Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, known widely as AOC, won a Democratic primary in New York's 14th congressional district on the 26th of June 2018. She collected 15,897 votes to 11,761 for Joe Crowley, a ten-term incumbent who chaired the Democratic Caucus. Her campaign had been outspent by 18 to 1, with about 1.5 million dollars on the other side against her 83,000.
The result made national news almost immediately. Within months she took office as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. She also belongs to the Democratic Socialists of America, a label that shaped how admirers and opponents alike would talk about her.
How does someone with so little money and so little institutional backing beat the man who ran the caucus? What did she carry with her from childhood, and from a series of jobs far from Capitol Hill? And once inside the House, whom has she angered, whom has she persuaded, and where have her own allies turned against her? The answers begin in a Bronx apartment.
Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx on the 13th of October 1989. Her father, Sergio Ocasio-Roman, was born in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican family and became an architect. Her mother, Blanca, whose maiden name was Cortés Rivera, was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in Arecibo. Both parents called themselves Independents, though they often voted for New York Democrats. She also has a younger brother named Gabriel.
When she was five, the family traded the Parkchester apartment for a house in suburban Yorktown Heights. She has said her family raised enough money to buy a small home there so she could attend school in the town. Her mother cleaned houses and drove a school bus in Yorktown Heights. Ocasio-Cortez graduated from Yorktown High School in 2007, and in those years she went by the name Sandy Ocasio.
The year she graduated, she placed second in the microbiology category at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Her project tested how antioxidants affect the lifespan of a tiny worm called Caenorhabditis elegans. In high school she also joined the National Hispanic Institute's Lorenzo de Zavala Youth Legislative Session. Her first paid job was as a hostess in an Irish pub in Westchester County.
At Boston University she became the session's secretary of state and held a John F. Lopez Fellowship. In 2008, during her second year of college, her father died of lung cancer. She was pulled into a long probate dispute over his estate. She later said it taught her how court-appointed attorneys can profit from families who are struggling to navigate the system.
College also brought a stint as an intern for Senator Ted Kennedy, in his section on foreign affairs and immigration. By her account, she was the only Spanish speaker in the office. She was the one person responsible for helping Spanish-speaking constituents. She graduated cum laude in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in international relations and economics.
Back in the Bronx, she worked as a bartender and waitress to help her mother fight the foreclosure of the family home. She also launched Brook Avenue Press, a publisher of books that showed the Bronx in a positive light. The company is now defunct. She worked as well for the National Hispanic Institute, the same organization whose youth legislative session she had joined in high school.
After the 2016 election, Ocasio-Cortez, who had organized for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, set off across the country by car. Her stops included Flint, Michigan, and the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota. There she spoke with people affected by the Flint water crisis and by the Dakota Access Pipeline.
She has called her December 2016 visit to Standing Rock a tipping point. Until then, she said, she had assumed that running for office effectively required wealth, social influence, and power. In North Dakota she watched people put "their whole lives and everything that they had on the line for the protection of their community". That, she said, inspired her to start working for her own.
The phone call came one day after she left. Brand New Congress, a group recruiting progressive candidates, was on the line. Her brother had nominated her soon after Election Day 2016.
Her path to the Democratic Socialists of America was less direct. A friend brought her to a local meeting in Washington Heights, and that was her first exposure to the group. She has credited Jabari Brisport's unsuccessful City Council campaign with restoring her faith in electoral politics. It also renewed her belief in running as a socialist and in the organization itself.
In April 2017 she began her own campaign while waiting tables and tending bar at Flats Fix, a taqueria in Union Square. "For 80 percent of this campaign, I operated out of a paper grocery bag hidden behind that bar", she told Bon Appétit. She was the first person since 2004 to challenge Crowley in a primary. On money she was blunt: "You can't really beat big money with more money. You have to beat them with a totally different game."
That different game meant grassroots mobilization and a refusal to take corporate donations. Her posters borrowed from revolutionary posters and visuals of the past. The endorsements split sharply. MoveOn and Democracy for America backed her. Crowley had Governor Andrew Cuomo and Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. He also had many House members, trade unions, Planned Parenthood, the Sierra Club, and the Working Families Party. Representative Ro Khanna, a fellow Justice Democrat, first endorsed Crowley and later endorsed her too, an unusual dual endorsement.
The two candidates met face to face only once, on the 15th of June, on the local show Inside City Hall. Errol Louis conducted a joint interview that NY1 described as a debate. A debate in the Bronx was set for the 18th of June, but Crowley stayed away. He sent former City Council member Annabel Palma in his place.
On election night Crowley conceded but did not phone Ocasio-Cortez, which briefly fed speculation that he might fight her in November. Bernie Sanders and Noam Chomsky congratulated her. Outlets including Time, CNN, The New York Times, and The Guardian said the result defied their own predictions.
Commentators reached for a precedent from the other party. In 2014, Dave Brat, backed by the Tea Party movement, had beaten House majority leader Eric Cantor in the Republican primary for Virginia's 7th district. Like Crowley, Cantor held a high post in his party's caucus.
Ocasio-Cortez used the moment to endorse progressive challengers to Democratic incumbents around the country. A stranger footnote came from the neighboring 15th district. Without campaigning, she won the Reform Party primary there as a write-in candidate, with nine votes. That was the most of any of 22 write-ins. She declined the nomination.
The general election, on the 6th of November, was close to a formality. Her Republican opponent, economics professor Anthony Pappas, did not actively campaign. The district's Cook Partisan Voting Index stands at D+29, making it the sixth most Democratic in New York City. Democrats outnumber Republicans there almost six to one. Former president Barack Obama and Sanders endorsed her. At the Netroots Nation conference in August she was called the undisputed star of the convention.
Crowley remained on the ballot on the Working Families Party and Women's Equality Party lines. Neither he nor the Working Families Party campaigned. That party had endorsed her after the primary. Its executive director, Dan Cantor, wrote her an endorsement and apology in the New York Daily News. Ocasio-Cortez called the Women's Equality Party, which Cuomo created before the 2014 governor's race, a cynical, centrist group. She said it backed male incumbents over female challengers like her and Cynthia Nixon. Former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman had won a 2006 race on a third-party line after losing his primary. He wrote in the Wall Street Journal that he hoped Crowley would campaign.
Ocasio-Cortez took 78 percent of the vote, 110,318 ballots, against 14 percent for Pappas, who got 17,762. Crowley received 9,348 votes, or 6.6 percent. Nationally, Democrats gained 41 seats and control of the House. Her campaign co-chair, Saikat Chakrabarti, became her chief of staff. His departure in 2019 set off speculation about whether she was shifting to a more moderate strategy.
The first media network to give Ocasio-Cortez a platform and cover her policies at length was The Young Turks, a left-wing online news program. Jimmy Dore interviewed her when she announced her candidacy in June 2017. After the primary, Brian Stelter wrote that progressive outlets such as The Young Turks and The Intercept had seen the upset coming. Margaret Sullivan argued in The Washington Post that relying on fundraising totals to judge a campaign had produced a "media failure".
Traditional outlets mostly ignored her until she won. One exception was the June 2018 cover of The Indypendent, a free monthly newspaper in New York City, which she hailed as an important breakthrough. In July 2018 she and Sanders campaigned for James Thompson in Kansas. A rally in Wichita had to leave a theater with 1,500 seats because far more people wanted in. In the end 4,000 attended, some sitting on the floor.
