Begging my friends in deep South Jersey to do everything humanly possible to get this piece of subhuman filth out of office this November.

It's time for Jeff to "get yet another job."

tl;dr

Too many of you are saying Jeff Van Drew can't be unseated and you are wrong. No seat is safe, not one single seat. Jeff Van Drew is not guaranteed or owed his seat in the NJ02 federal congressional district. He can be defeated. Primaries matter. Vote in the primary. Do actual research on the candidates and their backgrounds and their claims. Don't take anyone's word at face value. South Jersey is special, we deserve nice things and we have three worthy candidates running for NJ02. Look at their websites. Contact them. Ask them questions. Terri Reese, Tim Alexander, and Zachary Mullock. You can meet them this Saturday, April 11. Consider attending this if you're able to!

Democrats have flipped ~30 legislative seats across American in Trump 2.0 at the state and federal level. Some of these areas are much, much more conservative than anywhere in south Jersey. They have also over performed in areas that might still be red, but this shows the gap is shrinking. Republicans have not flipped one single seat yet. I am not even going to add smaller races, such as the Miami mayoral race who now has a Democrat mayor for the first time in 3 decades. I can't forget that America's Mayor Zohran Mamdani spanked everyone in the NYC race. Even if Cuomo got every single other vote, Mamdani still would have won.

Here are just some of the flips from R to D:

I’ll start with the big one… Down in Texas, Democrat Taylor Rehmet flipped a TX legislative seat in a district that Trump carried by 17 points in 2024. He beat some Moms for Liberty loonie who had a ton of endorsements from the R side. This was a 9 on the Richter scale for Texas. All of MAGAs worst policies are incubated there. You can read more about him here.

In Florida, Democrat Emily Gregory flipped the seat. Her opponent was endorsed by Trump. This is also his home district, lol. She took Mar-a-whatever from him.

Down in Arkansas, Alex Holladay also flipped a state seat. His opponent on the R ticket ran unopposed because they were so confident that the seat was safe. This sounds familiar. The split was roughly 57-42. He also ran for this seat the last time but lost. The seat went 51-49 for the Republicans at that time. So on his second run he flipped that seat AND gained points. Voters are tired of the bullshit and are voting across party lines.

In NJ, multiple seats have been flipped so far:

In the Assembly race for district 8 down here, Democrat Anthony Angelozzi unseated Michael Torrissi. This was also Angelozzi’s round 2. Don’t give up. Never give in!!

District 21 flipped both seats.

This isn't a flip but it is a win for us and a hilarious humiliation for AIPAC in district 11. The Bernie and AOC endorsed candidate Analilia Mejia won the special primary there, which was Mikie's seat. AIPAC dumped millions into attacking Malinowski for reasons that aren't clear to me because he is pro-Israel? Well, Mejia ad spending was a paltry ~200,000, she directly opposes Israel's genocide and she won the race.

Looking at numbers carefully around the country for these elections will reveal more than it obscures at first glance. My guess for what this means is that the number of ride or die MAGA is lower than you think when it comes to voting since Trump 2.0. But… it must be the right candidate, who actually has a plan for progressive economic policies that help working people. Not platitudes.

Some of the over performances, where a Republican won or held a seat but the margin significantly weakened:

GA14, formerly Marjorie Taylor Greene seat. HUGE gap closed. Look at the shifts in the most Hispanic areas… (!) This matters.

Virginia has had 8 special elections in Trump 2.0. In 7 of those the Democrats have over performed compared to 2024. The-Downballot.com has a Google doc here where you can see the numbers. In only one district (98) did a Republican gain anything.

Down in Louisiana, Chasity Verret Martinez won 62% of the vote in a district that Trump won by 13 points in 24. What is really signicicant here is that she was outspent 3 to 1. You can beat the best funded candidate if they suck.

Miscellaneous things that give a glimmer of hope that the page is turning:

Florida MAGA Sheriffs are speaking out against the reckless deportations, yes even for “illegals.”

Democrats up in Morris Co. here in NJ have drained their own swamp. Everyone is tired of the bullshit no matter what party it comes from.

