Editor’s Note: This is the fifth and final installment in the series “American Maoists: Warnings From The Cultural Revolution.” In Part IV, Xi Van Fleet and Sasha Gong — both activists, scholars, and survivors of Mao’s communist uprising — exposed the radical communist roots of Democrats cringey attempt to seem cool by using profanity. Today, the authors look to the future, and explore how radical leftist movements rewrite history, not just to justify their actions and demonize the cultures they want to destroy, but to change how people think about their past, present, and future.  *** Every nation lives by its landmarks. These are not merely dates on a calendar, but signposts dividing history into “before” and “after.” They anchor collective memory and shape how a people understand themselves. For Americans, the great landmarks have long been clear: 1492, the discovery of the New World; 1776, independence; 1861, the Civil War; 1929, the Great Depression; 1964, the Civil Rights Act. To speak of “before” and “after” these events is to tell the story of a nation striving toward freedom, law, and self-government. In recent years, however, new landmarks have been imposed by ideological fiat. The most striking is the New York Times’s 1619 Project, which declared that America began not in 1776 but in the year enslaved Africans first arrived in Virginia. With that shift, the axis of history moved: “before and after independence” became “before and after slavery.” Liberty and law were redefined as hypocrisy and oppression. More dividing lines quickly followed: before and after Jim Crow, before and after George Floyd, and so on. These changes are not merely academic. When the Chinese Communist Party seized power in 1949, it imposed a single ultimate landmark: “before liberation” and “after liberation.” Five thousand years of recorded history were collapsed into a morality tale. Everything before was painted as darkness; everything after as light. The word liberation itself became a judgment on every person and institution. Those who had prospered before were condemned, often destroyed. The CCP has never ceased wielding this powerful weapon to manufacture historic milestones. After the disastrous Mao era, it crafted yet another milestone by dividing its own history into ‘before Reform and Opening-Up’ and ‘after.’ The Mao years were rebranded as ‘decades of arduous exploration’ in search of a better China, erasing the atrocities that claimed tens of millions of lives. The post-Mao period, by contrast, is exalted as the Party’s crowning achievement: lifting the Chinese people out of poverty and transforming China into an economic superpower. And the ultimate aim? To enshrine the CCP as the eternal liberator of the Chinese people. This is not just propaganda but a wholesale transformation of society. History was rewritten, language reshaped, culture remade. The “before” was demonized; the “after” glorified. Ordinary people adopted the new vocabulary, willingly or not. And once language changed, thought and memory changed too. The Chinese people, once bound by a magnificent civilization, were divided into “good” and “bad” classes — oppressors and oppressed, loyalists and enemies. Hatred of the designated groups was not just tolerated but demanded. America is not a one-party state. Our institutions remain democratic. Yet the project of re-framing — what might be called Cultural Marxism — has advanced here with surprising speed. The narrative of American exceptionalism, rooted in liberty, law, and individualism, has been replaced by a narrative of slavery, racism, and oppression. The Left has shown itself to be even more cunning Cultural Marxists than the Maoists. They have redefined and “simplified” American history into a new binary: before and after. In their telling, the “before” is our present — defined solely as slavery and white oppression — rendering the Civil War irrelevant and erasing the achievements of countless Black Americans, including Barack Obama. The “after,” meanwhile, exists only in the future. And how is that future to be reached? By dismantling the entire system, which they insist is built on racism, bigotry, and injustice.  History’s landmarks are never neutral. They can unite or divide, elevate or diminish. To say “before independence” and “after independence” is to conceive of ourselves as citizens — free, equal, and striving for self-rule. To say “before slavery” and “after slavery” is to fix identity forever in terms of bondage and resentment. One story moves toward freedom; the other freezes us in grievance. Nations cannot thrive on grievance. A shared history, however imperfect, is the glue that binds generations. To rewrite that history into a tale of villains and victims is to dissolve the glue. The real question is whether we will continue to allow new landmarks to redefine us. Will we pass on to our children the story of a free people, equal under God, struggling but advancing toward justice? Or will we hand them a fractured narrative that teaches them to see one another as permanent enemies? History is never only about the past. It frames the future. What we choose as our “before” and “after” will decide who we become. READ MORE: American Maoists, Part I: License To Kill: What Turns Normal People To Political Violence? American Maoists, Part II: The Wheel Of Misfortune: Victims, Victimhood, And Victimization American Maoists, Part III: From Red Guard To Blue Hair: Why Leftists Destroy Womanhood American Maoists, Part IV: Proletarian Profanity: Why Democrats Want To Trap Voters In A Linguistic Ghetto Xi Van Fleet is a survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, activist, and author of “Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning.” Sasha Gong is a writer, scholar, journalist, and filmmaker. A dissident in Mao’s China, she holds a PhD from Harvard University and was previously Director of the China Branch at Voice of America. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

