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The Democratic candidate for Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District, Rebecca Cooke, held a roundtable discussion in La Crosse Monday. The Democratic candidate for Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District, Rebecca Cooke, held a roundtable discussion in La Crosse Monday....

BY NEWS 8 NOW/NEWS 8000 The "Vote for Common Good" organization is touring parts of the country to engage Christian voters and discuss the importance of voting for one's values. Congressional candidate Rebecca Cooke met with "Vote for Common Good" at the Root Note to...

Vice President Kamala Harris attends a church service at Koinonia Christian Center in Greenville, North Carolina, on October 13, 2024. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images In a recent Sunday in Canton, Georgia, a group of American Christians found themselves on...

With less than three weeks to go before Election Day, Vote Common Good, a national nonprofit, has re-launched an anti-Trump billboard campaign in Ottawa County and Kent County targeting Christian Voters. This billboard was placed in 2020. Carolyn Muyskens/Sentinel...

Vote Common Good, a similar group run by progressive evangelical pastor Doug Pagitt, has a simple message: Political identity and religious identity are not a package deal. ″There’s a whole group who have become very uncomfortable voting for Trump,” Pagitt said....

We're joined today by DOUG PAGITT, Executive Director and co-founder of Vote Common Good, a non-profit focused on "energizing and mobilizing people of faith to make the common good their voting criteria." In a recent opinion piece for MSNBC, Pagitt detailed how his...

Doug Pagitt, an evangelical pastor and executive director of the anti-Trump Vote Common Good organization. JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Another group targeting traditionally Republican-leaning voters is Vote Common Good, which began in 2018 with a bus...

Larissa Miller, right, and her partner worship during a service at Watershed. CNN Another group, Vote Common Good, is seeking to encourage White evangelicals and Catholics who are open to changing their conservative voting patterns to take that next step. The...

Evangelical Pastor, Doug Pagitt, joins LiveNOW from FOX to talk about the upcoming 2024 election and the impact to swing states. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump are gearing up for their first debate on September 10th. Check back with LiveNOW...

Source: Getty Images | Photo by (L) Eva Marie Uzcategui; (R) Andrew Harnik Voters who identify as evangelical Christians have long supported Donald Trump, as reported by the Associated Press. But times are changing now, and in a recent MSNBC piece, How I've been...

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 among...

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, concluding a week...

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 the youngest...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Eagle Pass residents and Vote Common Good organizers march to protest Gov. Greg Abbott at Shelby Park, Eagle Pass. This past weekend as a convoy of anti-migration hawks traveled to Eagle Pass, Texas to protest the Biden administration’s border security policies, there...

Pastor Doug Pagitt (right) and others gather in Eagle Pass' San Juan Plaza. (Bill Baird) As a group of anti-immigrant protesters traveling in what they described as “God’s Convoy” descended on an unincorporated area near the Eagle Pass over the weekend, the border...

Eagle Pass residents with the newly formed Eagle Pass Border Coalition join with organizers from the No Border Wall Laredo Coalition in San Juan Park just before Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's news conference in Shelby Park on February 4, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas....

Member of Vote Common Good Doug Pagitt speaks during a press conference in Eagle Pass, Texas, U.S., February 2, 2024. (REUTERS/Go Nakamura) Hundreds of protesters from around the U.S. flocked to a Texas border town on Saturday to vent over illegal immigration and show...

A participant passes flags and signage during a "Take Our Border Back" rally, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024, in Quemado, Texas. (Eric Gay / AP) Those attending the “Take Our Border Back” rally in Quemado said they were convening as Christians who support putting razor wire...

Participants supporting the "Take Our Border Back" convoy gather near Cornerstone Children's Ranch, Quemado, Texas on February 2, 2024. Community leaders spoke out against the convoy in Eagle's Pass, Texas, ahead of a planned rally near the town on Saturday. (SERGIO...

Hundreds gathered in Dripping Springs for a rally as they made their way to the southern border. It is called the 'Take Our Border Back' Convoy Rally. (FOX 7 Austin) Hundreds gathered in Dripping Springs for a rally Thursday evening as they made their way to the...

Migrants line up after being detained by U.S. immigration authorities at the U.S. border wall, seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) Doug Pagitt, a Minnesota pastor who runs the anti-Christian nationalism organization...

