About Tom

Tom Malinowski is a former diplomat, human rights activist, and member of Congress who represented New Jersey between 2019 and 2023. During his four years in the House of Representatives, Tom won funding and approval for the Gateway Tunnel and Portal Bridge, directed emergency help to small businesses, and secured pandemic aid to our municipal governments to keep property taxes from rising. He led the House in restoring federal funding for the fight against domestic terrorism and extremism, in condemning the QAnon conspiracy movement, in protecting America against foreign corruption and kleptocracy, and in authorizing the seizure of Russian assets to support Ukraine. Tom held over 140 Town Hall meetings where people could ask him anything. He served on the Transportation and Infrastructure and Homeland Security Committees, and was Vice Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Before Congress, Tom served as President Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy and Human Rights, standing up to dictators like Putin and Kim Jong-un. Prior to that, Tom was a senior director on President Clinton’s National Security Council and a human rights advocate who led a bipartisan effort to end the Bush administration’s use of torture. Tom has earned a reputation as a foreign policy leader, defender of democracy, and a fighter who delivered for his constituents. Now, he is running for New Jersey’s 11th district to make sure NJ families keep more of what they earn by cutting costs, and to stand up to the Trump administration’s lawlessness and corruption. Tom will put New Jerseyans first — he refuses to take corporate PAC money, so he only answers to us.

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