With growing threats to higher education and state government, Wisconsin Republicans have a plan to put the Badger State at the forefront of combating Chinese Communist Party influence. Five Wisconsin Republicans unveiled a series of bills this week to keep CCP influence out of state government and institutions of higher education. If the legislative package is passed, national security experts say that Wisconsin would become a state leader in combating China.  “We can all agree and should be able to rally around the fact that we should not be supporting or doing anything to support organizations, such as the Chinese Communist Party, that seek to undermine the foundational things that make America exceptional,” Senator Patrick Testin told The Daily Wire.  The bills would block partnerships between the University of Wisconsin system and China, prevent state agencies from contracting with companies controlled by China, ban critical telecommunication companies from using equipment manufactured by foreign adversaries, crack down on transnational repression, target illegal organ harvesting, and protect genetic data from countries like China. The lawmakers behind the legislative package include Testin, Senator Cory Tomczyk, Representative Daniel Knodl, Representative Clint Moses, and Representative Alex Dallman. Testin said that the CCP wants “to embed themselves in every element and sector” to “essentially extend their tentacles and their influence.” The higher education bill would ban the University of Wisconsin from entering into “a collaboration agreement, academic partnership, or research partnership with a college or university based in China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, or Qatar,” according to a draft shared with The Daily Wire.  There would be an exception if a federal law enforcement agency performs a national security assessment.  Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. A recent House report listed over a dozen Pentagon grants to the university worth tens of millions of dollars that raised concerns over links to China. The university also has relationships with Southeast University in Nanjing and Nanjing University, both of which have been assessed to have medium to high risk in terms of Chinese defense ties.  Another bill would stop state agencies from contracting with organizations that are headquartered in certain countries, like China, or are controlled or majority-owned by the Chinese government or the CCP.  A third bill would prohibit “telecommunications providers from purchasing, renting, leasing, obtaining, or maintaining critical telecommunications infrastructure that includes equipment manufactured by a foreign principal of a foreign adversary.” Another bill aims to protect the genetic data of Americans. It would ban “the use of genetic software from foreign adversaries in medical and research facilities, the storage of any human genome sequencing data within the borders of a foreign adversary.” State Rep. Clint Moses told The Daily Wire that the intent of that legislation was to ensure that genetic data was not being used for biological warfare or other “nefarious” purposes.  Another measure part of the package would prohibit “coverage of organ transplantation and related care under health insurance policies and the Medical Assistance program if the organ is transplanted in or originates from a country known to have participated in forced organ harvesting.” There are between 25,000 and 50,000 people in China every year whose organs are harvested against their will, according to some estimates.  “When you start looking at what some of these countries are doing, particularly in China, where they’re getting organs for transplant usage, obviously from inmates, prisoners,” Moses said. “I think, [Americans] would find that absolutely shocking and atrocious, because it’s a humanitarian issue. It’s a crime against humanity.” The final bill in the package would give more teeth to law enforcement in punishing those engaging in transnational repression. Other bills aiming to prevent foreign adversaries from owning land in Wisconsin and to keep Chinese software off state devices are also working their way through the legislature.  Michael Lucci, the founder of the national security advocacy group State Armor, said that Wisconsin would become the model in the Midwest for targeting China if all of the proposals pass. He said states need to take increasingly strong action to safeguard themselves.  “Over time, the breadth and scale of the threat has become more apparent and it has grown. It’s become clear it’s quite large,” he told The Daily Wire. “Therefore, the American response, which is both federal and state, needs to expand and become more forceful.”

