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Meet
Deja Foxx
Deja was raised by a single mom in Tucson, Arizona. She was a free lunch kid in our public schools whose family relied on SNAP benefits, Section 8 housing, and Medicaid to make ends meet. She knows what it feels like for elected officials, often out of reach, to make decisions about the resources people need to just get by. When asked how she got her start in politics, she’s quick to respond:
“I didn't pick politics, politics picked me.”
At a moment when working families are under attack from Trump and his billionaire buddies, Deja is ready to stand up and lead—because for her, it’s personal.
My Story
As a teen, Foxx experienced homelessness because of her mother’s struggles with substance abuse. She balanced high school classes with long nights working at the gas station and found her fight advocating for better sex education in her school district. Organizing a campaign of student storytellers, she delivered a win for tens of thousands of her peers who until then had been learning a curriculum last updated in the 1980s and worked firsthand in clinics around Tucson to provide support to young people seeking reproductive care.
Foxx went toe to toe with Republicans who voted in lockstep with the Trump Administration to defund Planned Parenthood. She made national headlines as, overnight, millions of views poured in on a video of her fiery exchange with Republican Senator Jeff Flake. After he voted to strip her and millions of other women of their access to essential birth control funding that empowered them to control their bodies and their futures, she asked pointedly:
“Why would you deny me the American Dream?”
Because of people like us, Republicans like him didn’t stand a chance. Foxx knows that good policies lift people up—because she’s lived it. Investing in public education, defending reproductive rights, protecting social services, and creating affordable housing aren’t just talking points. They’re what made it possible for her to walk across the stage as the first in her family to graduate college. A graduate of Columbia University, she made history as one of the youngest presidential campaign staffers, leading Influencer Strategy for Kamala Harris at just 19 years old. And in 2024, she used her platform as a speaker at the Democratic National Convention to shine a light on the ways the rising cost of living, restrictions on reproductive rights, and student debt affect her generation.
She has a vision for our future:
one where families like yours can afford rent and groceries, you decide if and when to start a family, and no matter where you’re from or how much money your parents make, you have a shot at getting ahead. Now, she’s running in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District to represent a new generation of progressive leaders
ready to disrupt on day one.