Filmmakers noticed too. Michael Moore's 2018 documentary Fahrenheit 11/9 followed her primary campaign. Rachel Lears directed Knock Down the House, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and reached Netflix on the 1st of May 2019. It followed four women who were not career politicians: Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush, and Paula Jean Swearengin. She was the only one of the four to win. Lears's 2022 climate film To the End also featured her. Elizabeth Warren wrote her entry in the 2019 Time 100.
Just before she took office, a Twitter user called AnonymousQ tried to embarrass her. He shared a Boston University student dance video in which she briefly appeared. It backfired. Social media users rushed to her defense, and one account set the footage to songs like "Mambo No. 5" and "Gangnam Style". She answered by posting a video of herself dancing to Edwin Starr's "War" outside her congressional office.
She arrived in Congress with no seniority but a huge following. Axios credited her with as much social media clout as the other Democratic freshmen combined. Her Twitter following grew from 1.4 million in November 2018 to 13.1 million by June 2024. By January 2025 she had 8.4 million followers on Instagram and 1.8 million on Facebook. By March 2025 she was the most followed user on Bluesky, with 2 million. Colleagues asked her to give them lessons in social media.
When she gave her first floor speech in January 2019, C-SPAN tweeted it. Within 12 hours it was the network's most-watched Twitter video of a House member.
On the 20th of October 2020 she played the social deduction game Among Us on Twitch with Representative Ilhan Omar. Streamers including Pokimane, Hasan Piker, DrLupo, and mxmtoon joined them. The stream peaked above 400,000 viewers. Joshua Rivera of The Guardian wrote that it succeeded in humanizing her. A second stream on the 27th of November raised 200,000 dollars. The money went to food pantries, eviction defense legal aid, and community groups.
Platforms also brought legal trouble. In July 2019 two lawsuits accused her of blocking Joey Salads and Dov Hikind on Twitter. An appeals court had just ruled that President Trump could not block people. The cases settled on the 4th of November 2019, and she apologized. In a 2019 interview she said she had stopped using her private Facebook account. She was cutting back elsewhere too, calling social media a "public health risk".
Between the 25th of February and the 7th of April 2019, Fox News and Fox Business mentioned Ocasio-Cortez every single day. That came to 3,181 mentions in 42 days, according to a Media Matters for America study. David Smith of The Guardian called it evidence of an obsession. Brian Stelter found that from January to July 2019 she drew nearly three times as many mentions on Fox News as on CNN and MSNBC. He warned of a perception, especially on the right, that her positions represent the whole Democratic Party.
Time called her the second most talked about politician in America, after Trump, and "the Wonder Woman of the left". From the 8th to the 14th of July 2019, news articles about her drew 4.8 million interactions, according to the tracking company NewsWhip. No Democratic presidential candidate topped 1.2 million.
PolitiFact reported in March 2019 that she was one of the most targeted politicians for hoaxes. Fake quotes, doctored photos, and false rumors circulated, some from 4chan and r/The_Donald. By July the fakes included lines Trump had said, pinned on her. On the 18th of July 2019, Charlie Rispoli, a police officer in Gretna, Louisiana, posted an apparent threat to shoot her on Facebook. He was reacting to a fake article that claimed she had said soldiers are paid too much. Rispoli was fired.
Her style drew commentary as well. She wears red lipstick, usually the Stila shade "Beso", as a nod to Latina women from the Bronx. In a Vogue skincare tutorial she explained that beauty and femininity matter to her because they are so often used against women in politics. Self-love, she said, is a "mini protest".
At the 2021 Met Gala, themed "In America: a Lexicon of Fashion", she wore an organza gown emblazoned with "Tax the Rich". Vogue editor Anna Wintour selects every invitee. As an elected official from New York City, Ocasio-Cortez counted as a guest of the museum and did not buy a ticket. She called her critics sexist and said she "punctured the fourth wall of excess and spectacle". Designer Aurora James said the wealthy attendees needed to see the message in person.
In September 2021 the American Accountability Foundation filed an ethics complaint. It put the ticket at an estimated 35,000 dollars and noted that Condé Nast had paid. In July 2025 the House Ethics Committee found she had broken House rules by not paying full market value for her attire and services. She had also accepted free admission for her fiancé. The committee found no willful misconduct and ordered her to pay about 3,000 dollars.
On the 14th of July 2019, Trump tweeted that four congresswomen should "go back and help fix" the countries they came from. The four were Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib, an informal group known as the Squad. Three of them were born in the United States. Ocasio-Cortez answered that telling four congresswomen of color to go back to their own country was "hallmark language of white supremacists". She added: "We don't leave the things that we love." The Squad later added Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Greg Casar, Summer Lee, and Delia Ramirez.
On the 20th of July 2020, Representatives Ted Yoho and Roger Williams confronted her on the Capitol steps. A journalist overheard Yoho call her "disgusting" and say she was "out of your freaking mind". The row followed her comments linking poverty and unemployment to a rise in New York City crime. Yoho used a vulgar insult as she walked into the Capitol. On the House floor he apologized for the "abrupt manner" of the exchange but said he "cannot apologize for my passion". Ocasio-Cortez replied with a speech. She said his language, spoken before the press, gave permission to talk that way about women everywhere.
In November 2021, Representative Paul Gosar posted an edited title sequence from the anime Attack on Titan. In it he attacked and killed a character wearing her face. Nancy Pelosi asked law enforcement and the House Ethics Committee to investigate. Ocasio-Cortez gave a six-minute floor speech: "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 previous censure of a lawmaker had come in 2010.
In February 2021 she spent nearly 90 minutes on Instagram Live describing the storming of the Capitol. She was in the Cannon House Office Building. She said she hid in her office bathroom. Then a Capitol Police officer entered the suite and shouted, "Where is she?" He did not identify himself, and at first she believed the voice belonged to an attacker. She and her staff were moved to another building and sheltered in Representative Katie Porter's office. "I had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die," she said. She also said she had experienced sexual assault earlier in her life. In an interview with Dana Bash, she said she had feared being raped during the attack.
On the 7th of February 2019 Ocasio-Cortez submitted her first piece of legislation, the Green New Deal. She and Senator Ed Markey released a non-binding resolution calling for a 10-year economic mobilization. It would phase out fossil fuels and overhaul the nation's infrastructure. Their initial outline aimed for net-zero emissions rather than zero. They explained they were unsure the country could eliminate "farting cows and airplanes" that quickly.
Greenpeace and the Sunrise Movement backed the plan. Warren, Sanders, and Cory Booker came aboard. Dianne Feinstein and Pelosi dismissed it, with Pelosi calling it "the green dream, or whatever they call it".
On the 26th of March, Senate Republicans forced an early vote without discussion or expert testimony. Markey called the vote a "sham". Senate Democrats voted present or against, and the measure lost 57-0. Later descriptions of the plan put its cost at roughly 2.5 trillion dollars a year, paid in part by higher taxes on the wealthy. She floated a marginal rate as high as 70 percent on income above 10 million dollars. Tax experts told The Washington Post that would raise 720 billion dollars per decade.
Hearings made her name in a different way. In February 2019 she pressed campaign finance watchdogs on ethics rules for lawmakers and the president. She said nothing stops members from being bought off by wealthy corporations. The clip drew more than 37.5 million views, the most-watched political video on Twitter. That same month, Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen appeared before the Oversight Committee. She asked whether Trump had inflated property values for banks or insurers. Cohen's answer suggested possible tax and bank fraud. David Brooks praised her questioning.
New York attorney general Letitia James cited the exchange in August 2020. She was going to court to compel Trump's companies to answer subpoenas. The investigation grew into a civil lawsuit against the Trump Organization. It ended in a 354 million dollar fine and a ban on Trump doing business in New York for two to three years.
