Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Our latest project: pilot projects to get fee-free ATMs, check cashing, and wire transfers at the Post Office 📬 Because it’s ridiculous to get price gouged for accessing your *own* money! Shout out to @SenGillibrand, @BillPascrell, & @RepMarcyKaptur for helping lead on this — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @AyannaPressley: I know what it's like to lie awake at night, panicked over a student loan in default. I want to eliminate that burden… — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

The calls work, folks ➡️ ☎️ #PROAct — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

The prosecutor did not “make an error.” He lied. He lied about the police killing a child. Ending this isn’t just about consequences for who pulls the trigger. It’s about admitting to and confronting an entire system that exists to protect, defend, and cover up state violence. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MondaireJones: Our democracy is in crisis. If we’re going to save it, we must #ExpandTheCourt. Today, our movement begins. https://t… — PolitiTweet.org

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Cameras, chokehold bans, “retraining” funds, and similar reform measures do not ultimately solve what is a systemic problem. That system will find a way - killings happen on camera, people are killed in other ways, retraining grows $ while often substituting for deeper measures. — PolitiTweet.org

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Daunte Wright’s killing was not a random, disconnected “accident” - it was the repeated outcome of an indefensible system that grants impunity for state violence, rewards it w/ endlessly growing budgets at the cost of community investment, & targets those who question that order. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JamaalBowmanNY: There’s no justification for killing someone over expired plates. There’s no justification to mention damage to proper… — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Update: Just heard from @SenSchumer that over *1 MILLION* calls were made today to our funeral assistance program. FEMA has shored up support for these 1st few days. Thank you ALL for getting the word out & to the community activists that made this happen. Hotline: 844-684-6333 — PolitiTweet.org

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@CaanhInc Both! Originally it was just for 2020, but we were able to extend the program through 2022 in the latest COVID package / American Rescue Plan. — PolitiTweet.org

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Come for the instructions, stay for the Spanglish 🇺🇸🇵🇷 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ABCPolitics: WATCH: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez breaks down how people can begin the process of receiving federal financial assistanc… — PolitiTweet.org

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Some addt’l info: - Death certificate must list COVID as primary or contributing cause. If COVID wasn’t listed for your loved one (as many were early on), you can have the cert amended by the hospital - Documented people can apply for lost loved ones who were undocumented — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

It’s taken a lot of work, but I’m proud to announce that FEMA is launching our funeral assistance program. Starting TODAY people can apply for up to $9k in COVID funeral reimbursements. Universal program. The hotline # is 844-684-6333. Please share w/ those who could use it. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @IlhanMN: A child is dying every 75 seconds in Yemen. Please help uplift these activists who have been on a hunger strike for the past… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheCut: “It’s a result of the fact that we have built our immigration system on the same scaffolding of our incarceration system, and n… — PolitiTweet.org

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Happy birthday @JamaalBowmanNY! 🥳 From Bronx school principal to Congressman for NY-16, you make our borough proud! — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @PaulRieckhoff: .@AOC is right on this one. Bigger is possible. And necessary. Rebuilding our entire country will be expensive. And stil… — PolitiTweet.org

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A reminder that your resignation is 84 days past due. At least. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Maybe Mexico shouldn’t let YOU in the next time you try to run away from your job to sip umbrella drinks in Cancún. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Ted, this is pretty rich coming from someone who fled their own home (and responsibilities) during an environmental crisis to cross the border and seek refuge in Mexico. Also you funded cages, expanded cages, and yet you’re complaining about cages. You have no policy, just puff. — PolitiTweet.org

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In the long term, we need to address US immigration policy that drives parents to make the devastating choice to send their child alone to flee violence bc together they have less of a shot. Lots more. Also foreign policy, climate, etc. Here’s a roadmap: https://t.co/ppny4GDpRq — PolitiTweet.org

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So do we do? If facilities are your #1 concern, short term we need to shift Congress’ knee-jerk addiction to funding carceral facilities (ICE/CBP) to expansion of ORR (office of refugee resettlement) and HHS (health and human services). But that’s not a long term solution. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fact is a lot of the politicians crying right now don’t work to solve either. They vote to grow ICE + CBP cages and they do everything to avoid addressing the root: US foreign policy and interventionism that destabilizes regions, the climate crisis, and unjust economic policy. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Politicians and pundits who are pretending to care about the border now but have continuously voted to expand these cages can sit down. You might be new to this, but we’re true to this. Short-term issue is facilities. Long-term issue is destabilization that’s driving migration. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

For all the new tears GOP have about the border, what are their policy solutions? A Muslim ban, racist policy, shutting down the border, & more cages. If you don’t want children in cages, then you need to stop upholding CBP, ICE, and the military as the solution to this crisis. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

For all those who are brand new to this & only care about cages on a partisan basis, catch up: we‘ve been fighting our own party on immigration for a long time. This is the result of Congress endlessly dumping money into CBP/ICE cages vs humane policy https://t.co/Uv68zrk8Fy — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

A politician’s strength isn’t based on a trip. It’s based on their policy and voting RECORD. And the fact is a LOT of Ted Cruz types who are now going down to meet refugee children in boats outfitted w/ machine guns are the ones who helped create this problem in the first place. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

A lot of people who are just now suddenly horrified at the dehumanizing conditions at our border are the same folks who dehumanize immigrants + helped build these cages in the 1st place. When we tried to stop this infrastructure over a year ago,we were overruled by BOTH parties. — PolitiTweet.org

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@kathrynw5 How sure are you it was one of them 👀 https://t.co/0oQo3An91A — PolitiTweet.org