The situation at the Texas-Mexico border is attracting religious groups from out of state with competing agendas. Both groups are converging on Eagle Pass, the city where Texas Governor Greg Abbott closed off a park and put up razor wire to curb what he calls an...

Community and religious leaders in Eagle Pass voicing their concerns about this weekend’s protest. (SBG San Antonio) Community and religious leaders in Eagle Pass voicing their concerns about this weekend’s protest. They said that because of everything that has...

People in San Antonio cheering on the convoy. (KENS5) The 'God's Army' convoy is near Eagle Pass Friday night, preparing for a rally Saturday afternoon. The group passed through San Antonio Friday afternoon, heading towards Quemado, which is less than 30 minutes from...

In response to an intensifying standoff between state officials and the federal government over border security, a group calling itself “God’s Army” said it would lead a convoy of up to 40,000 trucks from Virginia to the southern border this week and end with a Feb. 3...

Donald Trump won big in Iowa, where evangelicals make up nearly two-thirds of Republican caucusgoers. The support from that influential voting bloc could make a difference in the general election.

Doug Pagitt being interviewed on the road Politics always was secondary for Doug Pagitt, who spent three decades serving as a pastor in Minnesota. He served at Wooddale Church under Leith Anderson, president of the National of Association of Evangelicals, and later...

Vote Common Good Executive Director Doug Pagitt speaks to a crowd of a couple hundred people about Christian Nationalism at the Holland Armory on Thursday evening. Tribune photo / Kayla Tucker A presentation on “Confronting Christian Nationalism” at the Holland Armory...

The Ottawa Coalition of Unified Christians has announced an event to "Confront Christian Natianolism" with Pastor Doug Pagitt in the wake of the organization’s public stance against Ottawa Impact. Photo: Cody Scanlan/Holland Sentinel The Ottawa Coalition of...

Doug Pagitt takes a selfie in a crowd protesting the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, May 28, 2020 On Jan. 6, 2021, Rahna Epting, the executive director of liberal advocacy group MoveOn, watched her television in horror. As supporters of then-President Donald...

Doug Pagitt, center, speaks during a Vote Common Good rally at a United Church of Christ in Fresno, California, on Jan. 19, 2020 Christian nationalism — the idea that being Christian is core to the American identity — is nothing new, either in American religious...

The Vote Common Good bus that the program’s presenters travel in across the country for presentations on the rise of Christian nationalism. (Wisconsin Examiner photo) In the months leading up to the 2022 midterm elections, Doug Pagitt has been crisscrossing the...

Voters of all faiths and none are being urged to take a stand against Christian nationalism at the ballot box. Rev. Doug Pagitt, executive director of Vote Common Good, has been touring the country in a big orange bus warning voters about this dangerous ideology and...

Foto: Mark Peterson/Redux/laif Ein Klopfen hallt über das Stoppelfeld. Zwei Dutzend Männer, alle mit dem gleichen Topfhaarschnitt, Vollbart und Strohhut, sitzen rittlings auf den Balken eines Dachgiebels und hämmern Holzteile fest, die ein Kran zu ihnen hochhievt. In...

Illustration by Adria Fruitos (The New Yorker) ... In 2020, [Christian nationalism] helped drive the moral call to overturn the election. “Some of their most fanatical supernatural beliefs have been mainstreamed into the maga movement, such as the notions that...

Some Catholics were critical of Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro's explosive investigation of the Catholic Church in 2018 and grand jury probe that revealed decades of sexual abuse of children by priests, but others lauded him for his efforts to clean up an...

Vote Common Good speaker, Nick Brock, at a Confronting Christian Nationalism training event. The original Declaration of Independence rests within a frame made of pure titanium that’s coated with gold. The glass enclosing it is tempered, laminated and calibrated to a...

Left: J.D. Vance, Republican candidate for U.S. senator in Ohio, speaks at a campaign event in Medina, Ohio, Oct. 21 (AP/Phil Long). Right: Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, running for the open U.S. Senate seat in Ohio, speaks May 3 in Columbus (AP/Jay LaPrete). "We have to be...

Doug Pagitt, executive director of Vote Common Good, speaks at Central Christian Church in Springfield. [Chris Welter / WYSO] A group called Vote Common Good that targets evangelicals who are not comfortable with extreme right-wing politics held a public training at...

