I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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It’s not just that I’m a woman of color running for office. It’s the way that I ran. It’s the way that my identity formed my methods.
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I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn’t be in politics, now are saying, ‘Oh, wait, I don’t need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I’ll run, too.’
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The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.
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It’s really scary or it’s easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don’t provide any substance to it.
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I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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