Has Chris Christie disappeared? Here’s how Phil Murphy reversed him, again and again. These NJ residents feel they don’t have a voice in their local government With midterms approaching, NJ’s election system is critical infrastructure that deserves more attention Menendez…
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“Russia attempted to interfere with the last election, and continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day. This is a threat we need to take extremely seriously and to tackle and respond to with fierce determination and focus.”…
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Joel Silberman died on the first day of Netroots Nation 2018, which kicked off Thursday in New Orleans. If he wasn’t sick – #FuckCancer btw – he’d have been in the middle of it all, teaching progressive candidates, writers &…
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Earlier this week I wrote a post about Sen. Menendez and the lack of enthusiasm for him in the primary, and increasingly, in the general as well. Does doing so mean I’m “excusing” or “encouraging” people not to vote? This…
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Joel Silberman died this morning. On the first day of Netroots Nation, where thousands of progressive writers, activists, and candidates are. There’s symmetry in that. In any other year, he’d be right in the middle of it, like he was…
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Above CD7 Green Party candidate for Congress Diane Moxley at national Green Party conference in Utah last month, attended by 175 people. (N Y Times) Big shot in the arm for 2 NJ House candidates: Barack Obama endorses Andy Kim…
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Via Twitter a few minutes ago, President Barack Obama endorsed several dozen Democratic candidates in House and state races, including Tom Malinowski and Andy Kim in New Jersey. CD7’s Malinowski served Obama’s second term as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy,…
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ELEC is out today with a report on the financial strength of New Jersey’s county political parties. And the big news is there’s a lot of money floating around, and most of it sits with the Democrats. Combined, the Republicans…
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At the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Tuesday a high ranking ICE official described family detention centers as being like a “summer camp,” while the Health and Human Services Commander (pictured above) admitted he warned the administration about the long term trauma…
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Sorry to start off with non-NJ news, but if you haven’t seen this, take a moment, it needs to be seen. This is terrifying. After Trump, at a Florida rally, disparages the media, his fans surround CNN’s Jim Acosta, screaming…
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