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Assembly Member Gerry Scharfenberger
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJThe Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) improves and increases the physical/cybersecurity and facility/target hardening of nonprofit organizations’ facilities at risk of a terrorist of other extremist attack, ultimately safeguarding the lives and property of the American pe
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJThe Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) provides funding for target hardening and other physical security enhancements and activities to nonprofit organizations at high risk of terrorist attack. The intent is to integrate nonprofit preparedness activities with broader state and local preparednes
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJ1. "Roxbury/NJ doesn’t have a reason to sue yet." DHS argues the town is jumping the gun. Since the facility isn't actually open or running yet, any problems like traffic or water shortages are just guesses about the future, not real problems happening right now. NINJA’s Response: DHS's response
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJ'm writing to you today as a constituent and a member of Garden State Equality. In the face of nationwide attacks on medically necessary healthcare, both from the federal government and from state governments, I urge you to strengthen New Jersey's status as a safe haven for reproductive and trans h
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJ'm writing to you today as a constituent and a member of Garden State Equality. In the face of nationwide attacks on medically necessary healthcare, both from the federal government and from state governments, I urge you to strengthen New Jersey's status as a safe haven for reproductive and trans h
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJLast week, Governor Murphy and six other Governors sent a petition to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demanding that the agency include microplastics in the next Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR) issued pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). If the EPA grants the peti
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJA legal petition was submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, calling on the agency to monitor for microplastics in drinking water under specific provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act. The petition was filed by the national advocacy organization Food & Water Watch and co-sig
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJDear HUD, The families I serve have fought hard to reach stability. This rule threatens all of it. The families I serve have fought hard to reach stability. They deserve to keep it. A person with a severe cognitive disability cannot navigate a documentation process designed for people without those
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJExisting law requires that specified actions for recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual assault, as defined, be commenced within 22 years of the date the plaintiff attains the age of majority or within 5 years of the date the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discov
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJIn 2019, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, the first openly gay governor elected in the U.S., signed a bill banning conversion therapy in the state. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that ban may be unconstitutional. (https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/supreme-court-opinion-conversion-therapy) Conver
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJEnforcing bans on LGBTQ+ “conversion” practices against talk therapy may be unconstitutional after the Supreme Court ruled that such therapy is robustly protected under the First Amendment. The Supreme Court held on March 31, 2026, in Chiles v. Salazar that, as applied to licensed therapists engage
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJHe was beaten, threatened, shamed for who he was, forced to watch violent pornographic imagery, and subjected to electroshock treatment at the age of 13. Maplewood Township Committeeman Dean Dafis lived through gay conversion therapy and now is sharing his story in the hopes of ending what he calls
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJAn Act concerning the protection of minors from attempts to change sexual orientation and supplementing Title 45 of the Revised Statutes. Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Being le
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJout 36,000 Connecticut residents are at risk of losing access to food stamp benefits due to new eligibility requirements outlined in a recent federal bill. The cuts to food assistance in H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will directly affect thousands of immigrants, young adults, veterans and
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJI am writing to share an important update on the EPA's early this month announcement about microplastics that I think PSR might be interested in. Earlier this month, Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the EPA is including microplastics on the draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 6). Here
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJThe EPA is currently deciding which contaminants to monitor in our nation’s drinking water. As health professionals, we know that microplastics are no longer just an environmental issue—they are a matter of public health. Research shows these particles accumulate in human organs, cross the placenta
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJSenator Mark Kelly's PEACE ACT: S4278—please sponsor it, please vote for it. Trump's ongoing usurpation of congressional powers is an abomination. Congress needs to reassert those powers, item by item and issue by issue if necessary. "Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) introduced the Prohibiting Expenditur
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJDoorDash inserted itself into politics yesterday by participating in a PR stunt involving Trump and a DoorDash driver (who may or may not have been a paid plant) in a photo op. I personally deleted the app this morning. They had a choice about participating in anything related to this administration
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJFirst, please ask the Congressmember to oppose a clean reauthorization of Section 702 of FISA. Section 702’s numerous loopholes allow for unwarranted government surveillance and can be easily manipulated at the expense of Americans’ civil liberties. The Congressmember should only support its extensi
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJmericans have defended one core principle: the government does not get to decide what we are allowed to read. H.R. 7661 threatens that principle. By tying federal education funding to restrictions on certain books and educational materials, this bill pressures schools to remove titles that discuss
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJWhat books are banned in 2026? Across the United States, thousands of books have been removed from public school classrooms and libraries as part of an unprecedented wave of censorship. Since 2021, PEN America has documented nearly 23,000 book bans in public schools, a number never before seen in t
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJPrinceton, NJ — Climate Revolution Action Network (CRAN) today announced its endorsement of Adam Hamawy for Congress in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District. A trauma surgeon, Army veteran, and climate disaster first responder, Hamawy has spent his life responding to people in moments of cri
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJNew Jersey Society of CPAs Clarifies One Big Beautiful Bill’s Hourly Worker Tax Deductions ROSELAND, N.J. — The New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJCPA) reminds New Jersey taxpayers that new tax deductions exist for hourly workers in the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) signed into la
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJPublic Citizen filed the first lawsuit of Trump’s second term — literally one minute after he was sworn in. We have filed 35 more lawsuits against the regime since then (and there will be more). We have won some, we have lost some, and many are still working their way through the courts. Stay tuned
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJTo help retake the House, Blue Tent is recommending that we support three coalitions working to engage, persuade, and mobilize voters in 46 swing districts: Battleground Alliance, Battleground California, and Battleground New York. These coalitions are comprised of scores of organizing groups and u
From a verified voter in Middletown, NJYou’ve heard me talking about data centers and how they have the potential to destroy our communities, like we are seeing in Vineland. Well, if we want an even scarier glimpse into New Jersey’s future, we can look at Michigan, which has become ground zero for where Big Tech is trying to take over a
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