We seek to engage

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Faith-Full Voters who’ve reflexively supported Republicans in the past, but due to their faith can’t do so any longer and are ready to engage the Common Good
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Newly-Enraged Voters who are saying, “this is my time, I will raise my voice and will make my stand” 
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Super-Engaged Voters who’ve been honing their political skills and passions over the years to make “a more perfect Union”

We are a large group of Christian leaders, pastors, workers, writers, and other influencers who have journeyed this path in the past and have spent two decades developing and maintaining our local and national networks for a time like this. Learning but growing, we have been fragmented and disconnected in the past, but this pressing need and this critical time have brought us together and closer to the heart of our faith. We are good at building alliances with diverse groups and people from different faiths as well as no faith at all. Our identity comes through building bridges rather than erecting walls.

Because many us have been there, we know how to communicate with Evangelicals. As we help move Christian voters from unexamined political engagement into more profound spiritual and religious commitment, we inspire them to rethink their voting behavior--and change it toward the Common Good. In many ways, voting as a private act can serve as a first step out of the zone of fear.

Our rapidly expanding network is uniting Christians who have already migrated from the religion of fear toward a religion of possibility. We are joined by people who are in the process of migration, and those who are gearing up for the exit. At the present moment, we have more than 1 million people on our collective email lists and social media platforms, including more than 10,000 pastors, religious leaders, and other influencers. With an initial investment in our efforts, we will be able to double these numbers and continue multiplying them by the time the Vote Common Good Tour and Campaign are in full swing in the Fall of 2018.

Although focused on the Christian vote in 2018, Vote Common Good is not a Christian organization. We seek to join others at a bigger table. Jewish, Muslim, Humanist, Atheist, and other groups who also see this coming historical shift in American Christianity affecting them, are our allies, teachers, and friends. We know how each group confronts similar dynamics in their contexts. Vote Common Good embraces these partners as an integral part of our vision, programming, and leadership. Today, it might be about a “Christian” religion of fear; tomorrow it might be about our shared apathy about the environment, or some other danger or aspiration. We are agile and focused on the Common Good.

We have to stress that we are not a religious organization. We are a political organization that is currently focused on a specific group of religious individuals that we believe the Democratic Party is ineffective at reaching and are overlooking. We aim to shatter the destructive myth that being an American Christian means always voting Republican. The truth is that real Christian values are currently in line with the progressive values of the Democratic Party going into the 2018 midterm elections. What separates Vote Common Good from any other political organization is that we are not merely targeting new voters. Our team knows how to tap into particular Evangelical networks, which provide access to existing voters, who are already familiar with the political process and historically turn out in large numbers. A significant portion of the population is being taken for granted by both the Republican and Democratic Party, for entirely separate reasons.