What Republicans do is that they try to make working people like you and me feel like we’re just one step outside of that club, that if we just work a little bit harder, maybe we’ll be a billionaire too.

Freedom is both political and economic.

Brothers and sisters, these drum majors for justice, just as you all and countless others today, were not handed a movement. They have always had to build one.

Scenes from New York: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) just renewed her lapsed membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) after a seven-year hiatus.

Right. I think that a lot of these races, even right now, they’ll have a tendency to be nationalized. … But these races, ultimately, are local, and all politics are local.

Beyond elections, our task is to build community. Block associations, volunteer groups, church organizations, PTAs, activist organizations because community is the most powerful building block we have to defeat authoritarianism and root…

Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We’re grown adults with mortgages and kids. We’re taking the reins.

The fear of speaking up, the deeply bitter and toxic division is the crumbling of our rights and protections.

Woke 1 was crazyyyyy.

At a time when powerful special interests are making life harder for everyday Americans, Massachusetts working families need a champion in the U.S. Senate to stand up for them and fight corporate greed.

They are not beholden to any corporate interest or any party boss, and they are completely independent, which allows them to be responsible to their communities and the people that elected them.

We all share the goals of having as low a crime rate as possible [but] rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.

I think that, you know, during lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.

During the pandemic, the doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place.

“Woke One was crazy”

I have a local city councilman that has this saying: ‘Woke 1 was crazy’… especially during Covid, I think that the doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place.

“Don’t be weird about this,” Ocasio-Cortez said, “even though I know all of you will be.”

“My insurance does not cover one penny of this,” the congresswoman said.

“This is a choice that I am making to feel more in control of my life,” Ocasio-Cortez explained.

There was a huge opening of the Overton window during the pandemic.

“I think it’s badass that I’m gonna be giving myself shots in the green room, get my glam on, roll out, talk international events, domestic policy, elections, pop out, live my life, do my thing,” she said on Instagram.

I think it's important to recognize that people evolve and change their views over time."

I think it’s important for us as leaders to have these conversations and share these processes, especially for working women across the country, and normalize them.

Don’t be weird about this, even though I know all of you will be.