Responding to moderate Democrats’ fears that democratic socialists would “doom” the party, Ocasio-Cortez said that diversity of thought among everyday voting people is a fundamental fact of America.
“I don’t think that we should be worried about what somebody somewhere believes. I think we should be focused on what our plan to improve people’s lives are,” she said…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/09/progressive-movement-success-tidal-wave-aoc-01030272
Ocasio-Cortez highlighted the contradictions in the bill that Democrats can be expected to campaign on over the next two years, pitting its spending on immigration enforcement against the loss of social benefits for working-class Americans.
She noted that Republicans voted for permanent tax breaks for billionaires while allowing a tax break on tips for people earning less than $25,000 a year to sunset in three years. She also noted that cuts to Medicaid expansion will remove tipped employees from eligibility for Medicaid and remove subsidies for insurance under the Affordable Care Act, and reduce Snap food assistance benefits.
"I don't think anyone is prepared for what they just did with Ice," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Bluesky. "This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion – making Ice bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, [the] DEA and others combined. It is setting up to make what's happening now look like child's play. And people are disappearing."…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/04/democrats-trump-bill
"We're here to flip this state," she continued, arguing she wants to build towards giving the "boot" to Republican representatives in Congress and replace them with "a brawling Democrat who will stand up for the working people of Idaho."
US Vermont senator's tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been drawing record-breaking crowds since February…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/bernie-sanders-rally-los-angeles
Progressive political stars say president and billionaire Elon Musk are turning US into oligarchy at rally in Arizona…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/bernie-sanders-aoc-arizona-rally-trump-musk
