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2025 New Jersey Globe Year in Review

December 31, 2025 3:25 pmJanuary 8, 2026 11:04 am

Click HERE to download a high-resolution version of the 2025 New Jersey Globe Voter’s Guide. Click HERE for a lower-resolution version For the eighth time, the New Jersey Globe presents our annual Year in Review, a look back at the...

Tim Alexander, civil rights lawyer and ex-detective, will make third run against Jeff Van Drew

July 25, 2025 8:00 amJuly 24, 2025 11:56 pm

After losing elections for New Jersey’s 2nd congressional district in both 2022 and 2024, Democratic candidate Tim Alexander thought he was done running for Congress. But the election of President Donald Trump last November, and the policies Republicans in Congress...

He worked at USAID before Trump dismantled it. Now he’s running for Congress in New Jersey.

June 23, 2025 7:00 amJune 23, 2025 12:00 pm

In the year and a half before Donald Trump retook control of the White House, Bayly Winder worked at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the arm of the U.S. government responsible for distributing foreign aid around the...

Salerno touts internal poll showing Van Drew with modest lead

August 15, 2024 3:07 pmAugust 27, 2024 3:35 pm

Will Democrats ever be able to defeat Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis) in South Jersey’s 2nd congressional district? Democratic nominee Joe Salerno thinks so, and he’s brandishing an internal poll that he says proves it. According to the poll, which...

County convention season (mostly) comes to an end this weekend

March 14, 2024 12:20 pmMarch 14, 2024 7:47 pm

After more than a month of hopping from county to county, meeting thousands of county committeemembers and learning each county Democratic organization’s obscure convention rules, Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) and First Lady Tammy Murphy will soon finally be free. The...

Camden mayor backs Tammy Murphy for Senate

February 13, 2024 12:00 pmFebruary 13, 2024 1:28 pm

Camden Mayor Vic Carstarphen endorsed First Lady Tammy Murphy for U.S. Senate this morning, giving the first lady another South Jersey ally in her fight for indicted Senator Bob Menendez’s seat. “I find great comfort in knowing that when Tammy...

Breaking down the county-by-county battle between Andy Kim and Tammy Murphy

December 15, 2023 6:24 pmDecember 18, 2023 9:34 am

Every once in a while, there’s an election that makes the other 49 states suddenly pay a huge amount of attention to New Jersey politics. Next year’s explosive race for the United States Senate, with First Lady Tammy Murphy and...