The chapter’s key priorities include:

  • Opposing Harmful Offshore Wind Projects: Fighting to protect New Jersey’s coastline, economy, and communities from foreign-owned wind farms that threaten local industries and natural resources.
  • Economic Freedom: Cutting taxes and reducing regulations to empower families and small businesses.
  • Good Governance: Increasing transparency to eliminate corruption in state government.
  • Strengthening Public Safety and Education: Advancing policies that support law enforcement, secure communities, and give parents a stronger voice in their children’s education.

Team

Michael John Donohue

Chair of AFPI-New Jersey

Matthew T. Rooney

Executive Director, America First New Jersey

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Statement | July 21, 2026

AFPI New Jersey Sounds Alarm on 6,600 Illegal Voter Registrations

TRENTON, NJ - The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) New Jersey Chapter today released the following statement after Governor Mikie Sherrill admitted that New Jersey registered 6,600 illegal aliens to vote between June 2023 and June 2024.
Op-Ed | June 16, 2026

Delaney Hall is What Sanctuary Statehood Looks Like

For a full month now, the streets around the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark have belonged to the mob. Federal officers have been savagely bitten and pelted with objects. New Jersey State Police pulled in behind riot lines. Arrests have piled up, and the city implemented a nightly curfew in the vicinity of the facility. Unfortunately, the willingness of state and local officials to challenge the rioters fluctuates daily as the political winds continue to blow.
Statement | June 2, 2026

AFPI-NJ Chair Michael John Donohue on Today’s Primary Elections

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) New Jersey Chair Michael John Donohue today urges residents to vote in the state’s primary election, with polls open across New Jersey until 8 p.m. and seats up and down the ballot.
Statement | June 1, 2026

AFPI-NJ Condemns Violence at Delaney Hall, Calls for Order and Support for Federal Officers

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) New Jersey Chapter today responded to the ongoing violence and unrest outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility in Newark, where demonstrators and out-of-state instigators have viciously targeted federal agents and New Jersey State Police over the past week, leading to arrests, the assault of officers, threats against the families of law enforcement, and a curfew for the half-mile around Delaney Hall.
Op-Ed | April 14, 2026

Local Gas Bans Are Illegal. Washington Is Right to Stop Them.

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