Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont)’s “Fighting Oligarchy” tour is coming to New Jersey, and his endorsed candidate in the special election for New Jersey’s 11th congressional district, Analilia Mejia, will be making a starring appearance.
The rally will be held at a performing arts center in Wayne, on the edge of the 11th district, on January 19 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Mejia was the national political director on Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign, and Sanders endorsed her campaign for Congress the day she entered the race. She’s since made her support from national progressives, and her own left-wing stances, a core part of her argument in a crowded Democratic primary full of well-known candidates.
“I am so honored to stand shoulder to shoulder with Senator Sanders in the fight to take power away from the rich and powerful and back into the hands of working people,” Mejia said today in a statement.
Sanders’s “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, though, long predates Mejia’s candidacy. The senator has made 25 stops around the country since the beginning of the second Trump administration with a message of “tak[ing] on the oligarchs and corporate interests,” but his Wayne rally will be his first time in New Jersey – his first time, that is, since he came to Rutgers in 2021 to energize young people to vote for Gov. Phil Murphy.
