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Fast Forward Is This Latina Jew The Next Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
“Is Julia Salazar, a state Senate candidate in Brooklyn, the next Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?” That’s what the New York Daily News tweeted on Monday — and the paper may be onto something. Since Ocasio-Cortez’s remarkable upset victory over 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley, pundits have been comparing the two young, progressive women running for office. While they…
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Opinion Healthcare Is The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Time
Last week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stunned election-night reaction rooms around the country by winning the Democratic primary for New York’s 14th congressional district. Ocasio-Cortez is a 28-year-old DSA member with a degree in economics from Boston University. She helped organize for Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign during the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. After the coming election…
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News What It Means For Israel If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Democrats’ Future
Prominent progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders and activist Linda Sarsour are vying with each other to laud Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who notched a David-and-Goliath upset victory over 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in New York. Her victory — with 57% of the vote — raises larger questions about the party’s direction, including whether…
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Fast Forward ‘Greedy Jewish Landlords’ Pol Campaigned For Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The raucous victory party for congressional giant-killer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez featured a who’s who of progressive New York politics, including actor-turned-gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon. It also included a man who has run for office on the platform of fighting “greedy Jewish landlords.” Notice the guy behind her, in the purple shirt? It’s Thomas Lopez-Pierre, Mark Levine’s…
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Fast Forward Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is A Strong Critic Of Israel
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the insurgent firebrand who Tuesday toppled the No. 4 Democrat in the House of Representatives, is a strong critic of Israel who denounced the killings of Palestinian protesters as a “massacre.” This is a massacre. I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such. No state or entity is absolved…
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