by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 25, 2024 | Press Coverage
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Kamala Harris (AFP) Donald Trump has long been backed by evangelical Christian voters, and as of May, the Associated Press reported that the ex-president’s “support is as strong as ever...
by Doug Pagitt | Aug 25, 2024 | Press Coverage, Voices
Kamala Harris speaks at Triumph Church in Southfield, Mich., in 2020. (Carlos Osorio / AP file) During the last month, Christians for Kamala joined the ranks of groups supporting Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota. In so...
by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 23, 2024 | Press Coverage
At a “Catholics for Kamala” event on Wednesday, attendees listened to a panel of speakers discuss abortion and other thorny issues for members of the world’s largest faith. (Dave Byrnes / Courthouse News) The Democratic Convention has come and gone,...
by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 22, 2024 | Press Coverage
Delegates hold signs as former President Barack Obama speaks during the Democratic National Convention Aug. 20 in Chicago. (AP/Brynn Anderson) “A lot of my core values align with the Democratic Party and with my faith,” said Caroline McGraw, who at 23 is...
by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 3, 2024 | Press Coverage
Vote Common Good rally with Tina Burns Two events last weekend combined religion and politics. One was toxic; the other was uplifting. The aptly named Vote Common Good rally in Orwigsburg promoted Democratic state rep candidates Tina Burns for the 124th District and...
by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 2, 2024 | Press Coverage
Allison Dinner/Associated Press To organize Christian voters against Trumpism, Doug Pagitt, an evangelical pastor, founded the nonprofit Vote Common Good, which aims to engage Christian voters. He’s driving across the country in a bus to swing states to rally these...
by Vote Common Good Team | Jul 15, 2024 | Press Coverage
Vote Common Good, a nonprofit of interdenominational faith leaders made a stop on their 50-state bus tour in West Jefferson on Sunday, July 14, to recognize candidates for political office who had signed the Vote Common Good Pledge. Ben Massey, candidate for NC House...
by Vote Common Good Team | Apr 18, 2024 | Press Coverage
Donald Trump in July 2023. Gage Skidmore/CC BY 2.0 Listen: Donald Trump owes much of his presidential win in 2016 to evangelical Christian voters, who overwhelmingly supported him, despite the fact that he’s not an evangelical and often fails to uphold their...
by Vote Common Good Team | Mar 12, 2024 | Press Coverage
Our guest this week recently traveled down to the border to confront the so-called “Army of God” as part of a larger project of providing alternative ideologies to Christian nationalism. Doug Pagitt is a pastor, author and the executive director of Vote Common Good,...
