The following sponsored message from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress has been sent to you via In These Times. As a nonprofit, the vast majority of our funding comes from readers like you—but revenue from organizations that advertise with In These Times helps us produce more of the reporting that you want to see.
We wanted to send you a message about the most important resource for our campaign: people.
AOC doesn’t come from a powerful or wealthy family. When she began this fight, she didn’t have a bunch of rich friends, corporate PACs, or establishment insiders to build the foundation for a winning campaign.
All she had was people like you. Volunteers from all walks of life, and people who were tired of a system that clearly wasn’t designed to work for them. We were united by a common goal — building a democracy that centered social, racial, economic, and environmental justice for all.
That coalition of scrappy volunteers, starry-eyed idealists, working-parents donating a few hours where they could, college students burdened with crippling debt, and activists of all creeds shocked the nation on June 26th, 2018.
AOC has been under constant attack. Republicans on the House floor attacked the Squad for impeaching Donald Trump. Fox News spent thousands of hours spreading lies about her, and gave her opponents national airtime. The President of the United States used his platform to try and tear us down.
But none of them could stop our momentum. Despite it all, our movement ushered a Green New Deal into the national conversation. We introduced legislation on the Just Society to bring economic justice to all.
We advanced the cause of progressive change in the face of historic opposition, and in 2020, we’re going even bolder than ever.
The forces aligned against us will have all the dark money, corporate PACs, and Fox News pundits on their side. But we have people power.
We’ll take those odds any day.
Pa’lante,
Team AOC
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