CJN is holding the powerful accountable - but we need your help.

A note to our readers on what this newsletter does, what it takes to do it, and how you can keep it going.

I don’t write these often. When I do, I try to earn the space. So let me start with what you’ve actually received in your inbox lately, and then I’ll make the ask.

When federal prosecutors charged four New Jersey residents in connection with illegal voting, we reported the documented record and separated what was verified from what was claimed. When legislators took a stand for those with disabilities whom both the government and special interests long neglected, we brought their fight right to your inbox. When a storm knocked out power across JCP&L’s service territory and lawmakers demanded answers, we followed the response.

None of that coverage came from a wire desk in Washington or a fancy PR agency rewriting press releases. It came from here — from me and countless other proud New Jerseyans on the team who care about our state.

And the work has consequences. After we broke the story, a planned drag queen story hour event was stopped. We commissioned a fact sheet on the dangerous Policy 5756 so parents could see, in plain language, the truth about those who prey on children. We have tracked the landmark legal cases reshaping this state, and election integrity cases that are quickly taking root. Most recently, when the Italian American Civil Rights League’s President Michael Crispi brought NYC Mayor Mamdani to his knees with help from their New Jersey chapter, we captured the revolt of furious Italian Americans (my fellow paisans, if you will) and gave them a voice, and will continue to do so with anyone who feels left behind by the Trenton’s entrenched political class and their puppet masters.

We have also given readers something no one else in New Jersey offers: direct access to the legislators and changemakers themselves. Exclusive op-eds and investigations — Paul Kanitra’s firsthand account from the southern border, Tony Perry on the impact of local leadership, the NJGOP’s election integrity efforts, and op-eds taking the fraudsters and grifters to task — have run in these pages.

The stories we cover are, too often, the stories New Jersey’s corporate-dominated media won’t touch. Every story that goes unreported is power that goes unchecked.

That’s the gap this newsletter exists to fill. More than 160,000 of you now open Central Jersey Newswire — one of, if not the, largest Substack(s) in the state of New Jersey. At the time of writing, we are #73 out of 100. That reach is something we’re proud of - but reach doesn’t pay for reporting. Subscribers do.

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This is what Central Jersey Newswire is: a home for independent minds whose North Star is liberty and prosperity — our state’s very motto. If that describes you, then this publication was built for you, and it is sustained by you.

So here is the ask, plainly: that you become a paid subscriber. Paid support is what funds the hours spent reading documents, pulling records, making calls, and verifying claims before they reach your inbox. It is the difference between a newsletter that reacts to the news and one that reports it. Every paid subscription buys reporting time and will help fund future projects that hold the powerful accountable and provides dynamic reporting you won’t see anywhere else.

If a paid subscription isn’t in the cards right now, forward this newsletter to three people who care about what actually happens in this state — in Trenton, in the courts, and in the races that decide New Jersey’s direction. Our growth has always been word of mouth. It costs you nothing and it is genuinely how this publication grows.

We will keep doing the work either way. But how much work we can do — how many records requests, how many follow-ups, how many stories that take a week instead of an afternoon — is decided by the readers who choose to invest in it.

Thank you for reading. Thank you for forwarding. And to those who upgrade today: you’ll know exactly what you paid for every time this newsletter lands in your inbox.

I would like to leave you with a timeless quote from Edmund Burke: the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

For the sake of New Jersey and our newsletter, I am asking you to do something, so that we can play a role in ensuring liberty and prosperity reign in the Garden State once more.

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