Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Yet, as we heard earlier in your testimony today, many modern coal mines are going un-reclaimed.”

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

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.