In May 2019 Ocasio-Cortez went back behind a bar, at the Queensboro Restaurant in Jackson Heights, Queens, to promote the Raise the Wage Act. It would lift the pay of tipped workers from 2.13 dollars an hour to 15 dollars. "Any job that pays $2.13 per hour is not a job, it is indentured servitude," she said. On the 20th of January 2021 she skipped Joe Biden's inauguration to join the Hunts Point Produce Market strike in the Bronx.
Her opposition to New York City's planned 3 billion dollars in subsidies and tax breaks for Amazon's second headquarters was sharper still. She argued the city should invest the money in her district. Columnist Marc Thiessen countered that she cost New York 27 billion dollars in expected tax revenue. The think tank Data for Progress noted that Amazon instead announced it would bring 1,500 jobs to the city without a tax break.
She has also raised money for disaster relief. After the 2021 Texas power crisis she began a drive on the 18th of February. It raised 2 million dollars on its first day and 5 million by the 21st, for groups such as the Houston Food Bank. She traveled to Houston to help volunteers. In April 2021 she announced a postal banking bill. She said families without banks lose "10 to 20%" of a stimulus check to check-cashing shops.
In November 2021 she was one of six House Democrats to vote against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. They objected that it had been separated from the Build Back Better Act.
In May 2023 she joined a bipartisan group, including Matt Gaetz, that introduced a bill barring members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks. In 2025 she was one of 16 original cosponsors of the Restore Trust in Congress Act, introduced by Chip Roy on the 3rd of September. It had 119 cosponsors by December.
The Supreme Court became a major target. After the Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, she called for impeaching Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. On the 19th of July 2022 she and 17 other members of Congress were arrested for refusing to clear a street outside the Supreme Court.
In June 2024, reports said Clarence Thomas had accepted undisclosed gifts. She and Representative Jamie Raskin introduced the High Court Gift Ban Act on the 25th of June. After the Court's immunity ruling in Trump v. United States, she introduced articles of impeachment on the 10th of July 2024. They targeted Thomas and Alito, with seven House Democrats cosponsoring. Legal experts said it would probably fail but would still draw attention to the justices' conduct.
Health care produced one of her sharpest floor exchanges. She opposed Republican Medicaid cuts that she said would strip 13.7 million people of coverage. Representative Randy Weber told her to look at Republicans rather than the camera. She answered that "There are 13.7 million Americans on the other side of that screen". She refused to yield "to disrespectful men".
Her environmental work turned to a Georgia county in 2026. With More Perfect Union she filmed a documentary about unclean drinking water in Morgan County after a Meta AI data center was built. At a hearing she brought two jars of dirty well water to Environmental Protection Agency officials, who promised to investigate.
In 2020, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera challenged Ocasio-Cortez in the Democratic primary. After losing, she ran in the general election as the Serve America Movement nominee. Republican John Cummings, a former police officer, and write-in candidate Antoine Tucker also ran. The American Prospect noticed that Ocasio-Cortez spent the campaign running streamed workshops on workplace organizing, fighting eviction, and childcare. She often did not appear in them. In 2022 she was unopposed in the primary, then beat Republican Tina Forte and Conservative nominee Desi Cuellar.
The 2024 cycle brought a rupture with her own socialist base. In May the Democratic Socialists of America debated endorsing her. Some members said she had become more committed to the Democratic Party and softer on Palestine. On the 23rd of June its National Political Committee voted to endorse her on condition that she meet a list of demands, mostly about Palestine. The New York City chapter, which had endorsed her, rejected that deal.
On the 10th of July the national committee withdrew its endorsement. It cited a panel she joined that conflated antisemitism with anti-Zionism and a resolution she supported. It also cited a press release backing the Iron Dome defense system. Moderate Democrat Marty Dolan challenged her in the primary, and she won overwhelmingly.
In the general election, Harris took 65 percent of the district and Trump 33 percent. An analyst said some voters split tickets because both Trump and Ocasio-Cortez led with working-class pocketbook issues. She asked those voters directly. Some said they wanted candidates who were less establishment, while others pointed to the Gaza war and the economy.
Few issues divide her from critics on both sides like Israel and Palestine. She supports a two-state solution and opposes the occupation of the West Bank. In 2021 she said of Israel, "Apartheid states aren't democracies." She condemned the 7th of October attacks as horrifying attacks against innocent civilians. She has also called Israel's assault on Gaza a genocide, and in 2025 she cosponsored the Block the Bombs Act.
In September 2021 she changed a vote on Iron Dome funding from no to present. In July 2025 she voted against an amendment cutting 500 million dollars from it. She also voted against the larger defense bill. Both votes drew criticism from the left. At a March 2026 forum of the New York City chapter, she committed not to vote to fund weapons for Israel.
The 2024 Democratic National Convention gave her a primetime slot. She backed Kamala Harris and called Trump a union buster who would sell the country for a dollar. Politico named her one of the party's most celebrated stars. In December 2024 she lost a bid to become ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. The more senior Gerry Connolly beat her 131-84. When Connolly left in May because his cancer had returned, she declined to run again. She said the dynamics around seniority had not shifted.
In February 2025 border czar Tom Homan called her "the dumbest congresswoman ever" over her efforts to teach people their rights. She answered, "this is why you fight these cowards", citing the Fourth Amendment. In March she joined Sanders on the "Fighting Oligarchy Tour", calling for the "courage to brawl for the working class". She raised 9.6 million dollars in the first quarter of 2025, with an average donation of 21 dollars, more than ever before. In May, Vice President JD Vance told Fox News that her running for president was "the stuff of nightmares". In June she endorsed Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral primary.
The 62nd Munich Security Conference in February 2026 gave her a foreign policy stage. Liberal democracies, she argued, must deliver "material gains for the working class" to resist authoritarian movements. Critics at The Washington Post called it class war rhetoric. She also implied Venezuela lies below the equator. On a question about defending Taiwan she hesitated for 20 seconds before endorsing strategic ambiguity. Critics called both moments gaffes, and Trump called them career-ending.
The 2028 New York Senate election is where some of her House colleagues want her next. In March 2025 she called Schumer's decision to vote for a federal budget bill "a tremendous mistake". Afterward Ro Khanna and several other House Democrats urged her to primary him.
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How did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez win her first race for Congress?
On the 26th of June 2018 she beat ten-term incumbent Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary, 15,897 votes to 11,761. Her grassroots campaign took no corporate donations and was outspent 18 to 1.
How old was she when she took office?
She was 29, which made her the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and the youngest member of the 116th Congress.
What is the Green New Deal?
It is the first legislation she submitted, on the 7th of February 2019, with Senator Ed Markey. The non-binding resolution called for a 10-year economic mobilization to phase out fossil fuels and overhaul infrastructure.
What is the Squad?
It is an informal group of progressive members of Congress that began with Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib. It later added Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Greg Casar, Summer Lee, and Delia Ramirez.
Why did the Democratic Socialists of America withdraw its endorsement in 2024?
On the 10th of July 2024 its National Political Committee cited a panel that conflated antisemitism with anti-Zionism and a resolution she supported. It also cited a press release backing the Iron Dome defense system.
