On Thursday, democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed the Trump administration is on its way to cruelly starving children and single parents to death over welfare reform.
However, the claim, which of course went viral on Twitter, is not true. As highlighted by Daily Caller reporter Peter Hasson, the work-requirement reform only affects able-bodied folks from the ages of ages 18-49 who are childless.
&#8220;My family relied on food stamps (EBT) when my dad died at 48,&#8221; the congresswoman posted to Twitter on Thursday. &#8220;I was a student. If this happened then, we might’ve just starved.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, many people will,&#8221; the elected Democrat claimed. &#8220;It’s shameful how the GOP works overtime to create freebies for the rich while dissolving lifelines of those who need it most.&#8221;
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My family relied on food stamps (EBT) when my dad died at 48.
I was a student. If this happened then, we might’ve just starved.
Now, many people will.
It’s shameful how the GOP works overtime to create freebies for the rich while dissolving lifelines of those who need it most. <a href="https://t.co/WOrYvhfPj4">https://t.co/WOrYvhfPj4</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1202736423432007680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Hasson responded to viral tweet hours later with the correct information, which the reporter said Ocasio-Cortez would have known if she, an elected congresswoman, took the time to read the report she quote-tweeted.
&#8220;Another viral-but-misleading tweet from AOC,&#8221; Hasson said. &#8220;The work requirement rule doesn&#8217;t affect parents, which she would have known had she read the story: &#8216;The USDA rule change affects people between the ages of 18 and 49 who are childless and not disabled.'&#8221;
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Another viral-but-misleading tweet from AOC. The work requirement rule doesn&#39;t affect parents, which she would have known had she read the story: &quot;The USDA rule change affects people between the ages of 18 and 49 who are childless and not disabled.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/1Dewzi5cTT">https://t.co/1Dewzi5cTT</a>
&mdash; Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) <a href="https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1202778872099606528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Unsurprisingly, Ocasio-Cortez has yet to post a follow-up tweet or add a correction to the extremely misleading claim. The tweet remains published on Twitter and has garnered well over 180,000 likes and nearly 50,000 retweets.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration outlined new work requirements for some food stamp recipients that are set to take effect on April 1.
“We’re taking action to reform our SNAP program in order to restore the dignity of work to a sizable segment of our population and be respectful of the taxpayers who fund the program,” said Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nearly-700-000-will-lose-food-stamps-usda-work-requirement-n1095726?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma">NBC News</a>.
“Americans are generous people who believe it is their responsibility to help their fellow citizens when they encounter a difficult stretch. That’s the commitment behind SNAP, but, like other welfare programs, it was never intended to be a way of life,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;The USDA rule change affects people between the ages of 18 and 49 who are childless and not disabled,&#8221; NBC noted.
&#8220;Under current rules, this group is <a class=" vilynx_listened" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-administration-moves-impose-stricter-work-requirements-food-staps-n950271" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">required to work at least 20 hours a week</a> for more than three months over a 36-month period to qualify for food stamps, but states have been able to create waivers for areas that face high unemployment,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;The new rule would limit states from waiving those standards, instead restricting their use to those areas that have a 6 percent unemployment rate or higher. The national unemployment rate in October was 3.6 percent.&#8221;
In May, Ocasio-Cortez was caught propagating a lie about pro-life legislation in Alabama.
“Alabama lawmakers are making all abortions a felony punishable w [jail time], [including] women victimized by rape+incest,” posted AOC. “Of course, no added punishments for rapists. It’s going to [Governor Kay Ivey’s] desk. She will decide the future of women’s rights in Alabama.”
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-gets-called-out-over-abortion-law-lie-her-amanda-prestigiacomo">The Daily Wire</a>, that claim is false; only third-party abortionists would be prosecuted under the new law, not mothers.
The tweet still remains up on Twitter.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-gets-called-out-over-abortion-law-lie-her-amanda-prestigiacomo">AOC Gets Called Out Over Abortion Law LIE. Her Excuse Is Pathetic.</a>

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

AOC Called Out For Glaring Falsehood In Viral ‘Food Stamps’ Tweet

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Donald Trump

Welfare

Former Vice President Joe Biden just declared war on &#8220;the squad.&#8221;
In an on-screen interview with Axios, which will air this weekend on HBO, Biden fired back against allegations that the Democratic Party has moved leftward, and suggested that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and other recently elected progressives don&#8217;t represent the future of the party as much as they represent a new party, entirely separate from the Democrats&#8217; apparatus.
Asked about whether the rise of progressive Democrats and &#8220;Democratic socialists&#8221; were a reaction to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s dramatic loss to now-President Donald Trump in 2016, Biden demurred.
&#8220;You guys got it all wrong about what happened,&#8221; he said, claiming that the media portrays the Democratic voter base as more liberal and left-leaning than they truly are, <a href="https://www.axios.com/joe-biden-interview-axios-hbo-bf5df4b3-c627-4390-acde-0ec8d44f6915.html?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=twsocialshare&amp;utm_campaign=organic">according to Axios</a>.
&#8220;It&#8217;s just bad judgment,&#8221; he added. &#8220;You all thought that what happened was the party moved extremely to the left after Hillary. AOC was a new party, She&#8217;s a bright, wonderful person. But where&#8217;s the party? Come on, man.&#8221;
Biden told &#8220;Axios on HBO&#8221; that he believes his rivals for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination are, in fact, misreading the party, and that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) appeal to a narrow segment of voters who tend to be more vocal, but who don&#8217;t represent the Democratic base as a whole.
&#8220;The party&#8217;s not there. The party&#8217;s not there at all,&#8221; Biden said, referring to where Warren and Sanders fall on the political spectrum. He reportedly added that he believes both Warren and Sanders have misread Democratic voters and are appealing to the wrong segment of primary voters.
Biden isn&#8217;t saying anything new. He&#8217;s long insisted that he&#8217;s a more moderate choice for the Democratic nominee, even if his long legislative history could be read a number of different ways. Ultimately, he&#8217;s pushing the idea that he&#8217;s the most electable among the Democratic frontrunners &#8212; a theory borne out by recent polls, which show only Biden giving Trump a difficult time in battleground states like Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Florida.
But there&#8217;s a significant development here: Biden mentions Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by name, calling out the up-and-coming &#8220;Democratic socialist&#8221; wing of the party directly, and suggesting that members of the &#8220;squad&#8221; and their allies are a small segment of a larger Democratic party and not the future of the Democratic party as Ocasio-Cortez and her Justice Democrats insist.
That may be true. Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez seem to be presiding over a static element of the Democratic Party, and both Sanders and Warren are vying for the same group of potential primary voters &#8212; mostly young, white, highly educated voters in urban centers. But until now, most of the candidates targeting the middle &#8212; Biden and South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, included &#8212; have resisted the urge to suggest the progressive left isn&#8217;t part of the party.
The good news for Biden is that his newfound opposition to a leftward moving party may play well with voters in early primary states like Iowa, South Carolina, and Nevada, where progressive ideas, like Medicare for All, don&#8217;t seem to be resonating with voters.

