RAC-NJ

• In 2025, RAC-NJ is partnering with the nonpartisan New Jersey Million Voter Project to engage high-opportunity voters ahead of the 2025 New Jersey gubernatorial and general assembly elections.
• In 2025, RAC-NJ is taking action with the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice to help protect our immigrant friends, neighbors, and community members by helping to pass the New Jersey Immigrant Trust Act (S3672/A4987) into law. Learn more by watching a video of the campaign kickoff.

Updates

• Now is the moment to urge our legislative leadership to pass the People’s Lame Duck Agenda. This set of seven bills – including the Immigrant Trust Act, the John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act of New Jersey, the New Jersey Climate Superfund Act, and bills supporting reproductive freedom, gender affirming care, and criminal justice reform – is supported by RAC-NJ along with over 30 New Jersey justice organizations.
• September 26, 2025 – RAC-NJ and Attorney General Matt Platkin and Team Partner for a Know Your Rights Training that reached more than 325 people (and counting). Watch the training. You can also access a compilation of resources the New Jersey Attorney General's Division of Civil Rights put together for RAC-NJ.
• March 27, 2025 – RAC-NJ's Immigration Campaign Kickoff has more than 360 people registered to attend in person or to watch the kickoff recording.
• February 2025 – RAC-NJ's 2025 Issue Selection Webinars engage 275 people who help determine RAC-NJ's 2025 campaign.

Take Action

• Save these dates for in-person RAC-NJ and coalition partner actions during lame duck:
  • Nov. 17 – RAC-NJ informal hallway lobbying at the State House in Trenton. Register now
  • Nov. 20 – (Evening) – People’s Lame Duck Agenda policy briefing and training
  • Nov. 24 – Assembly Oversight Committee (committee assigned to review the Immigrant Trust Act) Scheduled to Meet in Trenton
  • Dec. 1 – Senate Judiciary Committee (committee assigned to review the Immigrant Trust Act) Scheduled to Meet in Trenton
  • Dec. 2 – People’s Lame Duck Agenda In-District Visits Day of Action
  • Dec. 8 – People’s Agenda Rally at the State House
• Weekly Wednesday Call-in Actions: Take action by signing up to join RAC-NJ's Weekly Wednesday Call-in Actions in November and December of 2025, and early January of 2026!
• Email your state legislators to tell them to pass the New Jersey Immigrant Trust Act.
• Email your state legislators to pass the New Jersey John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act.
• Email your state legislators to pass the New Jersey Climate Superfund Act.

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Campaign Partners

• New Jersey Million Voter Project
• New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice
• New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
• League of Women Voters of New Jersey
• Fair Share Housing Center

Learn about our work across the country to organize, mobilize, and advocate so that all people can thrive in multiracial, inclusive democracies in North America and Israel.

• RAC-NJ is continuing to help support efforts to diversify New Jersey’s public schools.
• In 2022, RAC-NJ helped galvanize more than a dozen legislators to sign on as co-sponsors of the same-day voter registration bill, building bipartisan support for the measure.
• RAC-NJ helped to pass the Fair Chance in Housing Act into law in 2021.

RAC-NJ's virtual lobby visit toolkit in support of the Immigrant Trust Act is coming soon. Watch this space to learn how to obtain your copy. 

• Contact State Organizer Sarah Blaine
• National RAC Phone Number: 202-387-2800