Tom Malinowski
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Tom Malinowski is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party. He served as the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 7th congressional district from January 3, 2019, to January 3, 2021. During his time in Congress, Malinowski focused on issues such as healthcare, climate change, and civil rights. He was known for his advocacy on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community and efforts to address gun violence. Malinowski's background includes experience in human rights advocacy and foreign policy, having previously served as an assistant secretary of state in the Obama administration.
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July 21, 2026
The message to mainstream Democrats was that we will destroy you if you don’t blindly and unconditionally support whatever positions we take.
— Tom Malinowski
I think this agreement is a potentially huge step forward, and thank you to both of you and Ambassador Hammer and Secretary Blinken.
I wanted to take a moment to thank her for the hard work and the many years that she has been a leader on this committee.
All I did was filed paperwork late. It's very hard to respond to it unless you put millions of dollars on the air, calling out a lie as a lie.
This is a district that wants leaders who get shit done not batshit who are not leaders who are batshit crazy.
I don't think the Democrats can hold on to the House without this district. I think this is a bellwether for the country.
When people systematically try to define the media as fake news, when they systematically denigrate the objectivity of science, when they call for defunding the FBI or nonpartisan institutions in our Government the deep state and say, all…
The Oath Keepers are an organization that recruits members of law enforcement and the United States military to make war against the U.S. Government and our political system.
It is about human beings. Their humanity is being assaulted and they are being put in harm's way by virtue of how they look.
When leading politicians use rhetoric that basically sounds like the white replacement theory, accusing immigrants of being invaders to our country, calling immigration a plot to replace native-born or white Americans on the voting rules…
It is equally appropriate for us, as Mr. Green did, to call out the silence and complicity of people on the other side when leaders in their party engage in, well, legitimizing racist ideologies, dangerous anti-Government ideologies in our…
I think that it is incumbent on the Government to take responsibility and to act through the proper procedures and the proper channels when these kind of incidents take place.
If we don't do something about that, there is nothing that can be done with section 230.
The tech companies have created literally the perfect machine for spreading hatred.
I think ADL has also recommended that Congress move forward a bill that I co-sponsored, the Protecting Americans from Dangerous Algorithms Act.
When leaders campaign on ideas that say conspiracy theories are fine, that we ought to vilify some others, that we ought to see the world as very simple, it is a problem because that secret group behind there is doing something to harm us.
I think one of the things that we haven't mentioned today about this is that even though we are driving media and social media people into their buckets and we are talking about regulation, we haven't talked enough about how we can use…
I think most of the folks in my district who I represent, who have jobs today and would not have--I think we kind of agree some of them would not have jobs today--believe and would probably argue that it was worth it.