Why are California Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris suddenly praising Joe Biden’s presidency? Victor Davis Hanson breaks down the political theater behind the Democrats’ about-face—and what it reveals about their panic over President Donald Trump’s comeback. This, and more, on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words. This interview has been slightly edited for clarity. Sami Winc: I didn’t quite finish with what I was gonna talk about with [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom and [former Vice President Kamala] Harris. And that is that they are recently coming out, both of them, saying that [former President] Joe Biden was either one of the best presidents in recent memory, I think that was Newsom, or with Kamala Harris, where she doesn’t have any criticism of Joe, he was good, he did a good job. What is that all about? I mean, he was obviously—but do they get a constituency from that? Is that what they’re worried about? The Democratic Party has this vast constituency, so I’m gonna say anything I need to do. Victor Davis Hanson: They don’t believe that. They’re worried that—they’re worried about the record, which American people saw, the Trump first term and they saw the Biden term. And then they listened to what President Donald Trump said his second term was. And they said, “We do not want the Biden agenda anymore.” That was No. 1. No. 2, they removed him. They, the Democratic donors, the Democratic politicos, the left-wing media. They got in a room and said, “Joe, get out.” And he said, “No, I don’t want to get out. I got 14—.” And Jill said, “We’re not going to get rid of him. Good ol’ Joe is as sharp as a tack.” But it took about a month. And then they said, Joe said, “Wow, the donors aren’t going to give me any money. The media is going to attack me.” So, they had a coup. And they just took him off the ticket. And then they had no election, no primary. They put a person, they took a person who’d won 14 million primary votes in 2020, and they appointed his vice president, had never won a single delegate, without any discussion. And then they ratified by a fake delegate vote at the convention. So, they took him out, and they took him out because it was a disaster. And now they look back and Trump is, I’ll quote Shakespeare, he doth bestride like a Colossus over these nonentities. So, they’re really angry and they said, “Well, we didn’t remove him because he was bad. We didn’t remove him because he was failing. We just thought that he needed a break.” So, now they’re going back and saying the record was actually pretty good because he didn’t do it, we did. We had a coup, basically. We ran the government. It was wonderful. But what Trump needs to do—kind of said this in one of our Daily Signal short pieces. No more cartoons where he’s in a jet spraying people with defecation, all that. You don’t need to go back and fight back and forth on the libs and all that stuff. Just look at the record. Ten thousand people coming in a day, some days, illegally. Somewhere between, if you count illegal entrance, probably 10 million to 12 million. And if you count actual people who stayed, probably 7 million or 8 million. Zero now. Zero. They’re going to get 2 million deportations, whether coerced or self-deported, in a year. If you look at—we’re pumping a million barrels more of oil already than Biden did. He drained the petroleum reserve by 200 million barrels. Trump is already filling it right now as I speak. It’s up to 406 barrels. He’s got a plan to fill the whole thing. He’s had seven ceasefires. He’s flying all over the world. He stopped the killing in Gaza. He ended the nuclear threat in the near future. If we had this conversation a year ago, we’d say, “Man, we can’t stop Hezbollah. They’re too tough. Iran is just crazy. They’ve got, all together, these guys—Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, Iran—they’ve got over 200,000 rockets.” They’re all inert now. They’re all inert because Trump stood by Israel, gave them the supplies, no suspension, said, “Go to it,” then took out, himself, a nuclear plant. And then when you look at inflation, the average inflation was 5%, as we said, under Biden, over that four-year period. It’s going to be about 3% this year. He left office when it was 1.7%. The first time, if you look at [gross domestic product], say that GDP is, it’s going to be about 3%. If you look at the stock market, it set a record this week. It’s never been higher. They said it was going to crash in March. If you look at trade revenue, you have one of these rare months in September where we had more money coming into the Treasury than going out.  The deficit, for all the “Big, Beautiful Bill’s” spending, the deficit’s gonna go down. Not a lot, but somewhat. So, when you look at the—and then, you know, when he talked about DEI, would say he can’t get rid of DEI. These people are formidable. He just got rid of it. He got rid of it. All of a sudden, why do you think that people who say that they’re considering transitioning has dropped dramatically on campuses? Because it’s no longer cool. And there’s no longer kind of a fad. Because he said, “If you’re biological male, I don’t care what you call me, a transphobe, you’re not going to go and destroy female sports. And you’re not going to have laws that say that people who expose themselves to the opposite sex with their genitalia have to go to jail, and then we’re going to let men go in and shower with preteen girls. We’re not going to let that happen.” And so, he wrecked them. He went after them. It’s really an astounding achievement if he would just talk about it.  Winc: Yes, and you’ve convinced me why, if I were a Democrat, I wouldn’t want to be a backer of Joe Biden or say, really, anything about him—at least not in a positive sense. So, if I’m in an interview and I’m Kamala Harris, I’m going to say, “Well, Joe Biden did what he could do as best he could. However you say that, I don’t care. But I have ideas of things that we could do better and da da da,” and start at least that. But why are these Democrats doubling down on a presidency that was a complete disaster? Because, just as what you’ve just told me, there’s no way it’s been so drastically changed today by Trump himself.  