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- 67NewsProgressive media saw the Ocasio-Cortez upset comingBrian Stelter — CNN — June 27, 2018
- 68NewsWith Eric Cantor Defeat, Congressional Republicans Lose Only Non-ChristianSamantha Lachman — HuffPost — June 11, 2014
- 69NewsThe Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez EffectJohn Nichols — August 15, 2018
- 70News'You can beat the establishment': Ocasio-Cortez crashes Democratic primariesLaura Nahmias — July 5, 2018
- 71NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wins Primary in District She Was not Running InJohn Verhovek — July 11, 2018
- 72NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez just won a House primary as a write-in – for a district she wasn't intending to run inElla Nilsen — July 11, 2018
- 73NewsProf. Anthony Pappas Running for CongressEleni Sakellis — June 17, 2018
- 74Anthony Pappas, PhDSt. John's University
- 75NewsShock, then ambition: Ocasio-Cortez hopes to shake up HouseKaren Matthews et al. — June 28, 2018
- 76NewsBernie Sanders weighs in on Ocasio-Cortez's victoryAndrea Mitchell — MSNBC — June 27, 2018
- 77NewsObama announces endorsement for Ocasio-CortezJustin Wise — October 1, 2018
- 78NewsThe Democratic Split isn't Left vs. Center. It's Old vs. NewCharlotte Alter — August 6, 2018
- 79NewsOcasio-Cortez rips Crowley for not giving up Working Families Party lineKenneth Lovett — July 12, 2018
- 80Cynthia Nixon and Ocasio-Cortez Blast 'Cynical' Cuomo-Backed Women's Equality Party for Endorsing Male Centrists in New YorkJulia Conley — Common Dreams — July 19, 2018
- 81NewsVote Joe Crowley, for Working FamiliesJoseph Lieberman — July 17, 2018
- 82NewsVote against Joe Crowley in November: The Working Families Party chair regrets not endorsing Alexandria Ocasio-CortezDan Cantor — July 25, 2018
- 84Certified Results from the November 6, 2018 General Election for U.S. CongressNew York Board of Elections
- 85NewsAOC's chief of staff isn't just running her office. He's guiding a movement.David Montgomery — July 10, 2019
- 86How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez learned to play by Washington's rulesCatie Edmondson — September 18, 2019
- 87News'Change Is Closer Than We Think.' Inside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Unlikely RiseCharlotte Alter — March 21, 2019
- 88MagazineBehind AOC's Tortured Decision to Endorse Bernie SandersHunter Walker et al. — January 22, 2024
- 89NewsThey thought this was Trump country. Hell noSarah Smarsh — July 26, 2018
- 90NewsBernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in KansasBenjamin Wallace-Wells — July 23, 2018
- 91NewsTimes takes heat for missing Crowley's defeatMichael Calderone — June 27, 2018
- 92NewsPerspective: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory points to a media failure that keeps repeatingMargaret Sullivan — June 28, 2018
- 94Beat The MachineJohn Tarleton et al. — June 1, 2018
- 95NewsAlexandria vs. GoliathJohn Tarleton et al. — May 31, 2018
- 96Holy 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/LHOFQp7FuqAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez — June 2, 2018
- 97NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins an upset and her supporters want the media to say her nameJoel Shannon — June 27, 2018
- 98NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Explains This Year's Progressive Wave in Michael Moore's New FilmMarina Fang — HuffPost — September 12, 2018
- 99Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9: Official Trailer – In Theaters 9/21mmflint — August 9, 2018
- 100NewsOcasio-Cortez's response to jibes about college dance video? A congressional dance videoKate Lyons et al. — January 4, 2019
- 101NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Dancing Video Was Meant as a Smear, but It BackfiredTiffany May — January 4, 2019
- 102MagazineAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is on the 2019 Time 100 ListElizabeth Warren — April 17, 2019
- 103Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez surprises at Sundance premiere of her emotional new documentaryPatrick Ryan — January 28, 2019
- 104Knock Down the House: Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Receive Standing Ovation From Sundance Audience After Documentary ScreeningEwan Palmer — January 28, 2019
- 105Watch: Netflix's Knock Down the House trailer is here to make politics feel a little more hopefulAlissa Wilkinson — April 22, 2019
- 106'To the End' Review: A Doc on Pushing For Climate Policy ChangeDennis Harvey — January 23, 2022
- 107'To the End' Review: Rachel Lears' New AOC Doc at Sundance – The Hollywood ReporterLeslie Felperin — January 23, 2022
- 108Tribeca Festival 2022 Lineup With Jon Hamm, Ray Romano, Bryan Cranston – DeadlineJill Goldsmith — April 19, 2022
- 111Ocasio-Cortez challenger drops out of GOP primaryRebecca Klar — May 26, 2020
- 112The Politician as OrganizerBrittany Gibson — October 15, 2020
- 114NewsAOC played Among Us and achieved what most politicians fail at: acting normalJoshua Rivera — October 22, 2020
- 115NewsAOC just played 'Among Us' on Twitch. Over 400,000 people came to watch.Jack Farrell et al. — October 22, 2020
- 116AOC's debut Twitch stream is one of the biggest everJacob Kastrenakes — October 20, 2020
- 118AOC will return to Twitch tonight for another round of 'Among Us'Kris Holt — November 27, 2020
- 119AOC raised $200,000 for charity on her 'Among Us' Twitch stream FridayAnna Iovine — November 28, 2020
- 121NewsNew York 14th Congressional District Election ResultsNovember 8, 2022
- 122Ocasio-Cortez is Committed to the Democratic Party, Not DSACurtis Robinson — Democratic Left
- 124NewsOcasio-Cortez Loses the Democratic Socialists' Endorsement Over IsraelNicholas Fandos — July 11, 2024
- 126Ocasio-Cortez cruises to victory in New YorkMike Lillis — November 5, 2024
- 127Split ticket voters offer some bracing lessons for the Democratic PartyMSNBC — November 12, 2024
- 128Some New Yorkers split their ticket for AOC and Trump. Political strategists weigh inNBC New York — November 15, 2024
- 129MagazineVoters Who Backed Both Trump and AOC Share Their Bizarre StoriesMalcolm Ferguson
- 130NewsDSA unsurprisingly votes to endorse AOC for reelectionPeter Sterne — April 9, 2026
- 131New York State Unofficial Election Night ResultsNew York State Board of Elections — June 26, 2026
- 133Membership of the 116th Congress: A ProfileCongressional Research Service — December 17, 2020
- 134Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has as much social media clout as her fellow freshman Democrats, combinedAlexi McCammond — Axios — November 28, 2018
- 135Ocasio-Cortez first person to hit a million followers on BlueskyTara Suter — December 2, 2024
- 136NewsHow Ocasio-Cortez beat everyone at Twitter in nine tweetsMax Benwell — February 12, 2019
- 137NewsOcasio-Cortez faces lawsuits for blocking Twitter critics after appeals court ruling on TrumpDeanna Paul — July 10, 2019
- 138NewsDemocrat and Republican sue Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for blocking them on TwitterScott McDonald — July 9, 2019
- 139Ocasio-Cortez apologizes for blocking ex-politician on Twitter, settles lawsuitJohn Bowden — November 4, 2019
- 140Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Apologizes for Blocking Twitter CriticJacob Gershman et al. — November 4, 2019
- 141AOC unfiltered: Skullduggery on acastApril 15, 2019
- 142NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez quits Facebook, calls social media a 'public health risk'Hamza Shaban — April 15, 2019
- 143NewsOn her first day of orientation on Capitol Hill, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez protests in Pelosi's officeNicole Gaudiano — November 13, 2018