Presidential Candidate Joe Biden

Joe Biden Tells HBO That Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is ‘Not The Future Of The Party’

Joe Biden

On Wednesday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show,” Klavan talks about Jerry Nadler’s long-held beliefs on impeachment, and an MSNBC segment in which Donny Deutsch channels AOC’s disregard for facts. Video and partial transcript below: 
Now the impeachment hearings, which failed in the Intelligence Committee, where they could have been researching things like the fact that China&#8217;s stealing everybody&#8217;s face like those assassins in Game of Thrones — China is now making everybody who uses a phone in China record their face. [The Intelligence Committee] could have been studying that, but instead they were doing this impeachment thing. 
They released the report and then they passed it to the Judiciary Committee, headed by the great and powerful Jerrold Nadler. So let&#8217;s go and look at Jerrold Nadler&#8217;s opening statement, this is cut number one: 
<blockquote>NADLER: The effect of impeachment is to overturn the popular will of the voters. We must not overturn an election and remove a president from office except to defend our system of government or our constitutional liberties against the dire threat, and we must not do so without an overwhelming consensus of the American people. There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment, or an impeachment supported by one of our major political parties and opposed by the other. Such an impeachment will produce divisiveness and bitterness in our politics for years to come and will call into question the very legitimacy of our political institutions. </blockquote>
Wait a minute — that blows up the whole narrative! Oh, that was Jerry Nadler in 1998, when they were trying to impeach Clinton. He said you can&#8217;t do it without a consensus, without both sides, a bipartisan consensus. Right now, not only are no Republicans crossing the line, Republicans have dug in. They know this is a clown show, they know this is the Acme impeachment machine that&#8217;s going to blow up the Democrats&#8217; faces. Democrats may start to lose some votes over here. 
I still think they can get the votes, and everybody, all the experts keep saying they&#8217;re going to do it — I think they&#8217;re walking into Cocaine Mitch&#8217;s House of Horrors if they take this to the Senate. Obviously, it&#8217;s John Roberts who will preside over that trial in the Senate, but they can call just as many witnesses as they want. 
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So [Wednesday,] they&#8217;ve got these lawyers — they&#8217;ve got three liberal lawyers saying, “Yes, a crime was committed” — but they got nothing, they got nothing. You know, Donny Deutsch, he&#8217;s like the Id of the Left. He&#8217;s like a lunatic, he&#8217;s out of his mind, and he&#8217;s living in this narrative where Trump is Hitler without ever checking the fact that nobody arrested him for saying Trump is Hitler, because Trump isn&#8217;t Hitler. If Trump were Hitler, he&#8217;d be carried off for saying that Trump is Hitler. Donny Deutsch put it perfectly, I think. He was on that Nicolle Wallace show on MSNBC, and here&#8217;s what he said:
<blockquote>DEUTSCH: Which tells you —
ANCHOR:  And that tells you why we are where we are. 
DEUTCH: We need — that simply facts and the laws are not going to protect us right now. And the point being for the Democrats, we need to twist and meld and work. We are fighting against an enemy, the Republicans, with machine guns and we can&#8217;t bring a knife to it. And I&#8217;m not saying do anything dishonest, but we have to find a way to take what is happening there and make it so compelling to the voter, because otherwise we&#8217;re going to get four more years of Donald Trump, and we cannot survive that. 
WALLACE: Four? I mean if we run your thread, it can be fourteen —</blockquote>
[Separate clip]
<blockquote>AOC: There’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct, than about being morally right. 
COOPER: But being factually correct is important —</blockquote>
The facts and the law won&#8217;t save us here, says Donny Deutsch. If the facts and the law won&#8217;t save you, it must be because the facts and the law aren&#8217;t on your side. But you heard Nicolle Wallace at the end of that clip, she says, [paraphrasing] “Well, he won’t just be here for another four years, it will be fourteen years if we stick to your scenario.” In other words, Trump is going to barricade himself in White House. 
You know what? I&#8217;ve talked about this story before, famous lithographer Leo Frobenius, a German writer on Myth, tells a story in which a professor is writing at his desk and his little daughter is bothering him, so he gives her three burnt matches to play with and says, “go play.” She starts to play [as if] the three matches are Hansel and Gretel and the Witch, and after a while she starts screaming and she says, “Daddy, daddy, take the witch away,” giving him the match, because she&#8217;s gotten herself so involved in the story that she&#8217;s become emotionally connected to it. That is what has happened to Donny Deutsch, and the Left, and Adam Schiff, and all of these people.
They’ve become connected to this emotional narrative they tell about Donald Trump being evil. And they keep using these words, “Trump has violated this,” and “he&#8217;s done this,” and “he&#8217;s destroyed the Constitution,” but ask them — What has he done? What crime has he committed? How has he destroyed the Constitution? They&#8217;ve got no answer, they got nothing. 
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KLAVAN: MSNBC Impeachment Panic: ‘Facts And The Laws’ Won’t ‘Protect Us’

