Have you made a plan to vote? And are you going to vote on the WFP line? I hope the answers are yes and yes! (My kids & I voted today – but maybe the best voting plan answer I heard was the person who said: “Next Saturday, obviously! I want the Halloween “I Voted” sticker!”) Early voting has started in NYC and runs...

The Israeli Foreign Ministry is lying. No coordination was required, and we were never told that it was. We were not in a restricted security area. We did not pass any checkpoints. Palestinian farmers do not — and should not — need permits to harvest their own olive fields. But they fear doing so, because the IDF...

Everyone in our Protect the Harvest delegation has been released. The Israelis who were with us have also received 15-30 day bans from the West Bank, which unfortunately means they will be unable to participate in the olive harvest. Thank you to everyone for the kind words and support throughout the day. For now,...

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention. For harvesting olives. They should all be released immediately. To...

Today was our second day in the olive groves with the “Protect the Harvest” coalition. Listen to Amira Musallam from Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine share a horrific story of a mom and two small kids who were violently attacked by settlers earlier this year — in a house that sits just above the olive grove...

I'm in the West Bank this week as part of the “Protect the Harvest” coalition along with Israelis for Peace, Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine & Protect the Harvest, which is bringing people together from around the world to help Palestinian farmers harvest olives in the face of state-sanctioned settler...

Right in our backyard is a compelling red-to-blue race. NY-11 is the only district in NYC with a MAGA congressmember who supports Trump’s tariffs, wars, and violent immigration policies — while shielding the criminals in the Epstein files, the administration, and their corporate cronies. The working families of...

No reasonable law enforcement agency would ever fire a hail of bullets into a car that presents no safety threat … with a five-year-old in the backseat. We need an independent investigation. We need Oscar to be released from custody immediately. And we need ICE to get the hell out of our city.

You don’t have to be a former City Comptroller to know it’s a corrupt, hideous idea for Trump’s SEC to roll back “pay-to-play” regulations that prohibit investors from bribing State Treasurers and other public pension fiduciaries with campaign contributions. But given all the noise, you may need a former City...

Sukkot commands us to welcome guests and to find joy together. You never know when strangers might turn out to be angels. It was an honor to welcome Mayor Mamdani — and some very special ushpizin (exalted guests) — to our sukkah this week.

You might not have MO-2 on your congressional district radar screen. But you should! (even if you weren’t born there ;-) MAGA Republicans tried to gerrymander the maps to steal two seats in Missouri. But their efforts were so blatantly illegal that even SCOTUS stopped them (three times … and yesterday for good)....

I'm excited to partner with Swing Left's Ground Truth canvass program this fall! Their organizing program will help us take back the House — and keep building deeper relationships with voters for the longer-term change we need. They’re recruiting busloads of canvassers to head out from NYC every weekend. To all of...

I will not stop speaking out against the Trump administration’s egregious abuse of immigrant children. Very young kids are being held in detention and forced to go before a judge – without any lawyer by their side. Even though many of these children have relatives who live here, the U.S. government is cruelly...

I want to address what happened over the weekend outside Madison Square Garden. A few loud numbskulls must not deter us from building multi-faith, multi-racial coalitions for justice.

40 kids, separated from their parents, and held in detention by our government, despite committing no crimes. Those were the cases I sat in on today in immigration court. Only 6 had lawyers – because the Trump administration cruelly cancelled the contract that provides attorneys to unaccompanied immigrant kids. The...