Hanson: But what I’m saying is that that was a presidency in which, for the first time since the New Deal, the socialist Left had an opening. They ran a moderate candidate who was losing because he was senile in 2020. He lost the first three primaries and caucuses—New Hampshire, Iowa, Nevada. Then [Rep. Jim] Clyburn said, “You know what, I don’t want to vote for these white liberal socialists.” And he went to Biden and said, “I will deliver the black vote in South Carolina, and you will win. But we have certain demands on you about appointments, black judges, black this, black vice president.” And then the socialists came to him and said, “We will get [Sen. Elizabeth Warren out], we’ll get [Sen.] Bernie [Sanders] out, we’ll get [Pete] Buttigieg, but you’re going to open that border and you’re going to get [George] Soros DAs and you’re going to go through defund the police, and you’re going to go radical, Green New Deal.” And they got everything they wanted. So then, they got it and they destroyed the country, and the people turned on them. So now, what are they going to say? Are they going to say, “Well, we had a George McGovern and we corrected with Bill Clinton after 20 years”? No. So, that’s what they have to say. We have [Sen. John] Fetterman. He’s basically said, “We have a message that people do not want, so we need to correct.” But they’re not going to do that until they lose again. They have to lose at least once more in a national election. They have to lose the midterms. Otherwise, they’ll keep at it.  Winc: Yeah. He seems to be, Fetterman, the persona non grata in the Democratic Party right now, so he doesn’t get any kudos for saying that kind of thing. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats Have to Lose One More Time Before They Abandon the Party appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Last Saturday Christopher Moynihan, who had previously received a pardon from Donald Trump for his role in the  January 6th protests, was arrested for allegedly making death threats against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). On Tuesday, Moynihan pleaded not guilty. That night, it was discussed on CNN's News Night with Abby Phillip, and at times, the host wasn't pleased with her two conservative guests. Phillips started by going after Trump's "blanket pardon" of the January 6th participants. She then turned to Lydia Moynihan of the New York Post, who specifically denounced the threat to Jeffries right from the start. MOYNIHAN: Well first this is absolutely horrific and disgusting and I'm so grateful that the FBI is as impressive as they are and was able to capture this. There's a man named Alton Mills who Barack Obama pardoned, who was a violent criminal and went on to murder somebody else....This is disgusting, but I think to take a bigger look at what's going on there is, in fact, one party that frequently releases violent criminals and puts them back on the street, and that is the Democratic Party who's soft on crime... Decarlos Brown, who was arrested 14 times and went on to murder someone. So, I think that is a bigger problem than Americans are facing today. And as for Hakeem Jeffries, absolutely disgusting that somebody wanted to target him, and I'm so grateful that the FBI discovered that plot. Moynihan brought up Obama pardoning Mills, and used the horrific case of Decarlos Brown Jr., arrested 14 times over the span of a decade, who wound up brutally murdering Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte lightrail train this past August, to drive home her point that democrats are soft on crime. She left no doubt that she was outraged by the threat to Jeffries, calling it horrific and disgusting. But it's as if Phillip didn't hear that part. PHILLIP: So, a few weeks ago, rhetoric was the issue and was the source of political violence on the left. Now, here's a man who was pardoned by this president for a violent act who then threatens a member of Congress, Congressional leadership, and it's no big deal? Who was Phillip listening to? Moynihan responded, "It is a big deal, absolutely. It's a huge deal. The plot was foiled. And, thankfully, everyone is safe." And soon it would be time for Scott Jennings to take a turn.   JENNINGS: It is a risk when you blanket pardon a group without really looking into the individuals. The same risk applies to Joe Biden, who pardoned thousands of drug criminals without looking into the individual files at the end of his administration... PHILLIP: Can I ask you a question about that? Are you suggesting that because Joe Biden did not personally look into each file, or because it did not go through a process? Because I'm not sure it didn't go through a process, but you're saying -- JENNINGS: What I'm saying the president -- it's pretty well-reported that the president himself did not go through each individual case. PHILLIP: Sure. But I -- JENNINGS: And I'm just saying simply it's a risk....Whenever you do a large group of people and you're the president, the buck stops with you. You're ultimately responsible for what happens... I have no tolerance for people threatening to kill anyone, from Hakeem Jeffries to Brett Kavanaugh, to the other kinds of things we've seen. I have no tolerance for it. Neither Moynihan or Jennings said anything wrong, nor did they diminish the seriousness of the threat against Hakeem Jeffries. What they did was add context to the story. They proved that leftist policies have resulted in horrific criminal acts, and that Trump isn't the only President who has pardoned someone who has gone on to do more harm. Phillip either can't process that, or she has no interest in having her 'trash Donald Trump segment' disturbed by facts and opposing viewpoints. 

