by Vote Common Good Team | May 26, 2026 | Emails
The Pope has a word for what Musk is doing in Memphis. Friends, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical yesterday, May 25th — Magnifica Humanitas. And at the center of that letter, he repeated a phrase over and over: the common...
by Vote Common Good Team | May 24, 2026 | Emails
The implications of this are horrible, but we’re fighting back. Friends, You may have seen the headlines this week that Alligator Alcatraz is very likely closing. Lawyers have confirmed that transfers are ramping up and the facility will be empty within...
by Vote Common Good Team | May 22, 2026 | Emails
Your tax dollars paid for a Christian Nationalist event Trump didn’t bother to attend. Friends, Last Sunday, Trump’s MAGA court pastors had the National Mall for the Christian Nationalist “Rededicate 250.” We had Redirect 250...
by Vote Common Good Team | May 15, 2026 | Emails
What the White House is staging this weekend. Friends, On Sunday, May 17, the Trump administration is staging a nine-hour “prayer festival” on the National Mall called Rededicate 250, and they are using taxpayer dollars set aside for the...
by Vote Common Good Team | May 14, 2026 | Emails
The number that decides November. Friends, I want to start this email by thanking you for taking the time to read it and for caring about Vote Common Good and democracy. I want to ask you to consider playing a very important role in our work over the...
by Vote Common Good Team | May 12, 2026 | Emails
It’s intentional. Here’s what we’re doing about it. Friends, Yesterday, I stood in the rotunda of the Minnesota State Capitol and made it clear that our democracy is a sacred covenant between our government and its people. And right now, that...
by Vote Common Good Team | May 8, 2026 | Emails
They are counting on us to be too busy. Prove them wrong. Friends, It’s been a while since we’ve talked about DOGE and the wrecking ball of the unelected Elon Musk. But a federal judge just handed down a ruling that brought it all back. More...
by Vote Common Good Team | May 5, 2026 | Emails
What the horrifying Washington Post ICE report actually says. Friends, The Washington Post published an investigation this week that should scare every one of us. Since Trump took office again, guards inside ICE detention have used physical violence or...
by Vote Common Good Team | May 1, 2026 | Emails
Remember those reporter conversations I told you about on Monday? Friends, On Monday, I wrote to you from Washington, DC. I told you about standing in the street in front of the White House with a group of clergy, calling for a moral response to the wars...
by Vote Common Good Team | Apr 30, 2026 | Press Coverage
James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, often invokes his faith in countering Republicans. (Eric Gay/AP) Doug Pagitt, an evangelical pastor and organizer, has heard from his fellow Democrats that they wanted nothing to do with his ilk....
