Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Ocasio-Cortez was born in the New York City borough of the Bronx on October 13, 1989, the daughter of Sergio Ocasio-Roman and Blanca Ocasio-Cortez ({{nee|Cortez}}).{{cite web |title=Meet Alexandria |url=https://ocasio2018.com/about |publisher=Ocasio 2018 |access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627143050/https://www.ocasio2018.com/about |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=dead}} She has a younger brother named Gabriel.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a26251021/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-brother-gabriel/ |title=Who Is Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's Brother Gabriel? He's an Artist and Musician |last=Igoe |first=Katherine J. |date=February 8, 2019 |magazine=Marie Claire|access-date=February 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212130932/https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a26251021/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-brother-gabriel/|archive-date=February 12, 2019|url-status=live}} Her father was born in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican family and became an architect; her mother was born in Puerto Rico.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html |title=Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? A Democratic Giant Slayer |last=Wang |first=Vivian |date=June 27, 2018|access-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627090426/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html|archive-date=June 27, 2018|url-status=live |newspaper=The New York Times}}{{cite news |first1=Andy |last1=Newman |first2=Vivian |last2=Wang |first3=Luis |last3=Ferré-Sadurní |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Emerges as a Political Star |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bio-profile.html |work=The New York Times |location=New York City |date=June 27, 2018 |access-date=June 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628072729/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bio-profile.html |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |issn=0362-4331 |last=Goldmacher |first=Shane |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Jewish, Too? |work=The New York Times |access-date=February 9, 2019 |date=December 10, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-jewish.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119163841/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-jewish.html|archive-date=January 19, 2019|url-status=live}} The family lived in an apartment in the Bronx neighborhood of Parkchester until Ocasio-Cortez was five, when they moved to a house in suburban Yorktown Heights.{{cite news |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-07-03/rising-star-democrat-ocasio-cortez-defends-bronx-roots |agency=Associated Press |first=Stephen |last=Groves |title=Rising Political Star Ocasio-Cortez Defends Bronx Roots |date=July 3, 2018 |work=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=December 13, 2019 |archive-date=July 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715171023/https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-07-03/rising-star-democrat-ocasio-cortez-defends-bronx-roots |url-status=live }} She said her family raised enough money to buy a small home there so she could go to school, and that her mother worked as a house cleaner in the town.{{cite web |last1=Murphy |first1=Dan |title=OCASIO-CORTEZ NOT PROUD OF WESTCHESTER ROOTS |url=https://yonkerstimes.com/ocasio-cortez-not-proud-of-westchester-roots/ |website=yonkerstimes.com |publisher=Yonkers Times |access-date=17 September 2024 |date=July 18, 2018}}

Ocasio-Cortez attended Yorktown High School, graduating in 2007.{{cite web |first=Isabel |last=Keane |title=Bronx political star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez commuted to Yorktown for high school |publisher=lohud.com |date=June 28, 2018 |url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/yorktown/2018/06/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-yorktown/743485002/ | access-date=December 1, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201052811/https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/yorktown/2018/06/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-yorktown/743485002/ | archive-date=December 1, 2018 | url-status=live}} In high school and college, Ocasio-Cortez went by the name of "Sandy Ocasio".{{cite web |last1=Yglesias |first1=Matthew |author-link1=Matthew Yglesias |title=Conservatives' Obsession With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's High School, Explained |url=https://www.vox.com/2019/1/4/18167175/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sandy-yorktown-high-school |website=Vox|publisher=Vox Media |access-date=November 15, 2019 |date=January 4, 2019 |quote=There's nothing in any way extraordinary about the yearbook photos, though they do establish that she went by "Sandy Ocasio" at the time. |archive-date=November 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101084511/https://www.vox.com/2019/1/4/18167175/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sandy-yorktown-high-school |url-status=live }} She came in second in the microbiology category of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in 2007 with a research project on the effect of antioxidants on the lifespan of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.{{cite web |title=Intel ISEF Alumna Headed to Capitol Hill |url=https://www.societyforscience.org/content/ssp-blog/intel-isef-alumna-headed-capitol-hill |publisher=Society for Science & the Public |access-date=December 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130232735/https://www.societyforscience.org/content/ssp-blog/intel-isef-alumna-headed-capitol-hill|archive-date=November 30, 2018|url-status=dead}}{{cite news |last1=King |first1=Georgia Frances |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won a science-fair prize for research involving free radicals |date=December 1, 2018 |url=https://qz.com/1481551/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-won-a-2007-isef-science-fair-prize-for-her-microbiology-research/ |work=Quartz |language=en |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=October 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014232106/https://qz.com/1481551/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-won-a-2007-isef-science-fair-prize-for-her-microbiology-research/ |url-status=live }} In a show of appreciation for her efforts, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez.{{cite news |last=Malloy |first=Daniel |title=This Berniecrat Aims to Unseat a Queens Power Broker |newspaper=Ozy |date=June 23, 2018 |url=https://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/this-berniecrat-aims-to-unseat-a-queens-power-broker/83063 |access-date=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627115704/https://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/this-berniecrat-aims-to-unseat-a-queens-power-broker/83063 |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=Ocasio-Cortez |date=August 30, 2007 |title=JPL Small-Body Database Browser |last=Chamberlin |first=Alan |access-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809144242/https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=Ocasio-Cortez;old=0;orb=0;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#discovery |archive-date=August 9, 2018 |url-status=live}} In high school, she took part in the National Hispanic Institute's Lorenzo de Zavala (LDZ) Youth Legislative Session. After graduating, she became the LDZ secretary of state while attending Boston University. Ocasio-Cortez had a John F. Lopez Fellowship.{{Cite news |url=http://www.nhimagazine.com/2017/12/31/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-named-2017-nhi-person-year/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez named 2017 NHI Person of the Year |date=December 31, 2017 |work=NHI Magazine |access-date=July 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703180341/http://www.nhimagazine.com/2017/12/31/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-named-2017-nhi-person-year/ |archive-date=July 3, 2018 |url-status=live}}

Her father died of lung cancer in 2008 during her second year of college,{{Cite news |first1=Mark |last1=Lungariello |first2=Jonathan |last2=Bandler |url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/02/ocasio-cortez-westchester/751333002/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes heat for growing up in Westchester |publisher=lohud.com |access-date=September 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127000853/https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/02/ocasio-cortez-westchester/751333002/|archive-date=January 27, 2019|url-status=live |date=July 4, 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/06/27/an-interview-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-young-democratic-socialist-who-just-shocked-the-establishment/ |title=An Interview With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Young Democratic Socialist Who Just Shocked the Establishment |last=Scahill |first=Jeremy |author-link=Jeremy Scahill |date=June 27, 2018 |website=The Intercept|access-date=September 4, 2018 |quote=One of the big decisions though was that I was at Standing Rock in December 2016{{spaces}}... The day after I got off camp, I was contacted by a progressive organization, Brand New Congress, which was seeking to mount non-corporate candidates in the 2018 midterm.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903131318/https://theintercept.com/2018/06/27/an-interview-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-young-democratic-socialist-who-just-shocked-the-establishment/|archive-date=September 3, 2018|url-status=live}} and Ocasio-Cortez became involved in a lengthy probate dispute to settle his estate. She has said that the experience helped her learn "first-hand how attorneys appointed by the court to administer an estate can enrich themselves at the expense of the families struggling to make sense of the bureaucracy".{{cite news |first1=Aida |last1=Chavez |first2=Ryan |last2=Grim |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/05/22/joseph-crowley-alexandra-ocasio-cortez-new-york-primary/ |title=A Primary Against the Machine: a Bronx Activist Looks to Dethrone Joseph Crowley, The King of Queens |work=The Intercept |publisher=First Look Media |location=New York City |date=May 22, 2018 |access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627062529/https://theintercept.com/2018/05/22/joseph-crowley-alexandra-ocasio-cortez-new-york-primary/ |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} During college, Ocasio-Cortez was an intern for U.S. senator Ted Kennedy in his section on foreign affairs and immigration issues.{{Cite news |url=https://www.mic.com/articles/187994/meet-the-young-progressive-latina-trying-to-oust-one-of-the-most-powerful-democrats-in-the-house |title=Meet the young progressive Latina trying to oust one of the most powerful Democrats in the House |last=Joyce |first=A.P. |date=February 28, 2018 |work=Mic|access-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612212215/https://mic.com/articles/187994/meet-the-young-progressive-latina-trying-to-oust-one-of-the-most-powerful-democrats-in-the-house|archive-date=June 12, 2018|url-status=live}} In interviews, she said she was the only Spanish speaker in the office and the sole person responsible for assisting Spanish-speaking constituents.{{cite web|first1=Deepti|last1=Hajela|author-link1=Deepti Hajela|accessdate=2023-05-29|title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, former BU student, shocks Crowley in Democratic primary in NY - The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2018/06/26/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-former-student-shocks-crowley-democratic-primary/puBJbNvOnrSIdaOgyvM5sN/story.html|website=BostonGlobe.com|date=June 26, 2018|archive-date=May 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529200158/https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2018/06/26/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-former-student-shocks-crowley-democratic-primary/puBJbNvOnrSIdaOgyvM5sN/story.html|url-status=live}} Ocasio-Cortez graduated cum laude{{Cite web|date=May 22, 2011|title=Boston University Commencement 2011|url=https://www.bu.edu/commencement/files/2012/12/2011Redbook.pdf|page=21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123135730/https://www.bu.edu/commencement/files/2012/12/2011Redbook.pdf|archive-date=November 23, 2015}} from Boston University in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in international relations and economics.{{Cite web|date=2019|title=Distinguished Alumni Award|url=http://www.bu.edu/econ/alumni/distinguished-alumni-award/2019-awards/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111022831/http://www.bu.edu/econ/alumni/distinguished-alumni-award/2019-awards/|archive-date=November 11, 2020|access-date=November 11, 2020|website=Boston University Arts & Sciences: Economics}}{{cite web |title=Did U.S. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Graduate Cum Laude from Boston University? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ocasio-cortez-resume/ |first=Dan |last=Evon |date=April 3, 2019 |website=Snopes |access-date=August 10, 2020 |archive-date=November 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116153103/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ocasio-cortez-resume/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Cepeda |first1=Esther J. |title=Despite Her Haters, Youth Is Not Wasted on Ocasio-Cortez |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-cepeda-column-st-0110-story.html |website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=July 20, 2020 |date=January 9, 2019 |quote=There will always be people claiming she's 'unqualified', even though Ocasio-Cortez has an undergraduate degree in international relations with a minor in economics and has worked as an educator, a publisher and a community organizer. |archive-date=July 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721002201/https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-cepeda-column-st-0110-story.html |url-status=live }}

After college, Ocasio-Cortez moved back to the Bronx and took a job as a bartender and waitress to help her mother—a house cleaner and school bus driver—fight foreclosure of their home.{{Cite news |first=Willa |last=Frej |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-things-to-know_n_5b334b41e4b0cb56051d6081 |title=5 Reasons Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Stands Out |website=HuffPost |publisher=Huffington Post Media Group |location=New York City |date=June 27, 2018 |access-date=July 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717195620/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-things-to-know_us_5b334b41e4b0cb56051d6081 |archive-date=July 17, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |first=Lauren |last=Gambino |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-who-is-she-democrats-new-york-life-career-policies |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: who is the new progressive star of the Democrats? |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London, England |date=June 27, 2018 |access-date=August 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702140705/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-who-is-she-democrats-new-york-life-career-policies |archive-date=July 2, 2018 |url-status=live}} She later launched Brook Avenue Press, a now-defunct publishing firm for books that portrayed the Bronx in a positive light.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/diverse-group-startups-thriving-city-sponsored-sunshine-bronx-business-incubator-hunts-point-article-1.1115489 |title=Diverse group of start-ups thriving at city-sponsored Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator in Hunts Point |last=Beekman |first=Daniel |work=New York Daily News |date=July 17, 2012|access-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629022152/http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/diverse-group-startups-thriving-city-sponsored-sunshine-bronx-business-incubator-hunts-point-article-1.1115489 |archive-date=June 29, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last1=Vincent|first1=Isabel|last2=Klein|first2=Melissa|date=March 10, 2019|title=Company founded by Ocasio-Cortez in 2012 still owes $1,870 in taxes|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/company-founded-by-ocasio-cortez-in-2012-still-owes-1870-in-taxes|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925164417/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/company-founded-by-ocasio-cortez-in-2012-still-owes-1870-in-taxes|archive-date=September 25, 2019|access-date=September 25, 2019|website=Fox News|language=en-US}} Ocasio-Cortez also worked for the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute.{{cite web |url=https://www.nationalhispanicinstitute.org/cws/ |title=Collegiate World Series – The National Hispanic Institute|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108045848/https://www.nationalhispanicinstitute.org/cws/|archive-date=January 8, 2019|url-status=dead|access-date=January 7, 2019}}{{cite news |work=National Post |first=David |last=Weigel |author-link=David Weigel |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/world/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-28-takes-out-10-term-congressman-in-new-yorks-democratic-primary |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, takes out 10-term congressman in New York's Democratic primary |date=June 27, 2018 |access-date=December 13, 2019 |archive-date=January 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240122012355/https://nationalpost.com/news/world/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-28-takes-out-10-term-congressman-in-new-yorks-democratic-primary |url-status=live }}

During the 2016 primary, Ocasio-Cortez worked as an organizer for Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign. After the general election, she traveled across America by car, visiting places such as Flint, Michigan and the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, and speaking to people affected by the Flint water crisis and the Dakota Access Pipeline.{{Cite news |first=Tim |last=Murphy |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-upset-joe-crowley-dsa-brand-new-congress-1/ |title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pulled off the year's biggest political upset |work=Mother Jones |access-date=June 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629022429/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-upset-joe-crowley-dsa-brand-new-congress-1/ |archive-date=June 29, 2018 |url-status=live |date=June 27, 2018}} In an interview she recalled her December 2016 visit to Standing Rock as a tipping point, saying that before that, she had believed that the only way to run for office effectively was to have access to wealth, social influence, and power. But her visit to North Dakota, where she saw others "putting their whole lives and everything that they had on the line for the protection of their community", inspired her to begin to work for her own community.{{cite web |last1=Piaella |first1=Gabriella |title=The 28-Year-Old at the Center of One of This Year's Most Exciting Primaries |date=June 25, 2018 |url=https://www.thecut.com/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-interview.html |website=The Cut |publisher=New York Media |location=New York City |access-date=June 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628013441/https://www.thecut.com/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-interview.html |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live}} One day after she visited North Dakota, she got a phone call from Brand New Congress, which was recruiting progressive candidates (her brother had nominated her soon after Election Day 2016).{{Cite web |url=https://www.thisisinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-biography-2019-1 |title=The Truth about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The inside story of how, in just one year, Sandy the bartender became a lawmaker who triggers both parties |last=Relman |first=Eliza |work=The Insider |quote=Soon after Election Day in 2016, Ocasio-Cortez's younger brother, Gabriel, sent her name to Brand New Congress, a Bernie Sanders-inspired group recruiting candidates for the House and Senate. When she got home from her North Dakota trip, a leader of BNC called her out of the blue with an ask: Will you run for US Congress in New York's 14th district? |date=January 6, 2019 |access-date=March 23, 2019 |archive-date=March 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327091014/https://www.thisisinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-biography-2019-1 |url-status=live }} Ocasio-Cortez said she was first exposed to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) when a friend brought her to a local meeting in Upper Manhattan. She has credited Jabari Brisport's unsuccessful City Council campaign with restoring her belief in electoral politics, in running as a socialist candidate, and in the DSA as an organization.{{Cite web|url=https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2021/talking-socialism-catching-up-with-aoc/|title=Talking Socialism: Catching up with AOC|website=Democratic Left|date=Spring 2021|publisher=Democratic Socialists of America|access-date=May 17, 2021|archive-date=May 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512160019/https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2021/talking-socialism-catching-up-with-aoc/|url-status=live}}

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Ocasio-Cortez began her campaign in April 2017 while waiting tables and tending bar at Flats Fix, a taqueria in New York City's Union Square.{{cite news |last=Manriquez |first=Pablo |title=The Gospel of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |newspaper=Roll Call |date=December 14, 2018 |url=https://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-change-congress | access-date=January 27, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127152848/https://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-change-congress | archive-date=January 27, 2019 | url-status=live}} "For 80 percent of this campaign, I operated out of a paper grocery bag hidden behind that bar," she told Bon Appétit.{{cite web |last=Cadigan |first=Hilary |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Learned Her Most Important Lessons from Restaurants |website=Bon Appetit |url=https://www.bonappetit.com/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lessons-from-restaurants |date=November 7, 2018 |access-date=January 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127152946/https://www.bonappetit.com/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lessons-from-restaurants |archive-date=January 27, 2019 |url-status=live}} She was the first person since 2004 to challenge Joe Crowley, the Democratic Caucus Chair, in the primary. She faced a financial disadvantage, saying, "You can't really beat big money with more money. You have to beat them with a totally different game."{{cite web |first1=John |last1=Ferguson |access-date=November 25, 2019 |title=Talented US Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tipped to light up White House |url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/talented-democrat-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-14080017 |date=March 3, 2019 |website=dailyrecord |archive-date=March 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303080514/https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/talented-democrat-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-14080017 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |first1=Anna |last1=Leigh |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Political Headliner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N7mzDwAAQBAJ |publisher=Lerner Publishing Group |date=2020 |isbn=978-1-5415-7747-3 |via=Google Books |access-date=November 25, 2019 |archive-date=February 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218100226/https://books.google.com/books?id=N7mzDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }} Ocasio-Cortez's campaign undertook grassroots mobilization and did not take donations from corporations. Her campaign posters' designs were said to have taken inspiration from "revolutionary posters and visuals from the past".{{cite news |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/2/17519414/ocasio-cortez-campaign-design-campaign-posters-tandem-branding |title=The brilliance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's bold campaign design |last=Budds |first=Diana |date=July 2, 2018 |website=Vox|access-date=January 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127152854/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/2/17519414/ocasio-cortez-campaign-design-campaign-posters-tandem-branding|archive-date=January 27, 2019|url-status=live}}

The candidates' only face-to-face encounter during the campaign occurred on a local political talk show, Inside City Hall, on June 15. The format was a joint interview conducted by Errol Louis, which NY1 characterized as a debate.{{Cite news |url=https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/inside-city-hall/2018/06/16/democratic-primary-debate--crowley-vs--ocasio-cortez--part-1 |title=Democratic Primary Debate: Crowley vs. Ocasio-Cortez |first=Errol |last=Lewis |date=June 16, 2018|access-date=August 20, 2018 |publisher=NY 1 Inside City Hall|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820234918/http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/inside-city-hall/2018/06/16/democratic-primary-debate--crowley-vs--ocasio-cortez--part-1|archive-date=August 20, 2018 |url-status=live}} A debate in the Bronx was scheduled for June 18, but Crowley did not participate. He sent former New York City Council member Annabel Palma in his place.{{Cite news |url=https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/news-politics/joe-crowley-sends-annabel-palma-to-debate-in-his-place |title=Crowley sends 'worst NYC lawmaker' to debate in his place |first=Rebecca |last=Lewis |date=June 19, 2018 |access-date=August 20, 2018 |publisher=City and State NY |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820204944/https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/news-politics/joe-crowley-sends-annabel-palma-to-debate-in-his-place |archive-date=August 20, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |author=The New York Times Editorial Board |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/opinion/joseph-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html |title=If You Want to Be Speaker, Mr. Crowley, Don't Take Voters for Granted |date=June 19, 2018|access-date=August 20, 2018 |work=The New York Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816042809/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/opinion/joseph-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html|archive-date=August 16, 2018|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/06/ocasio-cortez-beat-crowley-and-old-school-nyc-politics.html |date=June 27, 2018 |title=Ocasio-Cortez Not Only Beat Crowley – She Beat Old-School New York Politics |last=Freedlander |first=David |publisher=New York Intelligencer |access-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628011232/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/ocasio-cortez-beat-crowley-and-old-school-nyc-politics.html |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}

Ocasio-Cortez was endorsed by progressive and civil rights organizations such as MoveOn{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-joe-crowley-defeated-in-democratic-primary-upset-by-newcomer-alexandria-ocasio-cortez |title=Rep. Joe Crowley defeated in Democratic primary upset by newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |last=Chamberlain |first=Samuel |date=June 26, 2018 |publisher=Fox News Channel | access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627052138/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/26/rep-joe-crowley-defeated-in-democratic-primary-upset.html |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} and Democracy for America. Then-Governor Andrew Cuomo endorsed Crowley,{{cite web|url=https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/new-york-state/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-effect.html|title=Ocasio-Cortez's victory is already reshaping New York politics|date=June 28, 2018|author=Grace Segers|website=City & States|access-date=December 30, 2020|archive-date=December 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230202301/https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/new-york-state/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-effect.html|url-status=live}} as did both of New York's U.S. senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, multiple U.S. representatives, various local elected officials and trade unions, and groups such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood,{{cite web|url=https://jacksonheightspost.com/crowley-ocasio-cortez-face-off-in-new-york-congressional-primary-tomorrow|title=Crowley, Ocasio-Cortez, Face Off in New York Congressional Primary Tomorrow|date=June 25, 2018|first=Nathaly|last=Pesantez|website=Jackson Heights Post|access-date=December 30, 2020|archive-date=December 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230202229/https://jacksonheightspost.com/crowley-ocasio-cortez-face-off-in-new-york-congressional-primary-tomorrow|url-status=live}} the Working Families Party,{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/25/politics/joe-crowley-working-families-party-democratic-house-caucus-race/index.html|title=Crowley plans to stay on third party line in November, won't endorse a Democratic leadership replacement|date=July 25, 2018|first1=Sunlen|last1=Serfaty|first2=Gregory|last2=Krieg|first3=Ashley|last3=Killough|website=CNN|access-date=December 30, 2020|archive-date=December 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215084624/https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/25/politics/joe-crowley-working-families-party-democratic-house-caucus-race/index.html|url-status=live}} NARAL Pro-Choice America,{{cite web |last=Parry |first=Bill |date=May 25, 2018 |title=More than a dozen Queens elected officials endorse Crowley in primary challenge |url=https://qns.com/2018/05/more-than-a-dozen-queens-elected-officials-endorse-crowley-in-primary-challenge/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241130173939/https://qns.com/2018/05/more-than-a-dozen-queens-elected-officials-endorse-crowley-in-primary-challenge/ |archive-date=2024-11-30 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |website=QNS}} and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, among others.{{cite news|url=https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/people-versus-money-socialist-beats-wall-street-dem-in-new-york/|title=People vs. Money: Socialist beats Wall Street Dem in New York|date=June 29, 2018|first=Michael|last=Arney|website=People's World|access-date=December 30, 2020|archive-date=December 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201217132938/https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/people-versus-money-socialist-beats-wall-street-dem-in-new-york/|url-status=live}} California representative Ro Khanna, a Justice Democrat like Ocasio-Cortez,{{cite web |last1=Gray |first1=Briahna |last2=Grim |first2=Ryan |title=Under Pressure From Progressives, Rep. Ro Khanna Endorses Both Democrats in Contentious New York Primary |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/06/13/ro-khanna-joe-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ |website=The Intercept |access-date=July 1, 2018 |date=June 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616192835/https://theintercept.com/2018/06/13/ro-khanna-joe-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ |archive-date=June 16, 2018 |url-status=live}} initially endorsed Crowley but later endorsed Ocasio-Cortez in an unusual dual endorsement.{{Cite news |last=Hagen |first=Lisa |date=June 26, 2018 |title=Political stunner! Crowley knocked off by millennial challenger |work=The Hill |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/394318-crowley-loses-in-new-york-dem-primary/ |url-status=live |access-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629050054/http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/394318-crowley-loses-in-new-york-dem-primary |archive-date=June 29, 2018}}

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Ocasio-Cortez received 57.13% of the vote (15,897) to Crowley's 42.5% (11,761), defeating the 10-term incumbent by almost 15 percentage points on June 26, 2018.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/26/us/elections/results-new-york-primary-elections.html |title=New York State Primary Election Results |date=June 28, 2017 |website=The New York Times |access-date=July 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722075921/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/26/us/elections/results-new-york-primary-elections.html |archive-date=July 22, 2018 |url-status=live}} The result shocked many political commentators and analysts and immediately garnered nationwide attention. Many news sources, including Time, CNN, The New York Times, and The Guardian mentioned how the win completely defied their predictions and expectations.{{cite news |last1=Goldmacher |first1=Shane |last2=Martin |first2=Jonathan |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Defeats Joseph Crowley in Major Democratic House Upset |work=The New York Times |date=June 26, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/nyregion/joseph-crowley-ocasio-cortez-democratic-primary.html |access-date=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627022115/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/nyregion/joseph-crowley-ocasio-cortez-democratic-primary.html |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Ben |title=Democrats see major upset as socialist beats top-ranking US congressman |newspaper=The Guardian |date=June 26, 2018 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/26/democrats-primaries-upset-joe-crowley-alexandria-osacio-cortez |access-date=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627043320/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/26/democrats-primaries-upset-joe-crowley-alexandria-osacio-cortez |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://time.com/5322905/joe-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ |title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Pulled Off the Biggest Upset of 2018 |last=Elliott |first=Philip |date=June 26, 2018 |newspaper=Time |access-date=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627201954/http://time.com/5322905/joe-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} She was outspent by a margin of 18 to{{spaces}}1 ($1.5{{spaces}}million to $83,000) but won the endorsement of some influential groups on the party's left.{{cite news |first=Deepti |last=Hajela |author-link=Deepti Hajela |title=Political novice Ocasio-Cortez scores for progressives in NY |url=https://apnews.com/45eb9af59317402699b23c4826a8192c |work=Associated Press |access-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627045914/https://apnews.com/45eb9af59317402699b23c4826a8192c |date=June 27, 2018 |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} Crowley conceded defeat on election night,{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44625617 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Millennial beats veteran Democrat |date=June 26, 2018 |publisher=BBC News| access-date=June 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701062032/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44625617 |archive-date=July 1, 2018 |url-status=live}} but did not telephone Ocasio-Cortez that night to congratulate her, fueling short-lived speculation that he intended to run against her in the general election.{{cite news |title=Ocasio-Cortez accuses defeated Dem of mounting third-party challenge |first=Morgan |last=Gstalter |date=July 12, 2018 |work=The Hill |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/396667-ocasio-cortez-accuses-defeated-dem-of-mounting-third-party-challenge/ |quote=Crowley stated on live TV that he would absolutely support my candidacy, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Thursday. Instead, he's stood me up for all three scheduled concession calls{{spaces}}... Numerous phone calls have been set up but Ocasio-Cortez's aides have failed to follow through with providing a phone number, the aide [to Crowley] said. |access-date=March 11, 2019 |archive-date=April 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405164930/https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/396667-ocasio-cortez-accuses-defeated-dem-of-mounting-third-party-challenge |url-status=live }}