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Jerrold Nadler

Media Bias

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) showed her hypocrisy on Saturday as she cheered on the far-left activists who allegedly asked to be arrested at the Harvard-Yale college game as they protested the school for supporting the oil and gas industry.
&#8220;Activism disrupts the present to change the future,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in a quote retweet that showed a video of the protesters storming the field.
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Activism disrupts the present to change the future. 🌎 <a href="https://t.co/K4OLyeATMu">https://t.co/K4OLyeATMu</a>
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1198343138542309377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
ESPN college football studio host Matt Barrie reported: “Harvard-Yale update: The protestors have told police they want to be arrested. So police have tied them together, two at a time, and are taking them off the field. Kickoff in about 10-mins.”
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Harvard-Yale update: The protestors have told police they want to be arrested. So police have tied them together, two at a time, and are taking them off the field.
Kickoff in about 10-mins.
— Matt Barrie (@MattBarrie) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattBarrie/status/1198325494208438273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
Yet, just last month, Ocasio-Cortez attacked Republican members of Congress who asked to be arrested as they entered a secure room in the Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility (SCIF) to protest the Democrats&#8217; secrecy in their impeachment inquiry.
&#8220;There was never any threat of arrest, but a source said some members asked to be arrested, citing the optics of being marched out of the SCIF in handcuffs in front of throngs of reporters and news cameras,&#8221; Fox News reported. &#8220;That would have surely supported a running GOP narrative that Democrats have run amok with the impeachment process.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez responded to the incident by writing on Twitter: &#8220;There have been many aspects of the GOP’s little flash mob that have relied on mountains of entitlement and privilege, but them *asking* the police to be arrested is just&#8230; Well, let’s just say my community would find it hard to understand why *anyone* would ask to be arrested.&#8221;
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There have been many aspects of the GOP’s little flash mob that have relied on mountains of entitlement and privilege, but them *asking* the police to be arrested is just&#8230;
Well, let’s just say my community would find it hard to understand why *anyone* would ask to be arrested. <a href="https://t.co/ez5IsocNm5">https://t.co/ez5IsocNm5</a>
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1187490222885539840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
The fact that Ocasio-Cortez cheers on the far-left when they allegedly ask to be arrested, but then attacks her opponents for doing the same thing adds to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hypocrisy-ocasio-cortez-again-holds-democrats-and-ryan-saavedra">growing list of examples</a> showing that she often has a double standard regarding her alleged principles and beliefs.
This is not the only time that Ocasio-Cortez has shown her phoniness on the issue, as Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-retweets-video-of-fonda-danson-arrest-1-day-after-slamming-republicans-for-asking-to-be-arrested">reported</a> one-day after her tweet attacking Republicans last month:
<blockquote>Just one day after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized Republicans for requesting to be arrested for entering a closed-door Trump impeachment inquiry deposition this week, the far-left New York Democrat retweeted a video showing Hollywood stars Jane Fonda and Ted Danson being arrested at a climate protest Friday. &#8230;
&#8230; But with her retweet Friday, it appeared Ocasio-Cortez – co-author of the Green New Deal proposal in Congress – was supporting Fonda and Danson for taking a stand on climate change. Later, Fonda and Danson were seen smiling as they walk through a cheering crowd, their wrists having been zip-tied by police.</blockquote>
Ever since joining Congress earlier this year, Ocasio-Cortez has aggressively promoted her proposed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/economic-apocalypse-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-ryan-saavedra">$93 trillion</a> &#8220;Green New Deal,&#8221; which her former chief-of-staff essentially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aocs-chief-staff-admits-green-new-deal-about-ryan-saavedra">admitted</a> was meant to implement socialism in the United States.
Ocasio-Cortez has also supported the extreme claim that there are only &#8220;12 years&#8221; left to act on climate change before cataclysmic climate disaster strikes.
In May, &#8220;after widespread criticism and watching her poll numbers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44810/ocasio-cortez-continues-meltdown-over-high-ryan-saavedra">sink</a>, Ocasio-Cortez tried to play off her claim, suggesting that it was a joke and that anyone who believed her has &#8216;the social intelligence of a sea sponge,&#8217;” The Daily Wire reported.
“This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and ‘fact check’ it,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on May 12. “Like the ‘world ending in 12 years’ thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows.”
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This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and “fact check” it.
Like the “world ending in 12 years” thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal.
But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows. <a href="https://t.co/pmkwrdeAnq">https://t.co/pmkwrdeAnq</a>
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1127604746066583552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
Yet, shortly after claiming that she was only kidding, she immediately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-appears-change-mind-again-climate-ryan-saavedra">resumed</a> pushing the same alarmist claims.

Ocasio-Cortez

AOC Cheers Far-Left Activists Who Asked To Be Arrested At Harvard-Yale Game. Here’s What AOC Did When Republicans Asked To Be Arrested.