Vote Common Good's Doug Pagitt (wearing the blue fedora) this week met with Ohio Democrat Emilia Sykes who's running for Congress against Madison Gesiotto Gilbert a former Trump staffer. The national evangelical group Vote Common Good swept through Ohio this week...

Getty Images Vote Common Good holds events and training to guide voters on intersections between religion and politics ahead of the upcoming election. The nonprofit’s programming asks voters to align with candidates who support the “common good” beyond a particular...

Doug Pagitt, executive director of Vote Common Good, speaks during an event at Holland's Park Theatre on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. Cody Scanlan/Holland Sentinel A national evangelical group that advocates for common good in politics will make a stop in West Olive on...

From left, Yule Reaves Waters, Jasmine Gray and Tyler Walton perform during an event organized by Vote Common Good, an evangelical group, at Wilshire Baptist Church on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022 in Dallas. The event is focused on mobilizing voters of faith to defeat...

The national evangelical group Vote Common Good (VCG), will host a series of events in Texas starting Monday as part of a growing campaign to mobilize voters of faith to defeat election-denying, insurrection-supporting candidates in November and educate the public...

On Tuesday, local faith leaders and activists against the death penalty rallied at the Texas State Capitol to protest the pending execution of John Henry Ramirez. The Evangelical group Vote Common Good hosted the rally with Death Penalty Action to deliver 15,000...

Chris Jones, the Democratic nominee for governor of Arkansas, spoke with religious leaders Tuesday in North Little Rock, highlighting his faith and his vision for the state. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Frank E. Lockwood) With two preachers' kids and a pastor in the...

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill Sept. 20, 2022, in Washington, D.C. DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES As ordained Christian ministers, we have been distressed to see Christian nationalism increasingly normalized....

Chris Jones at the Faith, Hope, and Love Rally in Little Rock, AR As the race to be the next governor of Arkansas continues, a group of evangelical pastors said they are hoping to push voters past party lines. During an event in Little Rock Tuesday the group Vote...

The progressive evangelical advocacy group Vote Common Good this week unveiled a billboard campaign in Pennsylvania urging faith voters to reconsider their vote in November. The group is calling on faith voters to ditch their support of GOP gubernatorial candidate...

Doug Pagitt, Vote Common Good organizer, introduces the first speaker of the night as community members and local candidates speak on the challenges of running in today's current political climate Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, at Park Theatre in downtown Holland. (Photo: CODY...

Doug Pagitt, a Midwestern Evangelical Pastor and founder of Vote Common Good, describes that in the 2020 election, there was a 5 to 10 percent shift in Evangelical voters away from Republicans. He is confident that an additional 5 to 10 percent are looking for an...

Opponents of the death penalty rallied in downtown Nashville to protest the execution of Oscar Smith in the March4Mercy. People in Sunday’s march included members from several churches, former death row prisoners, and numerous others. The march started at Riverbend...

Christy Berghoef, right, grew up in the Christian Reformed Church. She’s now a leader at the more progressive Holland United Church of Christ, where her husband, Bryan Berghoef, left, is pastor.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Growing up in this small town near the...

As the ReAwaken America Tour reaches Salem, Oregon, on April 2, 2022, Faithful America’s mobile billboard is there to protest. The group Faithful America held a press call on Thursday that served as a platform for Christian leaders to speak out against the ongoing...

Michael Flynn (left) at the ReAwaken America Tour in Tampa, Fla., last year. “These are bizarre teachings that are really rooted in lies and conspiracy theories and some strange quest for an American Christianity that I think is not going to find a home in America....

Matt Hagee is pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, and son of founding pastor, John Hagee. | YouTube/Hagee Ministries “I just don't think it fits our civil discourse. If people disagree with Joe Biden and don't want him to be president, I think they...

Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Google Earth/Screenshot “I think moments like this make churches and church leaders, as I am a church leader, have to answer the question, ‘Can we honestly, and with full integrity, say that we exist for the common good and for...

Photo by: Rike_/Getty Images “We are really advocating for non-violence. We want people to participate in these meetings, but we just want them to do it in a better way without the harassment, the bullying, the intimidation and threats. So that's what we really want...

Fran Flynn (C) prays during the 'Evangelicals for Trump' campaign event held at the King Jesus International Ministry as they await the arrival of President Donald Trump on January 3, 2020, in Miami, Florida. | Getty Images/Joe Raedle “Vote Common Good plans to get...