Bernie Sanders and Noam Chomsky congratulated her.{{cite news |first=Alex |last=Seitz-Wald |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/rep-joe-crowley-loses-28-year-old-newcomer-alexandria-ocasio-n886851 |title=High-ranking Democrat ousted in stunning primary loss to newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |work=NBC News |date=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627143539/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/rep-joe-crowley-loses-28-year-old-newcomer-alexandria-ocasio-n886851 |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=June 27, 2018}}{{cite interview |last=Chomsky|first=Noam|interviewer=Amy Goodman|title=Noam Chomsky on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Spectacular" Victory & Growing Split in Democratic Party |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/27/noam_chomsky_on_alexandria_ocasio_cortezs |website=Democracy Now |access-date=July 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730205030/https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/27/noam_chomsky_on_alexandria_ocasio_cortezs |date=July 27, 2018 |archive-date=July 30, 2018 |url-status=live}} Several commentators noted the similarities between Ocasio-Cortez's victory over Crowley and Dave Brat's Tea Party movement-supported 2014 victory over House majority leader Eric Cantor in the Republican primary for Virginia's 7th congressional district.{{Cite news |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-beats-joe-crowley-in-stunning-upset.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ousts Joe Crowley, a Top House Democrat, in Stunning Upset |last=Kilgore |first=Ed |date=June 26, 2018 |work=New York |access-date=June 27, 2018 |quote=In a shocker that is already being compared to the 2014 primary loss by then–House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus (the fourth-ranking leadership position among House Democrats), ten-term veteran Joe Crowley has been upset by 28-year-old first-time candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the Bronx-Queens 14th congressional district. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627085949/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-beats-joe-crowley-in-stunning-upset.html |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |last=Stelter |first=Brian |author-link1=Brian Stelter |date=June 27, 2018 |title=Progressive media saw the Ocasio-Cortez upset coming |url=https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/27/media/ocasio-intercept-primary/index.html |publisher=CNN|access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627202407/https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/27/media/ocasio-intercept-primary/index.html |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} Like Crowley, Cantor was a high-ranking member in his party's caucus.{{Cite news |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eric-cantor-republicans-religion_n_5482432 |title=With Eric Cantor Defeat, Congressional Republicans Lose Only Non-Christian |last=Lachman |first=Samantha |date=June 11, 2014 |publisher=HuffPost|access-date=June 28, 2018 |quote=Cantor [was] the second-ranking House Republican and highest-ranking Jewish member. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306092800/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/10/eric-cantor-republicans-religion_n_5482432.html |archive-date=March 6, 2017 |url-status=live}} After her primary win, Ocasio-Cortez endorsed several progressive primary challengers to Democratic incumbents nationwide,{{cite news |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/the-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-effect/ |title=The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Effect The Democratic party's new rock star is storming the country on behalf of insurgent populists |last=Nichols |first=John |date=August 15, 2018 |website=The Nation|access-date=August 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823074146/https://www.thenation.com/article/the-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-effect/|archive-date=August 23, 2018|url-status=live}} capitalizing on her fame and spending her political capital in a manner unusual even{{Tone inline|date=February 2024}} for unexpected primary winners.{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/05/ocasio-cortez-democratic-primaries-establishment-2018-694789 |title='You can beat the establishment': Ocasio-Cortez crashes Democratic primaries The New York insurgent is stepping on toes as she rallies progressive candidates across the country |last=Nahmias |first=Laura |date=July 5, 2018 |newspaper=Politico|access-date=July 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707155215/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/05/ocasio-cortez-democratic-primaries-establishment-2018-694789 |archive-date=July 7, 2018 |url-status=live}}

Without campaigning for it, Ocasio-Cortez won the Reform Party primary as a write-in candidate in a neighboring congressional district, New York's 15th, with a total vote count of nine, highest among all 22 write-in candidates. She declined the nomination.{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wins-primary-district-running/story?id=56499055 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wins Primary in District She Was not Running In |last=Verhovek |first=John |date=July 11, 2018 |work=ABC News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711054004/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wins-primary-district-running/story?id=56499055 |archive-date=July 11, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=July 12, 2018}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.vox.com/2018/7/11/17560252/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-house-primary-new-york-15th-congressional-district-reform-party |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just won a House primary as a write-in – for a district she wasn't intending to run in |last=Nilsen |first=Ella |date=July 11, 2018 |work=Vox |access-date=July 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711180222/https://www.vox.com/2018/7/11/17560252/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-house-primary-new-york-15th-congressional-district-reform-party |archive-date=July 11, 2018 |url-status=live}}

Ocasio-Cortez faced Republican nominee Anthony Pappas in the November 6 general election.{{cite news |url=https://www.thenationalherald.com/204443/prof-anthony-pappas-running-for-congress/ |title=Prof. Anthony Pappas Running for Congress |last=Sakellis |first=Eleni |date=June 17, 2018 |newspaper=The National Herald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628233512/https://www.thenationalherald.com/204443/prof-anthony-pappas-running-for-congress/ |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=June 28, 2018}} Pappas, an economics professor, did not actively campaign. The 14th district has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+29, making it New York City's sixth-most Democratic district, with registered Democrats outnumbering Republicans almost six to one.{{cite web |url=https://www.stjohns.edu/academics/bio/anthony-pappas-phd |title=Anthony Pappas, PhD |publisher=St. John's University |access-date=June 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628205011/https://www.stjohns.edu/academics/bio/anthony-pappas-phd|archive-date=June 28, 2018|url-status=dead}}{{cite news |first1=Karen |last1=Matthews |first2=Deepti |last2=Hajela |author-link2=Deepti Hajela |date=June 28, 2018 |url=https://apnews.com/b4ff8a4a6d314955a41dbf0334518d62/Shock,-then-ambition:-Ocasio-Cortez-hopes-to-shake-up-House |title=Shock, then ambition: Ocasio-Cortez hopes to shake up House |work=Associated Press |access-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628205019/https://www.apnews.com/b4ff8a4a6d314955a41dbf0334518d62/Shock,-then-ambition:-Ocasio-Cortez-hopes-to-shake-up-House |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}

Ocasio-Cortez was endorsed by various politically progressive organizations and figures, including former president Barack Obama and U.S. senator Bernie Sanders.{{cite news |url=https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/bernie-sanders-weighs-in-on-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-s-victory-1265337411768 |first=Andrea |last=Mitchell |author-link=Andrea Mitchell |title=Bernie Sanders weighs in on Ocasio-Cortez's victory |publisher=MSNBC |date=June 27, 2018 |access-date=August 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710113543/https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/bernie-sanders-weighs-in-on-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-s-victory-1265337411768 |archive-date=July 10, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/409294-obama-announces-endorsement-for-ocasio-cortez/ |title=Obama announces endorsement for Ocasio-Cortez |last=Wise |first=Justin |date=October 1, 2018 |work=The Hill|access-date=November 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107224857/https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/409294-obama-announces-endorsement-for-ocasio-cortez|archive-date=November 7, 2018|url-status=live}} She spoke at the Netroots Nation conference in August 2018, and was called "the undisputed star of the convention".{{cite news |url=https://time.com/5359100/democrats-netroots/ |title=The Democratic Split isn't Left vs. Center. It's Old vs. New |last=Alter |first=Charlotte |date=August 6, 2018 |magazine=Time|access-date=November 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807091224/http://time.com/5359100/democrats-netroots/|archive-date=August 7, 2018|url-status=live}}

Crowley remained on the ballot as the nominee of the Working Families Party (WFP) and the Women's Equality Party (WEP). Neither he nor the WFP party actively campaigned, both having endorsed Ocasio-Cortez after the Democratic primary.{{cite news |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-ocasio-cortez-crowley-working-families-party-20180712-story.html |title=Ocasio-Cortez rips Crowley for not giving up Working Families Party line |last=Lovett |first=Kenneth |date=July 12, 2018 |newspaper=New York Daily News |location=New York |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720194943/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-ocasio-cortez-crowley-working-families-party-20180712-story.html |archive-date=July 20, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=July 20, 2018}} Ocasio-Cortez called the WEP, which Governor Cuomo created ahead of the 2014 New York gubernatorial election, a cynical, centrist group that endorsed male incumbents over female challengers like her and Cynthia Nixon.{{cite web |url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/19/cynthia-nixon-and-ocasio-cortez-blast-cynical-cuomo-backed-womens-equality-party |title=Cynthia Nixon and Ocasio-Cortez Blast 'Cynical' Cuomo-Backed Women's Equality Party for Endorsing Male Centrists in New York |publisher=Common Dreams |author=Julia Conley |date=July 19, 2018 |access-date=August 11, 2019 |archive-date=August 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190811221759/https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/19/cynthia-nixon-and-ocasio-cortez-blast-cynical-cuomo-backed-womens-equality-party |url-status=live }} Former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman, who won reelection in 2006 on a third-party line after losing the Democratic primary in 2006, penned a July 17 column in the Wall Street Journal expressing hope that Crowley would actively campaign on the WFP ballot line.{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/vote-joe-crowley-for-working-families-1531868231 |title=Vote Joe Crowley, for Working Families |last=Lieberman |first=Joseph |author-link=Joe Lieberman |date=July 17, 2018 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719203510/https://www.wsj.com/articles/vote-joe-crowley-for-working-families-1531868231 |archive-date=July 19, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=July 20, 2018}} WFP executive director Dan Cantor wrote an endorsement of, and apology to, Ocasio-Cortez for the New York Daily News; he asked voters not to vote for Crowley if his name remained on the general election ballot.{{cite news |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-vote-against-joe-crowley-in-november-20180724-story.html |title=Vote against Joe Crowley in November: The Working Families Party chair regrets not endorsing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |first=Dan |last=Cantor |work=New York Daily News |date=July 25, 2018 |access-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726012404/http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-vote-against-joe-crowley-in-november-20180724-story.html|archive-date=July 26, 2018|url-status=live}}

Ocasio-Cortez won the election with 78% of the vote (110,318) to Pappas's 14% (17,762). Crowley, on the WFP and WEP lines, received 9,348 votes (6.6%).{{cite news|first1=Shelby Lin|last1=Erdman|accessdate=2025-02-22|title=Election Day 2018: New York Dem Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez youngest woman ever elected to Congress|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/national/election-day-2018-new-york-dem-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-youngest-woman-ever-elected-congress/9OQfzQ0LILKId2GjhfsDtK/|newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|issn=1539-7459|via=AJC.com}} Her election was part of a broader Democratic victory in the 2018 midterm elections, as the party gained control of the House by picking up 41 seats.{{cite web |title=Certified Results from the November 6, 2018 General Election for U.S. Congress |url=https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/elections/2018/general/2018Congress.pdf |publisher=New York Board of Elections |access-date=January 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104180018/https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/elections/2018/general/2018Congress.pdf |page=6 |archive-date=January 4, 2019 |url-status=dead}} Saikat Chakrabarti, who had been her campaign co-chair, became chief of staff for her congressional office.{{Cite news |last=Montgotmery |first=David |date=July 10, 2019 |title=AOC's chief of staff isn't just running her office. He's guiding a movement. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/07/10/feature/how-saikat-chakrabarti-became-aocs-chief-of-change/ |access-date=2023-07-16 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en |archive-date=July 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701051354/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/07/10/feature/how-saikat-chakrabarti-became-aocs-chief-of-change/ |url-status=live }} His departure in 2019 drew considerable speculation as to whether Ocasio-Cortez was trying to implement a more moderate strategy.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/us/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-washington.html|title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez learned to play by Washington's rules|first=Catie|last=Edmondson|work=The New York Times|date=September 18, 2019|access-date=April 12, 2020|archive-date=April 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418234813/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/us/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-washington.html|url-status=live}}

The first media network to give Ocasio-Cortez a platform and extensively cover her campaign and policies was The Young Turks, a left-wing online news program. After her primary win, she quickly garnered nationwide media attention, including numerous articles and TV talk-show appearances.{{cite magazine |title=Inside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Unlikely Rise |first=Charlotte |last=Alter |date=March 21, 2019 |url=https://time.com/longform/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-profile/ |magazine=Time |access-date=December 13, 2019 |archive-date=November 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115184338/https://time.com/longform/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-profile/ |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine |first1=Hunter |last1=Walker |first2=Luppe B. |last2=Luppen |date=January 22, 2024 |title=Behind AOC's Tortured Decision to Endorse Bernie Sanders |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/aoc-bernie-sanders-excerpt |magazine=Vanity Fair}} She also drew a great amount of media attention when she and Sanders campaigned for James Thompson in Kansas in July 2018.{{Cite news |last=Smarsh |first=Sarah |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/26/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-kansas-james-thompson |title=They thought this was Trump country. Hell no |date=July 26, 2018 |work=The Guardian |access-date=April 3, 2020 |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=May 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523123220/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/26/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-kansas-james-thompson |url-status=live }} A rally in Wichita had to be moved from a theater with a capacity of 1,500 when far more people said they would attend. The event drew 4,000 people, with some seated on the floor. In The New Yorker, Benjamin Wallace-Wells wrote that while Sanders remained "the de-facto leader of an increasingly popular left, [he is unable to] do things that do not come naturally to him, like supply hope." Wallace-Wells suggested that Ocasio-Cortez had made Sanders's task easier, as he could point to her success to show that ideas "once considered to be radical are now part of the mainstream".{{cite news |date=July 23, 2018 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/bernie-sanders-and-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-in-kansas |title=Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Kansas |last1=Wallace-Wells |first1=Benjamin |magazine=The New Yorker|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726005141/https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/bernie-sanders-and-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-in-kansas|archive-date=July 26, 2018|url-status=live |access-date=July 30, 2018}}

Until she defeated incumbent Joe Crowley in the 2018 Democratic primary, Ocasio-Cortez received little coverage on most traditional news media outlets.{{cite news |last=Calderone |first=Michael |date=June 27, 2018 |title=Times takes heat for missing Crowley's defeat |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/new-york-times-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-679632 |work=Politico|access-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630080740/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/new-york-times-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-679632 |archive-date=June 30, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-victory-points-to-a-media-failure-that-keeps-repeating/2018/06/28/68f05130-7aca-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html |title=Perspective: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory points to a media failure that keeps repeating |last=Sullivan |first=Margaret |date=June 28, 2018 |newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=June 30, 2018 |issn=0190-8286|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629211530/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-victory-points-to-a-media-failure-that-keeps-repeating/2018/06/28/68f05130-7aca-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html|archive-date=June 29, 2018|url-status=live}} Jimmy Dore interviewed her when she first announced her candidacy in June 2017.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl5mpr7hUwc |title=Progressive Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Is Primarying Corporate Democrat in New York |via=YouTube |access-date=January 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171101011529/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl5mpr7hUwc |work=The Jimmy Dore Show |archive-date=November 1, 2017|url-status=live}} After her primary win, Brian Stelter wrote that progressive-media outlets, such as The Young Turks and The Intercept, "saw the Ocasio-Cortez upset coming" in advance. Margaret Sullivan wrote in The Washington Post that traditional metrics of measuring a campaign's viability, like total fundraising, were contributing to a "media failure" and that "they need to get closer to what voters are thinking and feeling: their anger and resentment, their disenfranchisement from the centers of power, their pocketbook concerns."

Ocasio-Cortez's campaign was featured on the cover of the June 2018 edition of The Indypendent,{{cite web |last1=Tarleton |first1=John |last2=McMullan-Laird |first2=Lydia |title=Beat The Machine |url=https://indypendent.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Indypendent-Issue-236-Opt.pdf |date=June 1, 2018 |website=The Indypendent |access-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722122934/https://indypendent.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Indypendent-Issue-236-Opt.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://indypendent.org/2018/05/alexandria-vs-goliath/ |title=Alexandria vs. Goliath |first1=John |last1=Tarleton |first2=Lydia |last2=McMullen-Laird |date=May 31, 2018 |work=The Indypendent |access-date=December 13, 2019 |archive-date=April 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200427013611/https://indypendent.org/2018/05/alexandria-vs-goliath/ |url-status=live }} a free New York City-based monthly newspaper. In a tweet she hailed the cover appearance on "NYC's classic monthly" as an important breakthrough for her campaign.{{Cite tweet |user=aoc |number=1002986431013376001 |title=Holy SMOKES! Our campaign is the FRONT PAGE STORY of NYC's classic monthly, @TheIndypendent! Look for it on a sidewalk corner near you all month long! If you find one, snap a pic and @ me – this one's from @analisacantu pic.twitter.com/LHOFQp7Fuq |first=Alexandria |last=Ocasio-Cortez |date=June 2, 2018}} Otherwise Ocasio-Cortez was barely mentioned in print until her primary win.{{cite news |last=Shannon |first=Joel |date=June 27, 2018 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins an upset and her supporters want the media to say her name |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wins-upset-but-crowley-grabs-headlines/737127002/ |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=June 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627193908/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wins-upset-but-crowley-grabs-headlines/737127002/ |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}

Ocasio-Cortez was one of the subjects of the 2018 Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 11/9; it chronicled her primary campaign.{{Cite news |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-moore-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-fahrenheit-119_n_5b993c2fe4b0cf7b0045b67c |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Explains This Year's Progressive Wave in Michael Moore's New Film |last=Fang |first=Marina |date=September 12, 2018 |publisher=HuffPost|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116042748/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-moore-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-fahrenheit-119_us_5b993c2fe4b0cf7b0045b67c|archive-date=January 16, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=mmflint |title=Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9: Official Trailer – In Theaters 9/21 |website=YouTube |date=August 9, 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRQv9xMQ3E0|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303165402/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRQv9xMQ3E0|archive-date=March 3, 2019|url-status=live}}

In an attempt to embarrass Ocasio-Cortez just before she took office, Twitter user "AnonymousQ" shared a video dating to Ocasio-Cortez's college years: a Boston University student-produced dance video in which she briefly appeared.{{cite news |last1=Lyons |first1=Kate |last2=Walters |first2=Joanna |title=Ocasio-Cortez's response to jibes about college dance video? A congressional dance video |newspaper=The Guardian |date=January 4, 2019 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/04/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-college-dance-video-discredit-backfires |access-date=February 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113015845/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/04/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-college-dance-video-discredit-backfires | archive-date=January 13, 2019 | url-status=live}} Many social media users came to her defense, inspiring memes and a Twitter account syncing the footage to songs like "Mambo No. 5" and "Gangnam Style".{{cite news |first=Tiffany |last=May |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Dancing Video Was Meant as a Smear, but It Backfired |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 4, 2019 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/us/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-dance-video.html | access-date=February 15, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214104909/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/us/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-dance-video.html | archive-date=February 14, 2019 | url-status=live}} Ocasio-Cortez responded by posting a video of herself dancing to Edwin Starr's "War" outside her congressional office.

Elizabeth Warren wrote the entry on Ocasio-Cortez for 2019's Time 100.{{cite magazine |last=Warren |first=Elizabeth |date=April 17, 2019 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is on the 2019 Time 100 List |url=https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567752/alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ |magazine=Time|access-date=April 17, 2019 |archive-date=April 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417112232/http://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567752/alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ |url-status=live }} The documentary Knock Down the House, directed by Rachel Lears, which focuses on four female Democrats in the 2018 United States elections who were not career politicians—Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush and Paula Jean Swearengin—premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Ocasio-Cortez was the only one of the women featured in the film to win.{{cite web |last=Ryan |first=Patrick |date=January 28, 2019 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez surprises at Sundance premiere of her emotional new documentary |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2019/01/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-surprises-sundance-premiere-her-new-doc/2698284002/ |website=USA Today |access-date=January 31, 2019 |archive-date=February 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190201013435/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2019/01/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-surprises-sundance-premiere-her-new-doc/2698284002/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Palmer |first=Ewan |date=January 28, 2019 |title=Knock Down the House: Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Receive Standing Ovation From Sundance Audience After Documentary Screening |url=https://www.newsweek.com/knock-down-house-watch-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-receive-standing-ovation-1306983 |website=Newsweek |access-date=January 31, 2019 |archive-date=January 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130221741/https://www.newsweek.com/knock-down-house-watch-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-receive-standing-ovation-1306983 |url-status=live }} It was released by Netflix on May 1, 2019.{{cite web |last=Wilkinson |first=Alissa |date=April 22, 2019 |title=Watch: Netflix's Knock Down the House trailer is here to make politics feel a little more hopeful |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/4/22/18510907/knock-down-house-netflix-trailer-ocasio-cortez |website=Vox |access-date=May 1, 2019 |archive-date=May 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501071818/https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/4/22/18510907/knock-down-house-netflix-trailer-ocasio-cortez |url-status=live }} Ocasio-Cortez also appeared in Lears's 2022 film To the End, which focuses on the effects of climate change. The film debuted at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival{{cite web |author=Dennis Harvey |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/festivals/to-the-end-review-1235158133/ |title='To the End' Review: A Doc on Pushing For Climate Policy Change |publisher=Variety |date=January 23, 2022 |accessdate=May 20, 2022 |archive-date=May 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520181346/https://variety.com/2022/film/festivals/to-the-end-review-1235158133/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |author=Leslie Felperin |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/to-the-end-review-sundance-2022-1235079660/ |title='To the End' Review: Rachel Lears' New AOC Doc at Sundance – The Hollywood Reporter |publisher=Hollywoodreporter.com |date=January 23, 2022 |accessdate=May 20, 2022 |archive-date=May 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520181346/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/to-the-end-review-sundance-2022-1235079660/ |url-status=live }} and was presented at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2022.{{cite web |author=Jill Goldsmith |url=https://deadline.com/2022/04/tribeca-festival-2022-lineup-film-tv-1235005218/ |title=Tribeca Festival 2022 Lineup With Jon Hamm, Ray Romano, Bryan Cranston – Deadline |publisher=Deadline.com |date=April 19, 2022 |accessdate=May 20, 2022 |archive-date=October 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006034640/https://deadline.com/2022/04/tribeca-festival-2022-lineup-film-tv-1235005218/ |url-status=live }}

{{See also|2020 United States House of Representatives elections in New York#District 14}}

Michelle Caruso-Cabrera challenged Ocasio-Cortez in the 2020 Democratic primary.{{Cite web|title=Ocasio-Cortez Faces Two Challengers in NY1 Congressional Primary Debate|url=https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/06/06/nyc-elections-2020-whos-running-14th-congressional-district-debate-corona-sunnyside-throgs-neck|access-date=October 18, 2020|website=www.ny1.com|language=en|archive-date=October 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023012102/https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/06/06/nyc-elections-2020-whos-running-14th-congressional-district-debate-corona-sunnyside-throgs-neck|url-status=live}} After Ocasio-Cortez won the nomination, Caruso-Cabrera reorganized and ran in the general election as the Serve America Movement nominee.{{Cite web|title=United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 2020|url=https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_New_York,_2020|access-date=October 18, 2020|website=Ballotpedia|language=en|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325172131/https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_New_York,_2020|url-status=live}} Ocasio-Cortez's Republican challengers in the general election included nominee John Cummings, a former police officer, and Antoine Tucker, a write-in candidate.{{Cite web|last=Klar|first=Rebecca|date=May 26, 2020|title=Ocasio-Cortez challenger drops out of GOP primary|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/499462-ocasio-cortez-challenger-drops-out-of-gop-primary/|access-date=October 18, 2020|website=The Hill|language=en|archive-date=October 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018203529/https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/499462-ocasio-cortez-challenger-drops-out-of-gop-primary|url-status=live}}

The American Prospect wrote in October 2020 that Ocasio-Cortez was "spending the 2020 campaign running workshops" for constituents on workplace organizing, fighting eviction, and organizing childcare.{{Cite web|last=Gibson|first=Brittany|date=October 15, 2020|title=The Politician as Organizer|url=https://prospect.org/api/content/fdde06bc-0f0a-11eb-a3c6-1244d5f7c7c6/|access-date=October 18, 2020|website=The American Prospect|language=en-us|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116153206/https://prospect.org/politics/politician-as-organizer-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/|url-status=live}} They noted that Ocasio-Cortez was often not featured in the streamed workshops, saying the "strategy decentralizes the candidate from her own campaign".