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) declared during an interview on Tuesday afternoon that Democrats were at &#8220;the point of no return&#8221; on impeachment and that she believes that President Donald Trump &#8220;clearly believes in eugenics.&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;m, well, clearly momentum is build[ing],&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez told Yahoo News. &#8220;We&#8217;re kind of knee-deep here in impeachment inquiry and so um, you know, at this point I think we&#8217;re beyond the question as to whether Trump has committed a crime or whether he has violated the Constitution.&#8221;
To this point, there has not been any evidence presented that the president committed any crimes, which multiple impeachment witnesses have testified to under oath, including <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEyaUW9UvAY&amp;feature=youtu.be">Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1196955065782800385">Senior NSC official Tim Morrison</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1196955065782800385">Ambassador Kurt Volker</a>.
&#8220;He has clearly engaged in extortion and bribery,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued, apparently ignoring the testimony of those who have testified. &#8220;Question is, how many other people in this administration have been engaged in similar and who are implicated in this behavior and in this plot reap rather and I think that&#8217;s part of the question that we&#8217;re getting to the bottom of today.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not just Trump, but who else is going to be implicated in this and so, you know, I think when it comes to what we&#8217;ve discovered, we’re at the point of no return and it&#8217;s just a question of how many crimes have been potentially committed and who else has committed them,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez added.
Ocasio-Cortez then claimed that Trump &#8220;clearly thinks that, clearly believes in eugenics&#8221; because he employs Senior White House Adviser Stephen Miller.
&#8220;I think the most clear and disturbing of them all is the fact that Stephen Miller has just been exposed as frankly a neo-Nazi and a white supremacist,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said. &#8220;He was citing eugenics as the rationale for our policy in the southern border and Donald Trump clearly thinks that, clearly believes in eugenics, given the fact that he has put and maintained Stephen Miller in a position of power after these revelations.&#8221;
WATCH:
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AOC says impeachment inquiry is &#8216;at the point of no return&#8217; in interview with Yahoo News <a href="https://t.co/NUKt8Vb0fk">https://t.co/NUKt8Vb0fk</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/hunterw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@hunterw</a> <a href="https://t.co/Z1yYgEu5oh">pic.twitter.com/Z1yYgEu5oh</a>
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/YahooNews/status/1196863833459044355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
There are multiple problems with Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s claim, the biggest of which is that she is not telling the truth.
Ocasio-Cortez is referencing a recent report from the Southern Poverty Law Center that featured leaked emails from Miller in which he expressed support for former President Calvin Coolidge&#8217;s immigration policies, specifically his low immigration quota.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/us/politics/stephen-miller-white-nationalism.html">reported</a>:
<blockquote>On Aug. 4, 2015, Mr. Miller sent an email supporting the idea of a complete ban on immigration “like Coolidge did,” an apparent reference to the 1924 law. As a result of those new “national origin quotas,” immigration fell by half and the arrival of Italians and Poles fell by 90 percent. Mr. Sessions, Mr. Miller’s boss at the time, was known for publicly praising Coolidge’s policies because he believed they had bolstered American wages.
The 1924 law endorsed by Coolidge is widely seen today as a symbol of bigotry and was heavily influenced by the eugenics movement.</blockquote>
An <a href="https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/id/87718.htm">archive</a> of The Immigration Act of 1924 on the U.S. State Department&#8217;s website noted that the law &#8220;limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia. &#8230; In all of its parts, the most basic purpose of the 1924 Immigration Act was to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity.&#8221;
The New York Times further reported:
<blockquote>Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, whose work Mr. Miller has often referred to in White House policy discussions, said that Coolidge had a “complicated” legacy. “He reached the right result” — meaning low immigration — “but in the wrong way.”</blockquote>
A 2017 press conference in which Miller <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/08/02/stephen_miller_vs_cnns_jim_acosta_you_have_revealed_your_cosmopolitan_bias.html">humiliated</a> CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta provides potential clues into what Miller&#8217;s thoughts are on the matter:
<blockquote>Acosta: But this whole — this whole notion of, &#8220;Well, they could learn — you know, they have to learn English before they get to the United States,&#8221; are we just going to bring in people from Great Britain and Australia?
Miller: Jim, it&#8217;s — actually — I honestly say I am shocked at your statement that you think that only people from Great Britain and Australia would know English. It&#8217;s actually — it reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree, that in your mind&#8230; No, this is an amazing — this is an amazing moment. This is an amazing moment, that you think only people from Great Britain or Australia would speak English. It&#8217;s so insulting to millions of hard-working immigrants who do speak English from all over the world.
Acosta: So there are — of course, there are people who come&#8230;
Miller: But that&#8217;s not what you said. And it shows — it shows your cosmopolitan bias.
Acosta: This sounds like you&#8217;re trying to engineer the racial and ethnic flow of people into this country through policy.
Miller: That is one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant and foolish things you&#8217;ve ever said. And for you, that&#8217;s still a really — the notion that you think that this is a racist bill is so wrong and so insulting.</blockquote>
WATCH:
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Full exchange between Stephen Miller &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@acosta</a> on Statue of Liberty &amp; immigration. &#8220;It reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/9eHTiNaR4G">pic.twitter.com/9eHTiNaR4G</a>
— CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/892834930346086400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2017</a></blockquote>
In the exchange with Acosta, Miller made no mention of wanting to restrict people by race or ethnicity and actually slammed Acosta for suggesting that is what he was proposing.
So, is it possible that Miller cited Coolidge only because he liked the low immigration numbers?
Buried 20 paragraphs into its report, The New York Times reported:
<blockquote>
In his communications with Breitbart, Mr. Miller does not explicitly endorse the national origin quotas, but he praises Coolidge and his legacy.
</blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s entire claim that Miller is a &#8220;neo-Nazi&#8221; hinges on the fact that he favors lowering the number of immigrants that are entering the United States and he cited former President Calvin Coolidge.
Ocasio-Cortez, who has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/immigration-expert-shreds-ocasio-cortez-comparing-ryan-saavedra">falsely stated</a> that immigrant detention facilities are &#8220;concentration camps,&#8221; suggested last week on MSNBC that Miller has &#8220;weaponized&#8221; being Jewish to &#8220;provide the cover&#8221; to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-trump-running-concentration-camps-ryan-saavedra">operating</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-says-concentration-camp-comments-not-ryan-saavedra">concentration camps</a> because he&#8217;s a Nazi — a claim that tinges on being an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
WATCH:
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Ocasio-Cortez, who has falsely stated that immigrant detention facilities are &#8220;concentration camps,&#8221; suggested last week on MSNBC that Miller has &#8220;weaponized&#8221; being Jewish to &#8220;provide the cover&#8221; to operating concentration camps because he&#8217;s a Nazi <a href="https://t.co/v2d5dYPpSh">pic.twitter.com/v2d5dYPpSh</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1197078317314084865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
Miller responded to Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/immigration-expert-shreds-ocasio-cortez-comparing-ryan-saavedra">false claim</a> earlier this year, which prominent Jews <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/holocaust-denier-dershowitz-slams-ocasio-cortez-ryan-saavedra">said</a> made her a &#8220;Holocaust denier,&#8221; by saying, “As a Jew &#8230; I am profoundly outraged by the comments from [AOC]. It is a historical smear. It is a sinful comment. It minimizes the death of 6 million of my Jewish brothers and sisters. It minimizes their suffering&#8230;”
WATCH:
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Stephen Miller on Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s Holocaust trivialization: “As a Jew &#8230; I am profoundly outraged by the comments from [AOC]. It is a historical smear. It is a sinful comment. It minimizes the death of 6 million of my Jewish brothers and sisters. It minimizes their suffering&#8230;” <a href="https://t.co/jVEZV4pjrt">pic.twitter.com/jVEZV4pjrt</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1153035250638786561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly sympathized and defended notorious anti-Semites Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), British Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn, and far-left activist Linda Sarsour.
Omar and Tlaib were recently banned from entering Israel because they were planning on meeting with organizations that supported terrorism against Israel and because they were going to meet with organizations that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/omar-tlaib-planned-meet-terror-promoting-groups-ryan-saavedra">promoted neo-Nazi screeds</a>.
While Miller liked Coolidge, Ocasio-Cortez likes former Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who racially <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/17/national/history/smithsonian-internment-exhibition-warn-racial-profiling/">profiled</a> American citizens and threw those of Japanese decent into internment camps.
FDR also <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ss-st-louis-jewish-refugees-turned-away-holocaust">refused</a> to let Jewish refugees who were fleeing Nazi Germany into the United States, who then were forced to return to Europe where many of them died at the hands of Nazis.

