Meet Analilia Mejía, Who Won NJ Congressional Primary After Speaking Out Against ICE & Genocide in Gaza

In a surprise victory, progressive candidate Analilia Mejia won the Democratic primary to fill the House seat left vacant by New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill. Mejia served as 2020 national political director for Bernie Sanders and as deputy director of the Labor Department's Women's Bureau under President Joe Biden. As a proponent of community organizing, she has pledged to refuse corporate PAC and AIPAC dollars. It is training each other, engaging each other, understanding our history, so that we can protect our democratic institutions and we could preserve the kind of self-governance that we strive for in the United States," Mejia says.

Mejia won 29.3% of the vote against former Congressmember Tom Malinowski, who placed second with 27.6% of the vote. Although Mejia was the only candidate to say Israel is committing a genocide, Malinowski - who is pro-Israel but supportive of limits on aid to Israel - was the target of AIPAC ads that may have led to Mejia's victory.