Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “We must reintroduce the ban on oil exports and expand to increase a ban on fracked gas exports.”

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.

But I think a lot of politics sometimes, at least for me, is about values, and being aligned in values I think is tremendously important.

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

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…