“Doug Pagitt founded Vote Common Good as a way to mobilize Christian voters beyond the Religious Right, challenging American Christians to think about the ways their faith should motivate them to vote, organize and act beyond the two-party system. Together, Vote...

A Trump supporter carries a Bible outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) “Published by the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and Vote Common Good, the curriculum defines Christian nationalism as a merging of...

  This week, Vote Common Good is partnering with Christians Against Christian Nationalism, a large group of faith leaders, to launch a new curriculum aimed at confronting Christian nationalism in churches across the country.

A man holds a large wooden cross near the Washington Monument during a rally in support of President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. on January 6. JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES “Pastor Doug Pagitt, the executive director of Vote Common Good, and Amanda Tyler,...

Jeremiah Johnson said he will end his ministry, Jeremiah Johnson Ministries, after apologizing for inaccurately prophesying former President Donald Trump's re-election. In this screenshot, Johnson speaks in a YouTube video from a series titled: “I Was Wrong.”...

Tasos Katopodis/Getty “More than 100 evangelical Christian leaders signed an open letter Wednesday in which they admitted that there were Christian elements invoked during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.” —From “100 Evangelical Leaders Slam ‘Heretical Version’ of...

“More than 200 faith leaders in the evangelical Christian movement signed on to a letter this week decrying ‘Christian Nationalism’ and its role in the Jan. 6 riot that overwhelmed the U.S. Capitol.” —From “Evangelical leaders launch nationwide push against extremism”...

A Trump supporter carries a Bible outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) “More than 500 evangelical pastors and other faith leaders have signed an open letter decrying ‘radicalized Christian nationalism,’ arguing that the...

Capitol Rioters (Screengrab) “People from our very communities called people to this action in the days before, unleashed them into the Capitol, and then chose to baptize that action in the name of Christ. And this is our time where we need to stand up.” —Doug Pagitt,...

In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, a man holds a Bible as Trump supporters gather outside the Capitol in Washington. The Christian imagery and rhetoric on view during this month’s Capitol insurrection are sparking renewed debate about the societal effects of...

Photo: Relevant “A coalition of over 100 pastors, seminary leaders and prominent figures within the evangelical community has condemned the role of ‘radicalized Christian nationalism’ in the U.S. Capitol building insurrection on January 6. In an open letter, this...

Pro-Trump protesters gather outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6. ahead of a riot during which many of the former president's supporters violently attacked the legislative building. Surveys prior to the insurrection showed that the vast majority of white evangelical...

The scene outside the Capitol on 6 January. The presence of Christian nationalists was evident during the insurrection. Photograph: Shafkat Anowar/AP “More than 100 prominent evangelical Christian pastors and church leaders have spoken out against what they call the...

Protesters gather outside the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C., some with signs and symbols of Christianity. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images...

Pennsylvania resident Bill Werts speaks at a Vote Common Good rally during the 2020 election cycle. “In 2018, Werts participated in a protest at a local courthouse over the Trump administration’s immigration policies, where he was connected with the progressive...

As the 2020 election neared, a group of pastors morally repulsed by American faith leaders urging their congregations to vote for Trump took action - they rented Weird Al Yankovic's old tour bus and traveled for months across the country to urge evangelical voters...

“We targeted habitual Republican voters like evangelicals and Catholics. We knew if we moved votes just enough, we’d cut into his winnable margin. We believe we had an impact.” —From “Evangelicals in Midwest Who Ditched Trump Cost Him the Election, Early Data...

Supporters pray at a Trump rally on Nov. 2, 2020 in Avoca, Pa. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images) “Among Protestants as a whole, Mr. Trump also prevailed by a 60%-40% margin, although a national group, Vote Common Good, said it met a goal of persuading at least a small...

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) “Christian author and activist Brian McLaren and his frequent collaborator, Minnesota pastor Doug Pagitt, have won over...

Kelly Janowiak prays with a conservative Christian evangelical group on 2 November on a section of 16th Street renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington DC. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP “Vote Common Good, a Christian organisation which has campaigned against...

Supporters of President Donald Trump turn and yell towards the news media during a rally for evangelical supporters at the King Jesus International Ministry in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File) “The counties that moved most in Michigan are counties that are...

Vice President Mike Pence attends Sunday Worship Service at Alliance Bible Fellowship in Boone, NC., Nov. 1, 2020. Photo credit: Hannah McKay / Reuters “It’s a two-step dance for many. And they’ve only taken the first step so far, so there’s room to move those voters....

