However, on Monday at 11:30 a.m., the friendly back-and-forth with voters and pastors from this weekend will likely take a different tone. Liberal protesters—who have become increasingly nasty as they wave foreign flags and hold attack signs every Monday at this otherwise quiet corner in Roanoke where Congressman Ben Cline handles constituent issues—are promising to confront the large conservative crowd expected at the Shenandoah Club.

The protest photo above is generated, but very similar to photos you can find on the Roanoke Times.. Those images contrast sharply with the candidate comparison above that photo, which the Virginia Faith and Freedom Coalition uses to footnote candidates’ positions on voter ID, allowing men to compete in women’s sports, and abortion on demand, in addition to several other issues on the flip side comparing Gubernatorial candidates.

If you are in Virginia (while Wisconsinites make up the largest portion of our newsletter audience, our emails are also opened by thousands in Alabama and Virginia—two other states where our president lived while state legislatures were flipped), click here to print your own copies to distribute before voting ends Tuesday evening.

In fact, at the last of five churches I visited this weekend, the pastor gave me a heads-up that the Monday rally had been moved from his church in Vinton, VA, to the larger location a few miles away in Roanoke near the protest photo shown above.

Until the potential clash in a few hours, nothing is more rewarding than getting out and talking with voters and pastors about encouraging church attendees to vote. One of the hundreds we met at doors this weekend in a more rural area—we often jokingly call our canvassing “driveway-to-driveway” rather than “door-to-door”—said, “I am so glad to have this. I’ll read it four or five times before I vote. Years ago they always brought fliers to my door, but now they try to make you click on links from ads on your phone, and I just don’t trust them. I want something that can sit on my counter for me to read and recheck.”

We also want to thank the North Carolina Faith and Freedom Coalition, who along with Georgia and Iowa are much bigger than our newer organization. Before we were in place to distribute 402,000 comparisons on Trump vs. Harris in 2024, it was the North Carolina Faith and Freedom Coalition that found Wisconsinites to pass out similar pieces comparing U.S. Senator Ron Johnson during his narrow win over Mandela Barnes in 2022.

We’re just passing on the help—ours is just the widow’s mite.

The principle shared across all Faith and Freedom Coalition groups—dating back to even before their formal formation when I helped coordinate nationwide distribution of voter comparisons during the 2000 presidential race for eventual National Faith and Freedom Coalition founder Ralph Reed—is that we don’t tell people how to vote. We simply line up the issues, with footnotes, to give voters confidence they can go to the ballot box informed, knowing which candidate aligns with their views and understanding the importance of not staying home.

We understand that in Virginia, government shutdowns usually hurt Republicans (in fact, our friend Ken Cuccinelli was down almost 19 points during a past governor’s race amid a shutdown and came within a few points of winning once it ended). But our mission remains the same: to encourage more faith-based conservatives to vote—and to vote based on their values. While I don’t gamble, Kenny Rogers had it right when he sang, You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table, “There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealing’s done“.

Whether you are in Virginia encouraging voters to vote Tuesday (in which case you can print out the comparison piece shown) or in another state next year – now is simply the time to encourage fellow faith-based conservatives to vote. The election integrity efforts to count the votes will continue past the polls closing – but the deadline for voting is approaching.

While it’s just Virginians and voters in a few other places being asked to cast ballots Tuesday, we look forward to continuing voter registration efforts back in Wisconsin. We hope you’ll request our materials and encourage others to register and prepare for 2026, when the entire nation votes.