Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Any New Yorker can tell you that this group does not look representative of the NYPD at all. Most NYPD patrol officers are Black, Latino, or Asian American - and the overall force is about 1/5 women. So what’s going on here? 👀⬇️ — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Asking for a country — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @AyannaPressley: Yes, it’s possible to legislate justice & accountability and write budgets that actually value Black lives. If it feels… — PolitiTweet.org

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@yuhline Because you’re awesome and NY is lucky to have you in the assembly! — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Our first slate of New York primary endorsements is out today! 🗳 New York: The primary election is on June 23rd. Early voting starts THIS Saturday, June 13th! Check https://t.co/dVZwJAic7m to find your early polling location. https://t.co/BY0MMb9xDl — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JulianCastro: District attorneys are on notice: if you don’t have the courage to support change and to hold police officers accountable… — PolitiTweet.org

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Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) is running for Senate & building the kind of principled, inclusive, and winning coalition in Kentucky that can inspire positive change. The US Senate will be a better place with him in it. I’m proud to endorse him. Let’s go: https://t.co/yocF7U9Os5 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Eugene_Scott: Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old Buffalo man shoved by two 30-something police officers, is a member of PUSH Buffalo, which… — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamaalBowmanNY Wouldn’t have it any other way 💪🏽💜 — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @heatherscope: “It is not crazy for black and brown communities to want what white people have already given themselves and that is fund… — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Not long ago, “Black Lives Matter” was *also* a rallying cry for justice that politicians worried polled too poorly, was too “divisive” & required “too much explanation.” Now Mitt Romney is saying it. Progress is a process. It’s normal to work through discomfort along the way. — PolitiTweet.org

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@obrien Perhaps a bad choice to your aims & focus It’s been an excellent choice for the organizers who have been trying to prompt a national convo for years about multibillion-dollar police depts. “Refund” or “reallocate” didn’t do that. “Defund” did. BLM had similar early resistance. — PolitiTweet.org

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And by the way, the fact that ppl are scrambling to repackage this whole conversation to make it palatable for largely affluent, white suburban “swing” voters again points to how much more electoral & structural power these communities have relative to others Just for awareness! — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Our job as policymakers is to take the public’s mandate and find + create pockets to advance as much progress as possible. Progress takes a team of different roles. You don’t criticize a pitcher for not being a catcher. We can respond in ways that don’t undercut impt work — PolitiTweet.org

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Lots of DC insiders are criticizing frontline activists over political feasibility and saying they need a new slogan. But poll-tested slogans and electoral feasibility is not the activists’ job. Their job is to organize support and transform public opinion, which they are doing. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Defund” means that Black & Brown communities are asking for the same budget priorities that White communities have already created for themselves: schooling > police,etc. People asked in other ways, but were always told “No, how do you pay for it?” So they found the line item. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mayaharris_: She knows it’s out of 100, right? — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @RollingStone: Ramsey Orta, who filmed the deadly Eric Garner arrest in 2014, has been released from prison https://t.co/Gbmum0hrR8 http… — PolitiTweet.org

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Massachusetts: @EdMarkey is the real deal in the Senate. He makes clear commitments over vague platitudes- a rare quality in a time when it’s politically easier to do the opposite. You are lucky to have him as a Senator,& I hope you organize to keep him: https://t.co/1fYwHT2gZp — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NickKristof: This is a police force begging to be defunded. — PolitiTweet.org

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🗳 HOW TO VOTE IN NY: Absentee: Apply by June 16th, return by June 23rd Early Voting: 🚨 Early voting starts THIS SATURDAY, June 13th! (check locations via our link) Election Day: Cast your ballot on TUESDAY, JUNE 23rd. Plan at https://t.co/dVZwJAic7m, absentee info below ⬇️ https://t.co/e8DOglBGeT — PolitiTweet.org

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Stay in the streets. It’s working ⬇️ — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @AsteadWesley: It is a success of the movement that police reform is the scott walker position — PolitiTweet.org

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The @PressSec comment is steeped in a long, hurtful, & horrendous history of stripping women of color of titles and diminishing them to “the help.” Perhaps she isn’t aware that what she did is mired in racist history. If that is the case, I look forward to her apology tomorrow. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

The @PressSec’s statement echoes a long, harmful, and disgusting history of stripping women of color of their titles and belittling us as “the help.” If this was not her intention, I look forward to her apology at the podium tomorrow. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

.@PressSec wouldn’t be the first person to mistake a women of color for having a lower position or title than she does, but Kayleigh - in case you haven’t picked up a newspaper in two years, I’m a Congresswoman. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nowthisnews: 'We would not be giving local police departments who are undertrained a tank if we didn't give the military too much money… — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Grassroots: “We need major investments in healthcare, housing, and public education.” Conservatives: “That’s a nice idea, but fiscally irresponsible. You need to state how you‘re going pay for things!” G: “Let’s use money from overfunded police depts.” C: “...not like that” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ACLU: 3 million students attend schools with cops, but no nurses. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BreeNewsome: The political establishment will attempt to take a small amount of $ from these enormous police budgets, transfer it to a… — PolitiTweet.org