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Democratic Socialists Jake Ephros and Joel Brooks Shock the State of New Jersey in Landslide Victory! Statement from the North NJ DSA Executive Committee

Jake Ephros and Joel Brooks are both longtime North NJ DSA members and organizers at heart, leading campaigns for labor and tenants’ rights in both Jersey City and the state at large, and they centered these fights in their campaigns.

They ran on a platform with the interests of the working class at the forefront, fighting for universal rent control, universal childcare, and safe, clean, green streets. Wards B and D represent some of the most diverse and working-class areas in the city, ...

and a platform addressing their basic material needs resonated with them so strongly that Jake and Joel each won by over 20 points!

Jersey City voters made state history on Tuesday, electing the first two socialists in city history and the first two socialists in the state of New Jersey in nearly 100 years! Not since William Brueckman, the former Mayor of Haledon (1912-1918, 1924-1928) ...

Jersey City voters decisively rejected Jim McGreevey and corporate control of the City Council. MAGA billionaires and establishment Democratic politicians opposed our campaigns, spent millions of dollars to front landlord and developer interests, ...

and all of it went to waste in the face of the movement democratic socialists are building here in New Jersey and all around the country.