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NJ-12 Democratic candidate files as independent while running in the primary

May 30, 2026 5:13 pm

One of the Democratic candidates running in next week’s 12th district congressional primary has filed to run as an independent in the general election, a likely violation of New Jersey’s Sore Loser law. Matt Adams, a former two-term Middlesex Borough...

As 12th district race enters final days, can anyone stop Adam Hamawy?

May 29, 2026 5:53 pmMay 30, 2026 10:34 am

When a new super PAC called American Priorities announced that it would spend $2 million supporting a first-time candidate named Adam Hamawy in New Jersey’s 12th congressional district, it was seen as the opening salvo in what promised to be...

D.C. Dispatch: What N.J.’s members of Congress did in Washington this week

May 22, 2026 8:01 pm

What was meant to be Republicans’ big week for passing Reconciliation 2.0, a party-line bill providing $70 billion for immigration enforcement, ended up becoming a politically fraught boondoggle, and a resolution won’t be coming until members return from the Memorial...

Bennett, Hamawy pull further away in fundraising, per pre-primary reports

May 22, 2026 4:48 pm

The last FEC reports before New Jersey’s June 2 primary election were due last night, and among other things, they show two leading Democratic candidates in competitive House primaries pulling further away from the pack. In the 7th district, Rebecca...

D.C. Dispatch: What N.J.’s members of Congress did in Washington this week

May 16, 2026 5:36 pm

More so than breaking any radical new ground, New Jersey’s congressional delegation spent early May continuing long-running disputes and storylines: the Democratic effort to halt American involvement in Iran, the prolonged absence of a Republican congressman, and the long-term fallout...

‘Are we going to lie there and take it?’ Redistricting effort has some buy-in from N.J. House Dems

May 15, 2026 12:25 pmMay 15, 2026 12:32 pm

If New Jersey Democrats really try to redraw the state’s congressional map before the 2028 elections, as some state leaders are starting to discuss, they’d need buy-in from the state’s sitting House Democrats, whose own districts may have to change...

One year later, Delaney Hall trio introduces bill to protect oversight visits like theirs

May 13, 2026 12:38 pm

This past Saturday marked one year since an oversight visit at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark went dramatically awry, and the trio of House Democrats who were involved in the now-infamous scuffle have a new bill to...