Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “How is it that we have sitting elected members of Congress going missing for months at a time?”

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.

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.

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

We're going to take our power back.