On October 20, 2020, Ocasio-Cortez hosted a Twitch stream of the social deduction game Among Us, with fellow congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and many established streamers such as Pokimane, Hasan Piker, DrLupo, and mxmtoon.{{Cite news|title=Analysis {{!}} AOC playing 'Among Us' shouldn't surprise you. Streams are a beloved pastime.|language=en-US|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/10/21/aoc-twitch-stream-explained/|access-date=August 4, 2021|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=October 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021205849/https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/10/21/aoc-twitch-stream-explained/|url-status=live}} The stream peaked with over 400,000 viewers and, according to The Guardian{{'s}} Joshua Rivera, succeeded in humanizing her.{{cite news |last1=Rivera |first1=Joshua |title=AOC played Among Us and achieved what most politicians fail at: acting normal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/oct/22/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ilhan-omar-among-us-twitch-stream-aoc |access-date=October 22, 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=October 24, 2020 |archive-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025113529/https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/oct/22/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ilhan-omar-among-us-twitch-stream-aoc |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Farrell |first1=Jack |last2=Ferrell |first2=Harry |title=AOC just played 'Among Us' on Twitch. Over 400,000 people came to watch. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/22/aoc-just-played-among-us-twitch-over-400000-people-came-watch/ |access-date=October 22, 2020 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=October 24, 2020 |archive-date=October 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024144358/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/22/aoc-just-played-among-us-twitch-over-400000-people-came-watch/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web|last=Kastrenakes|first=Jacob|date=October 20, 2020|title=AOC's debut Twitch stream is one of the biggest ever|url=https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/20/21526164/aoc-among-us-twitch-debut-top-concurrent-viewers|access-date=October 21, 2020|website=The Verge|language=en|archive-date=October 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021033529/https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/20/21526164/aoc-among-us-twitch-debut-top-concurrent-viewers|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Brown|first=Abram|title=Almost 700,000 People Flock To Twitch To Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Play Hit Video Game 'Among Us'|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/10/20/almost-700000-people-flock-to-twitch-to-watch-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-play-hit-video-game-among-us/|access-date=October 21, 2020|website=Forbes|language=en|archive-date=October 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021174100/https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/10/20/almost-700000-people-flock-to-twitch-to-watch-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-play-hit-video-game-among-us/|url-status=live}} Ocasio-Cortez again streamed Among Us on Twitch on November 27, 2020, with Hasan Piker, xQc, ContraPoints and Canadian MP Jagmeet Singh to raise money for food pantries, eviction defense legal aid, and community support organizations to assist those suffering economic hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic.{{cite web |last1=Holt |first1=Kris |date=November 27, 2020 |title=AOC will return to Twitch tonight for another round of 'Among Us' |url=https://www.engadget.com/aoc-twitch-among-us-jagmeet-singh-171253442.html |website=Engadget |access-date=November 28, 2020 |archive-date=November 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128122628/https://www.engadget.com/aoc-twitch-among-us-jagmeet-singh-171253442.html |url-status=live }} The stream raised $200,000 and Ocasio-Cortez wrote, "This is going to make such a difference for those who need it most right now."{{cite web |last1=Iovine |first1=Anna |date=November 28, 2020 |title=AOC raised $200,000 for charity on her 'Among Us' Twitch stream Friday |url=https://mashable.com/article/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-twitch-among-us-charity-stream/ |website=Mashable |access-date=January 18, 2021}}

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Ocasio-Cortez ran unopposed in the Democratic primary.{{cite web | url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/aoc-cruises-to-renomination-uncontested-after-other-squad-members-faced-primaries | title=AOC cruises to renomination uncontested after other 'Squad' members faced primaries | date=August 24, 2022 | access-date=September 8, 2022 | archive-date=September 8, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908230518/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/aoc-cruises-to-renomination-uncontested-after-other-squad-members-faced-primaries | url-status=live }} She defeated Republican Tina Forte and Conservative Party nominee Desi Cuellar in the general election.{{cite news |title=New York 14th Congressional District Election Results |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-new-york-us-house-district-14.html |access-date=November 9, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=November 8, 2022 |archive-date=August 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240815024226/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-new-york-us-house-district-14.html |url-status=live }}

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In May, the DSA debated whether to endorse Ocasio-Cortez. Some members argued that she was more committed to the Democratic Party and that her positions on Palestine had become weaker.{{cite web |last1=Robinson |first1=Curtis |title=Ocasio-Cortez is Committed to the Democratic Party, Not DSA |url=https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/ocasio-cortez-is-committed-to-the-democratic-party-not-dsa/ |website=dsausa.org |publisher=Democratic Left |access-date=11 July 2024}} On June 23, the DSA National Political Committee (NPC) voted to endorse her so long as she fulfilled its list of demands, most concerning Palestine. The New York City chapter, which endorsed her, rejected the deal. On July 10, the NPC withdrew its endorsement of Ocasio-Cortez, citing her participation in a panel that conflated antisemitism with anti-Zionism, her support for a resolution that characterized denial of Israel's right to exist as antisemitism, and a co-signed press release in support of the Iron Dome defense system.{{cite web|url=https://www.dsausa.org/statements/status-of-dsa-national-endorsement-for-rep-ocasio-cortez/|title=Status of DSA National Endorsement for Rep. Ocasio-Cortez|publisher=Democratic Socialists of America|date=July 10, 2024|accessdate=July 11, 2024|archive-date=July 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711000512/https://www.dsausa.org/statements/status-of-dsa-national-endorsement-for-rep-ocasio-cortez/|url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Democratic Socialists of America Pulls AOC Endorsement After She Spoke Out Against Antisemitism |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-07-11/ty-article/.premium/democratic-socialists-of-america-pulls-aoc-endorsement-after-speaking-out-on-antisemitism/00000190-a209-dd20-abfa-fe1fb1360000 |website=haaretz.com |access-date=11 July 2024 |archive-date=July 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711152546/https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-07-11/ty-article/.premium/democratic-socialists-of-america-pulls-aoc-endorsement-after-speaking-out-on-antisemitism/00000190-a209-dd20-abfa-fe1fb1360000 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Fandos |first1=Nicholas |title=Ocasio-Cortez Loses the Democratic Socialists' Endorsement Over Israel |work=The New York Times |date=July 11, 2024 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/us/politics/aoc-dsa-endorsement.html |access-date=11 July 2024 |archive-date=July 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711202935/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/us/politics/aoc-dsa-endorsement.html |url-status=live }}

Investment banker Marty Dolan, a moderate Democrat, ran against Ocasio-Cortez in the primary. Ocasio-Cortez won overwhelmingly.{{cite web |title=AOC defeats moderate challenger in Democratic primary |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/06/25/aoc-wins-ny-14-democratic-primary/74207567007/ |website=usatoday.com |publisher=USA Today |access-date=27 June 2024 |archive-date=June 27, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627011657/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/06/25/aoc-wins-ny-14-democratic-primary/74207567007/ |url-status=live }}

Ocasio-Cortez again easily won the general election against Forte.{{cite web |title=Ocasio-Cortez cruises to victory in New York |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4973133-ocasio-cortez-new-york/ |website=thehill.com |access-date=15 November 2024 |archive-date=November 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241111213206/https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4973133-ocasio-cortez-new-york/ |url-status=live }} Some voters in her district split their tickets, voting for Ocasio-Cortez and for Trump in the presidential election.{{cite web |title=Split ticket voters offer some bracing lessons for the Democratic Party |url=https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/aoc-trump-democrats-listen-voters-rcna179762 |website=MSNBC.com |date=November 12, 2024 |publisher=MSNBC |access-date=4 January 2025}} Harris won 65% of the district's vote and Trump 33%, an increase from 2020. A political analyst said this was because both Trump and Ocasio-Cortez "were leading with the message of working-class pocketbook issues".{{cite web |title=Some New Yorkers split their ticket for AOC and Trump. Political strategists weigh in |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/decision-2024/trump-aoc-ny-split-ticket-election-2024/5981739/ |website=nbcnewyork.com |date=November 15, 2024 |publisher=NBC News York |access-date=15 November 2024 |archive-date=November 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241116015500/https://www.nbcnewyork.com/decision-2024/trump-aoc-ny-split-ticket-election-2024/5981739/ |url-status=live }} Ocasio-Cortez asked those who split their tickets why they did so; some said that they both cared about the working class and were "less establishment", while others cited the Gaza war and the economy.{{cite magazine |title=Voters Who Backed Both Trump and AOC Share Their Bizarre Stories |url=https://newrepublic.com/post/188248/2024-election-voters-democrat-trump-aoc-split-ticket |website=newrepublic.com |publisher=The New Republic |access-date=15 November 2024 |archive-date=November 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241116082706/https://newrepublic.com/post/188248/2024-election-voters-democrat-trump-aoc-split-ticket |url-status=live }}

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Taking office at age 29, Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress, and also the youngest member of the 116th Congress.{{cite web|date=December 17, 2020|title=Membership of the 116th Congress: A Profile|url=https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45583.pdf|access-date=February 27, 2021|publisher=Congressional Research Service|archive-date=March 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310232113/https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45583.pdf|url-status=live}}

When the 116th Congress convened on January 3, 2019, Ocasio-Cortez entered with no seniority but with a large social media presence. Axios credited her with "as much social media clout as her fellow freshman Democrats combined".{{cite web |url=https://www.axios.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-twitter-followers-house-democrats-d7818025-a1a5-444d-a598-b5983021e92b.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has as much social media clout as her fellow freshman Democrats, combined |last=McCammond |first=Alexi |author-link=Alexi McCammond |date=November 28, 2018 |publisher=Axios|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128220300/https://www.axios.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-twitter-followers-house-democrats-d7818025-a1a5-444d-a598-b5983021e92b.html|archive-date=November 28, 2018|url-status=live |access-date=December 3, 2018}} {{As of|2024|6|since=y}}, she has 13.1{{spaces}}million X (formerly Twitter) followers,{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/AOC |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) |via=Twitter|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101050812/https://twitter.com/aoc|archive-date=January 1, 2019|url-status=live |access-date=January 13, 2019}} up from 1.4 million in November 2018. As of January 2025, she has 8.4 million followers on Instagram{{Cite web |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc) |url=https://www.instagram.com/aoc/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Instagram}} and 1.8 million on Facebook.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.facebook.com/OcasioCortez/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez {{!}} Facebook |language=en-US |access-date=2025-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716215224/https://www.facebook.com/OcasioCortez |archive-date=July 16, 2024 |url-status=live }} Ocasio-Cortez is also the most followed user on Bluesky, with 2 million followers as of March 2025.{{Cite web |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) |url=https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social |access-date=March 15, 2025 |website=Bluesky }}{{Cite web |last=Suter |first=Tara |date=2024-12-02 |title=Ocasio-Cortez first person to hit a million followers on Bluesky |url=https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5018696-ocasio-cortez-hits-one-million-followers-bluesky/ |website=The Hill}}{{Cite web |date=2024-12-02 |title=US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the first Bluesky user with a million followers |url=https://www.engadget.com/social-media/us-representative-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-the-first-bluesky-user-with-a-million-followers-202125073.html |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Engadget |language=en-US}} Her colleagues appointed her to teach them social media lessons upon her arrival in Congress.{{cite news |last=Benwell |first=Max |date=February 12, 2019 |title=💃😂✊: How Ocasio-Cortez beat everyone at Twitter in nine tweets |url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/12/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-twitter-social-media |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215032241/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/12/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-twitter-social-media |archive-date=February 15, 2019 |access-date=February 15, 2019 |newspaper=The Guardian}} In July 2019, two lawsuits were filed against her for blocking Joey Salads and Dov Hikind on Twitter in light of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that it was a violation of the First Amendment for President Trump to block people on Twitter.{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/10/ocasio-cortez-faces-lawsuits-blocking-twitter-critics-after-appeals-court-ruling-trump/ |title=Ocasio-Cortez faces lawsuits for blocking Twitter critics after appeals court ruling on Trump |last=Paul |first=Deanna |date=July 10, 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post |archive-date=July 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715145109/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/10/ocasio-cortez-faces-lawsuits-blocking-twitter-critics-after-appeals-court-ruling-trump/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-sue-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-blocking-them-twitter-1448415 |title=Democrat and Republican sue Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for blocking them on Twitter |first=Scott |last=McDonald |date=July 9, 2019 |website=Newsweek|access-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-date=July 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721152740/https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-sue-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-blocking-them-twitter-1448415 |url-status=live }} On November 4, 2019, it was announced that the lawsuit had been settled; Ocasio-Cortez issued an apology.{{cite web |last1=Bowden |first1=John |title=Ocasio-Cortez apologizes for blocking ex-politician on Twitter, settles lawsuit |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/468877-ocasio-cortez-apologizes-for-blocking-ex-politician-on-twitter-settles-lawsuit/ |date=November 4, 2019 |work=The Hill |access-date=November 11, 2019 |archive-date=November 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106001419/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/468877-ocasio-cortez-apologizes-for-blocking-ex-politician-on-twitter-settles-lawsuit |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Gershman |first1=Jacob |last2=Morris |first2=Betsy |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Apologizes for Blocking Twitter Critic |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-fights-for-the-right-to-block-some-critics-on-twitter-11572871369 |date=November 4, 2019 |work=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=November 11, 2019 |archive-date=November 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106183050/https://www.wsj.com/articles/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-fights-for-the-right-to-block-some-critics-on-twitter-11572871369 |url-status=live }}

In a 2019 interview, Ocasio-Cortez said she had stopped using her private Facebook account and was minimizing her usage of all social media accounts and platforms, calling them a "public health risk".{{Cite web |url=https://www.acast.com/skullduggery/aocunfiltered |title=AOC unfiltered {{!}} Skullduggery on acast |last=acast |date=April 15, 2019 |website=acast |access-date=May 6, 2019 |archive-date=November 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116153118/https://play.acast.com/s/skullduggery/aocunfiltered |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/15/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-quits-facebook-calls-social-media-public-health-risk/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quits Facebook, calls social media a 'public health risk' |first=Hamza |last=Shaban |date=April 15, 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=May 6, 2019 |archive-date=May 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505023510/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/15/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-quits-facebook-calls-social-media-public-health-risk/ |url-status=live }}

In November 2018, on the first day of congressional orientation, Ocasio-Cortez participated in a climate change protest outside the office of House minority leader Nancy Pelosi.{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nancy-pelosi/1987514002/ |title=On her first day of orientation on Capitol Hill, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez protests in Pelosi's office |last=Gaudiano |first=Nicole |work=USA Today |date=November 13, 2018 |access-date=November 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127083133/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nancy-pelosi/1987514002/ |archive-date=November 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} Also that month, she backed Pelosi's bid to be Speaker of the House on the condition that Pelosi "remains the most progressive candidate for speaker".{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/21/politics/alexandria-ocasio--cortez-nancy-pelosi-house-speaker/index.html |title=Ocasio-Cortez backs Pelosi for speaker as long as she 'remains the most progressive candidate' |last=LeBlanc |first=Paul |publisher=CNN|date=November 22, 2018 |access-date=November 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126020703/https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/21/politics/alexandria-ocasio--cortez-nancy-pelosi-house-speaker/index.html |archive-date=November 26, 2018 |url-status=live}}

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When Ocasio-Cortez made her first speech on the floor of Congress in January 2019, C-SPAN tweeted the video. Within 12 hours, the video of her speech set the record as C-SPAN's most-watched Twitter video of a member of the House of Representatives.{{cite news |url=https://time.com/5506749/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-house-speech-cspan-record/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's First House Speech Broke a C-SPAN Record |magazine=Time|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190118202200/http://time.com/5506749/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-house-speech-cspan-record/|archive-date=January 18, 2019|url-status=live |first=Mahita |last=Gajanan |date=January 18, 2019}}

In February 2019, speaking at a congressional hearing with a panel of representatives from campaign finance watchdog groups, Ocasio-Cortez questioned the panel about ethics regulations as they apply to both the president and members of Congress. She asserted that no regulations prevent lawmakers "from being bought off by wealthy corporations".{{cite news |last1=Wyatt |first1=Tim |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivers devastating dissection of US financial system and political corruption in congress speech |date=February 8, 2019 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-congress-speech-campaign-finance-corruption-election-aoc-a8769381.html |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=February 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190210075120/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-congress-speech-campaign-finance-corruption-election-aoc-a8769381.html |archive-date=February 10, 2019 |url-status=live}} With more than 37.5 million views, the clip became the most-watched political video posted on Twitter.{{cite news |last=Wolfson |first=Sam |title=Why Ocasio-Cortez's lesson in dark money is the most-watched political video |newspaper=The Guardian |date=February 14, 2019 |url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/14/campaign-finance-but-make-it-viral-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-unlikely-video-hit | access-date=February 15, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215002321/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/14/campaign-finance-but-make-it-viral-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-unlikely-video-hit | archive-date=February 15, 2019 | url-status=live}}

When President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen appeared before the Oversight Committee in February 2019, Ocasio-Cortez asked him whether Trump had inflated property values for bank or insurance purposes.{{cite news |title=Michael Cohen concludes his testimony: 'I will not sit back' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/michael-cohen-testimony/2019/02/27/089664f0-39fb-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=June 15, 2019 |date=February 27, 2019 |first1=Matt |last1=Zapotosky |first2=Karoun |last2=Demirjian |first3=Rosalind S. |last3=Helderman |first4=Rachael |last4=Bade |first5=Shane |last5=Harris |archive-date=June 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190615061941/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/michael-cohen-testimony/2019/02/27/089664f0-39fb-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html |url-status=live }} Cohen's reply implied that Trump may have committed tax and bank fraud.{{cite news |date=February 27, 2019 |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2019/02/27/seven-big-moments-from-cohen-testimony-far/XAoycU0SwdZeNwzHGgZIYN/story.html |title=10 big moments from Cohen's testimony |first=James|last=Pindell |newspaper=The Boston Globe|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302210354/https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2019/02/27/seven-big-moments-from-cohen-testimony-far/XAoycU0SwdZeNwzHGgZIYN/story.html|archive-date=March 2, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite news |date=February 28, 2019 |first=Aimee |last=Picchi |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-cohen-claims-trump-lies-about-his-wealth-heres-why-it-matters/ |title=Michael Cohen claims Trump lies about his wealth – here's why it matters |work=CBS News|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302061533/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-cohen-claims-trump-lies-about-his-wealth-heres-why-it-matters/|archive-date=March 2, 2019|url-status=live}} The president of the American Constitution Society named Ocasio-Cortez as the committee member best at obtaining specific information from Cohen about Trump's "shady practices, along with a road map for how to find out more".{{cite web |last1=Caroline |first1=Fredrickson |title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Won the Cohen Hearing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cohen-hearing.html |date=February 28, 2019 |website=The New York Times |access-date=March 2, 2019 |archive-date=March 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302014901/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cohen-hearing.html |url-status=live }} New York Times columnist David Brooks praised her skill in questioning Cohen.{{cite news |last1=Woodruff |first1=Judy |last2=Shields |first2=Mark |last3=Brooks |first3=David |title=Shields and Brooks on Cohen testimony, North Korea summit |type=Transcript |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/shields-and-brooks-on-cohen-testimony-north-korea-summit |work=PBS NewsHour |date=March 1, 2019 |access-date=March 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302120236/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/shields-and-brooks-on-cohen-testimony-north-korea-summit |archive-date=March 2, 2019 |url-status=live}} The exchange between Ocasio-Cortez and Cohen prompted an investigation by New York attorney general Letitia James, who referred to it in August 2020 when filing legal action to compel Trump's companies to comply with subpoenas about financial information, and to compel his son Eric Trump to testify.{{Cite web |title=AOC's Grilling of Michael Cohen Was What Led to NY AG's Fraud Case Against Trump Businesses, Eric Trump |website=lawandcrime.com |url=https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/aocs-grilling-of-michael-cohen-was-what-led-to-ny-ags-fraud-case-against-trump-businesses-eric-trump/ |date=August 24, 2020 |first=Colin |last=Kalmbacher |access-date=August 25, 2020 |language=en |archive-date=August 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824224056/https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/aocs-grilling-of-michael-cohen-was-what-led-to-ny-ags-fraud-case-against-trump-businesses-eric-trump/ |url-status=live }} Further developments as a result of the exchange saw James form a civil investigation and lawsuit against the Trump Organization regarding potential financial fraud, which resulted in a fine of $354 million and a ban on Trump doing business in New York for two to three years.{{cite news |last1=Bustillo |first1=Ximena |date=February 16, 2024 |title=Trump ordered to pay over $355M for fraudulent business practices in New York |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/02/16/1226294071/trump-fined-fraud-trial-ny |access-date=February 17, 2024 |work=NPR |archive-date=February 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240216215130/https://www.npr.org/2024/02/16/1226294071/trump-fined-fraud-trial-ny |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Snodgrass |first1=Erin |title=Here's how AOC unwittingly sparked NY Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit into Donald Trump and the Trump Organization |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-questions-michael-cohen-2019-sparked-ny-ag-trump-lawsuit-2022-9 |access-date=February 27, 2024 |work=Business Insider |date=September 23, 2022 |archive-date=February 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240228024208/https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-questions-michael-cohen-2019-sparked-ny-ag-trump-lawsuit-2022-9 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Garcia |first1=Eric |last2=Feinberg |first2=Andrew |title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez inadvertently sparked the New York attorney general's Trump lawsuit |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-donald-trump-law-suit-new-york-b2173633.html |access-date=February 27, 2024 |work=The Independent |date=September 23, 2022 |archive-date=February 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240228024208/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-donald-trump-law-suit-new-york-b2173633.html |url-status=live }}

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According to reports in March 2019, Ocasio-Cortez continued to receive media coverage early in her congressional tenure on par with that of 2020 presidential candidates{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-not-second-most-talked-about-politician-america/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not the 'second most talked-about politician in America' |last=Bump |first=Phillip |date=March 21, 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=March 28, 2019 |archive-date=March 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328045219/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-not-second-most-talked-about-politician-america/ |url-status=live }} and was considered "one of the faces of the Democratic party"{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/21/media/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-time-magazine-cover/index.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 'second most talked-about politician in America,' graces Time cover |last=Kludt |first=Tom |publisher=CNN|date=March 21, 2019 |access-date=March 28, 2019 |archive-date=March 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323162953/https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/21/media/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-time-magazine-cover/index.html |url-status=live }} and one of the most talked-about politicians in the United States.{{Cite news |url=https://time.com/longform/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-profile/ |title='Change Is Closer Than We Think.' Inside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Unlikely Rise |last=Alter |first=Charlotte |magazine=Time|language=en |quote=Wonder Woman of the left, Wicked Witch of the right, Ocasio-Cortez has become the second most talked-about politician in America, after the President of the United States.{{spaces}}... No lawmaker in recent memory has translated so few votes into so much political and social capital so quickly. |date=March 21, 2019 |access-date=March 28, 2019 |archive-date=November 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115184338/https://time.com/longform/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-profile/ |url-status=live }} Between July{{spaces}}8 and 14, 2019, she drew more social media attention than the Democratic presidential candidates. Tracking company NewsWhip found that interactions with news articles on Ocasio-Cortez numbered 4.8 million, while no Democratic presidential candidate got more than 1.2 million. David Bauder of the Associated Press wrote that Trump's supporters were thus having "some success" in having "Ocasio-Cortez be top of mind when people think of" the Democratic Party.{{cite web |last1=Bauder |first1=David |title=Stats show how AOC dominating social media attention |url=https://www.apnews.com/1e006443442a465fa4e2b38acab5e29c |website=Associated Press |access-date=July 21, 2019 |date=July 18, 2019 |archive-date=July 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720223004/https://www.apnews.com/1e006443442a465fa4e2b38acab5e29c |url-status=live }}

According to a Media Matters for America study, Ocasio-Cortez was intensely discussed on sister television channels Fox News and Fox Business, being mentioned every day from February 25 to April 7, 2019, for a total of 3,181 mentions in 42 days. The Guardian{{'s}} David Smith wrote that this is evidence that Fox is "obsessed by Ocasio-Cortez, portraying her as a radical socialist who threatens the American way of life".{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=David |title=Fox mentions Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for 42 days running – 3,181 times |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/12/fox-mentions-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-for-42-days-running |date=April 12, 2019 |work=The Guardian |access-date=April 15, 2019 |archive-date=April 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415043754/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/12/fox-mentions-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-for-42-days-running |url-status=live }} Brian Stelter of CNN Business found that between January and July 2019, she had nearly three times as many mentions on Fox News as on CNN and MSNBC. Stelter wrote that the attention Ocasio-Cortez is receiving has caused "the perception, particularly on the right, that her positions and policies are representative of the Democratic Party as a whole".{{cite web |last1=Stelter |first1=Brian |author-link1=Brian Stelter |title=How Fox News fuels Trump's fixation with AOC and Ilhan Omar |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/21/media/fox-news-aoc-ilhan-omar/index.html |website=CNN Business |access-date=July 22, 2019 |date=July 22, 2019 |archive-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722043759/https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/21/media/fox-news-aoc-ilhan-omar/index.html |url-status=live }} In March 2019, Time Magazine said Ocasio-Cortez was the "second-most talked about politician" in the United States, after Trump, and called her "the Wonder Woman of the left".{{cite magazine |last=Alter |first=Charlotte |title=Inside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Unlikely Rise |url=https://time.com/longform/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-profile/ |magazine=Time |date=March 21, 2019 |publisher=TIME |access-date=22 July 2024 |archive-date=November 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115184338/https://time.com/longform/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-profile/ |url-status=live }}

In March 2019, PolitiFact reported that Ocasio-Cortez is "one of the most targeted politicians for hoax claims, despite the fact that she just entered Congress as a freshman". Fake quotes attributed to her, fake photos of her, and false rumors about her have spread on social media. Some of these have originated from 4chan and r/The_Donald.{{cite web |last1=O'Rourke |first1=Ciara |title=No, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez probably didn't say that |url=https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/mar/27/no-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-probably-didnt-say/ |website=PolitiFact |access-date=July 12, 2019 |date=March 27, 2019 |archive-date=July 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712010618/https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/mar/27/no-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-probably-didnt-say/ |url-status=live }} By July 2019, the fake material included attributing things Trump said to Ocasio-Cortez, such as "I have a very good brain and I've said lots of things."{{cite web |last1=Putterman |first1=Samantha |title=Ocasio-Cortez didn't say she speaks with herself because she has 'a very good brain.' That was Trump |url=https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/jul/11/facebook-posts/ocasio-cortez-didnt-say-she-speaks-herself-because/ |website=PolitiFact |access-date=July 12, 2019 |date=July 11, 2019 |archive-date=July 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711234940/https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/jul/11/facebook-posts/ocasio-cortez-didnt-say-she-speaks-herself-because/ |url-status=live }} On July 18, 2019, Charlie Rispoli, a police officer from Gretna, Louisiana, posted on Facebook an apparent threat to shoot Ocasio-Cortez, calling her a "vile idiot" who "needs a round, and I don't mean the kind she used to serve" as a bartender. Rispoli posted the comment in response to a fake news article that falsely quoted Ocasio-Cortez as saying, "We pay soldiers too much".{{cite web |last1=Calder |first1=Chad |title=Gretna police officer suggests U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'needs a round' in social media post |url=https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_a206330a-aa5c-11e9-a2da-e7a8c6248a10.html |date=July 20, 2019 |website=nola.com |access-date=July 21, 2019 |archive-date=July 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720234740/https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_a206330a-aa5c-11e9-a2da-e7a8c6248a10.html |url-status=live }} Rispoli was fired for his post and his Facebook account was deleted.{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/louisiana-police-officer-suggests-facebook-aoc-be-shot-n1032281 |title=Louisiana police officer fired after suggesting AOC should be shot |last=Smith |first=Allan |date=July 22, 2019 |work=NBC News |access-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722141626/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/louisiana-police-officer-suggests-facebook-aoc-be-shot-n1032281 |url-status=live }}

Ocasio-Cortez is known to wear red lipstick, usually by the American makeup brand Stila Cosmetics in the shade "Beso", as a style trait of Latina women from the Bronx.{{cite magazine|magazine=Vanity Fair|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/becoming-aoc-cover-story-2020|title=AOC'S Next Four Years|date=October 28, 2020|last=Ruiz|first=Michelle|publisher=Condé Nast|access-date=May 29, 2021|archive-date=May 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210527002158/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/becoming-aoc-cover-story-2020|url-status=live}} In a skincare tutorial for Vogue, she explained that beauty and femininity are important to her because these things are often used against women in politics and society, and that self-love is like a "mini protest" against misogynistic critiques.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-beauty-secrets|title=Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Self-Love, Fighting the Power, and Her Signature Red Lip|magazine=Vogue|last=Ruffner|first=Zoe|date=August 21, 2020|publisher=Condé Nast|access-date=May 29, 2021|archive-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602212525/https://www.vogue.com/article/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-beauty-secrets|url-status=live}}

