The daughter of Colombian and Dominican immigrants, Mejia ran on an adamantly anti–Donald Trump message and secured a whopping 70 percent of the vote as a result. The Associated Press called her victory shortly after the votes started rolling in.

70 percent… wow!

The progressive Democrat’s positions echo several of the policies that made Sanders a national phenomenon, including support for universal health care coverage, tuition-free college, student loan forgiveness programs, and strengthening unions and expanding labor protections in order to bolster America’s middle class.

She sounds like a Democrat who wants to win and is against genocide.

Mejia has also been vocal in her criticism of Israel, publicly denouncing the state’s war on Palestine as a genocide. That caught the attention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which funneled money into the race to bolster her opponents. In the end, the pro-Israel lobby’s efforts may have been one of the reasons that voters in New Jersey sent Mejia to Congress.

Awesome!

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    Why, for people like you? People whod snitch on me in a heartbeat, and arent worth it in any case?

    Tell you what, if im still alive when its too late, and you realize it needed to happen, ill scold you for being anadventurist and tell you why its too late. Then ill watch you fight for me. Wont that be a fun reversal?

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      Lol. You guys are hilarious. You won’t do something as simple as voting against the Nazi candidate, but you expect other people to fight a revolution for you.

      In what world do you think that people who fight a revolution (that you seemingly won’t participate in) will give you a seat at the table to create the next government?

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      Why

      You’ve been explaining “why” such a revolution is important from the get-go. Now you’re denying all those reasons for the sake of a petty jab.

      You know full well why it’s important. You’re just angry at receiving a call to action, despite sitting around calling others to action.

      Now look, do you want us to fix this mess or not? Because if you sincerely do, you should understand why in-fighting between those with a common cause isn’t helpful. Tearing down people who are trying their best and asking for help, or who are celebrating small wins because that’s the best they’ve got, serves no use to anyone. OP’s absolutely right that we need suggestions to get the ball rolling. We’re at a stage now where we’re still organizing, which is hard when authoritarians have access to monitor practically everything in this country.

      Think about it - we can’t just make a webpage or online group for like-minded people to meet up at. We have to go out to meet people and talk face-to-face. That takes a lot of time. Our best shot at networking is at the protests (which plenty of people who’ve never been to one criticize as “useless.”)

      If there are reasonable ways to catalyze such a movement, we’d appreciate being made aware of them. Right now, online warriors seem to think that one person can become an instant hero, despite having zero logistics for how that’s supposed to realistically happen. If you happen to have knowledge of such logistics, please share them. That way we can all move toward the future that we all want.

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        Im okay dying in a shitty apartment to a 2 am police raid.

        Its true i have never been outside. Yes.

        You need to actuwlly do things, rather than deciding on a fuhrer and asking himto get things done. Thats not helpful. Its more than unhelpful because that system is theirs. There epsteinists to kill, but theres also train tracks to lay and agriculture to fix etc. None of it means shit until all of its in motion.