AOC: ‘At Point Of No Return’ On Impeachment; Trump ‘Clearly Believes In Eugenics’

Stephen Miller

Former President Barack Obama appeared to take a veiled shot at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) during a speech on Friday, warning that the party was moving too far to the left and that the average American does not agree with their views.
Obama, who made the remarks to some of the party&#8217;s top donors at the annual meeting of the Democracy Alliance, said that Democrats, independents, and moderate Republicans do not align with the same beliefs that are found on “certain left-leaning Twitter feeds” or “the activist wing of our party.”
Obama&#8217;s remark about &#8220;the activist wing of our party&#8221; appears to be a direct shot at Ocasio-Cortez, who is widely viewed as the face of the far-Left in the Democrat Party.
“Even as we push the envelope and we are bold in our vision we also have to be rooted in reality,” Obama said, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/politics/barack-obama-2020-dems.html">The New York Times</a>. “The average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it. And I think it&#8217;s important for us not to lose sight of that.”
“I don’t think we should be deluded into thinking that the resistance to certain approaches to things is simply because voters haven’t heard a bold enough proposal and if they hear something as bold as possible then immediately that’s going to activate them,” Obama said.
“There are a lot of persuadable voters and there are a lot of Democrats out there who just want to see things make sense. They just don&#8217;t want to see crazy stuff,&#8221; Obama added, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-warns-2020-democrats-warren-sanders">Fox News</a>. &#8220;They want to see things a little more fair, they want to see things a little more just. And how we approach that I think will be important.”
Obama&#8217;s remark is in direct opposition to what Ocasio-Cortez said during a Friday night interview on MSNBC where she said that her &#8220;personal political strategy&#8221; is to &#8220;come in with the boldest vision possible.&#8221;
The comments from Obama came only a few weeks after he offered a similar warning to young people while speaking in Chicago.
“This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re politically woke and all that stuff — you should get over that quickly,” Obama <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-get-over-being-woke-stop-online-outrage-cancel-culture">told</a> an audience at the Obama Foundation Summit. “The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids and you know share certain things with you.”
“One danger I see among young people particularly on college campuses — Malia and I talk about this — I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media, there is this sense sometimes of the way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people and that’s enough,” Obama continued. “Like if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right, or use the wrong verb then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself, ‘Cuz man, did you see how woke I was? I called you out! Let me get on TV, watch my show, watch Grown-ish.&#8217;”
“That’s not activism. That’s not bringing about change,” Obama concluded. “If all you’re doing is casting stones, you’re probably not going to get that far. That’s easy to do.”

Obama

Obama Appears To Rip Ocasio-Cortez In Warning To Democrat Presidential Candidates

Barack Obama

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Thursday pitched the first official bill aimed at turning their massive government program, known as the &#8220;Green New Deal,&#8221; into reality, proposing an overhaul of one million public housing units and making them carbon-neutral within 10 years.
During a press conference late Thursday afternoon, Ocasio-Cortez also appeared to suggest that she backs impeachment because of her climate agenda, calling the president a &#8220;climate crisis.&#8221;
&#8220;The bill, dubbed the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act, would use seven grant programs to upgrade housing units into carbon-neutral communities with organic grocery stores, on-site child care and community gardens,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="http://archive.is/9Ziok">reported</a>. &#8220;Residents of public housing would be given preference in hiring to renovate those units.&#8221;
The Post cited far-left think group Date for Progress, which claimed that the project would cost between $119 billion and $172 billion over the next decade.
However, when citing numbers from a conservative think tank — the American Action Forum — The Post declined to show the full range of estimated cost, reporting that it was &#8220;$1.6 trillion or more.&#8221; The &#8220;more&#8221; the Post intentionally did not include is <a href="https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/the-green-new-deal-scope-scale-and-implications/">$4.6 trillion</a>.
During the press conference, Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders made the following remarks in response to a question about impeachment:
<blockquote>Ocasio-Cortez: I&#8217;m not concerned about it because the thing that we show with the impeachment of the president is that we can hold the White House accountable and also build our future at the same time. This is an either/or proposition, I&#8217;m sure Republicans would like to lead you to believe that this place shuts down but we just came from votes right now over here. So, we&#8217;re passing this agenda &#8230;
Sanders: Trump should be impeached and he will be impeached. But that does not mean that we neglect or ignore the other major crises facing this country, whether it is the housing crisis, and the particular tragedies existing in public housing in Vermont in New York all over this country and the global crisis of climate change. We are mature enough as a nation to walk and chew bubble gum at the same time.
Ocasio-Cortez: But let&#8217;s not act or pretend that Donald Trump is not a climate crisis unto himself, because he has put foxes in the hen house, in the charge of EPA, in charge of public housing, in charge of virtually every federal agency that we have. And so, if we want to protect our planet, we also, you know, we also need to make sure that holding the president accountable in this White House is a part of that too you. [emphasis added]</blockquote>
WATCH:
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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez seems to think she can use impeachment to get rid of opposition to her socialist policies.
Asked about passing the GND during an impeachment process, she says &#8220;holding the president accountable in this WH is a part of that too&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/WoRp4sk6BH">pic.twitter.com/WoRp4sk6BH</a>
— Tommy Pigott (@TCPigott) <a href="https://twitter.com/TCPigott/status/1195101981045641226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s new comments about impeachment come less than 24 hours after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-makes-stunning-admission-about-impeachment-during-cnn-interview">she told CNN that impeachment was about unifying the Democrat Party and about avoiding a &#8220;potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.&#8221;</a>
“At the end of the day, we have to be able to come together as a caucus and if it is this Ukrainian allegation that is what brings the caucus together, um, then I think we have to run with however we unify the House,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“We also need to move quite quickly because we’re talking about the potential compromise of the 2020 elections,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “And so this is not just about something that has occurred; this is about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.”

Ocasio-Cortez Bernie Sanders

AOC Proposes Green New Deal Bill, Suggests Impeaching Trump Over Her Climate Agenda