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Ocasio-Cortez attended the 2021 Met Gala, which had the theme "In America: a Lexicon of Fashion". The Met Gala is an annual fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art that is overseen by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, who selects every invitee and designer pairing. Ocasio-Cortez wore an organza gown emblazoned with the phrase "Tax the Rich". As an elected official in New York City, she was considered a guest of the museum, and as such did not have to buy a ticket, which costs persons other than elected officials at least {{US dollar|35000|2021|long=no|about=yes|round=-3}}. In response, Ocasio-Cortez said her critics were using a sexist double standard and that she "punctured the fourth wall of excess and spectacle". Designer Aurora James also said the extremely wealthy people in attendance needed to see the message in person.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/style/aoc-designer-tax-the-rich-dress.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916174052/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/style/aoc-designer-tax-the-rich-dress.html |archive-date=September 16, 2021 |url-access=limited |title= A.O.C.'s Met Gala Designer Explains Her 'Tax the Rich' Dress |work=The New York Times |date=September 16, 2021 |last=Testa |first=Jessica}}

In September 2021, the American Accountability Foundation filed an ethics complaint against Ocasio-Cortez for attending the Met Gala. The AAF claimed that her attendance amounted to accepting an illegal gift since her estimated $35,000 ticket was paid for by Condé Nast, a for-profit company, not a charity.{{Cite web |first=Dartunorro |last=Clark |date=September 15, 2021 |access-date=February 14, 2023 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/conservative-group-files-ethics-complaint-against-aoc-attending-met-gala-n1279308 |title=Conservative group files ethics complaint against AOC for attending Met Gala |website=NBC News |archive-date=December 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216165058/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/conservative-group-files-ethics-complaint-against-aoc-attending-met-gala-n1279308 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |first=Stuti |last=Mishra |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-met-gala-dress-criticism-b1920415.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210915112523/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-met-gala-dress-criticism-b1920415.html |archive-date=September 15, 2021 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |title=AOC hit with ethics complaint over Met Gala appearance as she fires back at critics |date=September 15, 2021 |work=The Independent}}{{cite news |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/572508-conservative-group-files-ethics-complaint-over-ocasio-cortez-appearance-at-met/ |title=Conservative Group Files Ethics Complaint over Ocasio-Cortez Appearance at Met Gala |first=Caroline |last=Vakil |newspaper=The Hill |date=September 15, 2021 |access-date=April 25, 2022 |archive-date=April 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419050143/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/572508-conservative-group-files-ethics-complaint-over-ocasio-cortez-appearance-at-met/ |url-status=live}}

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Ocasio-Cortez is a member of an informal group of progressive members of Congress called "the Squad", initially including Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib.{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/for-ayanna-pressley-the-beauty-of-unexpected-wins-led-to-congress-and-a-historic-office/2019/01/15/61d04b5e-14fc-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html |title=For Ayanna Pressley, the beauty of unexpected wins led to Congress and a historic office |last=Epstein |first=Kayla |date=January 16, 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=July 15, 2019 |archive-date=November 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115015611/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/for-ayanna-pressley-the-beauty-of-unexpected-wins-led-to-congress-and-a-historic-office/2019/01/15/61d04b5e-14fc-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html |url-status=live }} On July 14, 2019, Trump attacked the Squad (which had only four members at the time) in a tweet, saying that they should "go back and help fix" the countries they came from rather than criticize the American government.{{cite news |title=Trump to congresswomen of colour: Leave the US |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48982172 |access-date=December 13, 2019 |work=BBC News |date=July 15, 2019 |archive-date=October 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191003224200/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48982172 |url-status=live }} He continued to make similar comments over the next several days, even though three of the women, including Ocasio-Cortez, were born in the United States. Ocasio-Cortez responded in a tweet that "the President's words [yesterday], telling four American Congresswomen of color 'go back to your own country' is hallmark language of white supremacists."{{cite tweet|number=1150746839790039040|user=AOC|author-link=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez|last=Ocasio-Cortez|first=Alexandria|title=It's important to note that the President's words yday, telling four American Congresswomen of color "go back to your own country," is hallmark language of white supremacists. Trump feels comfortable leading the GOP into outright racism, and that should concern all Americans.}} She later added, "We don't leave the things that we love, and when we love this country, what that means is that we propose the solutions to fix it."{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/07/15/741771445/trump-continues-twitter-assault-on-4-minority-congresswomen |title=Lawmakers Respond To Trump's Racist Comments: We Are Here To Stay |last=Naylor |first=Brian |date=July 15, 2019 |work=NPR|access-date=July 20, 2019 |archive-date=July 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720023645/https://www.npr.org/2019/07/15/741771445/trump-continues-twitter-assault-on-4-minority-congresswomen |url-status=live }} Days later, Trump falsely asserted that Ocasio-Cortez called "our country and our people 'garbage{{'"}}; she had actually said that Americans should not be content with moderate policies that are "10% better from garbage".{{Cite news |date=July 20, 2019 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/politics/fact-check-trump-aoc-garbage-omar-jews/index.html |title=Fact check: Trump falsely accuses Ocasio-Cortez of calling Americans 'garbage' |first=Daniel |last=Dale |website=CNN|access-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-date=July 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721145719/https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/politics/fact-check-trump-aoc-garbage-omar-jews/index.html |url-status=live }} Trump also falsely claimed that Ocasio-Cortez said "illegal immigrants are more American" than Americans who tried to keep them out; she actually said that "women and children on that border that are trying to seek refuge and opportunity" in America "are acting more American" than those who tried to keep them out.{{cite web |last1=Greenberg |first1=Jon |last2=Sherman |first2=Amy |title=Fact-checking Trump's misleading attacks on Omar, Ocasio-Cortez in North Carolina |url=https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/jul/18/fact-checking-trumps-misleading-attacks-omar-ocasi/ |date=July 18, 2019 |access-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722110015/https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/jul/18/fact-checking-trumps-misleading-attacks-omar-ocasi/ |url-status=live }} The Squad grew in 2020, 2022, and 2024, with Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Greg Casar, Summer Lee, and Delia Ramirez joining.{{cite web |last1=Dougherty |first1=Sean |title=Progressive Congressional Dems known as 'The Squad |url=https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/politics/2024/05/22/progressive-congressional-dems-known-as-the-squad/73793884007/ |website=usatoday.com |publisher=USA Today |access-date=1 July 2024}}

{{Main|Green New Deal|Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal}}

File:116th United States Congress H. Res.0109 (1st session) - Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.pdf

Ocasio-Cortez submitted her first piece of legislation, the Green New Deal, to the House on February 7, 2019. She and Senator Ed Markey released a joint non-binding resolution laying out the main elements of a 10-year "economic mobilization" that "would phase out fossil fuel use and overhaul the nation's infrastructure." Their plan called for implementing the "social cost of carbon" that was part of the Obama administration's plans to address climate change. In the process it aimed to create jobs.{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/green-new-deal-details/index.html |title=Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal: What's in it |first=Lydia |last=DePillis |date=February 7, 2019 |access-date=February 7, 2019 |website=CNN | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207182351/https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/green-new-deal-details/index.html | archive-date = February 7, 2019 | url-status=live}} According to CNBC, an initial outline the Green New Deal called for "completely ditching fossil fuels, upgrading or replacing 'every building' in the country and 'totally overhaul[ing] transportation' to the point where 'air travel stops becoming necessary'". The outline set a goal of having the U.S. "creating 'net zero' greenhouse gases in 10 years. Why 'net zero'? The lawmakers explained: 'We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren't sure that we'll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast.'"{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-keeps-farting-cows-for-now.html |title=Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez really want to get rid of 'farting cows'? Not yet, at least |first=Kevin |last=Breuninger |date=February 7, 2019 |website=CNBC|access-date=December 3, 2020 |archive-date=November 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201119080603/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-keeps-farting-cows-for-now.html |url-status=live }} Activist groups such as Greenpeace and the Sunrise Movement came out in favor of the plan. No Republican lawmakers voiced support.{{cite news |last1=Quinn |first1=Liam |title=Dems divided on Green New Deal after Mitch McConnell ramps up pressure |date=February 14, 2019 |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-remain-divided-on-green-new-deal-after-mitch-mcconnell-ramps-up-pressure |publisher=Fox News |access-date=February 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223063805/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-remain-divided-on-green-new-deal-after-mitch-mcconnell-ramps-up-pressure |archive-date=February 23, 2019 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Cillizza |first1=Chris |title=Nancy Pelosi just threw some serious shade at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/pelosi-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=February 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223095116/https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/pelosi-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal/index.html |archive-date=February 23, 2019 |url-status=live |date=February 8, 2019}} The plan gained support from some Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Cory Booker; other Democrats, such as Senator Dianne Feinstein and House speaker Nancy Pelosi, dismissed the proposal (Pelosi has referred to it as "the green dream, or whatever they call it").{{cite web |url=https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-climate-change-have-kids-children-1342853 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wonders whether Americans should stop having children in the face of climate change |first=Nicole |last=Goodkind |date=February 25, 2019 |website=Newsweek |access-date=December 3, 2020 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112015834/https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-climate-change-have-kids-children-1342853 |url-status=live }}

On March 26, Senate Republicans called for an early vote on the Green New Deal without allowing discussion or expert testimony. Markey said Republicans were trying to "make a mockery" of the debate and called the vote a "sham". In protest, Senate Democrats voted "present" or against the bill, resulting in a 57–0 defeat on the Senate floor.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/climate-change-which-democrats-oppose-green-new-deal/585802/ |title=The 3 Democrats Who Voted Against the Green New Deal |last=Meyer |first=Robinson |work=The Atlantic |quote=The Senate rejected the Green New Deal on Tuesday, in a decisive 57–0 vote that Democrats decried as a political stunt meant to divide their caucus. All the Republican senators opposed the measure. They were joined by four senators who caucus with the Democrats{{snd}}Senator Joe Manchin, from the coal-heavy state of West Virginia, along with Senators Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Doug Jones of Alabama, and Angus King of Maine. |date=March 26, 2019 |access-date=March 28, 2019 |archive-date=March 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327205713/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/climate-change-which-democrats-oppose-green-new-deal/585802/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |first1=Joe |last1=Battenfield |title=Green New Fail as Dems shun GOP-forced vote on climate bill |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/03/26/green-new-fail-as-dems-shun-gop-forced-vote-on-climate-bill/ |access-date=March 27, 2019 |work=Boston Herald |date=March 26, 2019 |quote=an early vote on the Green New Deal on Tuesday and not a single U.S. Senator, including the measure's sponsor, Massachusetts' Ed Markey{{snd}}signed on to the overly ambitious environmental overhaul |archive-date=March 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327073926/https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/03/26/green-new-fail-as-dems-shun-gop-forced-vote-on-climate-bill/ |url-status=live }}

In March 2019, a group of UK activists proposed that the Labour Party adopt a similar plan, "Labour for a Green New Deal". The group said it was inspired by the Sunrise Movement and the work Ocasio-Cortez has done in the US.{{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Matthew |title=Labour members launch Green New Deal inspired by US activists |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/22/labour-members-launch-green-new-deal-inspired-by-us-activists |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=April 16, 2019 |date=March 22, 2019 |archive-date=April 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410023451/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/22/labour-members-launch-green-new-deal-inspired-by-us-activists |url-status=live }}

{{Further|Paul Gosar#2021 censure}}

{{external media | width = 210px | float = right | video1 = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI4ueUtkRQ0 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Responds to Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL)], C-SPAN, 10:24, July 23, 2020}}

On July 20, 2020, U.S. representatives Ted Yoho and Roger Williams accosted Ocasio-Cortez on the Capitol steps, where Yoho (as overheard by a journalist) called her "disgusting" and told her "You are out of your freaking mind" for recently suggesting that poverty and unemployment were driving a spike in crime in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic amid her ongoing advocacy for cutting police budgets. Ocasio-Cortez told Yoho he was being "rude". As she walked away from Yoho into the Capitol, Yoho called her a "fucking bitch".{{cite news |last=Lillis |first=Mike |date=July 21, 2020 |title=Ocasio-Cortez accosted by GOP lawmaker over remarks: 'That kind of confrontation hasn't ever happened to me' |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/508259-ocaasio-cortez-accosted-by-gop-lawmaker-over-remarks-that-kind-of/ |access-date=July 22, 2020 |website=The Hill |archive-date=July 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722004619/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/508259-ocaasio-cortez-accosted-by-gop-lawmaker-over-remarks-that-kind-of |url-status=live }}{{cite web |date=July 21, 2020 |title=Lawmaker reportedly verbally accosts Ocasio-Cortez |url=https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/07/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ted-yoho-confrontation-sot-vpx-nr.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722023640/https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/07/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ted-yoho-confrontation-sot-vpx-nr.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/ |archive-date=July 22, 2020 |access-date=July 22, 2020 |website=CNN}} Yoho addressed the matter on the House floor and, without naming Ocasio-Cortez, apologized for the "abrupt manner of the conversation" with her, claiming that "offensive name calling, words attributed to me by the press, were never spoken to my colleagues", and concluding: "I cannot apologize for my passion".{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Allan |date=July 22, 2020 |title=GOP congressman offers semi-apology to AOC after she says he called her 'disgusting' and 'crazy' |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-congressman-offers-semi-apology-aoc-after-she-says-he-n1234585 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722164243/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-congressman-offers-semi-apology-aoc-after-she-says-he-n1234585 |archive-date=July 22, 2020 |access-date=July 22, 2020 |website=NBC News}}{{cite news |last=Broadwater |first=Luke |date=July 22, 2020 |title=Ocasio-Cortez Upbraids Republican After He Denies Vulgarly Insulting Her |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/us/politics/aoc-yoho.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205743/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/us/politics/aoc-yoho.html |archive-date=June 24, 2021 |access-date=June 17, 2021 |website=The New York Times}} Ocasio-Cortez responded with a speech saying that the incident was emblematic of a "culture ... accepting of violence and violent language against women ... In using that language, in front of the press, he gave permission to use that language against his wife, his daughters, women in his community, and I am here to stand up to say that is not acceptable."{{cite web |date=July 23, 2020 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces 'sexist slur by congressman' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53521143 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723204209/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53521143 |archive-date=July 23, 2020 |access-date=July 23, 2020 |website=BBC}}{{cite news |last=Sprunt |first=Barbara |date=July 23, 2020 |title='I Could Not Allow That To Stand': Ocasio-Cortez Rebukes Republican For Vulgar Insult |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/07/23/894596598/i-could-not-allow-that-to-stand-ocasio-cortez-rebukes-republican-for-vulgar-insu |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723163707/https://www.npr.org/2020/07/23/894596598/i-could-not-allow-that-to-stand-ocasio-cortez-rebukes-republican-for-vulgar-insu |archive-date=July 23, 2020 |access-date=July 23, 2020 |website=NPR}}

In November 2021, Representative Paul Gosar posted a version of the title sequence of the anime series Attack on Titan on social media that he had edited with the faces of Ocasio-Cortez, Joe Biden, and himself superimposed on the show's characters, depicting Gosar attacking them with swords and killing Ocasio-Cortez. Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for law enforcement and the House Ethics Committee to investigate it as a threat.{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Dartunorro |title=Twitter flags GOP lawmaker's anime video depicting him killing Ocasio-Cortez, attacking Biden as 'hateful conduct' |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gop-lawmaker-tweets-altered-anime-video-depicting-him-killing-ocasio-n1283527 |website=NBC News |access-date=November 25, 2021 |date=November 9, 2021 |archive-date=November 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109162922/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gop-lawmaker-tweets-altered-anime-video-depicting-him-killing-ocasio-n1283527 |url-status=live }} Pelosi opened discussion on the House floor, saying that Gosar's actions demanded a response: "We cannot have members joking about murdering each other or threatening the president of the United States. This is both an indictment of our elected officials and an insult to the institution of the House of Representatives. It's not just about us as members of Congress. It is a danger that it represents to everyone in the country."{{cite web |title=House votes to censure GOP Rep. Gosar, remove him from committees over violent video |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-plans-vote-wednesday-censure-gop-rep-gosar/story?id=81212617 |website=ABC News |date=November 17, 2021 |first1=Mariam |last1=Khan |first2=Libby |last2=Cathey |first3=Benjamin |last3=Siegel |first4=Trish |last4=Turner |access-date=November 25, 2021 |archive-date=November 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125030219/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-plans-vote-wednesday-censure-gop-rep-gosar/story?id=81212617 |url-status=live }} When Republican House members refused to condemn the video, Ocasio-Cortez responded that she believed the video was "part of a pattern that normalizes violence", adding, "I believe this is a part of a concerted strategy and I think it's very important for us to draw a strict line a strong line for material consequence". She gave a six-minute floor speech, saying, "This is not about me. This is not about Representative Gosar. This is about what we're willing to accept." The House voted to censure Gosar, mostly along party lines. The last time the House censured a lawmaker was in 2010.{{cite web |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fires back at GOP over Gosar's violent video |url=https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/11/17/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rep-gosar-violent-video-house-floor-sot-nr-vpx.cnn |website=CNN |date=November 17, 2021 |access-date=November 25, 2021 |archive-date=November 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211126065227/https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/11/17/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rep-gosar-violent-video-house-floor-sot-nr-vpx.cnn |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Deirdre |title=Rep. Gosar is censured over an anime video depicts him killing AOC |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/11/17/1056397130/rep-gosar-faces-censure-over-an-anime-video-of-himself-killing-aoc |website=NPR |access-date=November 25, 2021 |date=November 17, 2021 |archive-date=November 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124193238/https://www.npr.org/2021/11/17/1056397130/rep-gosar-faces-censure-over-an-anime-video-of-himself-killing-aoc |url-status=live }}

{{main|January 6 United States Capitol attack}}

In a nearly 90-minute Instagram Live video made in February 2021,{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/02/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-shared-her-personal-story-revealed-our-collective-trauma/|title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared her personal story and revealed our collective trauma|newspaper=The Washington Post|last=Givhan|first=Robin|date=February 2, 2021|access-date=February 3, 2021|archive-date=February 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203005055/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/02/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-shared-her-personal-story-revealed-our-collective-trauma/|url-status=live }} Ocasio-Cortez said that she had previously experienced sexual assault, and recounted her experience of fear during the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, when she was in her office (in the Cannon House Office Building).{{Cite news|last=McCarthy|first=Bill|date=February 4, 2021|title=Ask PolitiFact: Where was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during the Capitol riot?|work=The Poynter Institute|url=https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/feb/04/ask-politifact-where-was-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-/|access-date=April 5, 2021|archive-date=April 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415223335/https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/feb/04/ask-politifact-where-was-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-/|url-status=live}} She said she had hidden in her office bathroom before being startled by a Capitol Police officer who entered her office suite and shouted "Where is she?" before ordering her and her staff to evacuate to a different House Office Building. Ocasio-Cortez said the officer did not self-identify, and said she first believed the officer's voice was that of an attacker. She described sheltering in place in Representative Katie Porter's office and preparing for what she believed would be an assault by rioters on their offices.{{Cite news|last=Peiser|first=Jaclyn|date=February 2, 2021|title=Ocasio-Cortez reveals she's a sexual assault survivor, recounts 'trauma' of Capitol riot: 'I thought everything was over'|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/01/aoc-instagram-capitol-riot/|access-date=February 4, 2021}}{{cite news |title=Fact check: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not claim that she was in the Capitol during siege, nor that rioters entered her office |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-aoc-instagram-live-video-idUSKBN2A51RK |access-date=February 24, 2021 |work=Reuters |date=February 5, 2021 |archive-date=February 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209142411/https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-aoc-instagram-live-video-idUSKBN2A51RK |url-status=live }} She said, "I had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die."{{Cite news|last=Sprunt|first=Barbara|date=February 2, 2021|title='Many Of Us Narrowly Escaped Death': Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Recounts Capitol Insurrection|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-effort-live-updates/2021/01/13/956398483/many-of-us-narrowly-escaped-death-rep-ocasio-cortez-recounts-capitol-insurrectio|access-date=April 5, 2021|archive-date=April 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413215402/https://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-effort-live-updates/2021/01/13/956398483/many-of-us-narrowly-escaped-death-rep-ocasio-cortez-recounts-capitol-insurrectio|url-status=live}}

Ocasio-Cortez gave her first major convention speech in a primetime slot at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.{{cite web |title=AOC speaks to the middle class in her first major convention appearance |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/08/19/g-s1-17838/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democratic-national-convention |website=npr.org |date=August 19, 2024 |publisher=NPR |access-date=28 September 2024 |last1=Mandler |first1=C. }} She expressed support for the Harris-Walz campaign and heavily criticized Trump, calling him a union buster who would "sell this country for a dollar if it meant lining his own pockets and greasing the palms of his Wall Street friends". Ocasio-Cortez addressed the Gaza war, saying Harris was "working tirelessly" for a ceasefire and hostage deal.{{cite news |title=AOC calls Trump 'two-bit union buster' as she urges US to elect Kamala Harris |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/19/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democratic-national-convention |website=The Guardian |date=August 20, 2024 |access-date=28 September 2024 |last1=Greve |first1=Joan E. }} The speech was generally well received. Politico wrote that Ocasio-Cortez was one of the party's "most celebrated stars" and that the establishment acknowledged it.{{cite web |title=This socialist just became an establishment favorite |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/23/aoc-mainstream-democrat-dnc-00175955 |website=politico.com |date=August 23, 2024 |publisher=Politico |access-date=28 September 2024 |archive-date=September 27, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240927143949/https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/23/aoc-mainstream-democrat-dnc-00175955 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Ocasio-Cortez, Once an Outsider, Takes Center Stage at Convention |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/nyregion/aoc-dnc-speech-harris.html |website=The New York Times |date=August 20, 2024 |access-date=28 September 2024 |last1=Fandos |first1=Nicholas }} The speech also led to speculation about whether Ocasio-Cortez would run for higher office.{{cite web |title=AOC doesn't want to be mayor of New York City. Most likely, she has bigger plans |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-eric-adams-mayor-plans-b2619847.html |website=independent.co.uk |date=September 27, 2024 |publisher=The Independent |access-date=9 November 2024 |archive-date=November 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241109193215/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-eric-adams-mayor-plans-b2619847.html |url-status=live }}

In December 2024, Ocasio-Cortez made a bid for ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, but lost to the more senior Gerry Connolly, 131-84 in the House Democratic Caucus. She emphasized her platform and communication skills while running, while Connolly's supporters highlighted his experience.{{Cite web |last=Solender |first=Andrew |date=2024-12-17 |title=AOC defeated by Gerry Connolly in battle to lead House Oversight Committee |url=https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/aoc-loses-gerry-connolly-democrats-oversight |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241217191625/https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/aoc-loses-gerry-connolly-democrats-oversight |archive-date=December 17, 2024 |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=Axios |language=en }} When Connolly announced he was leaving his position in May because his cancer was returning, Ocasio-Cortez declined to run again, saying, "It's actually clear to me that the underlying dynamics in the caucus have not shifted with respect to seniority".{{cite web |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won't seek the top Democratic seat on the House Oversight Committee |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/aoc-wont-seek-top-democratic-seat-house-oversight-committee-rcna205002 |website=nbcnews.com |publisher=NBC News |access-date=15 May 2025}}

In February 2025, "border czar" Tom Homan called Ocasio-Cortez "the dumbest congresswoman ever" and accused her of "educat[ing] criminal illegal aliens" after her efforts to teach people their rights, separately suggesting that she could be "in trouble" legally. She responded by saying that "this is why you fight these cowards", arguing her efforts were protected under the Fourth Amendment.{{cite web |title=Ocasio-Cortez on Homan insult: ‘This is why you fight these cowards’ |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5150703-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-tom-homan-immigration/ |website=thehill.com |publisher=The Hill |access-date=3 May 2025}}

In March, Ocasio-Cortez spoke out against the federal budget proposal, saying it would empower Trump and Elon Musk, and asked Democrats to vote against it. When Schumer announced he would vote for the bill to avoid a government shutdown, she called it "a tremendous mistake" and criticized Senate Democrats for allowing it. Several House Democrats, including Ro Khanna, urged Ocasio-Cortez to primary Schumer in the 2028 New York Senate elections.{{cite web |title=Democrats are desperately searching for new leaders. AOC is stepping into the void. |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-desperately-searching-new-leaders-aoc-stepping-void-rcna196816 |website=nbcnews.com |publisher=NBC News |access-date=3 May 2025}}{{cite web |title='Tremendous mistake': Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasts Schumer over GOP funding plan vote |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-blasts-schumer-gop-funding/story?id=119793415 |website=abcnews.go.com |publisher=ABC News |access-date=3 May 2025}}

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Later in March, Ocasio-Cortez joined Sanders on the "Fighting Oligarchy Tour", giving speeches opposing Trump's policies in multiple cities. She said that Trump's tariff policy was "disastrous" and market manipulation,{{cite web |title=‘Fight oligarchy’: Thousands attend Sanders, AOC rally in Los Angeles |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/13/bernie-sanders-draws-tens-of-thousands-at-la-rally-to-fight-oligarchy |website=aljazeera.com |publisher=Aljazeera |access-date=3 May 2025}} called Trump's immigration crackdown "authoritarian", criticized activist deportations,{{cite web |title=Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speak at 'Fighting Oligarchy' rally in downtown LA |url=https://abc7.com/post/bernie-sanders-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-speak-fighting-oligarchy-rally-downtown-la/16161747/ |website=abc7.com |publisher=ABC 7 |access-date=3 May 2025}}{{cite web |title=Deep-red Folsom, California turns blue for Sanders-AOC 'fight oligarchy' tour |url=https://www.newarab.com/news/sanders-aoc-fight-oligarchy-tour-rocks-calis-deep-red-folsom |website=newarab.com |publisher=The New Arab |access-date=3 May 2025}} drew attention to economic inequality, and called for the "courage to brawl for the working class". Ocasio-Cortez became increasingly viewed as a possible successor to Sanders and a candidate for the 2028 presidential election.{{cite web |title=‘Because of my Instagram posts?’ AOC swerves questions on 2028 presidential run |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-president-2028-b2742428.html |website=independent.co.uk |publisher=The Independent |access-date=3 May 2025}}{{cite web |title=AOC tries to broaden her appeal within a Democratic base spoiling for a fight |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/aoc-bernie-sanders-rally-tour/6197067/ |website=nbcnewyork.com |publisher=NBC New York |access-date=3 May 2025}} In the first quarter of 2025, she raised $9.6 million with an average donation of $21, more than she had ever received.{{cite web |title=Ocasio-Cortez raised $9.6 million in 3 months, smashing her own record |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/ocasio-cortez-raised-9-6-million-in-three-months-smashing-her-own-record-00291694 |website=politico.com |publisher=Politico |access-date=3 May 2025}} In May, Harris called her someone who was "speaking with moral clarity about this moment",{{cite web |title=Harris accuses Trump of abandoning American ideals in first major speech since leaving office |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/politics/kamala-harris-speech-trump |access-date=May 4, 2025 |publisher=CNN}} Vice President JD Vance told Fox News that Ocasio-Cortez running for president was "the stuff of nightmares",{{cite web |title=AOC Is Literally Haunting JD Vance’s ‘Nightmares’ |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-literally-haunting-jd-vances-nightmares/ |website=The Daily Beast |publisher=The Daily Beast |access-date=3 May 2025}} and Trump said that she had charisma but questioned her debating skills.{{cite web |title=AOC Isn’t Ruling Anything Out, Including the White House |url=https://www.wsj.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-political-future-1b1ad7cc |website=wsj.com |publisher=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=14 May 2025}}

