My campaign faces its first test: qualifying for the ballot. From my work on gerrymandering, I know that New Jersey politicians play rough. To beat their games, I need at least 1,000 signatures from Democrats and unaffiliated voters in the 12th District. To help, sign up at SamForNJ.org - or DM me!

“Katie Mettler, a former chair of the Washington Post guild, said: ’I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.’”

“Katie Mettler, a former chair of the Washington Post guild, said: ’I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.’”

Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):

My campaign faces its first test: qualifying for the ballot. From my work on gerrymandering, I know that New Jersey politicians play rough. To beat their games, I need at least 1,000 signatures from Democrats and unaffiliated voters in the 12th District. To help, sign up at SamForNJ.org - or DM me!

After a generation of one side relentlessly using all of its power to shape the ideological composition of the federal courts, and the other side straining to show everyone how noble they are—fair and measured and eager to bind themselves by the norms of the past—you get this.

on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.

From my work on gerrymandering, I know that New Jersey politicians play dirty. Now my campaign faces its first test. To beat their petty games, I need at least 1,000 signatures from Democrats and unaffiliated voters in the 12th District. It's cold work. To help, sign up at SamForNJ.org - or DM me!

My campaign faces its first test: qualifying for the ballot. From my work on gerrymandering, I know that New Jersey politicians play dirty. To beat their games, I need at least 1,000 signatures from Democrats and unaffiliated voters in the 12th District. To help, sign up at SamForNJ.org - or DM me!

Are you an NJ-12 voter who works at Rutgers? Sign the petition for Sam to be on the ballot and let's get a pro-education, pro-science progressive representing my district! I'm collecting signatures and will meet you anywhere on the NB campus. #Rutgers #election #scientist #NJ 🧪

Why I’m running for Congress: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...

Thank you, Nicole! I'm just getting started on mobilizing scientists nationwide. I'm going to need all the support I can get. Can you help spread the word? Let's talk about how to do that... secure.actblue.com/donate/scien...

Have we heard of the Fed Soc judge on the 9th circuit who helped Murdoch keep Fox, the Fed Soc judge in NY who killed NSF this year, the one in Louisiana who helped Jim Jordan’s propaganda campaign, the 3 on the DC Circuit who helped Trump repeatedly, and the Eighth Circuit who let ICE kill in MN?

Here's @rickhasen.bsky.social detailing the scenario in which Trump uses search warrant to seize ballot boxes in a contested 2026 locale. This is more worrisome than ICE at the polls. Hasen also suggests ways to act against this now. It's harrowing stuff: newrepublic.com/article/2062...

I'm delighted to see the strong finish of Analilia Mejia and Tom Malinowski in the 11th District special election. These candidates show the power of voters when they aren't hemmed in by New Jersey's county line system. My testimony helped end that system: samwang.substack.com/p/a-politica...

Trump job approval rating by news platform 🟢 Twitter/X: +9 🔴 Facebook: -7 🔴 Cable TV: -10 🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14 🔴 Local TV: -17 🔴 Instagram: -21 🔴 Broadcast TV: -28 🔴 TikTok: -28 🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33 🔴 Reddit: -40 www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...

I'm delighted to see the strong finish of Analilia Mejia and Tom Malinowski in the 11th District special election. These candidates show the power of voters when they aren't hemmed in by New Jersey's county line system. My testimony helped end that system: samwang.substack.com/p/a-politica...

This week, my dog Betty helped me with a Reddit AMA! Why am I running for Congress? In tough times for Americans, science, and democracy, we have to stop the damage and get ready to rebuild. reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1qvo4oe/im_sam_wang_princeton_neuroscientist_and/

This week, my dog Betty helped me with a Reddit AMA! Why am I running for Congress? In tough times for Americans, science, and democracy, we have to stop the damage and get ready to rebuild. reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1qvo4oe/im_sam_wang_princeton_neuroscientist_and/

Why I’m running for Congress: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...

