Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “So we have a system that is fundamentally broken. We have these influences existing in this body.”

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.

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…

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

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.