India, June 28 -- Deja Foxx, a 25-year-old social media activist and abortion rights advocate, is running for Congress in Arizona's 7th District. Her campaign has quickly drawn comparisons to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC).

Foxx officially declared her campaign in April after the death of longtime Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva, who died of cancer in March at age 77, as reported by The Washington Post.

Foxx garnered national media attention in 2017 for a viral video in which she described her confrontation with then-Sen. Jeff Flake over Planned Parenthood funding. She used that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to accrue a large following on social media, where she continues to share advocacy-related content with her followers regularl...