- 144NewsOcasio-Cortez backs Pelosi for speaker as long as she 'remains the most progressive candidate'Paul LeBlanc — CNN — November 22, 2018
- 145NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez's First House Speech Broke a C-SPAN RecordMahita Gajanan — January 18, 2019
- 146NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivers devastating dissection of US financial system and political corruption in congress speechTim Wyatt — February 8, 2019
- 147NewsWhy Ocasio-Cortez's lesson in dark money is the most-watched political videoSam Wolfson — February 14, 2019
- 148NewsMichael Cohen concludes his testimony: 'I will not sit back'Matt Zapotosky et al. — February 27, 2019
- 149News10 big moments from Cohen's testimonyJames Pindell — February 27, 2019
- 150NewsMichael Cohen claims Trump lies about his wealth – here's why it mattersAimee Picchi — CBS News — February 28, 2019
- 151How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Won the Cohen HearingCaroline Fredrickson — February 28, 2019
- 152NewsShields and Brooks on Cohen testimony, North Korea summitJudy Woodruff et al. — March 1, 2019
- 153People v Trump (2025 NY Slip Op 04756)August 21, 2025
- 154NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not the 'second most talked-about politician in America'Phillip Bump — March 21, 2019
- 155NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 'second most talked-about politician in America,' graces Time coverTom Kludt — CNN — March 21, 2019
- 156Stats show how AOC dominating social media attentionDavid Bauder — July 18, 2019
- 157NewsFox mentions Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for 42 days running – 3,181 timesDavid Smith — April 12, 2019
- 158How Fox News fuels Trump's fixation with AOC and Ilhan OmarBrian Stelter — July 22, 2019
- 159No, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez probably didn't say thatCiara O'Rourke — March 27, 2019
- 160Ocasio-Cortez didn't say she speaks with herself because she has 'a very good brain.' That was TrumpSamantha Putterman — July 11, 2019
- 161Gretna police officer suggests U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'needs a round' in social media postChad Calder — July 20, 2019
- 162NewsLouisiana police officer fired after suggesting AOC should be shotAllan Smith — NBC News — July 22, 2019
- 163MagazineCongresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Self-Love, Fighting the Power, and Her Signature Red LipZoe Ruffner — August 21, 2020
- 164NewsA.O.C.'s Met Gala Designer Explains Her 'Tax the Rich' DressJessica Testa — September 16, 2021
- 165Conservative group files ethics complaint against AOC for attending Met GalaDartunorro Clark — NBC News — September 15, 2021
- 166NewsAOC hit with ethics complaint over Met Gala appearance as she fires back at criticsStuti Mishra — September 15, 2021
- 167NewsConservative Group Files Ethics Complaint over Ocasio-Cortez Appearance at Met GalaCaroline Vakil — September 15, 2021
- 168ReportIn the Matter of Allegations Relating to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-CortezUnited States House Committee on Ethics — July 25, 2025
- 169NewsAOC's Met Gala appearance violated House gift rules, ethics panel saysMaegan Vazquez — July 25, 2025
- 170NewsFor Ayanna Pressley, the beauty of unexpected wins led to Congress and a historic officeKayla Epstein — January 16, 2019
- 171NewsTrump to congresswomen of colour: Leave the USJuly 15, 2019
- 172It's important to note that the President's words today, 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.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- 173NewsLawmakers Respond To Trump's Racist Comments: We Are Here To StayBrian Naylor — NPR — July 15, 2019
- 174NewsFact check: Trump falsely accuses Ocasio-Cortez of calling Americans 'garbage'Daniel Dale — CNN — July 20, 2019
- 175Fact-checking Trump's misleading attacks on Omar, Ocasio-Cortez in North CarolinaJon Greenberg et al. — July 18, 2019
- 176Progressive Congressional Dems known as 'The Squad'Sean Dougherty
- 177NewsOcasio-Cortez's Green New Deal: What's in itLydia DePillis — CNN — February 7, 2019
- 178The Facts on the 'Green New Deal'Jessica McDonald — February 15, 2019
- 179Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez really want to get rid of 'farting cows'? Not yet, at leastKevin Breuninger — CNBC — February 7, 2019
- 180NewsDems divided on Green New Deal after Mitch McConnell ramps up pressureLiam Quinn — Fox News — February 14, 2019
- 181NewsNancy Pelosi just threw some serious shade at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal'Chris Cillizza — CNN — February 8, 2019
- 182Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wonders whether Americans should stop having children in the face of climate changeNicole Goodkind — February 25, 2019
- 183The 3 Democrats Who Voted Against the Green New DealRobinson Meyer — March 26, 2019
- 184NewsGreen New Fail as Dems shun GOP-forced vote on climate billJoe Battenfield — March 26, 2019
- 185NewsLabour members launch Green New Deal inspired by US activistsMatthew Taylor — March 22, 2019
- 186NewsOcasio-Cortez accosted by GOP lawmaker over remarks: 'That kind of confrontation hasn't ever happened to me'Mike Lillis — July 21, 2020
- 187Lawmaker reportedly verbally accosts Ocasio-CortezCNN — July 21, 2020
- 188NewsGOP congressman offers semi-apology to AOC after she says he called her 'disgusting' and 'crazy'Allan Smith — NBC News — July 22, 2020
- 189NewsOcasio-Cortez Upbraids Republican After He Denies Vulgarly Insulting HerLuke Broadwater — July 22, 2020
- 190Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces 'sexist slur by congressman'BBC — July 23, 2020
- 191News'I Could Not Allow That To Stand': Ocasio-Cortez Rebukes Republican For Vulgar InsultBarbara Sprunt — NPR — July 23, 2020
- 192Twitter flags GOP lawmaker's anime video depicting him killing Ocasio-Cortez, attacking Biden as 'hateful conduct'Dartunorro Clark — NBC News — November 9, 2021
- 193House votes to censure GOP Rep. Gosar, remove him from committees over violent videoMariam Khan et al. — November 17, 2021
- 194Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fires back at GOP over Gosar's violent videoCNN — November 17, 2021
- 195Rep. Gosar is censured over an anime video depicting him killing AOCDeirdre Walsh — NPR — November 17, 2021
- 196Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared her personal story and revealed our collective traumaRobin Givhan — February 2, 2021
- 197NewsAsk PolitiFact: Where was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during the Capitol riot?Bill McCarthy — February 4, 2021
- 198NewsOcasio-Cortez reveals she's a sexual assault survivor, recounts 'trauma' of Capitol riot: 'I thought everything was over'Jaclyn Peiser — February 2, 2021
- 200News'Many Of Us Narrowly Escaped Death': Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Recounts Capitol InsurrectionBarbara Sprunt — NPR — February 2, 2021
- 202AOC speaks to the middle class in her first major convention appearanceC. Mandler — August 19, 2024
- 203NewsAOC calls Trump 'two-bit union buster' as she urges US to elect Kamala HarrisJoan E. Greve — August 20, 2024
- 204This socialist just became an establishment favoriteAugust 23, 2024
- 205Ocasio-Cortez, Once an Outsider, Takes Center Stage at ConventionNicholas Fandos — August 20, 2024
- 206AOC doesn't want to be mayor of New York City. Most likely, she has bigger plansSeptember 27, 2024
- 207AOC defeated by Gerry Connolly in battle to lead House Oversight CommitteeAndrew Solender — December 17, 2024
- 208Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won't seek the top Democratic seat on the House Oversight CommitteeScott Wong — NBC News — May 5, 2025
