Meet Mike Vick

I serve on the national leadership team of the American Solidarity Party and serve as vice chair of the Illinois Solidarity Party. I previously worked as national development director for ASP. In 2024, I was ASP’s endorsed candidate for Congress in Illinois’ second congressional district.

I am executive advisor to Pastor Chris Butler, senior pastor at Ambassador Church in South Holland, Illinois, and director of Christian civic formation for the Center for Christianity and Public Life. I also produce the Nuclear Option Podcast, a production of the WeSchool Education Foundation, founded by Pastor Chris and his wife Aziza Butler.

I previously served as the host and contributing editor of the Chicago Civic Update, a newscast and weekly publication of Chicago chapter of the AND Campaign. AND offers a Biblical framework to engage politics with non-partisan, common-sense education, equipping believers to confront tribalism and promote unity. I still serve on the core team of AND’s Chicago chapter.

I began my career as a journalist, working as a reporter for Catholic San Francisco newspaper, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

I later worked as an associate producer and web editor for a local television news affiliate.

In 2016, I began a career in political activism, organizing home care and childcare workers for SEIU Healthcare in Chicago, fundraising for the AFL-CIO’s community affiliate Working America, and fundraising for Greenpeace in Chicago.

I was the field canvass director for the non-partisan group Citizens Action Coalition, Indiana’s largest consumer advocacy organization, specializing in utility, energy and environmental policy.

I served as the political director for the congressional campaign of Pastor Chris Butler during the 2022 Illinois Democratic Party primary.

I found the Solidarity Party in 2020 while running for state representative as a Democrat. I enthusiastically endorsed Brian Carroll and Amar Patel for president and vice president that year. I believe I am the only nominee of a major party to have done so, a distinction that did not win me many friends among the leadership of my former party, though I was happy for whatever attention this brought to ASP.

I left the Democratic Party to become a member of the Solidarity Party in January 2021, and briefly served as chair of the Indiana Solidarity Party before moving back to Illinois to join Pastor Butler’s campaign.