AIPAC might have just inadvertently and single handedly tanked a pro Israel candidate and sent a woman to Congress who says Palestine is the victim of a genocide

the story here, which Kornacki gets right, is not exemplified in Mejia leading it's that she's barely beating Malinowski who, while not a leftist, was an anti machine candidate who faced down an absolute money cannon of negative ads from DMFI and the machine the *machine* lost here spectacularly

Final Schedule F rule published: in defiance of the vast majority of public comments, it commits to further politicizing government, removing anyone the Trump administration dislikes. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02375.pdf

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

The problem of ICE/CBP reform is we have a monster rampaging through our democracy and are trying to restrict *which* cities it can pillage and *how many* civilians it can eat. The problem isn’t the restrictions on the monster; the problem is the monster. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-ways-t...

Truly excellent work here.

The predictable outcome of a worse-than-useless process that gives a shabby veneer of legitimacy to lawless authoritarianism. It needs to be completely reformed: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Good News! 28 states have publicly rejected Kennedy’s vaccine schedule. They choose to follow evidence-based guidance from experts like the American Academy of Pediatrics or the American Academy of Family Physicians. 🧪 www.kff.org/state-health... Via @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social

I’ve known Sam as an outstanding neuroscience researcher, and have followed his subsequent career as an insightful (and evidence-based) commentator on US politics. He deserves support from fellow scientists!

One of the main arguments against the Bill of Rights back in 1787-88 was that enumerating specific rights would lead future generations to conclude those were the only ones that existed Supporters pointed to the 9th Amendment as the fix And we still somehow ended up where opponents said we'd be 🤦‍♂️

Come to Reddit r/politics, where I'm doing an AMA starting at 10:00am Eastern! www.reddit.com/r/politics/

Come to Reddit r/politics, where I'm doing an AMA starting at 10:00am Eastern! www.reddit.com/r/politics/

My students and I have created the Princeton Gerrymandering Project. Without fear or favor, this project calls out gerrymanders in all 50 states. These standards show that independent citizen commissions can end the gerrymandering wars. I'll introduce legislation to make those commissions the law.

I am running to repair democracy. Our society divides power unequally. So I did something. In NJ, party insiders used visual trickery to manipulate voters into supporting their candidate. I provided testimony to stop the “county line.” Now it's gone! samwang.substack.com/p/changing-p...

News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come! samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...

Repairing gerrymandering is just the start. Over the last year, the attacks on our constitutional system have revealed an executive branch run amok. We must defend individual rights. For example, ICE must be replaced by an agency that fixes real border problems, not act as a masked paramilitary.

74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month. Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.

don’t make me fight you

👀 Just looked it up - Bonnie Watson Coleman is retiring, so this will be an open seat. Safe D seat.

The legislative branch and the country would be *much* better off with more (any?) representatives who work to end gerrymandering, like the extraordinary @samwang.bsky.social. Rooting for you, Sam!!!

Breaking: Missing The Point endorses mutual for Congress.

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, Taylor Swift Thank You For Sending Me An Angel, Talking Heads Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands, Bob Dylan

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, Taylor Swift Thank You For Sending Me An Angel, Talking Heads Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands, Bob Dylan

Oh, one last thing: tomorrow (Wednesday) morning at 10:00am Eastern, come over to Reddit. I'll be doing an AMA. Ask Me Anything about fixing bugs in democracy, neuroscience, or whatever you want! www.reddit.com/r/politics/

News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come! samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...

I remember when political scientists sounding the alarm about a Jan. 6-type event in ~October 2020 were ridiculed by "smart" pundits as radical leftists. One called an article in The Atlantic "too magazine-y." The good news is people seem to be taking 2026/28 much more seriously

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Here's how this 64-foot tugboat is keeping your home warm during NYC's cold spell. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/30/n...

One powerful narrative strain from close analysis of commentary about, & most critically from, upstanders in MN is true dawning no one is coming to save them. Justified belief some force will intervene shattered & alongside incredible moral purpose & community cohesion, catalyzed current heroism.

👀 Looks like the husband of the woman ICE abducted called his lawyer, lawyer called the cops, then the police chief went and got her & took her home Article says it may be the first time local Minnesota PD "intervened in a federal law enforcement action" since Trump started terrorizing the state