- 209Ocasio-Cortez on Homan insult: 'This is why you fight these cowards'Tara Suter — February 18, 2025
- 210Democrats are desperately searching for new leaders. AOC is stepping into the void.NBC News — March 20, 2025
- 213Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speak at 'Fighting Oligarchy' rally in downtown LAABC 7 — April 12, 2025
- 216AOC tries to broaden her appeal within a Democratic base spoiling for a fightNBC New York — March 23, 2025
- 219AOC Is Literally Haunting JD Vance's 'Nightmares'William Vaillancourt — May 3, 2025
- 220AOC Isn't Ruling Anything Out, Including the White HouseMay 11, 2025
- 221AOC backs Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayorJune 5, 2025
- 222US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raises more than $2 million to help Texans recover from nightmare winter stormMichelle Homer — KHOU — February 19, 2021
- 223AOC doubled her fundraising total for Texas storm victims to $4 million, as she joined fellow lawmakers in Houston to continue relief effortsKevin Shalvey — February 21, 2021
- 224NewsRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Raises $5 Million For Texas Winter Storm ReliefPaul DeBenedetto et al. — February 22, 2021
- 225AOC raises over $3M for Texas relief, heads to Houston after blasting Cruz for Mexico tripElizabeth Janowski — February 19, 2021
- 226NewsWATCH: Sen. Gillibrand, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez hold news conference on postal bankingPBS NewsHour — April 15, 2021
- 227These 6 House Democrats voted against the infrastructure bill. These 13 Republicans voted for it.Annie Grayer — CNN — November 6, 2021
- 228House Passes $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Putting Social Policy Bill on HoldJonathan Weisman et al. — November 7, 2021
- 229NewsAOCWesley Lowery — September 8, 2022
- 230Bipartisan group, including Gaetz and Ocasio-Cortez, unveil bill to ban lawmakers from owning stocks – CBS NewsKathryn Watson — May 2, 2023
- 231Cosponsors - H.R.5106 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Restore Trust in Congress ActRep. Chip Roy — September 3, 2025
- 232NewsUS supreme court in 'crisis of legitimacy' says AOC at House oversight round tableLauren Gambino — June 12, 2024
- 233Ocasio-Cortez, Raskin to introduce legislation to 'rein in a fundamentally unaccountable and rogue' Supreme CourtMiranda Nazzaro — June 12, 2024
- 234MagazineAOC and Raskin Move to Finally Rein in Alito and ThomasEdith Olmstead
- 235MagazineAOC's Deepfake AI Porn Bill Unanimously Passes the SenateJuly 24, 2024
- 238AOC unveils articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and AlitoAxios — July 10, 2024
- 239NewsAOC launches effort to impeach Clarence Thomas and Samuel AlitoSam Levine et al.
- 240NewsOcasio-Cortez Files Impeachment Articles Against Justices Alito and ThomasMaggie Aster — July 10, 2024
- 241Ocasio-Cortez's Impeachment Case Will Fail — Here's Why It Still MattersCrystal Hill — Democracy Docket — July 16, 2024
- 242NewsIn Munich, AOC warns that democracies must deliver for the working class to stave off 'authoritarianism'Sahil Kapur — February 13, 2026
- 243NewsAOC accuses Trump of trying to usher in 'age of authoritarianism' at Munich conferenceAndrew Roth — February 13, 2026
- 244NewsAfter First Big Overseas Trip, Ocasio-Cortez Expresses FrustrationsKellen Browning — February 16, 2026
- 245Committees and CaucusesOffice of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- 246NewsOcasio-Cortez and liberal freshmen join Oversight CommitteeAndrew Desiderio — January 22, 2019
- 247Ocasio-Cortez, Crow, Levin Launch End Corruption CaucusOffice of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — May 27, 2026
- 248NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez: In a modern, moral, wealthy society, no person should be too poor to liveCatherine Clifford — CNBC — June 29, 2018
- 249AOC Asks Workers to Take Over Billionaires' Means of ProductionEl Americano — March 22, 2022
- 250Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Explains Socialism During Instagram Live Stream: 'It Does Not Mean Government Owns Everything'Shane Croucher — June 18, 2019
- 251NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the theory that deficit spending is good for the economy should 'absolutely' be part of the conversationEliza Relman — January 7, 2019
- 252Republicans and Democrats who bucked party leaders by voting noJared Gans — May 31, 2023
- 253NewsU.S. military spending set to increase for fifth consecutive year, nearing levels during height of Iraq warJeff Stein et al. — April 18, 2019
- 254NewsOcasio-Cortez only Democrat to vote 'no' on spending packageMychael Schnell — December 23, 2022
- 255NewsExclusive: Rashida Tlaib and AOC have a proposal for a fairer, greener financial system – public bankingEmily Stewart — October 30, 2020
- 256AOC slams debate over $15 minimum wage as 'utterly embarrassing'Megan Henney — March 3, 2021
- 257Rep. Ocasio-Cortez returns to bartending to promote fair wagesDaniel Trotta — June 1, 2019
- 258Ocasio-Cortez: $2.13 minimum wage for tipped workers is 'indentured servitude'Miranda Bryant — June 1, 2019
- 259NewsDeal ends weeklong strike at largest US produce marketMichael R. Sisak — January 23, 2021
- 260NewsRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants America To Talk About PovertySteve Inskeep — NPR — September 25, 2019
- 261NewsOcasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New DealMatthew Choi — January 4, 2019
- 262NewsOcasio-Cortez wants higher taxes on very rich Americans. Here's how much money that could raise.Jeff Stein — January 5, 2019
- 263NewsOcasio-Cortez to vote against Pelosi rules package on first day in Congress over 'paygo'Denis Slattery — January 2, 2019
- 264NewsHouse adopts rules package with few Democratic defections over PAYGO provisionLindsey McPherson — January 3, 2019
- 265NY politicians at odds over Amazon's decision to pull out of QueensElisha Fieldstadt — NBC News — February 14, 2019
- 266NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York Democrats criticize Amazon HQ2Jacob Pramuk — CNBC — November 13, 2018
- 267NewsPoliticians squabble over who is to blame for Amazon decision to ditch New YorkPaul Davidson — February 17, 2019
- 268NewsOpinion | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an economic illiterate – and that's a danger to AmericaMarc A. Thiessen — February 21, 2019
- 270Why AOC Was Right About HQ2January 28, 2020
- 271Bloomberg vs. Bezos: Ex-NY mayor knocks subsidies for AmazonSally Goldenberg — February 5, 2019
- 272Roundtable with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and FTC Chair Lina KhanFTC — September 12, 2024
- 273Ocasio-Cortez promises 'brawl' if 'billionaires' force out Lina KhanOctober 9, 2024
- 274NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Why She Wants to Abolish ICE and Upend the Democratic PartyKate Aronoff — June 25, 2018
- 275Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Platform: Mobilizing Against Climate ChangeAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez — Ocasio2018.com (campaign website) — 2018
- 276NewsOcasio-Cortez: 'World will end in 12 years' if climate change not addressedBowden John — January 22, 2019
- 277News'The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change,' Ocasio-Cortez saysWilliam Cummings — January 22, 2019
- 278NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns, 'World Is Going to End in 12 Years,' Reiterating Claims of Recent U.N. Climate Change ReportChristina Zhao — January 22, 2019
- 279NewsThe Green New Deal Rises AgainThomas Friedman — January 8, 2019
- 280NewsThe Green New Deal And The Cost Of VirtueMilton Ezrati — February 19, 2019