For many, many years, most of us blindly trusted the pharmaceutical industry to develop drugs that were safe and effective. We didn’t question the food at the grocery store either. We just naively assumed that if it was approved for sale, it must be safe to consume.But the ruse is up.Now we know that Big Pharma and Big Food are in bed together – plotting how to ensure Americans stay sick and addicted.On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Podcast,” Glenn interviewed fitness expert and “The Biggest Loser” trainer Jillian Michaels on the insidious ties between the “catastrophic quartet of Big Food, Big Ag, Big Pharma, and Big Insurance” that’s keeping us in chains. Michaels isn’t convinced that all people who work in medicine or food are devilishly conspiring to harm Americans. The puppet masters at the top may be, but most individual workers had no intention of being pawns in a game.“The machine has a bottom line, and the machine reports to Wall Street. And so they need profit. People are just cogs in that machine. And I don’t think these individuals are ill-intentioned, but they definitely get caught up in these industries,” she says, acknowledging that many of these individuals pursue careers in food and medicine because they want to help “save the world” and “feed the world.”Unfortunately, what ends up happening is these well-intentioned people need to “pay [their] bills,” and the only way to do that is to “incentivize people to drink more soda and to eat more chips.”Glenn agrees, noting that America “fed the world” because of developments in genetically modified organisms, which altered the DNA of various plants and animals so they could grow faster and be more pest resistance, drought tolerant, or nutritionally dense.“At the beginning, it was a really good thing ... but somewhere along the line, that changed,” he says.“I’m actually writing a book about this right now,” Michaels says, “and it looks at the ways in which our food policy, our policy around Big Ag, Pharma, Big insurance ... captured well-intentioned legislation and inverted them.”“It is absolutely nefarious because everything that was passed with the best of intentions ended up getting in the wrong hands and subsequently manipulated to be weaponized against the American people,” she adds.Now the food that was meant to nourish us is actually poisoning us, and the medicine that was meant to heal us is actually making us sicker. Michaels gives the example of Howard Moskowitz, an American market researcher and psychophysicist specializing in food science, who coined the term “bliss point” in the 1970s.The bliss point is “the perfect ratio of fat and sugar and salt” that makes our brains crave more. In other words, Moskowitz was a specialist in food addiction, which is responsible for America’s astronomical obesity rates and subsequent diseases.“That is probably the least nefarious thing that has happened,” Michaels says.Moskowitz’s research has since developed into a “multidisciplinary team of scientists and behavioralists and marketing experts that work around the clock trying to figure out how to make you not eat just one.”“That’s not a slogan — you can’t eat just one. That’s a business model. Period,” Michaels says.This creates a prime opportunity for the pharmaceutical companies to create expensive weight loss drugs, like Ozempic, which boost the body’s GLP-1 hormones that tell it to stop eating. However, because these weight loss medicines are helping people break food additions, now “the food companies are trying to find a way to make these ultra-processed foods now bypass your GLP-1 hormone pathways,” Michaels says.“That’s evil!” Glenn reacts.“That is the kind of stuff that is happening and has been happening for decades,” Michaels says.To hear more of the conversation, watch the full interview above.Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A man behind a popular YouTube crafting account for children was arrested for alleged possession of child sex abuse material, according to Kentucky police.Michael David Booth, 39, garnered over 594K subscribers on his "Mr. Crafty Pants" account, but it was his alleged misconduct on the Kik messaging app that led to his arrest.'My heart dropped. Felt sick to my stomach. It was gut-wrenching and eye-opening.'Law enforcement officials said they were tipped off that child sex abuse material was being allegedly sent from Booth's account between Aug. 5 and Aug. 8.An investigation found two photographs Booth took of himself on the account, indicating that he ran the account. The account