Bernie Sanders

Green New Deal

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) admitted during a Wednesday night interview on CNN that impeachment was about unifying the different factions of the Democrat Party and &#8220;preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez joined CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer on &#8220;The Situation Room&#8221; where she made the remarks shortly after the Democrats kicked off their public impeachment inquiry hearings on the House Intelligence Committee.
&#8220;At the end of the day, we have to be able to come together as a caucus and if it is this Ukrainian allegation that is what brings the caucus together, um, then I think we have to run with however we unify the House,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said.
“We also need to move quite quickly because we’re talking about the potential compromise of the 2020 elections,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;And so this is not just about something that has occurred; this is about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.”
WATCH:
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Ocasio-Cortez says that Democrats&#8217; push for impeaching Trump is about uniting the different factions of the Democrat Party, adding: “this is about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.” <a href="https://t.co/nVU93ug2ZF">pic.twitter.com/nVU93ug2ZF</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1194817581514801153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s stunning admission that the impeachment inquiry is about Democrat partisan politics flies in the face of what she said over the weekend in an interview with ABC News where she said it was the Republicans who were making impeachment a partisan issue.
“Congresswoman, I do want to ask you, we had some news that broke earlier today. Your Republican colleagues announced that they intend to call on Hunter Biden as a witness in this impeachment probe. Is he an appropriate witness?” ABC News asked.
“No, I don’t think he’s an appropriate witness, and not only that, but I think that the reason they’re calling for these witnesses, these new witnesses, is because they want to make a spectacle and a circus out of this entire proceeding,” Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-republicans-making-impeachment-partisan-hunter-biden-not-appropriate-witness-despite-being-genesis-of-entire-ordeal">said</a>. “They want to distract the American people from the very words that Donald Trump uttered from his mouth in that call with Ukrainian officials trying to extort a foreign government into intervening into the United States elections.”
“And, in fact, these witnesses that they’re calling are politically motivated,” Ocasio-Cortez continued, again apparently unaware of the fact that impeachment is a political event. “Republicans are turning this into a partisan issue.
Ocasio-Cortez concluded, “We need to protect the rule of law in the United States of America, and they’re imperiling it by trying to turn this into a sideshow, and it’s undignified and it’s wrong.”
During a portion of Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s Wednesday interview on CNN, Ocasio-Cortez claimed, &#8220;What we heard today was astounding and devastating news for the president and anyone in the administration, really partaking. Frankly, this is devastating for the country. Our national security has been compromised, our elections potentially compromised.&#8221;
Former independent counsel Ken Starr, whose criminal investigation of former Democrat President Bill Clinton ended with Clinton’s impeachment, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ken-starr-giving-damning-indictment-of-democrats-impeachment-hearing">told</a> Fox News after the hearing that there was “no hope for impeachment” and that “no crime was proven today.”
“And to me, here was something that was very telling: No crime was proven today,” Starr added. “There were a lot terms used, extortion and bribery, but no crime. This is very unlike Nixon and unlike Clinton.”

Ocasio-Cortez On Impeachment: ‘About Preventing A Potentially Disastrous Outcome From Occurring Next Year’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) (AOC) has hit the 2020 campaign trail with Bernie Sanders. The freshman congresswoman from New York has frequently been seen with the octogenarian from Vermont since she endorsed him a few weeks ago. Comments on their myriad of social media posts are replete with calls from the Right for her to be voted out, and that people can’t wait for AOC to no longer be a part of public life. Everyone should buckle their seatbelts, though, because AOC will be with us for the rest of her life.
AOC represents a D+29 district located in the Bronx and Queens; the district has been a Democrat stronghold for nearly a century. AOC was the first truly successful story of the Justice Democrats&#8217; plan to shift the Democrats leftward: Primary an entrenched, moderate Democrat in a deep blue district and bank on low turnout. This worked once in her favor, but it&#8217;s highly doubtful that the same trick can be used against her.
Currently, AOC has two challengers in her congressional district&#8217;s Democratic Party primary in June, both on her political right. Considering that the latest Democratic primary election in the area, the Queens district attorney race, almost yielded a 27-year-old socialist with no prosecutorial experience (losing by only a few dozen votes), AOC&#8217;s district is not very interested in moving back towards the Democratic center. At least not without significant contributions of both time and money from the New York political machine.
That political machine, though, is fully invested in AOC, as they know she is the future of the Democratic Party (as stated by none other than Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez himself). She has already raised $3.3 million for her re-election campaign. To steal the seat from Democratic veteran Joe Crowley, she only needed $2 million. If internal polling shows that she has any trouble from the Democrats, she is poised with enough cash to handily win that primary.
As of the general election, historically that district has zero interest in voting Republican. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-a-glass-of-water-with-d-next-to-it-would-win-ocasio-cortezs-district">Nancy Pelosi herself said</a> that a “glass of water would win with a ‘D’ next to its name” in that district. At the same time, Republicans are definitely more interested now than they were before.
In 2018, AOC’s Republican challenger raised a little over $8,000, which yielded him 13.6% of the vote. This time around, there is a much more contentious primary, with five confirmed candidates already from very diverse backgrounds. Compared to 2018, those candidates have raised some impressive numbers so far, around $950,000 collectively. But raising a third of what AOC has raised and overcoming such a huge point gap may be one miracle too many.
There’s no shot that AOC decides to resign at some point to pursue another career. Historically, Democrats leave office when they retire or are kicked out. Of the longest-serving members of Congress of all-time, the top 10 are all Democrats. For all the talk of the new freshman Democrats, if you break down the House of Representatives by longevity, the average Democrat has been in office at least one term longer than has the average Republican. If you remove those sworn in in 2019, Democrats have been around two terms longer, by average. Of the 28 members of the House who announced they are not seeking re-election, 20 are Republicans and only eight are Democrats.
AOC clearly looks at Bernie Sanders as a role model for her own political aspirations. From her perspective, why shouldn’t she? He has made a very successful living being the village kook, and is now a front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president. The path to getting rich and popular while accomplishing nothing is easier in politics than in any other profession. He’s been living on the public dime for 38 years, and only won his first election when he was 40. AOC has an 11-year head start on her mentor, so she can easily be in office for five or six decades, possibly with a future in the Senate or in a Cabinet position.
There are two avenues that the Right can take with a character like AOC. The first, and probably the easiest, is to accept the fact that AOC will be in politics. This route means that the Right will have a foil to argue against — someone so radical and so powerful that her mere presence in the opposition will drive voters to the polls, just to vote against her. The second, more difficult path, is probably the one that Republicans need to take to ensure political future throughout the country. That is to appeal to the innate conservatism of those who reside in urban areas.
Demographically, AOC’s district is 49.80% Hispanic, 18.41% white, 16.24% Asian, and 11.39% black. This is a prime testing ground for spreading conservative messaging throughout urban areas across the country. Family, law and order, education, religion, and prosperity are strong messages. This route will take a generation, at least, to take hold, but this is where Republicans can take a page out of the Justice Democrats&#8217; playbook. There are almost 350,000 registered voters in that district. Roughly a third actually come out to vote. Chipping away at socialist support and driving out the vote are the way forward for this, and many more, urban areas. While this may not drive her out of office, it will send a strong message in the surrounding areas and throughout the country that there are no districts that Republicans are conceding.
There is a lot of noise coming from the 2020 Republican primary candidates in AOC&#8217;s district. While this will be a tough road for the eventual nominee, the fight is worth having. Most likely, however, AOC will be in the public sphere for a long time to come. The only difference will be that, in the future, she may be the “moderate” of the Democratic Party.
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AOC in Iowa