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Ocasio-Cortez reacted to the 2021 Texas power crisis by organizing a fundraiser to provide food, water, and shelter to affected Texans. The fundraiser, which began on February 18, raised $2{{spaces}}million in its first day{{Cite web |title=US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raises more than $2 million to help Texans recover from nightmare winter storm |last1=Homer |first1=Michelle |date=February 19, 2021 |url=https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/texas/people-nationwide-donate-more-than-2-million-to-help-texans-recover-from-nightmare-winter-storm/285-92d8fb77-a3ba-46f8-8265-fcd807a20f6a |access-date=February 20, 2021 |website=KHOU |language=en-US |archive-date=February 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210219215804/https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/texas/people-nationwide-donate-more-than-2-million-to-help-texans-recover-from-nightmare-winter-storm/285-92d8fb77-a3ba-46f8-8265-fcd807a20f6a |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Shalvey |date=February 21, 2021 |first1=Kevin |title=AOC doubled her fundraising total for Texas storm victims to $4 million, as she joined fellow lawmakers in Houston to continue relief efforts |website=Business Insider |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-texas-fundraiser-doubled-4-million-as-lawmakers-tour-houston-2021-2 |access-date=February 22, 2021 |archive-date=February 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222030332/https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-texas-fundraiser-doubled-4-million-as-lawmakers-tour-houston-2021-2 |url-status=live }} and $5{{spaces}}million by February 21.{{cite news |last1=DeBenedetto |first1=Paul |last2=Ernst |first2=Sara |title=Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Raises $5 Million For Texas Winter Storm Relief |url=https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/weather/2021/02/20/391907/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-visits-houston-food-bank-after-raising-3-million-for-texas-winter-storm-relief/ |access-date=February 24, 2021 |work=Houston Public Media |date=February 22, 2021 |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223230815/https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/weather/2021/02/20/391907/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-visits-houston-food-bank-after-raising-3-million-for-texas-winter-storm-relief/ |url-status=live }} The money was given to organizations such as the Houston Food Bank and the North Texas Food Bank. Ocasio-Cortez also traveled to Houston to help volunteers with recovery.{{Cite web |last=Janowski |first=Elizabeth |date=February 19, 2021 |title=AOC raises over $3M for Texas relief, heads to Houston after blasting Cruz for Mexico trip |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/aoc-raises-2m-texas-relief-heads-houston-after-blasting-cruz-n1258389 |access-date=February 21, 2021 |website=ABC News |archive-date=February 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221012110/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/aoc-raises-2m-texas-relief-heads-houston-after-blasting-cruz-n1258389 |url-status=live }}

On April 15, 2021, Ocasio-Cortez and three members of Congress called a press conference to announce a bill that they had introduced to implement postal banking pilot programs in rural and low-income urban neighborhoods where millions of households cannot access or afford standard banking services. Ocasio-Cortez described the families she sees in her urban community who need to rely on check cashing companies that charge exorbitant interest rates due to the absence of mainstream banks. "They'll show up to a check cashing place and imagine cashing your stimulus check...and having 10 to 20% of that check taken away from you."{{cite news |title=WATCH: Sen. Gillibrand, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez hold news conference on postal banking |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVAJS6JeDWs |access-date=April 23, 2021 |publisher=PBS NewsHour |date=April 15, 2021 |archive-date=April 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423023125/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVAJS6JeDWs&feature=youtu.be |url-status=live }}

On November 5, 2021, Ocasio-Cortez was one of six House Democrats to break with their party and vote against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as it was decoupled from the social safety net provisions in the Build Back Better Act.{{Cite web|author=Annie Grayer|title=These 6 House Democrats voted against the infrastructure bill. These 13 Republicans voted for it.|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/05/politics/infrastructure-bill-house-democrats-voted-no-republicans-voted-yes/index.html|access-date=November 6, 2021|website=CNN|date=November 6, 2021|archive-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110030630/https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/05/politics/infrastructure-bill-house-democrats-voted-no-republicans-voted-yes/index.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |title=House Passes $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Putting Social Policy Bill on Hold |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/us/politics/house-infrastructure-reconciliation.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/us/politics/house-infrastructure-reconciliation.html |archive-date=December 28, 2021 |url-access=limited |last1=Weisman |first1=Jonathan |last2=Cochrane |first2=Emily |last3=Edmondson |first3=Catie |date=November 7, 2021 |work=The New York Times |access-date=November 8, 2021}}{{cbignore}}

In September 2022, Ocasio-Cortez was asked about running for president. She said, "I hold two contradictory things [in mind] at the same time. One is just the relentless belief that anything is possible. But at the same time, my experience here has given me a front-row seat to how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in this country hate women. And they hate women of color. People ask me questions about the future. And realistically, I can't even tell you if I'm going to be alive in September [of 2022]. And that weighs very heavily on me. And it's not just the right wing. Misogyny transcends political ideology: left, right, center."{{cite news |last=Lowery |first=Wesley |authorlink=Wesley Lowery |url=https://www.gq.com/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-october-cover-profile |title=AOC |work=GQ |date=September 8, 2022 |accessdate=September 8, 2022 |archive-date=September 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908000719/https://www.gq.com/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-october-cover-profile |url-status=live }}

In May 2023, Ocasio-Cortez was a part of a bipartisan group, including Matt Gaetz, Brian Fitzpatrick, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, that introduced the "Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act". The act bars members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks.{{Cite web |last=Watson |first=Kathryn |date=2023-05-02 |title=Bipartisan group, including Gaetz and Ocasio-Cortez, unveil bill to ban lawmakers from owning stocks - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-gaetz-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-congress-stock-ban-bill/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250101232507/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-gaetz-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-congress-stock-ban-bill/ |archive-date=2025-01-01 |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=CBS News |language=en-US}}

In June 2024, following reports that Clarence Thomas accepted undisclosed gifts from conservatives, Ocasio-Cortez said the Court was "corrupted by money and extremism" and undemocratic. She and Representative Jamie Raskin led a congressional meeting about the Court,{{cite news |title=US supreme court in 'crisis of legitimacy' says AOC at House oversight round table |url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/jun/11/us-supreme-court-ethics-democrats-hearing |website=The Guardian |date=June 12, 2024 |access-date=27 June 2024 |last1=Gambino |first1=Lauren }} and explored options for holding justices accountable.{{cite web |last1=Nazzaro |first1=Miranda |title=Ocasio-Cortez, Raskin to introduce legislation to 'rein in a fundamentally unaccountable and rogue' Supreme Court |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4717214-ocasio-cortez-raskin-to-introduce-legislation-to-rein-in-a-fundamentally-unaccountable-and-rogue-supreme-court/ |website=thehill.com |date=June 12, 2024 |publisher=The Hill |access-date=1 July 2024 |archive-date=July 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701180212/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4717214-ocasio-cortez-raskin-to-introduce-legislation-to-rein-in-a-fundamentally-unaccountable-and-rogue-supreme-court/ |url-status=live }} On June 25, they introduced the "High Court Gift Ban Act", which would impose restrictions on the gifts given to justices.{{cite magazine |last1=Olmstead |first1=Edith |title=AOC and Raskin Move to Finally Rein in Alito and Thomas |url=https://newrepublic.com/post/183099/aoc-raskin-rein-alito-thomas-gifts |publisher=The New Republic |website=newrepublic.com |access-date=1 July 2024 |archive-date=July 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701181148/https://newrepublic.com/post/183099/aoc-raskin-rein-alito-thomas-gifts |url-status=live }}

In July 2024, Ocasio-Cortez supported and co-led the "DEFIANCE Act", which would allow people to sue creators and distributors of non-consensual deepfake pornography of themselves, something that had previously been done to her.{{cite web |title=AOC's Deepfake AI Porn Bill Unanimously Passes the Senate |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/aoc-deepfake-porn-bill-senate-1235067061/ |website=rollingstone.com |date=July 24, 2024 |publisher=Rolling Stone |access-date=25 July 2024 |archive-date=July 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240725165318/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/aoc-deepfake-porn-bill-senate-1235067061/ |url-status=live }}

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On July 1, after the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. United States that presidents have immunity from criminal prosecution for official actions, Ocasio-Cortez announced she would file articles of impeachment against justices. She said the court was corrupt and that Congress must defend the nation against an "authoritarian capture".{{cite web |title=AOC to File 'Articles of Impeachment' Following Supreme Court Immunity Ruling: 'Corruption Crisis Beyond Its Control' |url=https://www.mediaite.com/politics/aoc-to-file-articles-of-impeachment-following-supreme-court-immunity-ruling-corruption-crisis-beyond-its-control/ |website=mediaite.com |date=July 2024 |publisher=Mediate |access-date=1 July 2024 |archive-date=July 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701172321/https://www.mediaite.com/politics/aoc-to-file-articles-of-impeachment-following-supreme-court-immunity-ruling-corruption-crisis-beyond-its-control/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=AOC wants to impeach SCOTUS justices following Trump immunity ruling |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-impeachment-articles-supreme-court-trump-immunity-ruling-2024-7 |website=businessinsider.com |publisher=Business Insider |access-date=1 July 2024 |archive-date=July 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701173735/https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-impeachment-articles-supreme-court-trump-immunity-ruling-2024-7 |url-status=live }} On July 10, Ocasio-Cortez officially introduced articles of impeachment against justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, co-sponsored by seven House Democrats. The resolution accused the justices of failing to recuse themselves from cases despite personal bias and not disclosing lavish gifts they received. The resolution cited the involvement of Ginni Thomas in attempts to overturn the 2020 election and the presence of "Stop the Steal" symbols on Alito's properties as personal bias.{{cite web |title=AOC unveils articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito |url=https://www.axios.com/2024/07/10/aoc-impeachment-supreme-court-thomas-alito |website=axios.com |date=July 10, 2024 |publisher=Axios |access-date=10 July 2024 |archive-date=July 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710183424/https://www.axios.com/2024/07/10/aoc-impeachment-supreme-court-thomas-alito |url-status=live }} In a statement, she said that corruption in the court had become a constitutional crisis that threatened democracy.{{cite news |title=AOC launches effort to impeach Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/10/aoc-articles-of-impeachment |website=The Guardian |access-date=10 July 2024 |last1=Levine |first1=Sam |last2=Yang |first2=Maya }}{{cite news |last1=Aster |first1=Maggie |title=Ocasio-Cortez Files Impeachment Articles Against Justices Alito and Thomas |work=The New York Times |date=July 10, 2024 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/us/politics/aoc-samuel-alito-clarence-thomas-impeach.html |access-date=10 July 2024 |archive-date=July 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710220831/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/us/politics/aoc-samuel-alito-clarence-thomas-impeach.html |url-status=live }} Legal experts said the case would likely fail, but was still important because it drew attention to the justices' conduct.{{cite web |last1=Hill |first1=Crystal |title=Ocasio-Cortez's Impeachment Case Will Fail — Here's Why It Still Matters |url=https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ocasio-cortezs-impeachment-case-will-fail-heres-why-it-still-matters/ |website=democracydocket.com |date=July 16, 2024 |publisher=Democracy Docket |access-date=19 July 2024 |archive-date=July 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717201550/https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ocasio-cortezs-impeachment-case-will-fail-heres-why-it-still-matters/ |url-status=live }}

• Committee on Energy and Commerce

Past committee assignments

• Committee on Oversight and Accountability{{cite news |last=Desiderio |first=Andrew |author2=Heather Caygle |date=January 22, 2019 |title=Ocasio-Cortez and liberal freshmen join Oversight Committee |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-join-oversight-committee-1120002 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123101811/https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-join-oversight-committee-1120002 |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |access-date=January 23, 2019 |work=Politico}} (Vice Ranking Member, 2023–25) (2019–2025)
• Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services
• Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs
• Committee on Natural Resources (2023–2025)
• Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (Ranking Member, 2023–25)

• Congressional Progressive Caucus{{Cite web|date=December 13, 2012|title=Committees and Caucuses|url=https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/about/committees-and-caucuses|access-date=March 8, 2021|website=Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez|language=en}}{{cite web|title=Caucus Membrs|url=https://progressives.house.gov/caucus-members|publisher=US House of Representatives|access-date=January 3, 2021|archive-date=January 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114215407/https://progressives.house.gov/caucus-members|url-status=live}}
• House Pro-Choice Caucus{{cite web | url=https://houseprochoicecaucus-degette.house.gov/about-pcc/members | title=Members | newspaper=House Pro Choice Caucus | date=August 19, 2021 | access-date=October 28, 2022 | archive-date=October 28, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221028163628/https://houseprochoicecaucus-degette.house.gov/about-pcc/members | url-status=live }}
• Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment{{cite web|title=Membership|author=|url=https://bush.house.gov/era/about/membership|format=|publisher=Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment|date=|accessdate=28 March 2025}}

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Ocasio-Cortez has been described as progressive,Sources describing Ocasio-Cortez as "progressive" include:

• {{Cite news |last=Luscombe |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Luscombe |date=2022-02-15 |title=Ocasio-Cortez: 'Very real risk' US democracy won't exist in 10 years |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/15/aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democracy |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250102204838/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/15/aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democracy |archive-date=2025-01-02 |access-date=2024-03-12 |work=The Guardian}}
• {{Cite web |last=Wilkinson |first=Tracy |date=2023-08-03 |title=Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, other progressives to visit left-ruled Latin American nations |url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-08-03/progressive-democrats-making-pilgrimage-to-latin-americas-leading-leftist-nations |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240815024223/https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-08-03/progressive-democrats-making-pilgrimage-to-latin-americas-leading-leftist-nations |archive-date=August 15, 2024 |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=Los Angeles Times}}
• {{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Caroline |date=2019-04-15 |title=Pelosi calls AOC's progressive wing 'like, five people' {{!}} CNN Politics |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/14/politics/pelosi-aoc-60-minutes/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312154516/https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/14/politics/pelosi-aoc-60-minutes/index.html |archive-date=March 12, 2024 |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=CNN}}
• {{Cite news |last=Ross Coleman |first=Aaron |date=22 August 2020 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the future of the left |url=https://www.vox.com/2020/8/21/21395848/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-future-of-left-aoc-bernie-dsa-working-families-party |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415032848/https://www.vox.com/2020/8/21/21395848/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-future-of-left-aoc-bernie-dsa-working-families-party |archive-date=April 15, 2022 |access-date=4 March 2021 |work=Vox}} left-wing,Sources describing Ocasio-Cortez as "left-wing" include:

• {{Cite web |last=Seitz-Wald |first=Alex |date=2019-03-10 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes aim at the 'worship' of 'meh' |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-outdraws-presidential-candidates-decries-moderates-meh-n981451 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312141550/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-outdraws-presidential-candidates-decries-moderates-meh-n981451 |archive-date=March 12, 2024 |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=NBC News}}
• {{Cite web |last=Zizek |first=Slavoj |date=2018-08-11 |title=The US establishment thinks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is too radical – with an impending climate disaster, the worry is she isn't radical enough |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-democratic-socialism-capitalism-slavoj-zizek-a8485961.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128083311/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-democratic-socialism-capitalism-slavoj-zizek-a8485961.html |archive-date=January 28, 2019 |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=The Independent}}
• {{Cite news |last=Fandos |first=Nicholas |date=2023-11-11 |title=Two Young Democratic Stars Collide Over Israel and Their Party's Future |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/nyregion/aoc-torres-israel-gaza.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231118155151/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/nyregion/aoc-torres-israel-gaza.html |archive-date=November 18, 2023 |access-date=2024-07-20 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
• {{Cite news |last=Pengelly |first=Martin |date=2023-10-06 |title=AOC slams sanctions against Venezuela and deportation flights |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-us-sanctions-venezuela-deportations |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250102205255/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-us-sanctions-venezuela-deportations |archive-date=2025-01-02 |access-date=2024-07-20 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} left-wing populist,Sources describing Ocasio-Cortez as "left-wing populist" include:

• {{Cite web |last=Kirchner |first=Stephen |title=Lessons from quantitative easing in the United States: A guide for Australian policymakers |url=https://www.ussc.edu.au/lessons-from-quantitative-easing-in-the-united-states-a-guide-for-australian-policymakers |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312141550/https://www.ussc.edu.au/lessons-from-quantitative-easing-in-the-united-states-a-guide-for-australian-policymakers |archive-date=March 12, 2024 |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=www.ussc.edu.au}}
• {{Cite news |last1=Bruinius |first1=Harry |last2=Feldmann |first2=Linda |title=What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory says about Democrats' future |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2018/0628/What-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-s-victory-says-about-Democrats-future |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250102205759/https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2018/0628/What-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-s-victory-says-about-Democrats-future |archive-date=2025-01-02 |access-date=2024-03-12 |work=Christian Science Monitor |issn=0882-7729}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Rhodes-Purdy |first1=Matthew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cICwEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22left+wing+populists+like+alexandria%22&pg=PA48 |title=The Age of Discontent: Populism, Extremism, and Conspiracy Theories in Contemporary Democracies |last2=Navarre |first2=Rachel |last3=Utych |first3=Stephen |date=2023-03-09 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-009-27941-3}} and far-left.Sources describing Ocasio-Cortez as "far-left" include:
• {{cite web |last1=Gay |first1=Mara |date=April 23, 2024 |title=How the Squad and Like-Minded Progressives Have Changed Their Party |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opinion/progressives-democratic-party-aoc.html |access-date=20 July 2024 |website=The New York Times }}
• {{Cite web |last=Belvedere |first=Matthew J. |date=2019-07-05 |title=Biden suggests Ocasio-Cortez's far-left politics won't play in a general election against Trump |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/05/biden-ocasio-cortez-far-left-politics-will-not-play-against-trump.html |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=CNBC |archive-date=November 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103173427/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/05/biden-ocasio-cortez-far-left-politics-will-not-play-against-trump.html |url-status=live }}
• {{Cite web |last=Ehrlich |first=Jamie |date=2019-07-07 |title=AOC hits back at Pelosi for knocking far-left lawmakers who voted against border bill {{!}} CNN Politics |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/07/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nancy-pelosi-border-funding-bill/index.html |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=CNN |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310082100/https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/07/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nancy-pelosi-border-funding-bill/index.html |url-status=live }}
• {{Cite news |last=Leparmentier |first=Arnaud |date=2024-06-01 |title=Politics in the Bronx borough is a world away from Manhattan and Trump's legal troubles |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/06/01/politics-in-the-bronx-borough-is-a-world-away-from-manhattan-and-trump-s-legal-troubles_6673408_4.html |access-date=2024-07-20 |work=Le Monde.fr |quote=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the famous face of the American far left |archive-date=July 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720201056/https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/06/01/politics-in-the-bronx-borough-is-a-world-away-from-manhattan-and-trump-s-legal-troubles_6673408_4.html |url-status=live }}
• {{Cite web |last=Lillis |first=Mike |date=2022-02-14 |title=Ocasio-Cortez laments 'sh– show' of Congress |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/594183-ocasio-cortez-laments-sh-show-of-congress/ |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=The Hill |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309102957/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/594183-ocasio-cortez-laments-sh-show-of-congress/ |url-status=live }}
• {{Cite web |last=Litvan |first=Laura |date=2019-07-13 |title=Ocasio-Cortez and Her Liberal Blessing Sought by 2020 Democrats - BNN Bloomberg |url=https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/ocasio-cortez-and-her-liberal-blessing-sought-by-2020-democrats-1.1286685 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309103737/https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/ocasio-cortez-and-her-liberal-blessing-sought-by-2020-democrats-1.1286685 |archive-date=2024-03-09 |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=BNN Bloomberg }}

Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America{{Cite news |first=Jennie |last=Neufeld |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/27/17509604/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democratic-socialist-of-america |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a Democratic Socialists of America member. Here's what that means. |work=Vox|date=June 27, 2018|access-date=December 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203055430/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/27/17509604/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democratic-socialist-of-america|archive-date=December 3, 2018|url-status=live}} and embraces the democratic socialist label as part of her political identity. In an interview on NBC's Meet the Press, she described democratic socialism as "part of what I am. It's not all of what I am. And I think that that's a very important distinction."{{Cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/01/democratic-socialists-ocasio-cortez-689647 |title=Ocasio-Cortez discusses 'Democratic Socialist' label |last=Kullgren |first=Ian |date=July 1, 2018 |work=Politico |access-date=July 16, 2018 |quote=Democratic congressional nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday she embraces the 'Democratic Socialist' label but doesn't want to force other Democrats to do the same. 'It's part of what I am; it's not all of what I am,' she said on 'Meet the Press' on NBC. 'And I think that's a very important distinction.' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716111701/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/01/democratic-socialists-ocasio-cortez-689647 |archive-date=July 16, 2018 |url-status=live}} In response to a question about democratic socialism ultimately calling for an end to capitalism during a Firing Line interview on PBS, she answered: "Ultimately, we are marching towards progress on this issue. I do think that we are going to see an evolution in our economic system of an unprecedented degree, and it's hard to say what direction that that takes."{{cite interview |first=Alexandria |last=Ocasio-Cortez |interviewer=Margaret Hoover |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |url=https://www.pbs.org/video/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-barhhq/ |publisher=PBS |date=July 13, 2018|access-date= February 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717083844/https://www.pbs.org/video/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-barhhq/ |archive-date=July 17, 2018|url-status=live}} Later at a conference she said "To me, capitalism is irredeemable."{{Cite news |last=Burke |first=Michael |date=March 10, 2019 |title=Ocasio-Cortez: 'Capitalism is irredeemable' |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/433394-ocasio-cortez-capitalism-is-irredeemable/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241209193143/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/433394-ocasio-cortez-capitalism-is-irredeemable/ |archive-date=2024-12-09 |access-date=April 5, 2021 |work=The Hill}}

Ocasio-Cortez supports progressive ideals such as workplace democracy, single-payer Medicare for All, tuition-free public college and trade school,{{cite news |last1=Kaufman |first1=Dan |title=Progressive Populism Can Save Us From Trump |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/opinion/sunday/progressive-populism-wisconsin-trump.html |access-date=January 20, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=July 7, 2018 |quote=The recent primary upset of Joe Crowley, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, showcased the electoral strength of her platform, which included single-payer health insurance and tuition-free college and trade school. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101041203/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/opinion/sunday/progressive-populism-wisconsin-trump.html |archive-date=January 1, 2019 |url-status=live}} a federal job guarantee,{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/27/ocasio-cortez-beat-joe-crowley-campaigning-on-medicare-for-all-guaranteed-jobs-and-abolishing-ice/ |title=Analysis {{!}} What Ocasio-Cortez wants for America after beating Joe Crowley|last=Stein|first=Jeff|date=June 27, 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=June 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627144323/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/27/ocasio-cortez-beat-joe-crowley-campaigning-on-medicare-for-all-guaranteed-jobs-and-abolishing-ice/|archive-date=June 27, 2018|url-status=live |issn=0190-8286}} the cancellation of all $1.6{{spaces}}trillion of outstanding student debt,{{cite news |last=Cummings |first=William |date=June 24, 2019 |title=Bernie Sanders unveils plan to forgive $1.6 trillion in student loan debt |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/06/24/bernie-sanders-student-loan-debt-proposal/1544864001/ |work=USA Today |access-date=June 25, 2019 |archive-date=June 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624234220/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/06/24/bernie-sanders-student-loan-debt-proposal/1544864001/ |url-status=live }} guaranteed family leave,{{cite news |last1=Suderman |first1=Peter |title=How Republican Hypocrisy Lifts Social Democrats |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/social-democrats-republicans-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-.html |access-date=January 20, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=August 2, 2018 |quote=Although true-blooded socialists{{snd}}Democratic Socialists, to be precise{{snd}}remain a relatively small niche within the Democratic Party, they are having a visible impact on the party's agenda, with nearly every likely 2020 presidential contender embracing Medicare for all. Bernie Sanders's 2016 campaign galvanized progressive support for the idea of Democratic Socialism, and this year, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has embraced not only the label but also a blue-sky vision of American socialism{{snd}}free public college, a jobs guarantee, guaranteed family leave and more{{snd}}unbound by moderate liberal worries about government overreach or overspending. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121121909/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/social-democrats-republicans-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-.html |archive-date=January 21, 2019 |url-status=live}} abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,{{cite news |last1=Goldmacher |first1=Shane |title=An Upset in the Making: Why Joe Crowley Never Saw Defeat Coming |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-crowley-primary-upset.html |access-date=January 20, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=June 27, 2018 |quote=She drew support for her progressive platform that included abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, Medicare for all and a federal jobs guarantee. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119144352/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-crowley-primary-upset.html |archive-date=January 19, 2019 |url-status=live}} ending the privatization of prisons, enacting gun-control policies,{{Cite news |first=Kay |last=Steiger |date=June 27, 2018 |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/26/17506970/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-primary-new-york |title=A top House Democrat just lost his primary – to a socialist |publisher=Vox | access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627023114/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/26/17506970/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-primary-new-york |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} and energy policy relying on 100% renewables.{{Cite news |last=Krieg |first=Gregory |date=January 8, 2019 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, activist groups map out next steps in Green New Deal fight |publisher=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/politics/ocasio-cortez-sunrise-justice-democrats-green-new-deal-next-steps/index.html |url-status=live |access-date=January 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116100457/https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/politics/ocasio-cortez-sunrise-justice-democrats-green-new-deal-next-steps/index.html |archive-date=January 16, 2019 |quote=The idea of a Green New Deal has, in just a few months, become a central piece of Ocasio-Cortez's agenda and attracted the attention of ambitious national Democrats.}} She told Anderson Cooper that she favors policies that "most closely resemble what we see in the UK, in Norway, in Finland, in Sweden", not those in the "Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela".{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-rookie-congresswoman-challenging-the-democratic-establishment-60-minutes-interview-full-transcript-2019-01-06/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The Rookie Congresswoman Challenging the Democratic Establishment |author-link=Anderson Cooper |first=Anderson |last=Cooper |date=January 6, 2019 |work=CBS 60 Minutes|access-date=January 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190112183040/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-rookie-congresswoman-challenging-the-democratic-establishment-60-minutes-interview-full-transcript-2019-01-06/|archive-date=January 12, 2019|url-status=live}}

