Yesterday marked TWO MONTHS before the midterms.

You know, the MIDTERMS — the federal elections halfway through Joe Biden’s presidency that will decide which political party holds sway over the House of Representatives and the Senate for the next two years, and hence whether President Biden can accomplish anything at all, ever again, and hence whether we hand the presidency right back to the red-hats in 2024 or not. 

The elections that will decide pretty much everything: 

• Whether women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies.
• Whether we take action on climate change before our entire world is a big game of Floor Is Lava.
• Whether the experiment of democracy earns the right to continue long enough for us to build some more secure safeguards around it.
  

Pretty much THIS.

On an electoral level, nothing could possibly be more important than these midterm elections. Everything hangs in the balance.

You think we’ve got till November 8 (Election Day) to persuade voters?

In TWENTY-TWO DAYS, County Clerks in New Jersey are going to start mailing ballots out to voters who have requested them.

(If you haven’t requested
yours yet, it’s not too late!
Click here to get started.)

And once voters have their ballots, they are going to start VOTING!

You know what that means. We have less than four weeks to reach them!

"So, does that mean I get some NJ 11th for Change swag?"

Who is Megan Coyne, you ask? She’s the bane of the GOP’s existence, the current enfant terrible of Washington, D.C., and (until recently) the bad-ass superstar of the notoriously snarky @NJGov Twitter account!

LOCAL GIRL MAKES GOOD, says the New York Times.

There’s no better way to launch a week than with a party! We can’t remember a Monday better than this past one, when so many NJ 11th for Change members gathered in Stacey and Ted Abenstein’s beautiful backyard — for a picnic with our very own congresswoman, Mikie Sherrill!

You are invited! Click HERE to RSVP!

 

August is just beginning — but DANG! Already, what a month!

The Biden administration is posting spectacular numbers related to the U.S. economy — concrete, quantifiable achievements, including the lowest unemployment rate in fifty years (3.5%), 528,000 new jobs just in July, and the lowest percentage of uninsured people ever (8%).

Congress wrestled problem-child Dem Senators Manchin and Sinema into passing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a landmark piece of legislation that will have a major impact on the national economy, healthcare affordability, and the course of climate change. It will affect millions of Americans in important and positive ways, which — if we message it correctly — will help build our chances for success in the November elections.

However, our nation’s response to the overturning of Roe may offer some hope at the end of the road — if we approach the situation with heart, brains and courage, just like activists and voters did in Kansas on Tuesday!

Kansas is a state that voted overwhelmingly for Trump (56.1% to 41.5%) in 2020, and even worse (56.16% to 35.74%) in 2016.

ALERT!
URGENT CALL FOR CANVASSERS!

NJ 11th for Change
is ready to issue our first endorsement
of the 2022 Election Cycle!

Our first priority is — and always will be — New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District. In the spirit of fairness and genuine curiosity, we sent our in-depth endorsement questionnaire to both our incumbent congressional representative and the challenger in our CD-11 home district. 

The incumbent, Dem Mikie Sherrill (perhaps you’ve heard of her?) gave thoughtful, detailed answers to our questions about the future of democracy, reproductive rights, the economy, gun safety, education, immigration, and more.

Her GOP opponent, some guy from Montville, couldn’t be bothered to respond to our questionnaire, so we can’t be bothered to remember his name.  

In addition to ignoring our questionnaire, Mikie’s opponent has been declining to do mainstream press interviews and refused to participate in debates during the GOP primary. What’s he hiding? Perhaps … his extremist positions?

As we gather together — in celebration or in protest — on this Independence Day, we cannot deny the truth: 2022 has been a year of highs and lows. And while we rail against the lows, we can also take heart from the highs.

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We grieved as a nation over the massacre at Uvalde, Texas, and we raged when the Supreme Court gave its nod of approval to concealed carry less than a month later. (“Why,” wrote an aggressively callous Justice Alito in his concurrence to the decision, “does the dissent think it is relevant to recount the mass shootings that have occurred in recent years?”)

And yet… two days after that SCOTUS decision, President Joe Biden signed into law a bipartisan gun safety bill — not everything we desire, by a far stretch, but the most significant federal gun legislation to pass in over 30 years, despite the current gridlock in our House and Senate.

This is no time to be silent.
This is a time to fight for our rights.
This is a time to fight for our children and grandchildren.
This is a time to fight for the poor and the marginalized.
THIS IS A TIME TO SHOW UP!

It's going to happen any day now.
Maybe today.
Maybe tomorrow.

It finally happened.

Last week, conservative Supreme Court justices made it clear that they are going to kill Roe v. Wade. A draft of their appalling decision, written by Sam Alito, has been described as “a naked power grab.” 

Since the news broke last Monday night, all of us have been overwhelmed with emotion.