Founder of Better Civics, is coming back under the Tent for a debrief of the Pennsylvania midterm elections followed by Q&A session.
Better Civics is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to revolutionizing civic engagement and voter turnout through education. Better Civics works with community partners to create tools and resources that better explain how government works and encourage individuals to be more civically engaged.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:
Jen Devor is a South Philly block captain, public school advocate, voting enthusiast, and a published author on civic engagement. She is the President and Co-Founder of Better Civics. In addition to leading Better Civics, Jen serves as the Vice President of Partnerships at Campus Philly, an economic development organization with the mission of attracting and retaining college students to the Greater Philadelphia Region. These roles work seamlessly together as Jen continues to engage all residents civically.
Jen was a 2019 candidate for City Commissioner, the office that oversees election activity in Philadelphia. She ran a great race and was endorsed by various organizations, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, National Organization for Women, and Run for Something.
Jen holds a BS in Media and Communications from the University of the Arts. She is also an alumnus of The Center for Progressive Leadership, Leadership Philadelphia, The Citizen Planning Institute, and several political training programs.

Spotlight Speaker: Dahlia Lithwick
2022-11-30 19:00 - 20:00
Dahlia Lithwick is author of the best-selling new book Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America. She will discuss how women lawyers, independently of each other, sprang into action in 2016, holding our legal system accountable under the devastating policies being executed by Donald Trump and his administration. Sally Yates, Stacey Abrams, Becca Heller, and Roberta Kaplan are a few of those women lawyers that she profiles.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:
Dahlia Lithwick is a regular contributor at MSNBC and senior editor at Slate – and, in that capacity, has been writing their “Supreme Court Dispatches” and “Jurisprudence” columns since 1999. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Commentary, among other places. She is host of Amicus, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law and the Supreme Court.
In 2018, Lithwick received the American Constitution Society’s Progressive Champion Award, and the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis. Lithwick won a 2013 National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act. She has been twice awarded an Online Journalism Award for her legal commentary. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October, 2018. In 2021, she was a recipient of the Women’s Media Center’s Exceptional Journalism Awards. In 2021 she won a Gracie Award for Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG, which featured the last in-person audio interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Lithwick has held visiting faculty positions at the University of Georgia Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, and the Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem. She was the first online journalist invited to be on the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press. She has testified before Congress about access to justice in the era of the Roberts Court and how MeToo impacts federal judicial law clerks. She has appeared on CNN, ABC, The Colbert Report, the Daily Show and is a frequent guest on The Rachel Maddow Show.
Ms. Lithwick earned her BA in English from Yale University and her JD degree from Stanford University. Her new book, Lady Justice, published by Penguin Press (September 2022), has already received rave reviews from the New York Times, the Boston Globe, among others. She is co-author of Me Versus Everybody (Workman Press, 2006) (with Brandt Goldstein) and of I Will Sing Life (Little, Brown 1992) (with Larry Berger). Her work has been featured in numerous anthologies including Jewish Jocks (2012), What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (2013), About What was Lost (2006); A Good Quarrel (2009); Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare (2009); and Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary (2008).

Spotlight Speaker: (He’s Back!) Ambassador (Ret.) Norm Eisen
2023-04-03 19:00 - 20:00
On Monday, April 3rd at 7pm ET, join BigTentUSA as we welcome Ambassador Norm Eisen (Ret.). He will provide an update on all of the current investigations and the indictment by the Manhattan DA.
Ambassador Norm Eisen (Ret.)
Ambassador Norman L. Eisen (ret.) is the Co-Founder and Executive Chair of the States United Democracy Center. An attorney and author who has served in a broad array of government roles, he was special counsel and special assistant to President Barack Obama for ethics and government reform from 2009-11. Following his service in the White House, he was our ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2011-14, in 2019, he was special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee for the impeachment and trial of President Donald J Trump.

Tent Talk: Kate Fellman, You Can Vote
2023-04-18 12:00 - 13:00
Kate Fellman, Founder and Executive Director of You Can Vote will be joining us. With everchanging election laws in North Carolina, Fellman will debrief us on the state’s 2022 midterm election, what is ahead for their 2023 local elections in the Fall, and how they are innovating and laying the groundwork for the 2024 general election. You Can Vote trains and mobilizes volunteers to educate, register, and empower all North Carolina citizens to successfully cast their ballot.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:
Kate Fellman worked in the Organizational Effectiveness department headquarters of General Mills while earning her degree in Mass Communications and Social Science from Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, MN. Kate has worked in community organizing and electoral politics for over 20 years. She began her political work as an intern in the late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone’s final campaign supporting the “Women for Wellstone” contingent. Kate began educating and registering NC citizens in early 2008 and hasn’t stopped. She saw first-hand the widespread confusion regarding what’s on the ballot and how, when, and where to vote. In 2013, Kate organized volunteers to develop a program to provide communities with localized, fact-based voting information.
You Can Vote (YCV) launched in 2014 as a permanent educational campaign to mobilize volunteers and build community leadership. Today, YCV works across the state of North Carolina to increase civic literacy and participation of historically marginalized populations whose votes have been historically suppressed: people of color (POC), low-income people, people who are currently and formerly incarcerated, people with disabilities and young people 18-25.

Spotlight Speakers: Charlie Sykes and Rick Wilson
2023-04-26 19:00 - 20:00
On Wednesday, April 26th at 7:00pm ET, join BigTentUSA as we welcome Charlie Sykes and Rick Wilson to discuss the current dangers of fascism in our country and how we can fight back.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS:
Charlie Sykes
Charlie Sykes is a founder and editor-at-large of The Bulwark, host of The Bulwark Podcast, and an NBC/ MSNBC contributor.
He is also author of nine books, including A Nation of Victims, Dumbing Down Our Kids, Profscam, The Hollow Men, The End of Privacy, 50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School, A Nation of Moochers, and Fail U. The False Promise of Higher Education. He was co-editor of the National Review College Guide.
His most recent book, How the Right Lost Its Mind, published by St. Martin’s Press, was released in October 2017. An updated paperback edition was released in October, 2018.
Sykes has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, Commentary, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time.com, USA Today, National Review, The New York Review of Books, the New York Daily News, and other national publications. He has appeared on Meet the Press, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, State of the Union with Jake Tapper, the Today Show, ABC, NBC, Fox News, CNN, PBS, the BBC, and has been profiled on NPR. He has also spoken extensively on university campuses.
Rick Wilson
Rick Wilson was a longtime Republican political strategist, award-winning ad-maker, and political commentator. In 2015, Rick emerged as one of the earliest and most vocal critics of Donald Trump, helping found the Never Trump movement.
Published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Politico, The Hill, The London Spectator, Rolling Stone, The New York Daily News, USA Today, The Bulwark and beyond, he’s frequently called on for sharp-edged and witty political insight on the national news networks, CNN, and MSNBC. He’s a frequent guest on Real Time with Bill Maher.
A 30-year veteran of politics, Rick got his start in the 1988 Presidential campaign of George Herbert Walker Bush, and since has produced groundbreaking advertising and provided winning strategic counsel to political candidates, SuperPACS, state parties, the national campaign committees, and corporate, association, and government clients across the nation and around the world. He is a co-founder of the Lincoln Project.