Ocasio-Cortez has rejected state socialism, calling it "undemocratic" and "easily corrupted", but has expressed support for worker control of the means of production.{{cite web |title=AOC Asks Workers to Take Over Billionaires' Means of Production |date=March 22, 2022 |url=https://elamerican.com/ocasio-cortez-means-of-production/ |publisher=El Americano |access-date=17 May 2024 |archive-date=May 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240518024144/https://elamerican.com/ocasio-cortez-means-of-production/ |url-status=dead }} She has also said that market economies are not incompatible with democratic socialism as long as workers control companies, citing worker cooperatives as a model.{{cite web |last=Croucher |first=Shane |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Explains Socialism During Instagram Live Stream: 'It Does Not Mean Government Owns Everything' |date=June 18, 2019 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/ocasio-cortez-instagram-live-explains-socialism-aoc-1444534 |publisher=Newsweek |access-date=17 May 2024 |archive-date=May 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240518021603/https://www.newsweek.com/ocasio-cortez-instagram-live-explains-socialism-aoc-1444534 |url-status=live }}

Ocasio-Cortez supports raising the marginal tax rate on top income earners to fund the implementation of her policy goals.{{cite news |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ommt-modern-monetary-theory-how-pay-for-policies-2019-1 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the theory that deficit spending is good for the economy should 'absolutely' be part of the conversation |date=January 7, 2019 |first=Eliza |last=Relman |work=Business Insider |access-date=January 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119174219/https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ommt-modern-monetary-theory-how-pay-for-policies-2019-1 |archive-date=January 19, 2019 |url-status=live}} She was among the 46 House Democrats who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4029522-republicans-and-democrats-who-bucked-party-leaders-by-voting-no/|title=Republicans and Democrats who bucked party leaders by voting no|first=Jared|last=Gans|date=May 31, 2023|access-date=June 6, 2023|work=The Hill|archive-date=June 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601031919/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4029522-republicans-and-democrats-who-bucked-party-leaders-by-voting-no/|url-status=live}} Ocasio-Cortez has called for reducing defense spending.{{Cite news |first1=Jeff |last1=Stein |first2=Aaron |last2=Gregg |date=April 18, 2019 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/04/18/us-military-spending-set-increase-fifth-consecutive-year-nearing-levels-during-height-iraq-war/ |title=U.S. military spending set to increase for fifth consecutive year, nearing levels during height of Iraq war |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 21, 2023 |archive-date=May 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230525150949/https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/04/18/us-military-spending-set-increase-fifth-consecutive-year-nearing-levels-during-height-iraq-war/ |url-status=live }} In December 2022, she was the only House Democrat to vote against an omnibus spending package because it increased funding for defense and federal agencies that oversee immigration.{{Cite news |first=Mychael |last=Schnell |date=December 23, 2022 |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3786827-ocasio-cortez-only-democrat-to-vote-no-on-spending-package/ |title=Ocasio-Cortez only Democrat to vote 'no' on spending package |newspaper=The Hill |access-date=August 21, 2023 |archive-date=August 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230821070741/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3786827-ocasio-cortez-only-democrat-to-vote-no-on-spending-package/ |url-status=live }}

In late 2020, Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib proposed a public banking bill to encourage creation of state and local public banks by giving them access to facilities from the Federal Reserve and setting national guidelines on public banking.{{Cite news|last=Stewart|first=Emily|date=October 30, 2020|title=Exclusive: Rashida Tlaib and AOC have a proposal for a fairer, greener financial system – public banking|work=Vox|url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21541113/rashida-tlaib-aoc-public-banking-act|url-status=live|access-date=November 2, 2020|archive-date=November 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101171658/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21541113/rashida-tlaib-aoc-public-banking-act}} In April 2021, Ocasio-Cortez announced a bill that she and three senators had introduced to implement postal banking pilot programs in rural and low-income urban neighborhoods where millions of households cannot access or afford standard banking services.

Ocasio-Cortez has been a vocal supporter of labor rights, including a $15 per hour federal minimum wage.{{Cite web|last=Henney|first=Megan|date=March 3, 2021|title=AOC slams debate over $15 minimum wage as 'utterly embarrassing'|url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/aoc-slams-debate-over-15-minimum-wage-as-utterly-embarrassing|access-date=March 8, 2021|website=Fox Business|language=en-US}} In May 2019, she returned to bartending at the Queensboro Restaurant in Jackson Heights, Queens, to promote the Raise the Wage Act, which would increase the minimum hourly wage for restaurant servers and other tipped workers from $2.13 to $15. Speaking to restaurant workers, customers and reporters, she criticized an exemption in U.S. minimum wage law for restaurants and the service sector that allows them to be paid less than $7.25 per hour, saying, "Any job that pays $2.13 per hour is not a job, it is indentured servitude."{{cite web |last1=Trotta |first1=Daniel |date=June 1, 2019 |title=Rep. Ocasio-Cortez returns to bartending to promote fair wages |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-ocasio-cortez-idUSKCN1T12R4 |work=Reuters |access-date=June 6, 2021 |archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108032145/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-ocasio-cortez-idUSKCN1T12R4 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Bryant |first1=Miranda |date=June 1, 2019 |title=Ocasio-Cortez: $2.13 minimum wage for tipped workers is 'indentured servitude' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bar-tipped-minimum-wage-queens-new-york |work=The Guardian |location=Queens, New York |access-date=June 6, 2021}} On January 20, 2021, Ocasio-Cortez skipped the inauguration of Joe Biden in order to join the 2021 Hunts Point Produce Market strike in the Bronx.{{cite news |last=Sisak |first=Michael R. |date=January 23, 2021 |title=Deal ends weeklong strike at largest US produce market |url=https://apnews.com/article/new-york-new-york-city-health-coronavirus-pandemic-strikes-81bf6397147b0e8d1608798b6543c55c |access-date=January 23, 2021 |work=Associated Press |archive-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124012347/https://apnews.com/article/new-york-new-york-city-health-coronavirus-pandemic-strikes-81bf6397147b0e8d1608798b6543c55c |url-status=live }}

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In September 2019, Ocasio-Cortez introduced an anti-poverty policy proposal (packaged in a bundle called "A Just Society") that would take into account the cost of childcare, health care, and "new necessities" like Internet access when measuring poverty. The proposal would cap annual rent increases and ensure access to social welfare programs for people with convictions and undocumented immigrants.{{cite news |last=Inskeep |first=Steve |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/09/25/763793482/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wants-america-to-talk-about-poverty |title=Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants America To Talk About Poverty |work=NPR |date=September 25, 2019 |access-date=September 26, 2019 |archive-date=September 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925134522/https://www.npr.org/2019/09/25/763793482/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wants-america-to-talk-about-poverty |url-status=live }} According to the U.S. census, about 40{{spaces}}million Americans live in poverty.

Ocasio-Cortez has proposed a marginal tax as high as 70% on income above $10{{spaces}}million to pay for the Green New Deal. According to tax experts contacted by The Washington Post, this tax would bring in extra revenue of $720{{spaces}}billion per decade.{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/04/ocasio-cortez-70-percent-tax-1080874 |title=Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190106011553/https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/04/ocasio-cortez-70-percent-tax-1080874 |archive-date=January 6, 2019 |first=Matthew |last=Choi |work=Politico |date=April 1, 2019 |access-date=April 12, 2019 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/05/ocasio-cortez-wants-higher-taxes-very-rich-americans-heres-how-much-money-could-that-raise/ |title=Ocasio-Cortez wants higher taxes on very rich Americans. Here's how much money that could raise. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105230343/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/05/ocasio-cortez-wants-higher-taxes-very-rich-americans-heres-how-much-money-could-that-raise/ |archive-date=January 5, 2019 |quote=With the help of tax experts, we produced some back-of-the-envelope estimates. |first=Jeff |last=Stein |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=January 5, 2019 |url-status=live}} But an analysis by the think tank Tax Foundation estimated that, after accounting for macroeconomic effects, the proposal would increase tax revenue by $189.1 billion over ten years if it is applied only to ordinary income, or decrease tax revenue by 53.1 billion if it is applied to all forms of income, including capital gains.{{cite news |url=https://thehill.com/policy/finance/425202-right-leaning-group-70-percent-tax-rate-might-not-raise-much-revenue/ |title=Right-leaning group: 70 percent tax suggested by Ocasio-Cortez might have little effect on revenue |work=The Hill |date=January 14, 2019 |access-date=August 26, 2023 |archive-date=August 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230826175301/https://thehill.com/policy/finance/425202-right-leaning-group-70-percent-tax-rate-might-not-raise-much-revenue/ |url-status=live }} Ocasio-Cortez has opposed and voted against the pay-as-you-go rule supported by Democratic leaders, which requires deficit-neutral fiscal policy, with all new expenditures balanced by tax increases or spending cuts. She and Representative Ro Khanna have condemned the rule for hamstringing new or expanded progressive policies.{{Cite news |last=Slattery |first=Denis |date=January 2, 2019 |title=Ocasio-Cortez to vote against Pelosi rules package on first day in Congress over 'paygo' |work=New York Daily News |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-ocasio-cortez-pelosi-rules-package-congress-paygo-20190102-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=January 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114153320/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-ocasio-cortez-pelosi-rules-package-congress-paygo-20190102-story.html |archive-date=January 14, 2019}}{{Cite news |last=McPherson |first=Lindsey |date=January 3, 2019 |title=House adopts rules package with few Democratic defections over PAYGO provision |work=Roll Call |url=https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/house-adopts-rules-package-democratic-defections-paygo-provision |url-status=live |access-date=January 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114210205/https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/house-adopts-rules-package-democratic-defections-paygo-provision |archive-date=January 14, 2019}} Drawing a parallel with the Great Depression, she has argued that the Green New Deal needs deficit spending like the original New Deal.

Ocasio-Cortez opposed a planned deal by New York City to give Amazon.com $3 billion in state and city subsidies and tax breaks to build a secondary headquarters (Amazon HQ2) that was expected to bring in $27 billion in tax revenue for the city and state, in an area near her congressional district, saying that the city should instead itself invest $3 billion in the district.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-politicians-odds-over-amazon-s-decision-pull-out-n971741 |title=NY politicians at odds over Amazon's decision to pull out of Queens |last=Fieldstadt |first=Elisha |work=NBC News |quote="If we're willing to give away $3{{spaces}}billion for this deal, we could invest those $3{{spaces}}billion in our district ourselves if we wanted to. |date=February 14, 2019 |access-date=June 14, 2019 |archive-date=February 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216184624/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-politicians-odds-over-amazon-s-decision-pull-out-n971741 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-new-york-democrats-criticize-amazon-hq2.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York Democrats criticize Amazon HQ2 |last=Pramuk |first=Jacob |date=November 13, 2018 |publisher=CNBC|access-date=February 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228155020/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-new-york-democrats-criticize-amazon-hq2.html|archive-date=February 28, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/02/17/amazon-hq-2-politicians-feud-over-who-blame-after-firm-ditches-ny/2900101002/|title=Politicians squabble over who is to blame for Amazon decision to ditch New York|website=USA Today|last=Davidson|first=Paul|date=February 17, 2019|access-date=August 21, 2023|archive-date=August 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230821140033/https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/02/17/amazon-hq-2-politicians-feud-over-who-blame-after-firm-ditches-ny/2900101002/|url-status=live}} Conservative columnist Marc Thiessen argued that "New York does not have $3 billion in cash" it would "give" to Amazon, and that between 25,000 and 40,000 new jobs, in addition to the high-paying tech jobs Amazon would have created, disappeared when Amazon left and "her economic illiteracy is dangerous" because "by helping to drive Amazon away, she did not save New York $3 billion; she cost New York $27 billion."{{Cite news |first=Marc A. |last=Thiessen |date=February 21, 2019 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-an-economic-illiterate--and-thats-a-danger-to-america/2019/02/21/ee8c58d8-35f1-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html |title=Opinion | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an economic illiterate – and that's a danger to America |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=July 12, 2019 |archive-date=July 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190705031027/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-an-economic-illiterate--and-thats-a-danger-to-america/2019/02/21/ee8c58d8-35f1-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html |url-status=live }} She "boasted" that she was right after Amazon ceased its construction of the HQ2 project in Virginia, which it chose over New York.{{Cite news |title=AOC boasts she was right after Amazon ceases building HQ2 in Washington DC |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/amazon-building-washington-dc-aoc-b2293792.html |work=The Independent}} The progressive think tank Data for Progress wrote that New York taxpayers "would be subsidizing Amazon's activities in the city by surrendering $3 billion in would-be tax revenue", that there were "enormous hidden costs associated with Amazon's residence" and that "the argument that the city would not literally pay cash to Amazon is superficial and semantic". Data for Progress also noted that Amazon instead announced it would bring 1,500 jobs to New York without a tax break.{{Cite web |date=2020-01-28 |title=Why AOC Was Right About HQ2 |url=https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2020/1/28/why-aoc-was-right-about-hq2 |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=Data For Progress |language=en-US}} Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg also opposed the tax breaks.{{Cite web |last=Goldenberg |first=Sally |date=2019-02-05 |title=Bloomberg vs. Bezos: Ex-NY mayor knocks subsidies for Amazon |url=https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2019/02/05/bloomberg-billionaire-and-possible-presidential-candidate-disputes-tax-breaks-for-amazon-837970 |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=POLITICO |language=en}}

In 2024, Ocasio-Cortez took part in a live-streamed roundtable with Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan, discussing "efforts to check unlawful corporate power".{{cite web |title=Roundtable with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and FTC Chair Lina Khan |url=https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events/2024/09/roundtable-representative-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ftc-chair-lina-khan |website=ftc.gov |date=September 12, 2024 |publisher=FTC |access-date=20 October 2024}} Later, in response to investor and Harris supporter Mark Cuban saying that he wouldn't keep Khan, Ocasio-Cortez said "anyone goes near Lina Khan and there will be an out and out brawl".{{cite web |title=Ocasio-Cortez promises 'brawl' if 'billionaires' force out Lina Khan |url=https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4924081-ocasio-cortez-defends-ftc-chair-khan-brawl/ |website=thehill.com |date=October 9, 2024 |publisher=The Hill |access-date=20 October 2024 |archive-date=November 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241113003800/https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4924081-ocasio-cortez-defends-ftc-chair-khan-brawl/ |url-status=live }}

{{Further|Environmental policy of the Joe Biden administration|Climate policy of the United States}}

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Ocasio-Cortez has called for "more environmental hardliners in Congress",{{Cite news |issn=0160-5992 |last=Aronoff |first=Kate |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Why She Wants to Abolish ICE and Upend the Democratic Party |work=In These Times |access-date=January 27, 2019 |date=June 25, 2018 |url=http://inthesetimes.com/article/21236/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ice-new-york-cynthia-nixon-democrats| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227151631/http://inthesetimes.com/article/21236/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ice-new-york-cynthia-nixon-democrats| archive-date = December 27, 2018| url-status=live}} calling climate change "the single biggest national security threat for the United States and the single biggest threat to worldwide industrialized civilization".{{cite web |last=Ocasio-Cortez |first=Alexandria |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Platform: Mobilizing Against Climate Change |publisher=Ocasio2018.com (campaign website) |access-date=January 27, 2019 |year=2018 |url=https://ocasio2018.com/issues| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116020452/https://ocasio2018.com/issues| archive-date = January 16, 2019| url-status = dead}} Referring to a recent United Nations report indicating that the effects of climate change could become irreversible unless carbon emissions are reined in within the next 12 years, she has argued that global warming must be addressed immediately to avert human extinction.{{cite news |date=January 22, 2019 |last1=John |first1=Bowden |title=Ocasio-Cortez: 'World will end in 12 years' if climate change not addressed |url=https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/426353-ocasio-cortez-the-world-will-end-in-12-years-if-we-dont-address/ |newspaper=The Hill |access-date=March 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305034141/https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/426353-ocasio-cortez-the-world-will-end-in-12-years-if-we-dont-address |archive-date=March 5, 2019 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-alarm/2642481002/ |title='The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change,' Ocasio-Cortez says |last1=Cummings |first1=William |date=January 22, 2019 |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=February 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207104335/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-alarm/2642481002/|archive-date=February 7, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-climate-change-world-will-end-12-years-un-report-1300873 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns, 'World Is Going to End in 12 Years,' Reiterating Claims of Recent U.N. Climate Change Report |last1=Zhao |first1=Christina |date=January 22, 2019 |access-date=February 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224115757/https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-climate-change-world-will-end-12-years-un-report-1300873|archive-date=February 24, 2019|url-status=live |website=Newsweek}}

Ocasio-Cortez's environmental plan, the Green New Deal, advocates for the U.S. to transition to an electrical grid running on 100% renewable energy{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/opinion/green-new-deal.html |title=The Green New Deal Rises Again |last1=Friedman |first1=Thomas |date=January 8, 2019 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 20, 2019 |quote=The Green New Deal that Ocasio-Cortez has laid out aspires to power the U.S. economy with 100 percent renewable energy within 12 years and calls for "a job guarantee program to assure a living wage job to every person who wants one", "basic income programs" and "universal health care", financed, at least in part, by higher taxes on the wealthy.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119220237/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/opinion/green-new-deal.html|archive-date=January 19, 2019|url-status=live}} and to end the use of fossil fuels within ten years. The changes, estimated to cost roughly $2.5{{spaces}}trillion per year, would be financed in part by higher taxes on the wealthy.{{cite news |last1=Ezrati |first1=Milton |title=The Green New Deal And The Cost Of Virtue |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/miltonezrati/2019/02/19/the-green-new-deal-and-the-cost-of-virtue/ |date=February 19, 2019 |website=Forbes|access-date=March 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190226204348/https://www.forbes.com/sites/miltonezrati/2019/02/19/the-green-new-deal-and-the-cost-of-virtue/#782b6cd03dec |archive-date=February 26, 2019 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |date=November 24, 2018 |url=https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/417843-five-things-to-know-about-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal/ |title=Five things to know about Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal' |last1=Cama |first1=Timothy |newspaper=The Hill |access-date=November 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126140623/https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/417843-five-things-to-know-about-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal|archive-date=November 26, 2018|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.sunrisemovement.org/green-new-deal |title=Sunrise Movement Green New Deal |publisher=Sunrise Movement |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228130857/https://www.sunrisemovement.org/gnd/|archive-date=December 28, 2018|url-status=live}} She has said she has an "open mind" about nuclear power's role in the Green New Deal,{{Cite web |first=Jacqueline |last=Toth |title=Ocasio-Cortez: Green New Deal 'Leaves the Door Open' on Nuclear |url=https://morningconsult.com/2019/05/06/ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal-leaves-door-open-nuclear/ |date=May 6, 2019 |website=Morning Consult |language=en-US |access-date=May 20, 2020 |archive-date=May 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509070214/https://morningconsult.com/2019/05/06/ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal-leaves-door-open-nuclear/ |url-status=live }} but has been criticized for ignoring it in her proposals for the deal.{{cite web|url=https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/05/15/dear-bernie-aoc-yes-theres-middle-ground-nuclear-energy-14029|title=Dear Bernie & AOC, Yes, There's A Middle Ground: Nuclear Energy|website=acsh.org|first=Alex|last=Berezov|date=May 15, 2019|access-date=February 28, 2021|archive-date=January 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128151212/https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/05/15/dear-bernie-aoc-yes-theres-middle-ground-nuclear-energy-14029|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/03/21/green-new-deal-is-dead-without-nuclear-power/|title=Any Green New Deal Is Dead Without Nuclear Power|work=Forbes|first=James|last=Conca|date=March 21, 2019|access-date=February 28, 2021|archive-date=January 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125203234/https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/03/21/green-new-deal-is-dead-without-nuclear-power/|url-status=live}}

In 2024, Ocasio-Cortez, supported by Bowman and Sanders, introduced the "Green New Deal for Public Housing", a plan to fund the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and help it transition to clean energy.{{cite web |title=Reps. AOC, Bowman introduce Green New Deal for Public Housing |url=https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2024/03/21/reps--aoc--bowman-introduce-green-new-deal-for-public-housing |website=ny1.com |publisher=Spectrum News New York 1 |access-date=27 June 2024 |archive-date=June 27, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627154454/https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2024/03/21/reps--aoc--bowman-introduce-green-new-deal-for-public-housing |url-status=live }}

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{{See also|Blitzchung controversy|Overseas censorship of Chinese issues|Daryl Morey#Twitter comments on Hong Kong}}

Ocasio-Cortez criticized the American companies Activision Blizzard and Apple for censoring pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.{{cite news |title=AOC and Ted Cruz call out Apple for dropping Hong Kong app in joint letter |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/18/20921300/rebulicans-democrats-blizzard-apple-china-hong-kong-app-censorship |first=Colin |last=Lecher |work=The Verge |date=October 18, 2019 |access-date=September 28, 2020 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112023627/https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/18/20921300/rebulicans-democrats-blizzard-apple-china-hong-kong-app-censorship |url-status=live }} She co-signed a letter to Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick that read, "As China amplifies its campaign of intimidation, you and your company must decide whether to look beyond the bottom line and promote American values—like freedom of speech and thought—or to give in to Beijing's demands in order to preserve market access."{{cite news |title=Lawmakers condemn Apple, Activision Blizzard over censorship of Hong Kong protester |url=https://thehill.com/policy/technology/466507-bipartisan-lawmakers-condemn-apple-activision-blizzard-over-censorship-of/ |first=Tal |last=Axelrod |work=The Hill |date=October 18, 2020 |access-date=September 28, 2020 |archive-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001133916/https://thehill.com/policy/technology/466507-bipartisan-lawmakers-condemn-apple-activision-blizzard-over-censorship-of |url-status=live }}

A bipartisan letter by Ocasio-Cortez and seven other lawmakers fiercely criticized the NBA's handling of a controversy involving a tweet by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. The lawmakers wrote that the NBA's response not only "sold out an American citizen" but also "reinforces the Chinese Communist Party view that those who point to Chinese repression in Hong Kong are as best stating opinions, not facts", as well as being "a betrayal of fundamental American values".{{Cite web |title=Ocasio-Cortez, Ted Cruz join colleagues blasting NBA for 'outrageous' response to China |last=Lane |first=Sylvan |newspaper=The Hill |date=October 9, 2019 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |url=https://thehill.com/policy/finance/465111-lawmakers-blast-nba-for-outrageous-response-to-chinese-boycott/ |archive-date=December 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230202238/https://thehill.com/policy/finance/465111-lawmakers-blast-nba-for-outrageous-response-to-chinese-boycott |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=The NBA Isn't the Only Company Tripping Over Itself to Appease China |last=Lutz |first=Eric |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=October 10, 2019 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/nba-isnt-the-only-company-appease-china-google-apple-bilzzard |archive-date=December 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230202237/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/nba-isnt-the-only-company-appease-china-google-apple-bilzzard |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Gallagher and Sasse Lead Call for NBA to Stand Against CCP Censorship and Bullying |publisher=United States House of Representatives |date=October 9, 2019 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |url=https://gallagher.house.gov/media/press-releases/gallagher-and-sasse-lead-call-nba-stand-against-ccp-censorship-and-bullying |archive-date=December 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230202235/https://gallagher.house.gov/media/press-releases/gallagher-and-sasse-lead-call-nba-stand-against-ccp-censorship-and-bullying |url-status=live }}

Ocasio-Cortez voted to withdraw U.S. military aid for Saudi Arabia's intervention in Yemen,{{cite news |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/yemen-war-saudi-arabia-house-vote-resolution-37-ro-khanna-paul-ryan/ |title=The House Vote to End Support for the War on Yemen Shows How Much Has Changed |last=Carden |first=James |date=February 14, 2019 |work=The Nation |access-date=August 2, 2019 |archive-date=June 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622105254/https://www.thenation.com/article/yemen-war-saudi-arabia-house-vote-resolution-37-ro-khanna-paul-ryan/ |url-status=live }} and was among 56 Democrats to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. 21, which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days.{{cite web |title=H.Con.Res. 21: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of … -- House Vote #136 -- Mar 8, 2023 |url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/118-2023/h136 |access-date=March 10, 2023 |archive-date=March 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310180559/https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/118-2023/h136 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |date=March 8, 2023 |title=House Votes Down Bill Directing Removal of Troops From Syria |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2023-03-08/house-votes-down-bill-directing-removal-of-troops-from-syria |access-date=April 4, 2023 |publisher=U.S. News & World Report |language=en-us |agency=Associated Press |archive-date=April 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404204512/https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2023-03-08/house-votes-down-bill-directing-removal-of-troops-from-syria |url-status=live }}

Ocasio-Cortez criticized President Trump's administration for escalating tensions with Iran, saying that it would bring the country into a "military conflict that is completely irresponsible".{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-tells-white-house-to-put-down-its-saber-and-call-tehran |title=Ocasio-Cortez tells White House to 'put down its saber,' and negotiate with Iran |last=DeMarche |first=Edmund |date=June 21, 2019 |work=Fox News |access-date=August 2, 2019 |archive-date=August 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807151905/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-tells-white-house-to-put-down-its-saber-and-call-tehran |url-status=live }}

Ocasio-Cortez supported the Mahsa Amini protests, saying, "Mahsa Amini was senselessly murdered by the same patriarchal and autocratic forces repressing women the world over" and "right to choose belongs to us all, from hijabs to reproductive care". This was criticized by the conservative Washington Examiner, which said that Iranian repression was not comparable to abortion restrictions.{{cite web |title=Progressives such as AOC think every conflict is about them |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2876575/progressives-such-as-aoc-think-every-conflict-is-about-them/ |website=washingtonexaminer.com |date=September 26, 2022 |publisher=Washington Examiner |access-date=24 July 2024 |archive-date=July 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724174555/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2876575/progressives-such-as-aoc-think-every-conflict-is-about-them/ |url-status=live }}

