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Opinion, Latest Articles Matt Dragon Opinion, Latest Articles Matt Dragon

Yes, you should get out and vote

With only a few days left before Election Day, you’ve likely seen flyers or door hangers, received texts or phone calls, and seen the same political ads tens if not hundreds of times. And so it’s important to step back and ask: Why are people pouring all this time, energy, and money into getting you to vote? Not the collective you, the singular you, the you reading these words right now.

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Opinion, Latest Articles Matt Dragon Opinion, Latest Articles Matt Dragon

Organizing progressive energy at the state and local level

Our Revolution was created out of Senator Bernie Sanders’ Presidential Campaign at the end of the 2016 election. It was created to bring together individuals who wanted to continue advancing progressive policies that Senator Sanders and others had been advocating for during the primaries. Advancing progressive policies nationally meant empowering and educating voters, supporting progressive candidates, and holding politicians accountable, both for their votes and how they’re influenced by corporate spending in politics.

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Opinion, Latest Articles Matthew Barry Johnson & Angeles Tovar Galeano Opinion, Latest Articles Matthew Barry Johnson & Angeles Tovar Galeano

Wrongful convictions in New Jersey

In the past three decades, new questions about the integrity of the justice system have emerged as a series of convicted 'criminals' have proven their innocence.

The Innocence Project at the Cardoza Law School in New York, the National Registry of Exonerations, and other innocence advocacy groups have documented these exonerations and the dramatic impact DNA science is having on the criminal justice system.

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Opinion, Latest Articles Margaret Stevens on behalf of the Progressive Labor Party Opinion, Latest Articles Margaret Stevens on behalf of the Progressive Labor Party

May Day honors worker solidarity

May 1st is observed and celebrated worldwide as International Worker's Day, with 66 countries marking it as an official holiday outside the United States.

Across New Jersey, workers (employed in the formal and informal markets and the unemployed and underemployed) continue to organize for workers' rights, including the right to unionize.

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Opinion, Latest Articles Ben Jealous - Special to Public Square Amplified Opinion, Latest Articles Ben Jealous - Special to Public Square Amplified

Black Americans and the worldwide principles of democracy

Americans don’t often recognize authoritarianism at home because they don’t want to. They believe the U.S. is so exceptional that the checks and balances built into our system will protect our democratic values….Black Americans have never had a problem seeing the threat.

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Opinion, Latest Articles Alejandra Sorto Opinion, Latest Articles Alejandra Sorto

A right to abortion isn’t enough. There needs to be access.

While the right to abortion is threatened around the country, the most urgent crisis for New Jersey is lack of access. High costs, limited access to providers, discrimination, and countless other obstacles currently prevent people from getting the care they are entitled to under the law. That’s why the Reproductive Freedom Act can’t stop at simply declaring the right to abortion in New Jersey. It must expand access to care.

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