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AOC says she 'wouldn't be surprised' if Trump 'threw me in jail' if he wins in 2024
Ocasio-Cortez argued that "lock her up" was Trump's "motto" during his 2016 campaign and that his r…
Bryan Metzger
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AOC says Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign 'broke my brain'
Ocasio-Cortez said that Sanders's first campaign radicalized her and that she "didn't think I deser…
Bryan Metzger
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House committee hearing disrupted as Marjorie Taylor Greene and AOC clash over 'fake eyelashes' jibe
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett's appearance, prompting …
Cameron Manley
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Not even AOC is calling for Sonia Sotomayor to retire
Progressive House Democrats are dismissing calls for the 69-year-old justice's retirement. One call…
Bryan Metzger
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AOC says there's an 'upside' to the anti-Biden movement over Israel
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she'd vote for Biden in November but defended voters refusing to…
Bryan Metzger
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RFK Jr.'s VP pick is a Silicon Valley lawyer who's given thousands to Democrats including AOC's 2020 primary challenger
Before Nicole Shanahan emerged as RFK Jr.'s VP, she was a major donor to a variety of Democratic ca…
Bryan Metzger
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AOC says Democrats aren't doing enough with their Senate majority: 'We need to go after the Supreme Court'
"I don't know if most people in the country even know what party is in the Senate majority," she sa…
Bryan Metzger
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Left-wing AOC was with her fiancé at a Brooklyn cinema when pro-Palestine supporters accosted her, demanding she say the word 'genocide'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was accosted by pro-Palestinian protesters at a cinema in Brooklyn, w…
Cameron Manley
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AOC says Biden could be 'doing more' to lay out Democratic legislative priorities, as divisions roil the party and progressives fear he's blowing it
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's message to Democratic leaders has become even more potent: lay out a clear vis…
John L. Dorman
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AOC still thinks $174,000 isn't enough money for members of Congress: 'I know it's kind of a contrarian position'
"I've been saying this for some time," Ocasio-Cortez told BI this week, saying a pay bump is needed…
Bryan Metzger
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AOC says her life 'completely transformed' for the better after Pelosi stepped down from leadership
Nancy Pelosi fretted during a meeting with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that "Abolish ICE" had been "in…
Bryan Metzger
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AOC has privately fretted about the toxicity of 'Bernie Bros' and misogyny within left-wing politics, book reveals
"Bernie's supporters have been very, very damaging to him," AOC said amidst the 2020 primaries. "Th…
Bryan Metzger
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Elizabeth Warren tried to convince AOC not to endorse Bernie Sanders in 2020 by compiling top Sanders backers' mean tweets: book
Warren had her campaign team compile an extensive list of problematic tweets sent out by top Sander…
Brent D. Griffiths
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AOC still had nearly 800 unread texts a year after her shocking 2018 victory: 'She never called anyone back'
"Lol that's still from the primary," Ocasio-Cortez texted a reporter, including a screenshot showin…
Bryan Metzger
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AOC says Democratic Socialists and Justice Democrats weren't responsible for her first election win: 'When it looked appealing enough, they jumped in'
In the book, "The Squad," Ocasio-Cortez detailed the ups and downs of her first congressional prima…
John L. Dorman
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AOC says 'anti-Semitic' Christian fundamentalism in the US is partially to blame for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
"The Israel of today is not the Israel of the Bible," said Ocasio-Cortez, referencing the root of C…
Bryan Metzger
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AOC slams DeSantis for saying 'all Gazans are antisemitic': 'How incredibly destructive and dangerous that rhetoric is'
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out Ron DeSantis' "incredibly destructive and dangerous" rhetoric o…
Thibault Spirlet
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AOC says the left is 'bewildered' by power because they were 'not used to having' it for years in the US
"I often say to my grass-roots companions that the left, for a very long time, was not used to havi…
John L. Dorman
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A GOP congressman said Gaetz got 'schooled by AOC' when he ousted McCarthy: 'I can't believe he's that stupid'
On Monday, Rep. Matt Gaetz filed a "motion to vacate" Kevin McCarthy as House speaker. McCarthy was…
Madison Hall
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Who is Nicole Shanahan? Meet RFK Jr.'s running mate, an attorney who reportedly made $1 billion in her divorce from a Google cofounder
Nicole Shanahan is an attorney and philanthropist who famously was married to Google cofounder Serg…