I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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Public schools in the late ’80s and early ’90s were a total mess… we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
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I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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