In May 2018, Ocasio-Cortez criticized the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) use of deadly force against Palestinians participating in the 2018 Gaza border protests, calling it a "massacre" in a tweet.{{cite tweet|number=996009689312825344|user=AOC|last=Ocasio-Cortez|first=Alexandria|date=May 14, 2018|title=This is a massacre. I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such. No state or entity is absolved of mass shootings of protesters. There is no justification. Palestinian people deserve basic human dignity, as anyone else. Democrats can't be silent about this anymore.}}{{cite news |first=Allison |last=Kaplan Sommer |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-democrat-who-slammed-israel-wins-new-york-primary-1.6218292 |title=Democrat Who Slammed Israel for Gaza Killings Is Shock Winner of New York Primary |date=June 27, 2018 |work=Haaretz|access-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627103125/https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-democrat-who-slammed-israel-wins-new-york-primary-1.6218292|archive-date=June 27, 2018|url-status=live}} In a July 2018 interview, she said she was "a proponent of a two-state solution" and called Israel's presence in the West Bank an "occupation of Palestine". After being asked to elaborate, she responded she was not "the expert on geopolitics on this issue".{{cite magazine |last=Da Silva |first=Chantal |author-link=Chantal Da Silva |date=July 18, 2018 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sparked outrage after condemning Israel's "occupation" of Palestinian territory |url=https://www.newsweek.com/ocasio-cortez-slams-israeli-occupation-walks-it-back-i-am-not-expert-1029386 |url-status=live |magazine=Newsweek |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190106010257/https://www.newsweek.com/ocasio-cortez-slams-israeli-occupation-walks-it-back-i-am-not-expert-1029386 |archive-date=January 6, 2019 |access-date=January 6, 2019}} Her use of the term "occupation" drew backlash from a number of pro-Israel groups and commentators.{{Cite news |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-vs-the-right-fox-news-social-media |title="I Think A Lot of Them Can't Hide Their Misogyny": How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez De-Fanged The Fox News Haters |last=Nguyen |first=Tina |date=November 26, 2018 |work=Vanity Fair|access-date=January 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127000853/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-vs-the-right-fox-news-social-media|archive-date=January 27, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite news |date=July 17, 2018 |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-criticizes-israel-for-the-occupation-of-palestine/ |title=Ocasio-Cortez criticizes 'occupation of Palestine', but admits she's no expert |last=Dunst |first=Charles |newspaper=The Times of Israel |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119235924/https://www.timesofisrael.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-criticizes-israel-for-the-occupation-of-palestine/ |archive-date=November 19, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=December 18, 2018}} Others defended her remarks, citing the United Nations' designation of the territory in the West Bank as occupied.{{cite news |first=Harriet |last=Agerholm |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/alexandria-ocasiocortez-israel-palestine-occupation-us-west-bank-outrage-us-a8450781.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez prompts outrage for accurately referring to Israel's 'occupation' of Palestinian territory |date=July 17, 2018|access-date=January 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818173024/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/alexandria-ocasiocortez-israel-palestine-occupation-us-west-bank-outrage-us-a8450781.html|archive-date=August 18, 2018|url-status=live |newspaper=The Independent}}{{cite news |first=Batya |last=Ungar-Sargon |date=July 16, 2018 |url=https://forward.com/opinion/405682/what-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-really-thinks-about-israel/ |title=Opinion {{!}} What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Really Thinks About Israel|newspaper=The Forward|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105162854/https://forward.com/opinion/405682/what-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-really-thinks-about-israel/|archive-date=January 5, 2019|url-status=live |access-date=January 6, 2019}} In July 2019, Ocasio-Cortez voted against a House resolution introduced by Representative Brad Schneider condemning the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel.{{Cite web |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/428179/congress-bds-aoc-tlaib-omar/ |date=July 24, 2019 |title=Here Are The 17 Members Of Congress Who Voted Against Condemning BDS |last=Pink |first=Aiden |website=The Forward |access-date=July 25, 2019 |archive-date=July 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725163710/https://forward.com/fast-forward/428179/congress-bds-aoc-tlaib-omar/ |url-status=live }} The resolution passed 398–17.{{Cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/246 |title=H.Res.246 – 116th Congress (2019-2020): Opposing efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel. |last=Schneider |first=Bradley Scott |date=July 23, 2019 |website=www.congress.gov |access-date=July 25, 2019 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724073952/https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/246 |url-status=live }}

Ocasio-Cortez warned that Israel's planned annexation of Palestinian territories in the occupied West Bank "would lay the groundwork for Israel becoming an apartheid state". She wrote to U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo that she would work to "pursue legislation that conditions the $3.8{{spaces}}billion in U.S. military funding to Israel to ensure that U.S. taxpayers are not supporting annexation in any way".{{cite news |title=Ocasio-Cortez raises AIPAC ire over effort to tie Israel aid to annexation |first=Holly |last=Otterbeing |access-date=August 20, 2020 |url=https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2020/06/30/ocasio-cortez-raises-aipac-ire-over-effort-to-tie-israel-aid-to-annexation-1296133 |work=Politico |date=June 30, 2020 |archive-date=July 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725120027/https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2020/06/30/ocasio-cortez-raises-aipac-ire-over-effort-to-tie-israel-aid-to-annexation-1296133 |url-status=live }} AIPAC condemned the letter, saying it threatened the U.S.-Israel relationship.{{cite news |title=US Democrats, rights groups warn against West Bank annexation |first=William |last=Roberts |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/democrats-rights-groups-warn-west-bank-annexation-200630211014602.html |work=Al Jazeera |date=July 1, 2020 |access-date=July 25, 2020 |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727223022/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/democrats-rights-groups-warn-west-bank-annexation-200630211014602.html |url-status=live }}

In May 2021, Ocasio-Cortez issued a statement condemning Israel's evictions of Palestinian families from their homes in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem.{{Cite news|last=Magid|first=Jacob|date=May 9, 2021|title=Sanders, Warren, Ocasio-Cortez slam Israel over pending Sheikh Jarrah evictions|work=The Times of Israel|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/sanders-warren-ocasio-cortez-slam-israel-over-pending-sheikh-jarrah-evictions/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509211810/https://www.timesofisrael.com/sanders-warren-ocasio-cortez-slam-israel-over-pending-sheikh-jarrah-evictions/|archive-date=May 9, 2021}} She criticized President Biden for saying Israel "has a right to defend itself", arguing that "blanket statements like these [with] little context or acknowledgement of what precipitated this cycle of violence—namely, the expulsions of Palestinians and attacks on Al Aqsa—dehumanize Palestinians [and] imply the US will look the other way at human rights violations."{{cite news |title='It's wrong': AOC hits out at Biden's Israel statement as Democrats demand end to Palestinian displacement |last1=Woodward|first1=Alex|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-palestine-israel-antony-blinken-b1846673.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513000351/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-palestine-israel-antony-blinken-b1846673.html |archive-date=May 13, 2021 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |work=The Independent |date=May 13, 2021}}

On September 23, 2021, Ocasio-Cortez abruptly changed her vote from "no" to "present" on a bill providing $1 billion for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system, citing the "hateful targeting" she had received surrounding the bill. She apologized for her vote after receiving criticism on social media from some supporters of Israel and of Palestine but maintained her opposition to the bill due to Israel's "persistent human rights abuses against the Palestinian people".{{cite web |last1=Broadwater |first1=Luke |title=Ocasio-Cortez apologizes for her 'present' vote on Iron Dome funding. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/us/politics/aoc-israel-iron-dome.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/us/politics/aoc-israel-iron-dome.html |archive-date=December 28, 2021 |url-access=limited |website=The New York Times |access-date=September 25, 2021 |date=September 24, 2021}}{{cbignore}}

On July 18, 2023, Ocasio-Cortez and eight other progressive Democrats (Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Andre Carson, Summer Lee, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Delia Ramirez, and Rashida Tlaib), voted against a congressional non-binding resolution proposed by August Pfluger that "the State of Israel is not a racist or apartheid state", that Congress rejects "all forms of antisemitism and xenophobia", and that "the United States will always be a staunch partner and supporter of Israel". She argued that it was wrong to pair "accusations of antisemitism with real concerns around the human rights crisis in the region" and that combining a "vote on antisemitism and discussion of apartheid and...two-tier legal systems is very cynical".{{cite web|last1=Wong|first1=Scott|last2=Kaplan|first2=Rebecca|last3=Stewart|first3=Kyle|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-pass-resolution-backing-israel-jayapal-racist-state-rcna94897|title=House overwhelmingly passes resolution backing Israel after Rep. Jayapal calls it a 'racist state'|website=NBC News|date=July 18, 2023|access-date=July 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719000920/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-pass-resolution-backing-israel-jayapal-racist-state-rcna94897|archive-date=July 19, 2023|url-status=live}}

In 2023, Ocasio-Cortez condemned the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, calling it "horrifying attacks against innocent civilians".{{cite news |title=AOC decries 'bigotry and callousness' of pro-Palestinian rally in New York |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/10/aoc-palestinian-rally-new-york |work=The Guardian|first=Martin|last=Pengelly |date=10 October 2023|access-date=14 June 2024}} On October 12, she criticized Israel's plans to block electricity, water and fuel from Gaza, calling it a "collective punishment and a violation of international law".{{cite news |title=Ocasio-Cortez Slams Israel For Cutting Gaza's Power And Water Supply |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ocasio-cortez-israel-gaza-power-supply_n_65283160e4b03ea0c0045b68 |work=HuffPost|first=Lydia|last=O'Connor |date=October 12, 2023|access-date=14 June 2024}} On October 16, she signed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza war.{{cite news |title=Progressive Democrats bring resolution calling for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/16/house-democrats-urge-biden-ceasefire-israel-hamas |work=The Guardian|first1=Joan E|last1=Greve|first2=Lauren|last2=Gambino |date=17 October 2023|access-date=14 June 2024}} On March 22, 2024, she characterized Israel's assault on Gaza and the Gaza Strip famine as genocide.{{cite news |last1=Fandos |first1=Nicholas |title=Ocasio-Cortez, in House Speech, Accuses Israel of 'Genocide' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/nyregion/aoc-genocide.html |access-date=9 April 2024 |work=New York Times |date=22 March 2024}}

Asked what the Biden administration could have done better in the situation, Ocasio-Cortez said it could have enforced its red line on the Rafah offensive, investigated its weapons shipments to Israel, provided heavier sanctions in response to the occupation of the West Bank, and "rein in" Netanyahu.{{cite web |title=AOC on the real story behind that Marjorie Taylor Greene exchange |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW2s_qKen0A |website=YouTube.com | date=May 22, 2024 |publisher=MSNBC |access-date=1 July 2024}} In a separate statement, she called for halting weapons transfers to Israel.{{cite web |title=AOC calls Israel's war on Gaza an 'unfolding genocide', demands Biden halts arms sales |url=https://www.newarab.com/news/aoc-calls-israels-war-gaza-unfolding-genocide |website=newarab.com |access-date=1 July 2024}}

In January 2024, the U.S. and other countries cut funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) over allegations that certain staff members participated in the Hamas attacks.{{cite web |title=Israeli intelligence docs detail alleged UNRWA staff links to Hamas, including 12 accused in Oct. 7 attack |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-unrwa-un-staff-intelligence-dossier-oct-7-terror-attack/ |website=CBS News |publisher=Associated Press (AP) and CBS |access-date=29 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129200149/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-unrwa-un-staff-intelligence-dossier-oct-7-terror-attack/ |archive-date=29 January 2024 |location=Tel Aviv, Israel |format=News article |date=29 January 2024 |url-status=live}} On January 29, Ocasio-Cortez acknowledged the reports, but said that cutting funding to UNRWA was "unacceptable" and that the U.S. "should restore aid immediately" because of the agency's humanitarian work.{{cite tweet |last1=Ocasio-Cortez |first1=Alexandria |title=Cutting off support to @UNRWA - the primary source of humanitarian aid to 2 million+ Gazans - is unacceptable. |url=https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1751962808378421696 |user=@AOC |number=1751962808378421696 |access-date=29 January 2024 |date=29 January 2024 |quote=Cutting off support to @UNRWA - the primary source of humanitarian aid to 2 million+ Gazans - is unacceptable. Among an organization of 13,000 UN aid workers, risking the starvation of millions over grave allegations of 12 is indefensible. The US should restore aid immediately.}}

Ocasio-Cortez boycotted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 2024 speech to Congress, calling him a war criminal.{{cite web |title=Capitol Hill's Netanyahu speech no-shows |url=https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2024/07/23/breaking-down-the-netanyahu-speech-no-shows-00170731 |website=politico.com |date=July 23, 2024 |publisher=Politico |access-date=24 July 2024}} In September, Ocasio-Cortez condemned the Lebanon electronic device attacks.{{cite tweet |url=https://x.com/AOC/status/1836445017822437538 |title=Israel's pager attack in Lebanon detonated thousands of handheld devices across of a slew of public spaces, seriously injuring and killing innocent civilians. |number=1836445017822437538 |user=AOC |first=Alexandria |last=Ocasio-Cortez |date=September 18, 2024 |access-date=January 14, 2025}}

After the contentious confirmation of Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett, Ocasio-Cortez urged Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to expand the court if he won and their party achieved a Senate majority.{{Cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706085440/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-urges-biden-pack-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett-confirmation-b1374277.html|archive-date=July 6, 2022|title=AOC urges Biden to pack supreme court, says GOP doesn't think Democrats have the 'stones to play hardball'|date=October 27, 2022|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-urges-biden-pack-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett-confirmation-b1374277.html|website=The Independent|last=Mathers|first=Matt}} In April 2021, she supported a bill to increase the Court's size.{{Cite news|website=Fox News|title=AOC backs court-packing push: 'We should be expanding the court'|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-backs-court-packing-push|last1=Schultz|first1=Marisa|last2=Phares|first2=Kelly|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422140544/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-backs-court-packing-push|archive-date=April 22, 2021}} She again called for expansion in September 2021 after the Court voted not to grant an emergency stay of the Texas Heartbeat Bill.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-leads-calls-expand-supreme-court-texas-abortion-law-1625336|title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Leads Calls To Expand Supreme Court After Texas Abortion Law|date=September 2, 2021|last=Roche|first=Darragh|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511052718/https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-leads-calls-expand-supreme-court-texas-abortion-law-1625336|archive-date=May 11, 2022|website=Newsweek}}

In March 2022, Ocasio-Cortez called on Justice Clarence Thomas to resign over his wife's texts urging President Trump's chief of staff to overturn the 2020 presidential election, raising a possible impeachment effort if he did not.{{Cite news|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/29/aoc-clarence-thomas-resign-supreme-court/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331013329/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/29/aoc-clarence-thomas-resign-supreme-court/|archive-date=March 31, 2022|date=March 29, 2022|title=Ocasio-Cortez calls on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign|last=Wang|first=Amy B}} After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, Ocasio-Cortez called for the impeachment of justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. She alleged that the two had lied under oath about their views on Roe during their confirmation hearings.{{Cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/27/us/aoc-roe-abortion-scotus.html|title=Ocasio-Cortez wants two justices impeached for 'lying under oath.'|last=Shanahan|first=Ed|date=June 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707051834/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/27/us/aoc-roe-abortion-scotus.html|archive-date=July 7, 2022|url-access=subscription}}

In June 2022, after the Supreme Court made several consequential rulings and granted certiorari to Moore v. Harper, which has a potential impact on future elections, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that the U.S. was "witnessing a judicial coup in progress".{{cite tweet|number=1542567302029348865|user=AOC|date=June 30, 2022|last=Ocasio-Cortez|first=Alexandria|title=We are witnessing a judicial coup in process. If the President and Congress do not restrain the Court now, the Court is signaling they will come for the Presidential election next. All our leaders - regardless of party - must recognize this Constitutional crisis for what it is.}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.salon.com/2022/07/01/aoc-says-the-us-is-witnessing-a-judicial-coup_partner/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702201520/https://www.salon.com/2022/07/01/aoc-says-the-us-is-witnessing-a-judicial-coup_partner/|archive-date=July 2, 2022|title=AOC says the U.S. is witnessing a "judicial coup"|date=July 1, 2022|last=Wilkins|first=Brett|website=Salon}} The next month, she claimed the Court had "gone rogue" and that impeachment, expansion, introduction of ethics rules and recusal requirements should be considered. She added that Thomas should certainly be impeached.{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3557191-ocasio-cortez-supreme-court-has-gone-rogue/|date=July 13, 2022|title=Ocasio-Cortez: Supreme Court has 'gone rogue'|last=Vakil|first=Caroline|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220713141058/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3557191-ocasio-cortez-supreme-court-has-gone-rogue/|archive-date=July 13, 2022|website=The Hill}} Two days later, she led House progressives calling on the Democratic leadership in Congress to strip the Court of its jurisdiction "in the areas of abortion, marriage equality, non-procreative intimacy, and contraception". They pointed to Thomas' concurring opinion in Dobbs, which suggested revisiting cases that established a constitutional right to contraception, same-sex marriage, and gay sex.{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3561533-ocasio-cortez-progressives-call-on-schumer-pelosi-to-strip-scotus-of-abortion-jurisdiction/|title=Ocasio-Cortez, progressives call on Schumer, Pelosi to strip SCOTUS of abortion jurisdiction|last=Vakil|first=Caroline|website=The Hill|date=July 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715201412/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3561533-ocasio-cortez-progressives-call-on-schumer-pelosi-to-strip-scotus-of-abortion-jurisdiction/|archive-date=July 15, 2022}}

In 2019, Ocasio-Cortez supported pay raises for Congress. She wrote, "It's not a fun or politically popular position to take. But consistency is important. ALL workers should get cost of living increases. That's why minimum wage should be pegged to inflation, too." Members of Congress make $174,000 annually; the speaker makes $223,500 and House leaders make $193,400. Republican Kevin McCarthy joined her in supporting the pay raise, saying he did not want Congress to be a place where only the wealthy can afford to serve. Colleagues such as Joe Cunningham opposed the measure, saying, "We didn't come up here to give ourselves a raise".{{Cite news|last=Marcos|first=Cristina|date=June 11, 2019|title=GOP leader, Ocasio-Cortez give boost to lawmaker pay hike|work=The Hill|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/448060-gop-leader-ocasio-cortez-give-boost-to-lawmaker-pay-hike/|access-date=April 8, 2021|archive-date=May 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508185448/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/448060-gop-leader-ocasio-cortez-give-boost-to-lawmaker-pay-hike|url-status=live}}

On June 28, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez told CNN she would support the first impeachment of President Trump, citing Trump's alleged violations of the Emoluments Clause and saying that "we have to hold everyone accountable and that no person is above that law."{{cite news |agency=Tribune News Service |url=https://www.sfexaminer.com/national-news/primaries-upend-political-landscape-ahead-of-midterm-elections-and-could-spell-trouble-for-trump/ |title=Primaries upend political landscape ahead of midterm elections and could spell trouble for Trump |date=June 27, 2018 |work=San Francisco Examiner|access-date=June 28, 2018 |publisher=Tribune News Service |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628015406/http://www.sfexaminer.com/primaries-upend-political-landscape-ahead-midterm-elections-spell-trouble-trump/ |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-impeach-trump-678821 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she supports impeaching Trump |last=Nelson |first=Louis |date=June 27, 2018 |work=Politico|access-date=June 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628184726/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-impeach-trump-678821|archive-date=June 28, 2018|url-status=live}}

Ocasio-Cortez supported impeaching Trump a second time for his attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. On January 3, 2021, she said that the Trump–Raffensperger phone call constituted an impeachable offense, and called it a "despicable abuse of power".{{cite web |last1=Macros |first1=Christina |title=thehill.com |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/532455-ocasio-cortez-calls-trumps-georgia-call-an-impeachable-offense/ |website=thehill.com |date=January 3, 2021 |publisher=The Hill |access-date=27 June 2024}} After January 6, she and many other Democrats co-sponsored an article of impeachment against Trump. Ocasio-Cortez said that Trump should be permanently barred from office and impeached.{{cite web |last1=Connolly |first1=Griffin |title=AOC: Trump should be impeached and barred from ever running for office again |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/aoc-senate-trump-impeachment-removal-b1785148.html |website=independent.co.uk |date=January 10, 2021 |access-date=27 June 2024}}

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In April 2020, Ocasio-Cortez was one of 77 representatives to call for public reports of data on COVID-19 cases in nursing homes and long-term care facilities.{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Jason |date=April 21, 2020 |title=New York congresswoman wants COVID nursing home fatalities released to the public |url=https://www.bxtimes.com/new-york-congresswoman-wants-covid-nursing-home-fatalities-released-to-the-public/ |access-date=March 13, 2021 |work=Bronx Times}} In March 2021, she and Representative Jamaal Bowman called on New York governor Andrew Cuomo to resign, citing the sexual misconduct allegations against him as well as the New York COVID-19 nursing home scandal about the Cuomo administration's reported undercounting of COVID-19 nursing home deaths.{{cite news |last1=Katersky |first1=Aaron |last2=Lenthang |first2=Marlene |date=March 13, 2021 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Chuck Schumer, other NY political leaders call for Cuomo to resign |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/aoc-nadler-ny-leaders-call-cuomo-resignation-wake/story?id=76415698 |access-date=March 13, 2021 |work=ABC News}}

Ocasio-Cortez has called for "solidarity with Puerto Rico". She has advocated for granting Puerto Ricans further civil rights, regardless of Puerto Rico's legal classification. She advocates for voting rights and disaster relief. Ocasio-Cortez was critical of FEMA's response to Hurricane Maria and the federal government's unwillingness to address Puerto Rico's political status.{{Cite news |url=https://www.puertoricoreport.com/is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-for-statehood/ |title=Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Statehood? |date=June 27, 2018 |publisher=Puerto Rico Report|access-date=July 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705003216/https://www.puertoricoreport.com/is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-for-statehood/|archive-date=July 5, 2018|url-status=live}} She believes the federal government should increase investment in Puerto Rico. In August 2020, Ocasio-Cortez and Nydia Velázquez introduced the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2020, which was referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.{{Cite web|last=Acevedo|first=Nicole|date=August 26, 2020|title=New AOC, Velázquez bill sparks backlash from pro-statehood Puerto Ricans|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/new-aoc-vel-zquez-bill-puerto-rico-s-status-sparks-n1238192|access-date=January 28, 2021|website=NBC News|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Velazquez|first=Nydia M.|date=August 25, 2020|title=Text – H.R.8113 – 116th Congress (2019-2020): Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2020|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8113/text|access-date=March 8, 2021|website=www.congress.gov}}

On March 18, 2021, Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez and Senator Bob Menendez introduced a new version, the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2021,{{Cite web|url=https://velazquez.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/reps-velazquez-ocasio-cortez-senator-menendez-introduce-puerto-rico-self|title = Reps. Velazquez, Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Menendez Introduce Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2021|website=velazquez.house.gov|date = March 18, 2021|access-date=14 June 2024}} with over 70 co-sponsors in the House and seven co-sponsors in the Senate, including one Republican.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/new-bill-puerto-rico-status-introduced-reps-aoc-vel-zquez-n1261458|title=New bill on Puerto Rico status introduced by Reps. AOC, Velázquez, Sen. Menendez|website=NBC News|date=March 18, 2021 }}

After the June 2024 presidential debate, Ocasio-Cortez, who previously supported Biden during the campaign,{{cite news |title=Ocasio-Cortez, the Pragmatic Progressive Looking to Boost Biden |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-06-25/ocasio-cortez-the-pragmatic-progressive-looking-to-boost-biden |newspaper=Bloomberg |date=June 25, 2024 |access-date=27 June 2024}} said that she had spoken with Biden and that he made clear he was staying in the race. She said that she supported him and that her focus was defeating Republicans in the election.{{cite web |last1=Hains |first1=Tim |title=AOC: Joe Biden Is The Democratic Nominee, "This Matter Is Closed" |url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/07/08/aoc_joe_biden_is_the_democratic_nominee_this_matter_is_closed.html |website=realclearpolitics.com |publisher=Real Clear Politics |access-date=9 July 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Griffiths |first1=Brent |title=AOC gives a full-throated defense of Biden: 'He is not leaving this race' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-joe-biden-debate-response-our-nominee-not-leaving-race-2024-7 |website=businessinsider.com |publisher=Business Insider |access-date=11 July 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Griffiths |first1=Brent |title=AOC gives a full-throated defense of Biden: 'He is not leaving this race' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-joe-biden-debate-response-our-nominee-not-leaving-race-2024-7 |access-date=11 July 2024 |website=businessinsider.com |publisher=Business Insider}} Later, on July 19, she held an Instagram Live in which she said that replacing Biden was risky and legally challenging, but suggested that nominating Vice President Kamala Harris was better than an open convention.{{cite web |last1=Metzger |first1=Brian |title=AOC unloads on Biden's critics in late-night Instagram Live |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/ocasio-cortez-joe-biden-drop-out-criticism-2024-7 |website=businessinsider.com |publisher=Business Insider |access-date=19 July 2024}} When Biden withdrew from the race, she endorsed Harris.{{cite web |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Endorses Kamala Harris After Earlier Warning of 'Enormous Peril' for Replacing Biden |url=https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/biden-drops-out-election-2024/card/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-endorses-kamala-harris-after-earlier-warning-of-enormous-peril-for-replacing-biden-HS35H6WKkTLGui38OIZ7 |website=wsj.com |publisher=The Washington Post |access-date=22 July 2024}}

Ocasio-Cortez supports transitioning to a single-payer healthcare system and considers medical care a human right.{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/29/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-talks-poverty-in-the-us-with-steven-colbert.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: In a modern, moral, wealthy society, no person should be too poor to live |last=Clifford |first=Catherine |date=June 29, 2018|access-date=June 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629221816/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/29/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-talks-poverty-in-the-us-with-steven-colbert.html|archive-date=June 29, 2018|url-status=live |publisher=CNBC}}{{Cite news |first=John |last=Haltiwanger |date=January 4, 2019 |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-platform-on-the-issues-2018-6 |title=This is the platform that launched Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Democratic socialist, to the biggest political upset of the year |work=Business Insider|access-date=June 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630025045/http://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-platform-on-the-issues-2018-6 |archive-date=June 30, 2018 |url-status=live}} She says that a single government health insurer should cover every American, reducing overall costs. Her campaign website says, "Almost every other developed nation in the world has universal healthcare. It's time the United States catch up to the rest of the world in ensuring all people have real healthcare coverage that doesn't break the bank." Many 2020 Democratic presidential candidates adopted the Medicare-for-all proposal.

