Analila Mejia Leads! Tom Malinowski Refuses To Concedes!

It's not over yet.

Analila Mejia is looking more likely to beat the two pro Israel Democrats. The progressive activist has a lead with a little under 1,000 votes. The race is still too close to call but she is declaring victory because the lead appears to be insurmountable.

The anti-establishment vote is very serious. 

President Donald J. Trump quickly abandoned his base and it could play pivotal to a Democratic wave. 

But will this wave be more of the same tired strategy of moving to the middle or finally showing the progressives that they can be as ruthless as conservatives?

Republicans are ruthless in pushing their agenda. They made no quarrels about how they rammed through laws that rollback freedoms, due process and the way of progress.

They rammed through Supreme Court nominees to keep the judicial tilt to white establishment and traditionalist rules. They are literally driving us to global and civil war.

Yet, the Democratic Party wants to make nice with these folks.

Enough.

The Democratic Party only can win 41% of the White vote. That is as good as it can get.

The Democrats are bleeding in the Black vote, the Hispanic/Latino vote and the youth vote. They cannot rely on the turnout like it used to be. The voters are not buying the bullshit from Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. They too cozy with Israel, special interest and the status quo.

AIPAC, the country's largest lobbying organization that pushes for pro Israel candidates put millions into these races. The United Democracy Project is working to prevent progressives from defeating their pro Israel candidates. 

The organization spent heavily through its super PAC, United Democracy Project, to attack former Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), a pro-Israel moderate who would not support unconditional aid to Israel. In doing so, it provided an opening to Analilia Mejia, a progressive organizer backed by Bernie Sanders who has said Israel committed genocide in Gaza.

Mejia's win is going to be a catalyst on how progressives will mount a serious fight against the establishment and pro Israel Democrats.

Malinowski, who has not conceded the race, now trails Mejia by around 500 votes, with some outstanding votes left to be counted for the affluent, suburban seat.

AIPAC’s interventions in the New Jersey special election for Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s House seat was the first test of the group’s muscle ahead of the 2026 primary season, when they are expected to spend millions on Democratic primaries across the country. AIPAC’s super PAC is expected to weigh in on House primaries, starting in Illinois’ March primaries. Democratic candidates and strategists are also bracing for them to potentially wade into contentious Senate primaries in Michigan and Minnesota.

And their first foray of 2026 backfired spectacularly.