- 281NewsFive things to know about Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal'Timothy Cama — November 24, 2018
- 282Sunrise Movement Green New DealSunrise Movement
- 283Ocasio-Cortez: Green New Deal 'Leaves the Door Open' on NuclearJacqueline Toth — May 6, 2019
- 284Reps. AOC, Bowman introduce Green New Deal for Public HousingSpectrum News New York 1
- 287NewsAOC and Ted Cruz call out Apple for dropping Hong Kong app in joint letterColin Lecher — October 18, 2019
- 288NewsLawmakers condemn Apple, Activision Blizzard over censorship of Hong Kong protesterTal Axelrod — October 18, 2019
- 289Ocasio-Cortez, Ted Cruz join colleagues blasting NBA for 'outrageous' response to ChinaSylvan Lane — October 9, 2019
- 290The NBA Isn't the Only Company Tripping Over Itself to Appease ChinaEric Lutz — October 10, 2019
- 291Gallagher and Sasse Lead Call for NBA to Stand Against CCP Censorship and BullyingUnited States House of Representatives — October 9, 2019
- 292NewsThe House Vote to End Support for the War on Yemen Shows How Much Has ChangedJames Carden — February 14, 2019
- 294NewsHouse Votes Down Bill Directing Removal of Troops From SyriaMarch 8, 2023
- 295NewsOcasio-Cortez tells White House to 'put down its saber,' and negotiate with IranEdmund DeMarche — Fox News — June 21, 2019
- 296Progressives such as AOC think every conflict is about themWashington Examiner — September 26, 2022
- 297AOC floats Trump impeachment over Iran strikesAxios — June 22, 2025
- 298InterviewAlexandria Ocasio-CortezPBS — July 13, 2018
- 299NewsOcasio-Cortez criticizes 'occupation of Palestine', but admits she's no expertCharles Dunst — July 17, 2018
- 300MagazineAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez sparked outrage after condemning Israel's "occupation" of Palestinian territoryChantal Da Silva — July 18, 2018
- 301Here Are The 17 Members Of Congress Who Voted Against Condemning BDSAiden Pink — July 24, 2019
- 303House overwhelmingly passes resolution backing Israel after Rep. Jayapal calls it a 'racist state'Scott Wong et al. — NBC News — July 18, 2023
- 305NewsAOC decries 'bigotry and callousness' of pro-Palestinian rally in New YorkMartin Pengelly — October 10, 2023
- 306NewsOcasio-Cortez, in House Speech, Accuses Israel of 'Genocide'Nicholas Fandos — March 22, 2024
- 309Senate votes against resolutions to block arms sales to Israel even as it continues to starve Gaza – as it happenedRobert Mackey et al. — July 31, 2025
- 311House Dems push to 'Block the Bombs' amid Israel's widening warMichael Arria — Mondoweiss — June 19, 2025
- 312Ocasio-Cortez apologizes for her 'present' vote on Iron Dome funding.Luke Broadwater — September 24, 2021
- 317NewsAOC's office vandalized after recent House vote involving US aid to IsraelRamon Antonio Vargas — July 22, 2025
- 318MagazineAt DSA forum, AOC pledges not to vote for any military aid to IsraelPeter Sterne — April 1, 2026
- 320NewsOcasio-Cortez says US military aid to Israel 'enabled a genocide in Gaza'Robert Mackey — February 14, 2026
- 321Ocasio-Cortez calls for UNRWA funding to be restored 'immediately'Lauren Sforza — The Hill — January 29, 2024
- 322Capitol Hill's Netanyahu speech no-showsJuly 23, 2024
- 323Ocasio-Cortez condemns Israel over pager attacks in LebanonAshleigh Fields — The Hill — September 18, 2024
- 324AOC on the real story behind that Marjorie Taylor Greene exchangeMSNBC — May 22, 2024
- 326"Racist and bigoted": AOC claims AIPAC is an "extremist organization that destabilizes US democracy"Julia Conley — November 2, 2023
- 327Ocasio-Cortez says 'unconditional' US aid to Israel 'enabled a genocide in Gaza'February 14, 2026
- 329Roll Call 243 Bill Number: H.R. 8595July 15, 2026
- 330NewsMass. members of Congress condemn Russian invasion of Ukraine, call for humanitarian supportFebruary 24, 2022
- 331AOC confronted by protester accusing her of 'voting to start nuclear war'Cami Mondeaux — October 13, 2022
- 333NewsAOC defends lonely vote against seizing assets of pro-Putin Russian oligarchsDave Goldiner — April 28, 2022
- 334NewsMarjorie Taylor-Greene and AOC Among 8 to Oppose Russian Asset Seizure BillApril 28, 2022
- 335AOC to offer a 'working class' perspective on U.S. foreign policy at Munich summitSahil Kapur et al. — February 12, 2026
- 336NewsAOC urges Biden to pack supreme court, says GOP doesn't think Democrats have the 'stones to play hardball'Matt Mathers — October 27, 2020
- 337NewsAOC backs court-packing push: 'We should be expanding the court'Marisa Schultz et al. — Fox News
- 338NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Leads Calls To Expand Supreme Court After Texas Abortion LawDarragh Roche — September 2, 2021
- 339NewsOcasio-Cortez calls on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resignAmy B Wang — March 29, 2022
- 340NewsOcasio-Cortez wants two justices impeached for 'lying under oath.'Ed Shanahan — June 27, 2022
- 341We 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.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — June 30, 2022
- 342NewsAOC says the U.S. is witnessing a "judicial coup"Brett Wilkins — July 1, 2022
- 343NewsOcasio-Cortez: Supreme Court has 'gone rogue'Caroline Vakil — July 13, 2022
- 344NewsOcasio-Cortez, progressives call on Schumer, Pelosi to strip SCOTUS of abortion jurisdictionCaroline Vakil — July 15, 2022
- 345NewsGOP leader, Ocasio-Cortez give boost to lawmaker pay hikeCristina Marcos — June 11, 2019
- 346NewsPrimaries upend political landscape ahead of midterm elections and could spell trouble for TrumpTribune News Service — June 27, 2018
- 347NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she supports impeaching TrumpLouis Nelson — June 27, 2018
- 348thehill.comChristina Macros — January 3, 2021
- 349AOC: Trump should be impeached and barred from ever running for office againGriffin Connolly — January 10, 2021
- 350NewsNew York congresswoman wants COVID nursing home fatalities released to the publicJason Cohen — April 21, 2020
- 351NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Chuck Schumer, other NY political leaders call for Cuomo to resignAaron Katersky et al. — March 13, 2021
- 352NewsIs Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Statehood?Puerto Rico Report — June 27, 2018
- 353NewsA top House Democrat just lost his primary – to a socialistKay Steiger — Vox — June 27, 2018
- 354New AOC, Velázquez bill sparks backlash from pro-statehood Puerto RicansNicole Acevedo — NBC News — August 26, 2020
- 355Text – H.R.8113 – 116th Congress (2019–2020): Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2020Nydia M. Velazquez — August 25, 2020
- 357New bill on Puerto Rico status introduced by Reps. AOC, Velázquez, Sen. MenendezNBC News — March 18, 2021
- 358NewsOcasio-Cortez, the Pragmatic Progressive Looking to Boost BidenBloomberg L.P. — June 25, 2024
- 359AOC: Joe Biden Is The Democratic Nominee, "This Matter Is Closed"Tim Hains — Real Clear Politics
- 361AOC unloads on Biden's critics in late-night Instagram LiveBrian Metzger
- 363NewsThis is the platform that launched Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Democratic socialist, to the biggest political upset of the yearJohn Haltiwanger — June 27, 2018
- 364NewsAnalysis: What Ocasio-Cortez wants for America after beating Joe CrowleyJeff Stein — June 27, 2018
- 365NewsHow Republican Hypocrisy Lifts Social DemocratsPeter Suderman — August 2, 2018
- 366Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants It To Be Easier To Study Magic Mushrooms & Other PsychedelicsAlexis Reliford — June 9, 2019
- 367AOC Promotes Research On Benefits Of Psychedelics Like Psilocybin And MDMA With New AmendmentKyle Jaeger — July 22, 2021