In June 2019 and in July 2021, Ocasio-Cortez proposed legislation that would remove restrictions placed on researching the medical use of psilocybin.{{Cite web|last=Reliford|first=Alexis|date=June 9, 2019|title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants It To Be Easier To Study Magic Mushrooms & Other Psychedelics|url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/06/234920/aoc-magic-mushrooms-psilocybin-mdma-legalize-medical-study|access-date=February 8, 2021|website=www.refinery29.com|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Jaeger|first=Kyle|date=July 22, 2021|title=AOC Promotes Research On Benefits Of Psychedelics Like Psilocybin And MDMA With New Amendment|url=https://www.marijuanamoment.net/aoc-promotes-research-on-benefits-of-psychedelics-like-psilocybin-and-mdma-with-new-amendment/|access-date=July 23, 2021|website=Marijuana Moment|language=en-US}}

In 2024, Ocasio-Cortez said of the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson: "this is not to say that an act of violence is justified", but "people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them".{{cite web |title=Ocasio-Cortez: People experience denied claims as 'act of violence' |url=https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5037584-ocasio-cortez-people-experience-denied-claims-as-act-of-violence/ |website=thehill.com |access-date=7 January 2025}}

Ocasio-Cortez is a vocal opponent of efforts to cut Medicaid. She said that a bill Republicans introduced would result in depriving 13.7 million people of Medicaid and created a situation where "once you are kicked off Medicaid, you then can't even buy your own health insurance", and that private health care premiums would "skyrocket".{{cite web |title=AOC to MAGA: Here’s how Trump is about to screw you big time |url=https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/05/aoc-to-maga-heres-how-trump-is-about-to-screw-you-big-time.html |website=nj.com |publisher=NJ.com |access-date=15 May 2025}} When Ocasio-Cortez questioned the Energy and Commerce committee about patients who had a miscarriage under the bill's working requirements, Representative Randy Weber told her to look toward Republicans and not the camera. Ocasio-Cortez responded by saying "There are 13.7 million Americans on the other side of that screen there", including in Republican districts, and "they deserve to see what is happening here". Weber then asked her to yield, to which she said, "I will not yield because it was a terribly disrespectful comment, and I will not yield to disrespectful men".{{cite web |title=AOC’s 3 a.m. comment over miscarriages sparks fiery exchange with GOP male counterparts |url=https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/14/congress/e-c-republicans-pass-health-care-piece-of-gop-tax-bill-after-marathon-overnight-session-00350223 |website=politico.com |publisher=Politico |access-date=15 May 2025}}

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Ocasio-Cortez supports codifying the right to abortion, and is a member of the House pro-choice caucus.{{cite web | title=Reproductive Rights | website=Representative Ocasio-Cortez | date=September 17, 2021 |url=http://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/legislation/reproductive-rights | ref={{sfnref | Representative Ocasio-Cortez | 2021}} | access-date=July 22, 2022}} On July 19, 2022, after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, she and 17 other members of Congress were arrested in an act of civil disobedience for refusing to clear a street during a protest for reproductive rights outside the Supreme Court Building.{{cite web | last=Aratani | first=Lauren | title=Democratic members of Congress arrested during pro-choice protest | website=The Guardian | date=July 19, 2022 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/19/aoc-arrested-protest-abortion-rights-democrats | access-date=July 22, 2022}}{{cite web | title=Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Omar among Democrats arrested at abortion rights protest | website=NBC News|first=Dareh|last=Gregorian | date=July 19, 2022 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/reps-ocasio-cortez-omar-democrats-arrested-abortion-rights-protest-rcna38956 | access-date=July 22, 2022}}

Ocasio-Cortez campaigned in favor of establishing tuition-free public colleges and trade schools. She has said she is still paying off student loans herself and wants to cancel all student debt.

Ocasio-Cortez has expressed support for defunding and abolishing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency on multiple occasions. In February 2018 she called it "a product of the Bush-era Patriot Act suite of legislation" and "an enforcement agency that takes on more of a paramilitary tone every single day".{{cite news |first=Clio |last=Chang |url=https://splinternews.com/talking-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-woman-challe-1823967744 |title=Talking With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Woman Challenging One of New York's Political Kingmakers |date=March 22, 2018 |publisher=Splinter News|access-date=June 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628153546/https://splinternews.com/talking-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-woman-challe-1823967744|archive-date=June 28, 2018|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |first=Jack |last=Holmes |date=June 28, 2018 |url=https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/28/fox-news-reminds-us-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-platform-ispretty-reasonable |title=Fox News Reminds Us Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Platform Is ... Pretty Reasonable |publisher=Common Dreams |access-date=July 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712222623/https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/28/fox-news-reminds-us-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-platform-ispretty-reasonable |archive-date=July 12, 2018 |url-status=live}} That June, she said she would "stop short of fully disbanding the agency", and would rather "create a pathway to citizenship for more immigrants through decriminalization".{{cite web |first=Max |last=Siegelbaum |date=June 27, 2018 |url=https://documentedny.com/2018/06/27/early-arrival-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wins-in-upset-over-joe-crowley/ |title=Early Arrival: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins in upset over Joe Crowley |publisher=Documented NY|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713010717/https://documentedny.com/2018/06/27/early-arrival-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wins-in-upset-over-joe-crowley/|archive-date=July 13, 2018|url-status=live |access-date=July 12, 2018}} She later clarified that this does not mean ceasing all deportations.{{cite tweet |user=ocasio2018 |number=1031926879752802304 |date=August 21, 2018 |title=#AbolishICE means not having an agency that incarcerates children and sexually assaults women with impunity. It does not mean abolish deportation. Also, I have no problem saying white supremacy has no place in this country. It's the GOP that struggles to say that. |access-date=December 10, 2018}} Two days before the primary election, Ocasio-Cortez attended a protest at an ICE child-detention center in Tornillo, Texas.{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/06/27/623752094/who-is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez |title=Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? |last=Neuman |first=Scott |date=June 27, 2018 |publisher=NPR|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627080006/https://www.npr.org/2018/06/27/623752094/who-is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez|archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=June 27, 2018}} She was the only Democrat to vote against H.R. 648, a bill to fund and reopen the government, because it funded ICE.

{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Allan |title=Ocasio-Cortez is lone Democrat to vote against bill to reopen government |work=NBC News |access-date=February 7, 2019 |date=January 24, 2019 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-lone-democrat-vote-against-bill-re-open-government-n962111| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190205002024/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-lone-democrat-vote-against-bill-re-open-government-n962111| archive-date = February 5, 2019| url-status=live}}

• For H.R. 648, see: {{cite web |title=H.R. 648 – Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/648 |date=January 23, 2019 |publisher=Office of the Clerk. U.S. House of Representatives |url-status=live |access-date=February 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209180240/https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/648|archive-date=February 9, 2019}}

In June 2019, Ocasio-Cortez compared the detention centers for undocumented immigrants under the Trump administration at the Mexico–United States border to "concentration camps". She cited "expert analysis", linking to an Esquire article quoting Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, who had made a similar claim.{{cite web |author=JTA |date=June 19, 2019 |title=The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'concentration camp' debate, explained |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camp-debate-explained/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116153110/https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camp-debate-explained/ |archive-date=November 16, 2020 |access-date=June 25, 2019 |website=Times of Israel}}{{Cite magazine |last=Gessen |first=Masha |date=June 21, 2019 |title=The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-unimaginable-reality-of-american-concentration-camps |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623012148/https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-unimaginable-reality-of-american-concentration-camps |archive-date=June 23, 2019 |access-date=June 23, 2019 |magazine=The New Yorker}} Some academics supported Ocasio-Cortez's use of the term for the forced detention of immigrants;{{cite web |last1=Hignett |first1=Katherine |date=June 24, 2019 |title=Academics rally behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over concentration camp comments: 'She is completely historically accurate' |url=https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camps-immigrants-detention-centers-southern-border-experts-1445483 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823104256/https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camps-immigrants-detention-centers-southern-border-experts-1445483 |archive-date=August 23, 2019 |access-date=June 24, 2019 |website=Newsweek}}{{cite web |last1=Lind-Guzik |first1=Anna |date=June 20, 2019 |title=I'm a Jewish historian. Yes, we should call border detention centers "concentration camps". |url=https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/6/20/18693058/aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camps-immigration-border |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622145528/https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/6/20/18693058/aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camps-immigration-border |archive-date=June 22, 2019 |access-date=June 23, 2019 |website=Vox}} others strongly criticized it, saying it showed disrespect for Holocaust victims.{{cite news |last=Chernick |first=Ilanit |date=June 20, 2019 |title=Yad Vashem to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Learn about concentration camps |url=https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Yad-Vashem-to-AOC-Learn-about-concentration-camps-593059 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622112815/https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Yad-Vashem-to-AOC-Learn-about-concentration-camps-593059 |archive-date=June 22, 2019 |access-date=June 22, 2019 |work=The Jerusalem Post}} In response to criticism from both Republicans and Democrats,{{cite web |last1=Stolberg |first1=Sheryl |date=June 18, 2019 |title=Ocasio-Cortez Calls Migrant Detention Centers 'Concentration Camps,' Eliciting Backlash |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/us/politics/ocasio-cortez-cheney-detention-centers.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613130347/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/us/politics/ocasio-cortez-cheney-detention-centers.html |archive-date=June 13, 2020 |access-date=August 14, 2020 |work=The New York Times}} Ocasio-Cortez said they had conflated concentration camps ("the mass detention of civilians without trial") with death camps.{{cite web |last1=Rodrigo |first1=Chris |date=June 18, 2019 |title=Ocasio-Cortez dismisses criticism from 'shrieking Republicans' |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/449076-ocasio-cortez-defends-concentration-camp-comments/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623151515/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/449076-ocasio-cortez-defends-concentration-camp-comments |archive-date=June 23, 2019 |access-date=June 24, 2019 |website=The Hill}} She refused to apologize for using the term: "If that makes you uncomfortable, fight the camps, not the nomenclature."{{cite web |last1=Gstalter |first1=Morgan |date=June 19, 2019 |title=Ocasio-Cortez stands by concentration camp remarks: 'I will never apologize' |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/449348-ocasio-cortez-stands-by-concentration-camp-remarks-i-will-never-apologize-for/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623151334/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/449348-ocasio-cortez-stands-by-concentration-camp-remarks-i-will-never-apologize-for |archive-date=June 23, 2019 |access-date=June 23, 2019 |website=The Hill}}

In July 2019, Ocasio-Cortez visited migrant detention centers and other facilities in Texas as part of a congressional delegation to witness the border crisis firsthand. She called the conditions "horrifying". She said that women in one cell said they had not had access to showers for two weeks and were told to drink water from the toilet when their sink broke, and that one woman said that her daughters had been taken from her two weeks earlier and she did not know where they were.{{cite news |last1=Mettler |first1=Katie |last2=DeBonis |first2=Mike |last3=Thebault |first3=Reis |date=July 2, 2019 |title=Border agents confiscated lawmakers' phones. Joaquin Castro captured photo and video anyway. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/02/ocasio-cortez-says-dispute-with-border-patrol-agents-started-after-one-tried-take-stealth-selfie/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702164257/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/02/ocasio-cortez-says-dispute-with-border-patrol-agents-started-after-one-tried-take-stealth-selfie/ |archive-date=July 2, 2019 |access-date=July 2, 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}{{Cite web |last1=Villagran |first1=Lauren |date=July 2, 2019 |title='Broken' and 'horrifying': AOC, Joaquin Castro, lawmakers visit Texas border facilities |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/02/migrant-children-detained-clint-border-patrol-station-congressional-hispanic-caucus/1625831001/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702162459/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/02/migrant-children-detained-clint-border-patrol-station-congressional-hispanic-caucus/1625831001/ |archive-date=July 2, 2019 |access-date=July 2, 2019 |website=USA Today}}

In January 2021, Ocasio-Cortez expressed support for the Roadmap to Freedom resolution to guide future immigration policy championed by Representative Pramila Jayapal. The resolution aims to safeguard vulnerable migrants while reducing criminal prosecutions of migrants.{{cite news |last1=Woodward |first1=Alex |title=Jayapal, AOC and progressive Democrats push 'overhaul' of US immigration system |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-immigration-reform-aoc-jayapal-b1793785.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127221940/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-immigration-reform-aoc-jayapal-b1793785.html |archive-date=January 27, 2021 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |access-date=March 3, 2021 |work=The Independent |date=January 27, 2021}}

In February 2021, when the Biden administration reopened a Carrizo Springs, Texas, center to house unaccompanied migrant children, Ocasio-Cortez responded that such actions "never will be okay—no matter the administration or party".{{cite news |last1=Ordoñez |first1=Franco |title=Biden Pledges That Border Shelter For Teens 'Won't Stay Open Very Long' |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/02/25/971425227/fact-check-biden-reopens-border-shelters-for-teens-but-its-not-kids-in-cages |access-date=March 3, 2021 |work=NPR |date=February 25, 2021}} For short-term measures to address the situation, she called for mandatory licensing for such centers and urged reconsideration of how the centers are "contracted out".{{cite news |last1=Aggarwal |first1=Mayank |title=AOC joins backlash over Biden child migrant camp: 'This is not okay' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-biden-child-migrant-camp-b1806510.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224094211/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-biden-child-migrant-camp-b1806510.html |archive-date=February 24, 2021 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |access-date=March 3, 2021 |work=The Independent |date=February 24, 2021}}

Ocasio-Cortez is a proponent of LGBTQ rights and equality. She has said she supports the community and thanked its members for their role in her campaign.{{Cite news |first=Eve |last=Hartley |date=June 27, 2018 |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lgbt-win/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thanks LGBT community after landmark win |publisher=PinkNews |access-date=July 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706161747/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lgbt-win/ |archive-date=July 6, 2018 |url-status=live}} At the January 2019 New York City Women's March in Manhattan, Ocasio-Cortez gave a detailed speech in support of measures needed to ensure LGBTQ equality in the workplace and elsewhere.{{cite news |url=https://thegavoice.com/news/aoc-gives-powerful-pro-lgbtq-speech-at-nyc-womens-march/ |title=AOC Gives Powerful Pro-LGBTQ Speech at NYC Women's March |first=Katie |last=Burkholder |date=January 22, 2019 |access-date=February 17, 2019 |archive-date=February 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203175513/https://thegavoice.com/news/aoc-gives-powerful-pro-lgbtq-speech-at-nyc-womens-march/ |url-status=live }} She has also spoken in support of transgender rights, specifically saying, "Trans rights are civil rights are human rights."{{cite news |url=https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/ocasio-cortez-joins-charity-twitch-stream-for-trans-youth.html |work=thecut.com |publisher=New York |date=January 21, 2019 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Casually Joins Gaming Livestream For a Good Cause |first=Amanda |last=Arnold |access-date=April 12, 2019 |archive-date=April 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412150325/https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/ocasio-cortez-joins-charity-twitch-stream-for-trans-youth.html |url-status=live }} Later, she appeared on a video game live stream to help raise money for Mermaids, a UK-based charity for transgender children.{{cite news |url=https://slate.com/culture/2019/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aaron-sorkin-graham-linehan-h-bomberguy-donkey-kong-twitch-stream.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Spent Her Weekend Dunking on Aaron Sorkin and Raising Money for Trans Kids |last=Dessem |first=Matthew |date=January 21, 2019 |publisher=Slate |access-date=January 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121232832/https://slate.com/culture/2019/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aaron-sorkin-graham-linehan-h-bomberguy-donkey-kong-twitch-stream.html |archive-date=January 21, 2019 |url-status=live}}

At the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on February 27, 2020, Ocasio-Cortez argued for LGBTQ equality in the context of her religious background. Referencing a Catholic hospital that refused a hysterectomy for a transgender man,{{cite web |last1=Avery |first1=Daniel |title=Court Rules Transgender Man Can Sue Hospital That Canceled His Hysterectomy |url=https://www.newsweek.com/transgender-man-sue-hospital-evan-minton-1460664 |website=Newsweek |access-date=February 28, 2020 |date=February 28, 2020 |archive-date=February 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227160954/https://www.newsweek.com/transgender-man-sue-hospital-evan-minton-1460664 |url-status=live }} she argued, "[t]here is nothing holy about rejecting medical care of people, no matter who they are, on the grounds of what their identity is. There is nothing holy about turning someone away from a hospital."{{cite web |last1=DeMarche |first1=Edmund |title=Ocasio-Cortez says Jesus would be maligned in Congress |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-says-jesus-would-be-maligned-in-congress |website=Fox News |access-date=February 28, 2020 |date=February 28, 2020 |archive-date=February 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200228100115/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-says-jesus-would-be-maligned-in-congress |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Rep AOC's Speech on Personal Faith at Admin's Religious Liberties Assault on LGBTQ Rights |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuvEzMybwus |website=YouTube | date=February 27, 2020 |publisher=Oversight Committee |access-date=February 28, 2020 |archive-date=March 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303134729/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuvEzMybwus |url-status=live }}

When asked what America would look like if it defunded the police, she responded on Instagram:

It looks like a suburb. Affluent white communities already live in a world where they choose to fund youth, health, housing etc more than they fund police. When a teenager or preteen does something harmful in a suburb (I say teen bc this is often where lifelong carceral cycles begin for Black and Brown communities), White communities bend over backwards to find alternatives to incarceration for their loved ones to protect their future, like community service or rehab or restorative measures. Why don't we treat Black and Brown people the same way?{{Cite magazine |last=Dixon |first=Emily |date=2020-06-12 |title=AOC Was Asked About Defunding the Police and Her Answer Went Viral |url=https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a32849383/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-defund-the-police/ |access-date=2023-08-21 |magazine=Marie Claire |language=en}}

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| party = Working Families Party

| votes = 8,075

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| party = Women's Equality Party (New York)

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| party = Democratic Party (United States)

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| party = Republican Party (United States)

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| party = Conservative Party of New York State

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| party = Serve America Movement

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| party = Working Families Party

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| party = Total

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| party = Republican Party (United States)

| votes = 31,935

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| party = Conservative Party of New York State

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| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 4,355

| percentage = 17.8

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| percentage = 100.0

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| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 123,269

| percentage = 68.9

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| candidate = Tina Forte

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| votes = 55,580

| percentage = 31.1

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The MIT Lincoln Laboratory named the asteroid 23238 Ocasio-Cortez after her when she was a senior in high school in recognition of her second-place finish in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Ocasio-Cortez was named the 2017 National Hispanic Institute Person of the Year by Ernesto Nieto. In 2019, Ocasio-Cortez received the Adelle Foley Award.{{Cite web |url=https://www.pen-oakland.org/awards-winners |title=PEN Oakland Awards & Winners |website=PEN Oakland |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116153109/https://www.pen-oakland.org/awards-winners |archive-date=November 16, 2020 |access-date=March 26, 2020 }} She was named as one of the 2019 BBC 100 Women.{{Cite web |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/466199-ocasio-cortez-thunberg-and-rapinoe-make-bbcs-100-most-inspiring/ |title=Ocasio-Cortez, Thunberg, Rapinoe make BBC's 100 most inspiring women of 2019 |last=Folley |first=Aris |date=October 16, 2019 |website=The Hill |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200415044902/https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/466199-ocasio-cortez-thunberg-and-rapinoe-make-bbcs-100-most-inspiring |archive-date=April 15, 2020 |access-date=February 23, 2020 }}

After the death of Ocasio-Cortez's father in 2008, her mother and grandmother moved to Florida due to financial hardship. She still has family in Puerto Rico, where her grandfather was living in a nursing home before he died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/my-grandfather-died-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-slams-trump-puerto-rico-pr-tweet/1821994/ |date=September 14, 2018 |title='My Grandfather Died': Ocasio-Cortez Slams Trump's PR Denial |publisher=NBC New York|access-date=September 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929233312/https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/My-Grandfather-Died-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-Slams-Trump-Puerto-Rico-PR-Tweet-493285661.html |agency=Associated Press |archive-date=September 29, 2018|url-status=live}} Ocasio-Cortez has said that "to be Puerto Rican is to be the descendant of{{spaces}}... African Moors [and] slaves, Taino Indians, Spanish colonizers, Jewish refugees, and likely others. We are all of these things and something else all at once—we are Boricua." She has said she has some Sephardic Jewish ancestry.Citations for Jewish ancestry:

• {{Cite news |last=Stanley-Becker |first=Isaac |date=December 9, 2018 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals Jewish ancestry at Hanukkah celebration |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=January 26, 2019 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/10/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-reveals-jewish-ancestry-hanukkah-celebration/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119174813/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/10/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-reveals-jewish-ancestry-hanukkah-celebration/ |archive-date=January 19, 2019 |url-status=live }}
• {{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Allan |title=Ocasio-Cortez reveals her Jewish heritage: 'I knew it! I sensed it!' |work=NBC News |access-date=January 26, 2019 |date=December 10, 2018 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-reveals-her-jewish-heritage-i-knew-it-i-n946041 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216005639/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-reveals-her-jewish-heritage-i-knew-it-i-n946041 |archive-date=December 16, 2018 |url-status=live}}
• {{Cite news |first=Taly |last=Krupkin |date=December 10, 2018 |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-ocasio-cortez-claims-jewish-heritage-at-ny-event-my-family-were-sephardic-jews-1.6727455 |title=Ocasio-Cortez Shares Jewish Heritage at NY Event: 'My Family Were Sephardic Jews' |work=Haaretz |access-date=December 9, 2018 |quote=a very, very long time ago, generations and generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210054547/https://www.haaretz.com/amp/us-news/.premium-ocasio-cortez-claims-jewish-heritage-at-ny-event-my-family-were-sephardic-jews-1.6727455 |archive-date=December 10, 2018 |url-status=live}}
• {{Cite news |first=Cummings |last=William |date=December 11, 2018 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/12/11/ocasio-cortez-reveals-jewish-ancestry/2275410002/ |title=Incoming congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez reveals Jewish ancestry at New York Hanukkah event |work=USA Today |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418112409/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/12/11/ocasio-cortez-reveals-jewish-ancestry/2275410002/ |url-status=live }}
• {{Cite news |first=Ben |last=Sales |date=August 1, 2019 |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/fl-jj-ocasio-cortez-israel-anti-semitism-holocaust-sanders-20190807-20190801-ukn6meextnfdrearjx4ew2qzym-story.html |title=Ocasio-Cortez talks about Israel, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and Bernie Sanders |work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=October 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008060341/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/fl-jj-ocasio-cortez-israel-anti-semitism-holocaust-sanders-20190807-20190801-ukn6meextnfdrearjx4ew2qzym-story.html |url-status=live}}

Ocasio-Cortez is a Catholic. She discussed her faith and its impact on her life and her campaign for criminal justice reform in a 2018 article she wrote for America, the magazine of the Jesuit order in the United States.{{cite news |last=Ocasio-Cortez |first=Alexandria |date=June 27, 2018 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her Catholic faith and the urgency of a criminal justice reform |url=https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-her-catholic-faith-and-urgency-criminal |access-date=August 31, 2018 |newspaper=America |quote=Innocence, in its mercy, partly excuses us from having to fully reckon with the spiritual gifts of forgiveness, grace and redemption at the heart of the Catechism: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627233436/https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-her-catholic-faith-and-urgency-criminal|archive-date=June 27, 2018|url-status=live}}

During the 2018 election campaign, Ocasio-Cortez resided in Parkchester, Bronx, with her partner, web developer Riley Roberts.{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cant-afford-to-rent-an-apartment-in-dc.html |title=Youngest woman elected to Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can't afford an apartment in D.C. |last=Hess |first=Abigail |date=November 8, 2018 |website=CNBC|access-date=November 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117233348/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cant-afford-to-rent-an-apartment-in-dc.html|archive-date=November 17, 2018|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-interview-vogue-november-2018-issue |title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Other Progressives Are Defining the Midterms |first=Irina |last=Aleksander |work=Vogue |date=October 15, 2018 |access-date=November 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116065645/https://www.vogue.com/article/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-interview-vogue-november-2018-issue|archive-date=November 16, 2018|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine |last=Igoe |first=Katherine J. |date=January 15, 2019 |title=Everything We Know About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Boyfriend |url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/everything-know-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-155000127.html |magazine=Marie Claire |access-date=February 17, 2019 |archive-date=February 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218082242/https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/everything-know-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-155000127.html |url-status=dead}} They became engaged in April 2022 in Puerto Rico.{{Cite web |first1=Eliza |last1=Relman |last2=Lahut |first2=Jake |title=Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confirms she's engaged to longtime partner Riley Roberts: 'Yep! It's true' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-engagement-confirmed-boyfriend-name-riley-roberts-2022-5 |access-date=May 19, 2022 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}}

In 2021, the watchdog group OpenSecrets, analyzing financial disclosure forms, ranked Ocasio-Cortez one of the least wealthy members of the 116th Congress, with a maximum net worth of $30,000.{{cite web|title=Freshmen in the 116th Congress |url=https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/new-members?display=A&year=2018 |website=Open Secrets |publisher=OpenSecrets |access-date=March 10, 2021}}

In February 2021, Ocasio-Cortez said that she had been sexually assaulted.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/aoc-says-she-is-a-survivor-of-sexual-assault.html|title=AOC Says She Is a Survivor of Sexual Assault|last=Arnold|first=Amanda|date=February 2, 2021|work=The Cut}} That May, she said that she had been in psychotherapy after the January 6 United States Capitol attack, which she called "extraordinarily traumatizing", saying she "did not know if I was going to make it to the end of that day alive".{{cite news |last=Garner |first=Glenn |url=https://people.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sought-therapy-after-capitol-riots/ |title=Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sought Therapy After 'Extraordinarily Traumatizing' Capitol Riots |work=People |date=May 22, 2021 |access-date=May 25, 2021 }}

Ocasio-Cortez is a fan of the New York Yankees.{{cite news |last=Rosenburg |first=Eli |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/04/15/aoc-says-shes-diehard-fan-new-york-baseball-team-not-one-her-district/ |title= AOC says she's a diehard fan of a New York baseball team — but not the one in her district |newspaper=Washington Post |date=April 15, 2019|access-date=April 21, 2024 }} She has a pet French Bulldog named Deco, after the Art Deco movement.{{Cite news |last=Mahdawi |first=Arwa |date=2020-01-14 |title=AOC is setting a terrible example with her adorable new puppy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/14/aoc-setting-terrible-example-with-her-adorable-new-puppy |access-date=2025-01-29 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

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• {{cite book | last=Lopez | first=Lynda | title=AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group | publication-place=New York | date=2020 | isbn=978-1-250-25741-3 | oclc=1141032197}}
• {{cite book | author=((The Editors of New York magazine)) | title=Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC | publisher= Simon & Schuster | publication-place=New York | date=2022 | isbn=978-1-5011-6697-6 | oclc=1263661994}}

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• [https://www.politifact.com/personalities/alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's file] at PolitiFact

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