Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

US Congresswoman, NY-14. In a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no American should be too poor to live. People-Funded, takes no lobbyist💰. Personal account.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The cynics will tell you that one vote won’t change anything.

But what they don’t tell you is that nothing can change without a vote.

The truth is, the world doesn’t belong to the cynics. It’s up to us.

New York: It’s time to vote.🗳️
Tuesday, June 25th.

Spread the word.

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

AOC on Trump saying oil companies are making too much money: "Everyday Americans, we can see the very large gap between what Trump says and does ... what Donald Trump is doing is starting a reckless war in Iran, having closed-door meetings with oil companies saying 'you give me money and I'll do whatever you want' ... he's jacking up the price not just at the pump, but everything that you buy that requires the transportation of goods."

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

@OsseChi Your influence ✨

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

I appreciate AIPAC proving it doesn’t belong in the Dem Party and especially our primaries.

From endorsing Jan 6th members to ensuring Congress remains in the hands of a 34-count felon, AIPAC is an org committed to undermining democracy at home and abroad.

See you in November.

[Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender]

NEW: AIPAC signaling plans to spend for Republican Mike Rogers in #MISen

"Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Congratulations @AbdulElSayed on securing the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate!

Now we get to work. 90 days till
Election Day starts now. 🗳️

We've got a world to win.
Sign up and give today:
https://t.co/qBrjyNSUQn

[The Associated Press @AP]

Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, defeating U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens in a victory for the party's progressive wing in a battleground state. https://t.co/BEq0d865jq

[Alex Thompson @AlexThomp]

New ad w/ AOC and El-Sayed ahead of next Tuesday’s primary.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Why do we stand with @AbdulElSayed?
Because he’s a fighter for:

Higher wages
Stronger unions
Lower bills
and expanded Medicare
…FOR ALL!

That’s why lobbyists are spending against him - and why your support makes all the difference.

Donate & help today: https://t.co/VKhwiKVaCi

[MTA News @MTANewsroom]

Five years ahead of schedule. $195 million under budget.

Since October 2023, crews replaced 196 bridge structures and more than 12,600 feet of railroad along the 133-year-old Park Avenue Viaduct—all over 28 tightly coordinated weekends while maintaining full Metro-North service.

The work took place along a critical corridor carrying 98% of Metro-North trains—approximately 750 trains and 260,000 passengers every day.

With the major structural replacement now complete, we asked the project lead how the MTA delivered the work faster and for less without disrupting service.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Memphis is home to Elon Musk’s data center empire — and the polluting turbines xAI uses to power them appear to be making residents sick.

Justin Pearson has been leading the fight against them, and is now running for Congress to elevate the fight to protect his community.

Pearson is running in a district that Tennessee Republicans just gerrymandered, but in sticking to his progressive working class values, and channeling the rage at xAI's noise, pollution, and lawlessness, he could pull off a historic upset.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

NEW: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is demanding in a new letter that Mitch McConnell "directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign."

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Yes! We love the 34th Ave open street! 🥳

[Shekar Krishnan @voteshekar]

I agree with Congresswoman @AOC: our open street is incredible, and we can make it the linear park that our community deserves.

Thank you, AOC, for the shoutout and for taking @StreetsblogNYC along Paseo Park!

[Streetsblog New York City @StreetsblogNYC]

https://t.co/7ifw7jVS4S

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism?

AOC: I mean, no. I think that’s very silly. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do they really think communism is going to happen? No. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care.

So they want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here, they’re going to realize they deserve better and that health care as a right isn’t crazy. They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care. They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada—everybody else—has it better than us, and we spend the most money for the worst care in the developed world.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Sen. @TinaSmithMN has been a fighter for working people in the US Senate. I hope to build on her leadership on women's health and reproductive rights and access which has paved the way for the future I want for my daughters and every American. I'm deeply grateful for her support.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Rep. @AOC: Ask Peter Thiel, ask Elon Musk, ask Mark Zuckerberg, if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard. I was just in Memphis. All within one block, an xAI greywater treatment plant, methane turbines, coal ash, wastewater facilities. Everyone in that area is getting poisoned. This conversation is not just about technology, it's about people's ability to live without getting cancer.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

AOC called out Elon Musk’s Memphis data centers and the turbines he uses to power them, saying: “all these folks are getting sick” and the people profiting “don't have to pitch into the cost at all for the healthcare burdens.”

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

AOC: "Ask Peter Thiel, ask Elon Musk, ask Mark Zuckerberg if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard.

Ask any one of us here on this committee. If anyone wants to live right next to one of these data centers here on this committee, please raise your hand...

So I think what people are asking for in their basic protections is not too much to ask ... I think it's not unreasonable for the working class people that we are elected to respond to, to ask questions and to deserve and feel entitled to a response from their elected officials."

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

If GOP were at all serious about the insider trading issue, they would put it up on its own for a vote.

They know adding voter suppression to it will sabotage the effort to ban insider trading.

That’s exactly why they’re doing it this way. Don’t fall for it. Spread the word.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Republicans are trying to pull a trick this week.

They say we are voting on an “insider trading” bill, but have snuck in massive SAVE Act-style voter suppression measures to it.

This is a GOP effort to sabotage national mail-in voting, disguised as a trading ban.

I’m voting NO

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

Two things are true. This insider trading bill up for a vote is much weaker than other bipartisan bills that could've passed. This bill is also much more aggressive than anything that's on the books.

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: An alternative point of consideration here, in terms of New York State’s recent moratorium—the kind of thought that, well, if you don’t want to build in your backyard, then maybe you shouldn’t have access to compute. We could say to the Silicon Valley billionaires who are constructing, pushing, and imposing these data centers on communities that are overwhelmingly rural, disenfranchised, and poor.

Ask if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard. Ask any one of us here on this committee. If anyone wants to live right next to one of these centers, please raise your hand.