by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 18, 2026 | Press Coverage
Metropolitan AME Church — Launch Venue for 2026 Bus TourGoogle Street ViewA coalition of civil rights leaders, faith organizers, and descendants of the original Freedom Riders set out from Washington, D.C. on Saturday, launching a two-week, eight-state bus journey to...
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 17, 2026 | Press Coverage
A “Freedom Riders” bus sets off from Washington, D.C. bound for New Orleans on Oct. 17, 2026. (7News) Roughly 65 years ago, a group known as the “Freedom Riders” boarded buses in D.C. to New Orleans to challenge segregation, and on Saturday...
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 17, 2026 | Press Coverage
Roughly 65 years ago, a group known as the “Freedom Riders” boarded buses in D.C. to New Orleans to challenge segregation, and on Saturday their decedents begun a similar route, this time to encourage voting. A coalition of civil rights and religious...
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 15, 2026 | Press Coverage
Vote Common Good also announced it is teaming with a coalition of faith and civic groups staging a tour tracing the bus route Black and white activists took through Southern states during the Civil Rights Movement: “Two weeks before the 2026 midterm elections, a...
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 12, 2026 | Press Coverage
Rep. Jonathan Jackson, center, speaks in front of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on Sept. 15, 2026, in Washington. Sept. 15 was National Voter Registration Day and also the 63rd anniversary of the bombing of the 16th Street...
by Vote Common Good Team | Sep 29, 2026 | Press Coverage
James Talarico speaks to crowd. (Talarico for Texas campaign website) Doug Pagitt, executive director of progressive group Vote Common Good, counts nine clergy running for federal office this cycle as Democrats — something he hasn’t seen before. “The idea that a faith...
