I’m announcing that I’ll be supporting challengers against State Senator James Beach and other elected officials who continue to fuel corrupt machine politics in NJ. (1/3)

Good.

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Corruption will keep costing us unless we stand up and fight at every level of government.   Our investment in governing should be for the people, not the well-off and well-connected.

Across politics, an anti-corruption movement is growing.   The American people have had enough.

NEW: The Trump administration sent Head Start employees a six-page list of "prohibited words" for grant applications, including terms like: disabilities, tribal, Black, and women. The administration wants to erase communities and block access to early childhood services. We'll see them in court.

Democrat, Republican, or Independent, people are tired of corruption in politics and want a government they can trust. That's why I'm fighting for an anti-corruption movement that holds our leaders accountable to the people they serve.

This normalizes corruption, feeding the sentiment that both sides suck and so politics is pointless. A Dem party focused on rehabilitating its broken brand would be criticizing Trump and booting out Cuellar. Let the corrupt guys become corporate lobbyists - they’re dragging our party down.

If everyone could please boo State Senator Beach anytime they see him from now on that would be great. What a prick

Commentary: Sen. Andy Kim gets disgraceful welcome in Trenton newjerseymonitor.com/2025/12/02/a...

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With the federal government undermining public trust and weaponizing the DOJ, New Jersey should be expanding efforts to combat abuse of power—not rolling them back. I gave testimony against S4924 yesterday on that very premise—our record shows it, and the public deserves it.

Corruption eats away at our politics no matter where we live. That’s why we need to build an anti-corruption movement to fight against what we see from the Oval Office to our own communities. I went up to Trenton today to stand up for integrity in the face of corruption.

Please call your state reps and senators and tell them to vote No on this bill. It's such an obvious ploy to punish the Comptroller for actually doing their job.

"NJ Sen. James Beach, who chairs the Camden County Democratic Committee and is a close Norcross ally, imposed a strict three-minute time limit on testimony by most of the bill’s roughly three dozen opponents — including, at times, by cutting their microphones — but not its supporters."

I just finished testifying in front of a NJ State Senate hearing against a bill that would weaken our fight against corruption. I stood alongside AG Platkin and Comptroller Walsh to call on state senators and members of the assembly to vote against this wrong move.

That's a badge of honor as far as I'm concerned

This is one of the most important exposés published in WSJ in several years, and it derives from intercepts and analyses by foreign intelligence services studying the conduct of Trump and his inner team. It's first and foremost a wake up call to the people of the United States.

Call your state senators!

bill's here and it's goddamn wild. it guts the Comptroller, shifts its responsibilities to the machine-controlled State Commission of Investigation, and gives SCI the power to obstruct federal investigations and interfere with state and county prosecutors' handling of public corruption cases

Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback. www.reuters.com/investigates...

This year's election made NJ a lot bluer. @njspotlightnews.org maps make that easy to see, with charts reporting results for every municipality www.njspotlightnews.org/special-repo...

Homeland Security wants state driver’s license data for sweeping citizenship program newjerseymonitor.com/2025/11/25/r...

Amid a surge in NJ housing costs - and the homeless population - housing advocates praise a top Democrat's push to give towns the power to create trust funds and housing plans to help address and prevent homelessness in their communities, reports @bobby-brier.bsky.social @njspotlightnews.org.

I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders

It's @keribla.bsky.social's first story for @propublica.org! But it won't be her last on the Bureau of Prisons. Do you work for BOP and have tips, documents, or data you can share to paint a fuller picture of what’s going on inside? You should contact Keri. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.

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NEW: A proposed regulation would have denied disability benefits to at least 830,000 older blue-collar workers. But after reporting from ProPublica and others, the Trump administration has killed the plan.

This is fucking horrifying. Swastikas and nooses are just “potentially divisive”? Are you kidding me?

Feds now claim a "system crash" that happened immediately after ICE was sued is the reason why 10 days of footage from inside the Broadview Detention Center has been lost. Unreal hearing on this earlier: www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...

“The fact that a governmental body can redact more than 1,000 pages of documents that are directly related to a major business’s activities in Texas is certainly problematic,” said Reid Pillifant, an attorney specializing in public records and media law.

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It's ridiculous how much this Administration doesn't care about people.   Trump will stop at nothing to make it harder for families to feed their kids and put food on the table.

Now that they’re caught and can’t cook up a secret settlement with MAGA Bondi to line their own pockets. What a steaming pile this is.

Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵

As residents face skyrocketing electricity bills, lawmakers can deliver much-needed relief to NJ households: • Get clean energy projects onto the grid • Data centers supply their own clean energy • Rein in utility profit margins Read more: collaborative.evergreenaction.com/memos/new-je...

Seton Hall must disclose investigation into handling of sex abuses, judge rules newjerseymonitor.com/briefs/seton...

A key decision about the state gas tax is pending in Trenton. That means NJ motorists should know soon whether the state’s per-gallon gas tax must be increased at the start of 2026 to help maintain billions in planned spending on transportation infrastructure. @njspotlightnews.org

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland. How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president. www.propublica.org/article/port...

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Momentum builds for new leadership!

Went to repost this and then depressingly saw it was from 8 months ago. This is still true, and I am now convinced it will remain true until there are successful primary challenges nationwide to the "roll over and play dead" Dems.

I thought the shutdown was the fight, did I get that wrong

Do Senate Dems think we're stupid? What was the point of 40 days of American suffering? Just to wave the flag and get the *promise* of a vote. Bullshit. Some will fall on the sword, but all of them are behind the plan.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

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I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.

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