sent files of children under 12 to other Kik users on at least 10 occasions, and it sent files of children between 12 and 18 years old to other users on at least 15 occasions, according to the arrest citation. Neighbors noticed a sign at the man's home that took on sinister tones after the arrest."I smell children," the sign read. On Oct. 22, Booth was arrested on 25 counts of distributing matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor and four other similar counts. A Jefferson County District Court judge set a bond of $100,000 full cash for Booth on Thursday and ordered that he have no access to social media, to the internet, or to minors.RELATED: Famed crocodile expert pleads guilty to bestiality, possessing child abuse material, and animal abuse; had 'torture room' "You feel like you know your neighbors, but what goes on behind closed doors ... I guess we never know," said Lindsay Smart, a neighbor to Booth. "It's sickening, it's disgusting, and I'm glad he got caught.""So we walked out our front door on Wednesday to a very heavy police presence," said Laura Nash, who lives across the street from Booth. "My heart dropped. Felt sick to my stomach. It was gut-wrenching and eye-opening."Some users noted that Booth was wearing the same sweatshirt in one of his last Instagram posts as he is in his booking photo.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Democrats were expected to sail through the New Jersey gubernatorial race, but preliminary polls show the GOP candidate is narrowing the gap.Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli was at a nine-point disadvantage behind Democratic candidate Mikie Sherrill back in August, according to RealClearPolling. In a matter of weeks, Ciattarelli has managed to narrow Sherrill's advantage from nearly double digits to just 3.6 points.'He is the right person to lead New Jersey in the right direction.'Ciattarelli secured an endorsement from President Donald Trump, who called him "a terrific America First Candidate.” At the same time, the Republican has earned endorsements from local Democrats, which may have helped Ciattarelli close in on Sherrill's lead. "Why would anyone vote for New Jersey and Virginia Gubernatorial Candidates, Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger, when they want transgender for everybody, men playing in women’s sports, High Crime, and the most expensive Energy prices almost anywhere in the World?" Trump asked in a recent Truth Social post. "VOTE REPUBLICAN for massive Energy Cost reductions, large scale Tax Cuts, and basic Common Sense!”RELATED: Kelsey Grammer endorses Republican in dead-heat NJ governor race Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesAlthough securing support from the MAGA base is key, New Jersey's traditionally blue voting record makes bipartisan endorsements key in the gubernatorial race. Ciattarelli recently received an endorsement from New Era Democrats President Celia Iervasi, who emphasized the issue of affordability and taxes. “As life continues to become unaffordable for the working class, and New Jersey continues to be one of the highest-taxed states in the country, Jack is the right person that is needed to make life more affordable for the residents of the Garden State,” Iervasi said. “We look forward to joining a coalition of organizations that are supporting Jack in the upcoming election and know that he is the right person to lead New Jersey in the right direction.”RELATED: NJ’s blue wall may be cracking in governor race, new poll shows — GOP hopeful racks up Democrat endorsements Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesIervasi is just one of several Democrats and Democrat supporters who have thrown their support behind Ciattarelli. Democrats like North Bergen Mayor Nick Sacco, North Bergen Commissioner Allen Pascual, Dover Mayor Jim Dodd, Branchville Mayor Anthony Frato, Branchville Councilman Jeff Lewis, and former Hudson County Democratic Organization Chair Anthony Vainieri have all come out in support of the Republican candidate. Garfield Mayor Everett Garnto also endorsed Ciattarelli as he announced that he was changing his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. “It’s not just Republicans who are crying out for change,” Ciattarelli told a crowd following Garnto's endorsement. “It’s unaffiliated, independent voters and yes, even moderate Democrats who’ve come to the realization that this current administration has failed.”Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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