Rolling Stone features Vote Common Good post-election

Friends,

Two years ago, a Rolling Stone writer named Alex Morris rode on our Faith, Hope, & Love bus through Alabama and Georgia. I told her then that we were in a 40-year project. I told her that even a slight shift in evangelical voting patterns could change some key districts, and that I had no illusions about wholesale change.

This weekend, she wrote that back then she believed in our mission but thought it sat at the margins. But, wow, what a result on Election Day!

Our goal at Vote Common Good has been to chip away at the idea that voting Republican is a “vote for God.”

And the 2026 election results were a blowout. In two “deep red” states, James Talarico beat Donald Trump’s hand-picked Ken Paxton in Texas by 12 points, and Adam Hamilton won in Kansas by five.

Alex wrote that this time, Christian voters not only felt they had permission to vote blue, but many felt it was a moral imperative — an outgrowth of their faith.

Just two years ago, that goal felt far off.

Alex talks about plenty of other things in the piece, including unappealing opponents, and I think that’s fair, and it goes hand in hand. She also wrote that the smartest thing Democrats can do now is keep the door wide open.

This is the way: Democrats can expand the democracy-supporting coalition by including people of faith. I told her the answer isn’t to make the party more religious or to rely on running candidates who are religious. It’s to keep reaching out to voters of faith — to include them.

We have you to thank for helping to make this happen. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I mean that.

Our work is by no means over, and we have to stay vigilant.

In Texas this Thursday, for example, a group considering themselves the New Christian Right — who are post-Trump in belief — are opening a three-day conference in Dallas called “Christ is King: America After Trump,” and Alex Jones is one of the speakers.

They are already planning for the day Trump is gone.

And so are we. But we are also keeping watch now, because no matter what is happening in the shadows, we are here to protect our neighbors. We are here to be one or two or ten steps ahead of the Christian Nationalists.

This election season, we made stops in towns where nobody expected anyone to show up, and it mattered. Faith voters told us that, finally, someone spoke to the part of their faith that’s been hijacked.

And so we have to keep going. Your donation of any amount today helps us keep reaching people of faith, so we’re ready for whatever comes next.

In this together,

Doug

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