“We're here to remind you how good you are. And you are going to remind this whole country how good we all are when it comes to Election Day.” —Doug Pagitt, Executive Director of Vote Common Good, in “Supporters hold Biden, Trump rallies in eastern Pa.” on WFMZ-TV...

Ronald Hawthorne and his wife are pictured here voting early at a drop-off ballot box in Warren, Michigan. Photo credit: Ronald Hawthorne “Vote Common Good, a faith-based, anti-Trump group led by evangelical pastor Doug Pagitt, spent much of the year reaching out to...

A line of cars drive in for an event encouraging community members to vote in the upcoming presidential election at an early voting site in Houston, Oct. 25, 2020. Photo credit: REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare/File Photo “On Oct. 31, a coalition of faith groups worked...

Biden-Harris and Trump-Pence supporters stand together at Vera Minter Park in Abilene, Texas last week. Common ground between two factions of the same nation can feel non-existent. Photograph: Ronald W Erdrich/AP “This is a diagnostic election that’s going to show us...

The Rev. Keith Mannes speaks at a rally on Oct. 23 in Canton, Ohio, for Vote Common Good, a coalition of evangelical Christians that has traveled to swing states this summer to speak out against President Trump. “In late August, he made an agreement with church...

Pastor Doug Pagitt encouraged people to speak against politicians who don't govern with "love," at his former church, Soloman's Porch, on Feb. 4. Photo credit: MARK VANCLEAVE – STAR TRIBUNE “The faith-based endorsement of the Democratic candidate was coordinated by...

Supporters wave Puerto Rican and Biden/Harris flags at the Vote Common Good rally. Photo credit: DAVE BUTCHER / Contributing Photographer Hazelton Standard-Speaker Read Full Article

Doug Pagitt leads a Vote Common Good rally Friday at Stark County Courthouse plaza. Photo credit: Julie Vennitti Botos “In 2016, when Donald Trump won the election, a lot of us were stunned. I felt, ‘Well, I've gotta get out there and contend for those voters.’” —Doug...

Lynne Sladky/AP Photo “It’s really hard for me to have to say it: This is a group of people who have no moral standing short of ‘I am a Republican and I will vote for a Republican no matter who the Republican is.’” —Doug Pagitt, Executive Director of Vote Common Good,...

Durham Vote Common Good Round Table “We believe there is 5 to 15 percent of the Christian vote that wants an ‘exit ramp’ from supporting the Trump administration.” —“People of Faith Hold a Durham Roundtable to Capitalize on Slipping Christian Support for Trump” in...

Photo credit: Carolyn Muyskens, Holland Sentinel “What we’re trying to do is make sure that people in the Grand Rapids-Holland area have a chance to really talk about how Donald Trump's behavior as president and his public statements sit in relationship to how they...

Joseph R. Biden Jr. met with religious leaders at Bethel A.M.E. church in Wilmington, Del., in June.Credit...Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images “‘I don’t know that I’ll ever do this again, I haven’t done it in the past, but I need to be clear about this...

Joe Biden speaks to members of the clergy and community leaders at a church in Wilmington, Delaware. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP “This record-breaking group of endorsers shows that President Trump’s lack of kindness and decency is energizing faith communities and...

“This record-breaking group of endorsers shows that President Trump’s lack of kindness and decency is energizing faith communities and will cost him this election.” —Doug Pagitt, Executive Director of Vote Common Good, in “‘Record-breaking group’ of faith leaders...

“We’re not trying to convince Republicans not to be Republicans we do want them not to vote for this Republican in this next election. We’re calling them to something deeper in their life, and that is what do they hold most sincerely.” —Doug Pagitt, Executive Director...

“We’re not trying to convince Republicans not to be Republicans we do want them not to vote for this Republican in this next election. We’re calling them to something deeper in their life, and that is what do they hold most sincerely.” —Doug Pagitt, Executive Director...

Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Aug. 24, 2018. Photo: / Associated Press “That is the only thing that I worry about over the next 30 days — that Democrats are going to come across as afraid of religious people or that they don’t like religious people.” —Doug Pagitt,...

“We are here to give them a little bit of encouragement, to let them know they're not alone and to help those other people wondering if they should continue to support this President to lean deeper into their faith, even it means stepping away from their political...