HILL: The Only Way To Keep AOC Off The Public Dole Forever

Progressivism

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told ABC News Monday night that his new campaign trail-mate, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) would play a significant role in his White House if he is elected president.
<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sanders-campaigning-aoc-potential-bloomberg-bid-shows-arrogance/story?id=66881233">ABC News wanted to know</a> whether Sanders was considering Ocasio-Cortez as a potential running mate in the unlikely event he snags the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and goes on to face President Donald Trump in a general election.
Sanders was non-committal on the answer but did say that Ocasio-Cortez would have a significant role in shaping both domestic and foreign policy in a Sanders administration.
&#8220;Look, I&#8217;ve said this before, let me say it again and I don&#8217;t want you to hear this because your head will explode,&#8221; Sanders said in the joint interview with the freshman New York legislator. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know of any person who, in the course of less than one year, has had more of an impact on American politics as a freshman member of Congress than she has.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not only that she has focus on the real issues impacting the American people, like climate change, the usury rates that Wall Street are charging working people in this country, but she has been an inspiration to working people all across this country and to young people in particular,&#8221; Sanders gushed.
&#8220;I happen to believe that the future of this country depends on young people becoming increasingly involved in the political process and there&#8217;s nobody I know that can do a better job inspiring young people than Alexandria,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;If I&#8217;m in the White House, she will play a very, very important role. No question. One way or another, absolutely,&#8221; Sanders concluded, acknowledging that her role could be a &#8220;Cabinet-level&#8221; position.
Ocasio-Cortez was among the first of the Congressional progressives to endorse Sanders, and has since brought fellow &#8220;squad&#8221; members, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), along for the ride. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), the fourth member of the &#8220;squad&#8221; bucked the trend with a more logical endorsement, throwing her support behind Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
Sanders has definitely reaped benefits from Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s support, commanding more headlines and drawing more supporters to his events. His campaign re-launch, which came just a little over a week before the aging Senator suffered a mild heart attack, was one of his largest rallies to date. The Brooklyn gathering, which featured Ocasio-Cortez announcing her support for Sanders, drew thousands.
Sanders had hoped that Ocasio-Cortez, who grew up in a tony suburb of New York City and attended a pricey university before moving back to the Bronx to work as a waitress and bartender, would connect with the blue collar and working class Democrats he&#8217;ll need to secure both the nomination and win the election, <a href="https://time.com/5723329/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders/">according to TIME magazine</a>.
Although Ocasio-Cortez has brought a measure of excitment to the geriatric politico&#8217;s campaign, she hasn&#8217;t really brought the target demographic. In a New York Times poll released last week, Trump bested Sanders in all of the key &#8220;battleground&#8221; states in the working class Rust Belt. The only candidate challenging Trump for the presidency was former Vice President Joe Biden, widely criticized by progressives like Ocasio-Cortez who believe &#8212; without much evidence &#8212; that the electorate has taken a significant shift leftward since 2006.

Sen. Bernie Sanders And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Hold Des Moines Climate Crisis Summit

Yikes: Bernie Sanders Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Would Play A Key Role In His White House

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reportedly believes that she was at least somewhat responsible for Twitter&#8217;s decision last month to ban political advertisements, saying that it was not a &#8220;coincidence&#8221; that the social media platform pulled the ads after she attacked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
NBC New York <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/One-on-One-With-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez_New-York-564751812.html">reported</a> in a video segment, &#8220;The congresswoman says that her recent grilling of Facebook over the accuracy of political ads on their platform had an impact.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a coincidence that Twitter announced that they were going to pulling political ads the following week,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez told NBC New York.
NBC New York asked Ocasio-Cortez what Republican friends she has made in Congress, to which she refused to give an answer, claiming that these alleged Republican friends that she has would get in trouble if anyone knew.
Ocasio-Cortez suggested during last month&#8217;s hearing that she &#8220;wanted to take advantage of the fact that Facebook tries to not censor political speech from politicians by intentionally lying in her campaign ads, specifically wanting to falsely claim that Republicans supported her $93 trillion Green New Deal,&#8221; The Daily Wire reported. &#8220;Ocasio-Cortez then leveled bogus attacks against The Daily Caller, a conservative publication that has been critical of Ocasio-Cortez’s often flawed ideas and has often called out her false statements and highlighted corruption that involves her.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s behavior was condemned by many online who found her attitude and tone to be arrogant and condescending.
Media personality Allie Beth Stuckey wrote on <a href="https://twitter.com/conservmillen/status/1187113825860046848">Twitter</a>: &#8220;My gosh. @AOC tries very hard to seem fierce and operates solely out of a desire for viral clips. These questions are not at all interesting or clever, and she is cringefully arrogant.&#8221;
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton <a href="https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1187143103448309760">tweeted</a>: &#8220;Left pushes @Facebook to censor political ads of @RealDonaldTrump.&#8221;
YouTuber and political analyst Tim Pool <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1187140327922130945">wrote</a> on Twitter: AOC just proved exactly why Mark Zuckerberg is right to not police truthfulness of political speech. Poynter runs the fact checking approval for Facebook, she is wrong and is smearing the Daily Caller. Should Facebook ban AOC from saying this on FB?&#8221;
Campus Reform Editor-in-Chief Cabot Phillips <a href="https://twitter.com/cabot_phillips/status/1187113510850977792">wrote</a> on Twitter: &#8220;AOC is somehow even less likable than a man with the social skills of a brick wall.&#8221;
Daily Caller podcast host Derek Hunter <a href="https://twitter.com/derekahunter/status/1187193793117917184">wrote</a> on Twitter: &#8220;It&#8217;s telling how @AOC thinks black people would be so stupid as to believe an ad telling them the wrong election day. That&#8217;s some racism right there.&#8221;
A week after the hearing, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter was banning all political ads on the website.
&#8220;We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons a political message earns reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet,&#8221; Dorsey said. &#8220;Paying for reach removes that decision, forcing highly optimized and targeted political messages on people. We believe this decision should not be compromised by money.&#8221;
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A political message earns reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet. Paying for reach removes that decision, forcing highly optimized and targeted political messages on people. We believe this decision should not be compromised by money.
— jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634367296901120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics, where it can be used to influence votes to affect the lives of millions,&#8221; Dorsey continued. &#8220;Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes. All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale.&#8221;
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Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes. All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale.
— jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634369016586240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;These challenges will affect ALL internet communication, not just political ads. Best to focus our efforts on the root problems, without the additional burden and complexity taking money brings. Trying to fix both means fixing neither well, and harms our credibility,&#8221; Dorsey continued. &#8220;For instance, it‘s not credible for us to say: &#8216;We’re working hard to stop people from gaming our systems to spread misleading info, buuut if someone pays us to target and force people to see their political ad … well &#8230; they can say whatever they want!'&#8221;
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For instance, it‘s not credible for us to say: “We’re working hard to stop people from gaming our systems to spread misleading info, buuut if someone pays us to target and force people to see their political ad…well&#8230;they can say whatever they want! 😉”
— jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634371407380480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;We considered stopping only candidate ads, but issue ads present a way to circumvent. Additionally, it isn’t fair for everyone but candidates to buy ads for issues they want to push. So we&#8217;re stopping these too,&#8221; Dorsey continued. &#8220;We’re well aware we&#8217;re a small part of a much larger political advertising ecosystem. Some might argue our actions today could favor incumbents. But we have witnessed many social movements reach massive scale without any political advertising. I trust this will only grow.&#8221;
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We’re well aware we‘re a small part of a much larger political advertising ecosystem. Some might argue our actions today could favor incumbents. But we have witnessed many social movements reach massive scale without any political advertising. I trust this will only grow.
— jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634373890347008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;In addition, we need more forward-looking political ad regulation (very difficult to do). Ad transparency requirements are progress, but not enough. The internet provides entirely new capabilities, and regulators need to think past the present day to ensure a level playing field,&#8221; Dorsey added. &#8220;We’ll share the final policy by 11/15, including a few exceptions (ads in support of voter registration will still be allowed, for instance). We’ll start enforcing our new policy on 11/22 to provide current advertisers a notice period before this change goes into effect.&#8221;
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We’ll share the final policy by 11/15, including a few exceptions (ads in support of voter registration will still be allowed, for instance). We’ll start enforcing our new policy on 11/22 to provide current advertisers a notice period before this change goes into effect.
— jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634376121798656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;A final note. This isn’t about free expression. This is about paying for reach,&#8221; Dorsey concluded. &#8220;And paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle. It’s worth stepping back in order to address.&#8221;
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A final note. This isn’t about free expression. This is about paying for reach. And paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle. It’s worth stepping back in order to address.
— jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634377057067008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2019</a></blockquote>

