New Jersey is 1/5 Hispanic, and its November gov race is the first big test of whether Trump, who nearly won the Latino vote last fall, has once again become a drag on his party in Latino communities.

Both parties have some clear work to do.

Common Cause Solomon's response:
“This is the first time in modern history that a sitting U.S. president and his political party have moved unilaterally to engineer the outcome of an election ... We are assessing all options on the table to confront this attack on our democracy."

Common Cause led the charge to ban gerrymandering in CA. They're literally the named party in the landmark SCOTUS case Rucho v. Common Cause. This... is a big potential shift.

"It's certainly an inflection point for our organization," one Common Cause staffer told the Monitor.

The group had come out against CA Dems' push.

But on Monday CC's prez emailed telling leaders to avoid press til the board decides.

While independent commissions "remain our gold standard and will continue to be our position, the board is currently considering options as to how we will respond"

Thanks I'll check it out! Wasn't assuming it's a perfect measure (not sure how you'd get a perfect measure for something self reported like this though)

An Ohio Dem who holds campaign events in his driveway told us that Gov. Mike DeWine had boosted security for all state reps after MN shooting.

DeWine told me he'd never seen a period where local lawmakers had to worry for their safety like this in his 50 years in office.

IL Republican Nicole La Ha introed a bill in IL to hide lawmakers' home addresses earlier this year. Soon after, a man threatened to kill her.

She's working w/ @bobmorganil.bsky.social (D), who was at the Highland Park 4th of July mass shooting and received death threats for his gun control bill.

I asked what "never again" means to him.

“Anybody, if they understand what ‘Never again’ meant about the Holocaust, understands that this is a moment when we should be standing up and speaking out.”

Pritzker worked hand-in-hand with Sam Harris and other Holocaust survivors to open the museum.

Harris: “Anything he says about the Holocaust, he is not just saying it for political purposes. You’ve got to give him the credit. And anyone who doesn’t, doesn’t know."

His dire warnings have put him in the 2028 convo (and helped land him in front of House Oversight GOP yesterday).

"People are having to make decisions about whether they’re going to stand up and speak out, or whether they’re going to try to keep their heads down and not be noticed."