by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 20, 2020 | Press Coverage
The first day of the pilgrimage in Charlottesville, VA “Racism in this country is a white person problem. If every time there’s an incident where a voice needs to rise up to call for racial reckoning — if white people are being quiet, white leaders are being...
by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 20, 2020 | Press Coverage
Erin Edgerton/The Daily Progress “It helps us to understand the truths about white supremacy. The evil of white supremacy is that it wants to divide us any way it can. [White supremacy] tells us that every race must remain separate to protect ourselves. It shows...
by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 20, 2020 | Press Coverage
The first day of the pilgrimage from Charlottesville, VA to Ruckersville, VA “We heard loud and clear from, particularly Black clergy, that as white faith leaders and clergy we need to step up and take more responsibility for the scourge of white supremacy and...
by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 14, 2020 | Press Coverage
Pope Francis, right, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, waves to the crowd on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015, as they stand on the Speaker’s Balcony on Capitol Hill, after the pope addressed a joint meeting of Congress inside. (AP...
by Vote Common Good Team | Aug 8, 2020 | Press Coverage
“He is the story, where, in previous elections, the candidate kind of represented or sat atop a pyramid of belief. People are like—he’s an incompetent, immoral, cruel, unkind, actor in our society. It’s really hard for religious people to defend family values—to...
by Doug Pagitt | Aug 6, 2020 | Press Coverage, Voices
Doug Pagitt The following is an opinion written in Newsweek by Doug Pagitt, executive director of Vote Common Good, and Sarah Lenti, executive director of The Lincoln Project: One of the most frequented tropes of the Trump era is that we’ve reached an inflection...