Email Archive
Trump just fired Kristi Noem — not why you think
Her replacement is terrifying... Friends, Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem today. She's brought nothing but chaos and terror to our country for 13...
James Talarico just won — we’re ready to get working in Texas
Friends, Last night, James Talarico — a Common Good candidate — won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Texas. Now we go to work. We've been working with James’ campaign since the Fall. We saw what happened when more than 1,000...
Troops told Trump’s war is “anointed by Jesus”
Friends, We are now facing militarized Christian Nationalism. On Monday morning, as U.S. and Israeli bombs were falling on Tehran, a combat unit commander stood before his noncommissioned officers for a briefing. He told them Trump’s war on...
Trump launched a war on Iran. His justification will stun you
Friends, While America was sleeping and without the approval of Congress, Donald Trump launched a war on Iran. From Mar-a-Lago, he released a video confirming "major combat operations in Iran," citing "imminent threats" to justify the strikes. The...
ICE is detaining babies. The recordings are out
Friends, This November, the people who built these detention centers and locked babies inside them are going to ask voters to keep them in power. We’re going to make sure that doesn’t happen. These aren't calls from a war zone. These calls are from...
ICE left Minnesota. Now it’s in your local police department
Friends, Yesterday, the ACLU released a report that every one of you needs to hear about. When Operation Metro Surge ended in Minnesota, many people exhaled. And honestly, that made sense. Two months of sustained pressure from faith communities,...
Team Trump is moving to ban mail-in voting
Friends, Today, the Washington Post broke a story I've been dreading. Pro-Trump activists are circulating a 17-page draft executive order — they say they're doing it in coordination with the White House. And if Trump signs it, it could be the most...
We went back to Alligator Alcatraz
Friends, On Saturday, I proudly stood with the Collier County Free Indivisible SWFL community in Naples, Florida, and said what I know is true — what's happening in this country has nothing to do with immigration policy. We are dealing with a...
ICE said they were leaving — then they issued this memo
Friends, Last week, we cautiously celebrated the end of ICE’s Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis. It was a real win after two months of sustained resistance from faith communities, neighbors, and organizers. Together, we said the pressure worked....
Nearly 900 of you responded — the results were clear
Friends, Right before the new year, we asked you to take a few minutes and tell us where Vote Common Good should focus in 2026. The response was incredible! Nearly 900 of you answered the survey. We asked what concerns you most about threats to...
Bannon and Epstein plotted against the Pope
Friends, It finally came out in the Department of Justice files. Steve Bannon wrote to Jeffrey Epstein in June 2019 saying: "Will take down Francis. The Clintons, Xi, Francis, EU – come on brother."
Democrats just forced a shutdown over ICE
Friends, At midnight tonight, the Department of Homeland Security will shut down. DHS isn't shutting down because of a typical budget fight over spending levels — it's because Senate Democrats are refusing to fund these agencies until there are...
ICE is leaving Minnesota
Friends, After two months of terrorizing our communities, after killing two innocent people, after arresting over 4,000 Minnesotans, border czar Tom Homan announced this morning that Operation Metro Surge is ending. They said they're leaving...
Faith leaders preach the truth about ICE
Friends, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is using MAGA Christianity to justify mass deportations, calling it the "Biblical case for border security." Meanwhile, thousands of clergy are in the streets getting arrested, opening sanctuary, and standing...
ADD YOUR NAME: Tell DHS to stop shielding ICE shooters
Renee Good and Alex Pretti deserve justice Friends, Today, we're joining a campaign launched by COL (Ret.) Adam Miller, candidate for Congress in Ohio's 15th District, along with partners like Progressive Democrats of America, Turn Left, Arsenal — and...
Trump weaponized our National Prayer Breakfast
Friends, This morning at the National Prayer Breakfast, a blatantly Christian Nationalist event posing as a nonpartisan event, Donald Trump told the room: "I don't know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat…I don't know why they're here."
2,000 people sang outside the ICE hotels
VCG, I was just interviewed for an article in The Bulwark about Don Lemon getting arrested for reporting on protesters inside a church. The Trump Administration claims the protesters violated federal laws meant to protect churches from having their...