aBOUT US

Battle Born Collective was founded in 2021 by Rebecca Kirszner Katz and Adam Jentleson, veterans of political campaigns, progressive advocacy, and the U.S. Senate. We helped found and lead former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s war room, winning tough battles from defeating President George W. Bush’s attempt to privatize Social Security to forcing the GOP to surrender the 2013 government shutdown with no concessions. Battle Born Collective was established to leverage the strategies we learned from Senator Reid in his war room — a combination of rapid response and insider savvy to be successful in the face of today’s challenges: steering progressive policy goals through Congress while fighting Mitch McConnell.

OUR STRATEGY

  • Get elected officials on offense. In today’s era of polarization and negative partisanship, lawmakers must go on offense to define the hero and the villain, and make the other side say no to popular reforms desired by a wide swath of the American people. We know how leadership thinks, and how to craft appeals to maximize their effectiveness and credibility within the Capitol.
  • Maximize progressives’ effectiveness. Our signature is the ability to identify the most aggressive possible goal that is also realistic for lawmakers to achieve, and lay out a clear path to getting there. We use an inside/outside approach to push elected officials, and work hand in glove with allied groups to ensure our strategies advance their goals.