by Doug Pagitt | Apr 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’ve spent the last few days in Washington with our friends at Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (AU), to take part in the Summit For Religious Freedom. AU is an interfaith organization working to counter the Christian Nationalist forces moving...
by Vote Common Good Team | Apr 21, 2023 | Press Coverage
Doug Pagitt, center, speaks during a Vote Common Good rally at a United Church of Christ in Fresno, California, on Jan. 19, 2020 Christian nationalism — the idea that being Christian is core to the American identity — is nothing new, either in American religious...
by Vote Common Good Team | Mar 26, 2023 | Press Release
For Immediate Release Contact: Doug Pagitt, 612-730-7337 doug@votecommongood.com Oxford, UK – This past week (March 20-24, 2023) delegates from across the United States and abroad, leaders from the Black Church tradition, from the evangelical Christian tradition...
by Doug Pagitt | Nov 15, 2022 | Press Coverage, Voices
A woman holds her autographed copy of the children’s book “The Plot Against the King” by former Trump administration official Kash Patel during the ReAwaken America Tour at Cornerstone Church in Batavia, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. The tour acts as a petri dish for...
by Vote Common Good Team | Nov 8, 2022 | Press Coverage
The Vote Common Good bus that the program’s presenters travel in across the country for presentations on the rise of Christian nationalism. (Wisconsin Examiner photo) In the months leading up to the 2022 midterm elections, Doug Pagitt has been crisscrossing the...
by Vote Common Good Team | Nov 6, 2022 | Press Coverage, Voices
President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act on Aug. 14, 1935, as part of his New Deal policies. (AP) Working for the common good is what makes America great. And working for the common good matters because it is the best antidote to the perils of...
by Vote Common Good Team | Nov 5, 2022 | Press Coverage
Voters of all faiths and none are being urged to take a stand against Christian nationalism at the ballot box. Rev. Doug Pagitt, executive director of Vote Common Good, has been touring the country in a big orange bus warning voters about this dangerous ideology and...
by Vote Common Good Team | Nov 4, 2022 | Press Coverage
Foto: Mark Peterson/Redux/laif Ein Klopfen hallt über das Stoppelfeld. Zwei Dutzend Männer, alle mit dem gleichen Topfhaarschnitt, Vollbart und Strohhut, sitzen rittlings auf den Balken eines Dachgiebels und hämmern Holzteile fest, die ein Kran zu ihnen hochhievt. In...
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 31, 2022 | Press Coverage
Illustration by Adria Fruitos (The New Yorker) … In 2020, [Christian nationalism] helped drive the moral call to overturn the election. “Some of their most fanatical supernatural beliefs have been mainstreamed into the maga movement, such as the notions that...
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 30, 2022 | Press Coverage
Some Catholics were critical of Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s explosive investigation of the Catholic Church in 2018 and grand jury probe that revealed decades of sexual abuse of children by priests, but others lauded him for his efforts to clean...
