by Vote Common Good Team | Sep 30, 2026 | Emails
People thought I was nuts. Friends, On our first bus tour in 2018, when I told people we were mobilizing faith voters to vote for Democrats, more than one person looked at me like I was a little nuts. By then, it was long assumed those voters weren’t for...
by Vote Common Good Team | Sep 29, 2026 | Emails
We really are turning our anger into something special. Friends, Yesterday was phenomenal. The Faith, Hope, & Love bus made it to my hometown of Minneapolis, and we sat together at the Riverview Theater to watch our film, Who’s the...
by Vote Common Good Team | Sep 29, 2026 | Press Coverage
James Talarico speaks to crowd. (Talarico for Texas campaign website) Doug Pagitt, executive director of progressive group Vote Common Good, counts nine clergy running for federal office this cycle as Democrats — something he hasn’t seen before. “The idea that a faith...
by Vote Common Good Team | Sep 28, 2026 | Emails
An exciting opportunity for Who’s the We? Friends, TED Talks are a huge brand — maybe you’ve seen one, spoken in one, or watched them on YouTube. Well, TEDxChicago wants Who’s The We? — our documentary on immigration, which...
by Vote Common Good Team | Sep 27, 2026 | Emails
This is what people are asking for, and you can help. Friends, “We need to encourage each other to KEEP MOVING FORWARD because you are making a difference.” That’s what Rev. Carolyn Blair wrote me the morning after I left her church in...
by Vote Common Good Team | Sep 25, 2026 | Emails
Friends, From October 17 to 28, Vote Common Good, Faith Out Loud, and Greater Things Foundation are taking the Freedom Ride: twelve days on a bus, from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans, broadly retracing the route the original 1961 Freedom Riders set out on....
by Vote Common Good Team | Sep 23, 2026 | Emails
ICE is becoming more brazen in harming children. Friends, I’ve stood with the families praying for loved ones trapped in Alligator Alcatraz more than once, and I’ve seen the devastation brought to my own community in Minneapolis during ICE’s...
by Vote Common Good Team | Sep 22, 2026 | Emails
42 days left to make this stop. Friends, ICE has shot another person. 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was minding his own business, delivering a DoorDash order in Austin, Texas, on Sunday when an ICE agent shot him in the torso after a traffic...
by Vote Common Good Team | Sep 21, 2026 | Emails
This is exactly what we need to do before midterms. Friends, “We are trying to include religious people in the pro-democracy movement.” That’s a quote I gave to The New York Times Magazine, which ran a story today about pastors and...
by Vote Common Good Team | Sep 21, 2026 | Press Coverage
Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran minister running as the Democratic candidate for Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District. (Travis LaCoss/Reuters) “Religion is something that sits deep in the identity of a person regardless of how often they go,” says Doug Pagitt, an...