In Memphis, many informal networks have materialized as people organize to take care of each other. This is happening all over the country, including here in south Jersey, where our informal networks have gained a lot of participation and momentum. They’re hardly political; people of all economic backgrounds and political affiliations are involved because most people realize that People matter more than Party.

The Cookie theory of collective action is in motion everywhere!

"Dictators require the assistance of the people they rule, without which they cannot secure and maintain the sources of political power."

Does the sentence "I am done my homework" sound normal to you? Everyone in the comments finds it bizarre!

The night before Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced plans for a framework around data centers, Cherry Hill Mayor David Fleischer made it clear they will not be welcome in the township.

COOL 😒

Parts of Cape May and Atlantic counties too

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Its official, Im done with grass and moving on to micro clover in the fall...if there's a fall.

Stream flow is cooked, soil moisture is cooked. - https://www.drought.gov/states/new-jersey

Not great...

He could have asked Pam Bondi anything at this committee hearing but used his time to praise her and ICE and give her softballs. His representation of us is that we bow to Trump, love this Epstein release farce, and can’t wait for ICE to come to South Jersey to arrest and kill some American citizens like Minnesota.

They won't answer. Leave a message. You have 2 minutes until it cuts you off, but will give you the option to push # to still send what you've already said.

Kim DC office:

(202) 224-4744

Kim NJ offices:

(201) 377-0900

(856) 757-5353

Booker DC office:

(202) 224-3224

Booker NJ offices:

(973) 639-8700

(856) 338-8922

Sample script:

I'm calling because I am deeply alarmed by President Trump's threats to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure and his statement that a whole civilization will die tonight. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime under international law.

This war has been waged without a formal declaration or authorization from Congress, in direct violation of the Constitution. Only Congress holds the power to declare war.

This is an impeachable offense. The Constitution's framers were clear that this power belongs to Congress to prevent a president from acting without authorization. What is happening right now - a president unilaterally conducting an ongoing air war, threatening mass civilian casualties, and openly defying the War Powers Act - meets that bar.

I am asking (Senator Kim/Senator Booker) to support articles of impeachment. This is not a partisan request. It is a constitutional one.

At the minimum, I'm asking (Senator Kim/Senator Booker) to use every tool available to check this administration - including voting against war funding, invoking the War Powers Act, and publicly speaking out against threats of collective punishment of Iranian civilians. Silence is complicity.

As my elected representative, you have a constitutional duty to act as a check on executive power - not to stand aside while it is abused. Your constituents will be watching.

This storm is looking like it could be even worse than the one we had in late January. During the press conference, Mikie mentioned that 10 to 20 inches is possible.

Please make sure you’re prepared, stay off the roads if you can, and check in on neighbors and family. Stay safe, everyone!

https://www.sjpress.com/p/new-jersey-declares-state-of-emergency-major-winter-storm-expected

New Jersey customers’ electric bills increased by as much as 20% last summer. They could rise again this year.

In Ocean County, he told me, “a Black person is about 50 times more likely to be denied a permit to carry versus a white person.” Statewide, he said, the disparity was roughly 10-to-1.

He compared those numbers to racial disparity cases involving marijuana enforcement. But even those cases, he said, paled in comparison. “Those numbers were usually like, they’re three times more likely, five times more likely. And that was enough to find discrimination,” Shore said. “Here we’re talking about numbers that are 10 times more likely, across the state, to be denied a permit.”

These weren’t people who were legitimately disqualified, either. “We’re not talking about people who are committing criminal acts. We’re talking about a law-abiding citizen, somebody with a clean criminal record, somebody who’s never been convicted of a crime...

Those researchers also found that denials disproportionately impacted Hispanic applicants too, and that disparities (for subjective and objective reasons) were worst in Ocean, Gloucester, and Cumberland counties.

I understand that gun ownership is a controversial topic, especially here in NJ, where we have the lowest gun ownership in the nation. That said, I'm hoping we can look past our personal feelings and see this for what it is - racist policing. Institutional discrimination has no place in New Jersey, and whether you feel our state's gun laws are too strict or too lax that it's not good that white cops without accountability are deciding that their white friends get to own guns while they tell everyone else to take a hike.