- 368Ocasio-Cortez: People experience denied claims as 'act of violence'Juliann Ventura — December 12, 2024
- 369AOC to MAGA: Here's how Trump is about to screw you big timeMay 13, 2025
- 371Reproductive RightsSeptember 17, 2021
- 372Democratic members of Congress arrested during pro-choice protestLauren Aratani — July 19, 2022
- 373Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Omar among Democrats arrested at abortion rights protestDareh Gregorian — NBC News — July 19, 2022
- 375NewsTalking With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Woman Challenging One of New York's Political KingmakersClio Chang — Splinter News — March 22, 2018
- 376NewsFox News Reminds Us Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Platform Is ... Pretty ReasonableJack Holmes — Common Dreams — June 28, 2018
- 377Early Arrival: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins in upset over Joe CrowleyMax Siegelbaum — Documented NY — June 27, 2018
- 378AbolishICE 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.August 21, 2018
- 379NewsWho Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?Scott Neuman — NPR — June 27, 2018
- 380NewsOcasio-Cortez is lone Democrat to vote against bill to reopen governmentAllan Smith — NBC News — January 24, 2019
- 381The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'concentration camp' debate, explainedJewish Telegraphic Agency — June 19, 2019
- 382MagazineThe Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration CampsMasha Gessen — June 21, 2019
- 383Academics rally behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over concentration camp comments: 'She is completely historically accurate'Katherine Hignett — June 24, 2019
- 384I'm a Jewish historian. Yes, we should call border detention centers "concentration camps".Anna Lind-Guzik — June 20, 2019
- 385NewsYad Vashem to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Learn about concentration campsIlanit Chernick — June 20, 2019
- 386Ocasio-Cortez Calls Migrant Detention Centers 'Concentration Camps,' Eliciting BacklashSheryl Stolberg — June 18, 2019
- 387Ocasio-Cortez dismisses criticism from 'shrieking Republicans'Chris Rodrigo — June 18, 2019
- 388Ocasio-Cortez stands by concentration camp remarks: 'I will never apologize'Morgan Gstalter — June 19, 2019
- 389NewsBorder agents confiscated lawmakers' phones. Joaquin Castro captured photo and video anyway.Katie Mettler et al. — July 2, 2019
- 390'Broken' and 'horrifying': AOC, Joaquin Castro, lawmakers visit Texas border facilitiesLauren Villagran — July 2, 2019
- 391NewsSquad member co-sponsoring bill decriminalizing illegal border crossingsBrittany De Lea — January 26, 2021
- 392H.R.5383 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): New Way Forward ActJanuary 30, 2020
- 393NewsJayapal, AOC and progressive Democrats push 'overhaul' of US immigration systemAlex Woodward — January 27, 2021
- 394NewsBiden Pledges That Border Shelter For Teens 'Won't Stay Open Very Long'Franco Ordoñez — NPR — February 25, 2021
- 395NewsAOC joins backlash over Biden child migrant camp: 'This is not okay'Mayank Aggarwal — February 24, 2021
- 396NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez thanks LGBT community after landmark winEve Hartley — PinkNews — June 27, 2018
- 397NewsAOC Gives Powerful Pro-LGBTQ Speech at NYC Women's MarchKatie Burkholder — January 22, 2019
- 398NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Casually Joins Gaming Livestream For a Good CauseAmanda Arnold — January 21, 2019
- 399NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Spent Her Weekend Dunking on Aaron Sorkin and Raising Money for Trans KidsMatthew Dessem — January 21, 2019
- 400Court Rules Transgender Man Can Sue Hospital That Canceled His HysterectomyDaniel Avery — February 28, 2020
- 401Ocasio-Cortez says Jesus would be maligned in CongressEdmund DeMarche — Fox News — February 28, 2020
- 402Rep AOC's Speech on Personal Faith at Admin's Religious Liberties Assault on LGBTQ RightsOversight Committee — February 27, 2020
- 403MagazineAOC Was Asked About Defunding the Police and Her Answer Went ViralEmily Dixon — June 12, 2020
- 408New York Primary Election Results: 14th Congressional DistrictAugust 17, 2020
- 410New York 14th Congressional District Election ResultsNovember 5, 2024
- 411NewsNew York 14th Congressional District Primary Election ResultsJune 25, 2024
- 412NewsThis Berniecrat Aims to Unseat a Queens Power BrokerDaniel Malloy — June 23, 2018
- 413JPL Small-Body Database BrowserAlan Chamberlin — August 30, 2007
- 415Ocasio-Cortez, Thunberg, Rapinoe make BBC's 100 most inspiring women of 2019Aris Folley — October 16, 2019
- 417NewsA Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-CortezNaomi Klein et al. — April 17, 2019
- 418NewsA Message from the Future II: The Years of RepairNaomi Klein et al. — October 2020
- 419NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal: The Canadian ConnectionGeoff Dembicki — June 3, 2019
- 420Nominees Announced for the 41st Annual News & Documentary Emmy AwardsNational Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
- 421Who are the biggest social media stars in Congress?Riley Rogerson et al.
- 422News'My Grandfather Died': Ocasio-Cortez Slams Trump's PR DenialSeptember 14, 2018
- 423NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Jewish, Too?Shane Goldmacher — December 10, 2018
- 424NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals Jewish ancestry at Hanukkah celebrationIsaac Stanley-Becker — December 9, 2018
- 425NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her Catholic faith and the urgency of a criminal justice reformAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez — June 27, 2018
- 426How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Other Progressives Are Defining the MidtermsIrina Aleksander — October 15, 2018
- 427Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's partner Riley Roberts stays out of the spotlight. He's onto something.Eliza Relman — July 26, 2019
- 428AOC Finally Named Her French Bulldog PuppyMimi Montgomery — January 13, 2020
- 429Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confirms she's engaged to longtime partner Riley Roberts: 'Yep! It's true'Eliza Relman et al. — May 19, 2022
- 430Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Splits From Fiancé Riley RobertsAugust 11, 2026
- 431Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quietly ends engagement to long-time partnerRachel Dobkin — August 12, 2026
- 432NewsWith Big Choices Ahead, Ocasio-Cortez Navigates New TerritoryAnnie Karni — August 12, 2026
- 433MagazinePower HousesMay 5, 2025
- 434NewsOcasio-Cortez says she's freezing her eggs as she decides her next political movesBill Barrow — August 10, 2026
- 435NewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez shares her egg-freezing journey online. Here's what to know about the process.Kathryn Watson — August 10, 2026
- 437NewsAOC Says She Is a Survivor of Sexual AssaultAmanda Arnold — February 2, 2021
- 438Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the fight for abortion rights and whether she'll ever be President of the United States of AmericaWesley Lowery — September 12, 2022
- 439NewsRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sought Therapy After 'Extraordinarily Traumatizing' Capitol RiotsGlenn Garner — May 22, 2021
- 440NewsAOC says she's a diehard fan of a New York baseball team — but not the one in her districtEli Rosenberg — April 15, 2019
- 441BookAOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-CortezLynda Lopez — St. Martin's Publishing Group — 2020
- 442BookTake Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC((The Editors of New York magazine)) — Simon & Schuster — 2022