Ocasio-Cortez Suggests She Was Responsible For Twitter Banning Political Ads

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocaiso-Cortez (D-NY) claimed on Saturday that Republicans were making the Democrats&#8217; impeachment inquiry a &#8220;partisan issue&#8221; and that it was &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; to ask Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, to testify before Congress despite the fact that this entire ordeal surrounds a business deal in which he was allegedly involved.
Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks during an interview with ABC News that aired on Sunday while she was on the campaign trail with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
&#8220;Congresswoman, I do want to ask you, we had some news that broke earlier today. Your Republican colleagues announced that they intend to call on Hunter Biden as a witness in this impeachment probe. Is he an appropriate witness?&#8221; ABC News asked.
&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s an appropriate witness, and not only that, but I think that the reason they&#8217;re calling for these witnesses, these new witnesses, is because they want to make a spectacle and a circus out of this entire proceeding,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said.
&#8220;They want to distract the American people from the very words that Donald Trump uttered from his mouth in that call with Ukrainian officials trying to extort a foreign government into intervening into the United States elections,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued, apparently ignoring the fact that President Donald Trump released the transcript of the call.
&#8220;And, in fact, these witnesses that they&#8217;re calling are politically motivated,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued, again apparently unaware of the fact that impeachment is a political event.
&#8220;Republicans are turning this into a partisan issue,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez claimed, ignoring the fact that it was House Democrats who launched the inquiry and not a single Republican voted in favor of it and two Democrats voted against it.
&#8220;We need to protect the rule of law in the United States of America, and they&#8217;re imperiling it by trying to turn this into a sideshow, and it&#8217;s undignified and it&#8217;s wrong,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;And you know, that, on another level is profoundly dangerous, and this is endangering people that we rely on to call on when government goes awry.&#8221;
&#8220;We rely on whistleblowers to maintain the integrity of our government, they play an important role, and that is why we have whistleblower protection laws on the books in the United States,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued, apparently unaware of the fact that it is not illegal for anyone to identify the whistleblower except for the inspector general, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hostin-attacks-trump-jr-with-false-claims-on-whistleblower-transcript-heres-the-truth">stated</a> by U.S. law.
WATCH:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> says Republicans want to call Hunter Biden as a witness to turn impeachment into a &#8220;sideshow.&#8221;
FACT CHECK: By a 5-point margin, more voters would like Joe and Hunter Biden investigated than support holding hearings to consider impeachment of <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>. <a href="https://t.co/ujljl6RrYb">pic.twitter.com/ujljl6RrYb</a>
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1193710407397134336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
RNC internal polling <a href="https://www.gop.com/internal-rnc-polling-more-want-biden-investigated-than-trump/">found</a> that 5% more Americans want the Bidens investigated over their business dealings in Ukraine than support holding impeachment hearing on the president.
Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks while campaigning for Sanders over the weekend where she suggested that Trump was a virus or a disease that Americans needs to vaccinate themselves from.
“Trump is a symptom, he is a symptom of much deeper problems,” Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-politicians-letting-me-down-feels-like-i-never-want-to-love-again">said</a>.
“Here’s the thing, is that we can beat him, but we have to vaccinate ourselves against something like this ever happening again,” Ocasio-Cortez said in reference to Trump’s 2016 election victory, adding, “and the way we inoculate ourselves from late-stage hyper capitalistic concentration of wealth among the very, very few is with a labor movement.”
Later on, Ocasio-Cortez said that when politicians let her down, &#8220;it feels like I never want to love again.&#8221;
“And so, when you elect a politician, and then they let you down, it feels like rejection,” Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-politicians-letting-me-down-feels-like-i-never-want-to-love-again">said</a>. “It feels like heart break. It feels like betrayal. It feels like I never want to love again. That’s what that feels like.”

Ocasio-Cortez: Republicans Making Impeachment ‘Partisan,’ Hunter Biden Not ‘Appropriate’ Witness Despite Being Genesis Of Entire Ukraine Ordeal

Hunter Biden

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made a series of bizarre statements over the weekend while campaigning in Iowa for fellow socialist and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), saying that when a politician has let her down, &#8220;it feels like I never want to love again.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks on Saturday during a “Climate Crisis” summit in Iowa where she spoke to an audience that appeared to consist largely of far-left climate activists.
After Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders both gave their speeches, the two had a question and answer session where Ocasio-Cortez tried to relate to the audience by talking about how she emotionally processes a politician letting her down.
&#8220;And so, when you elect a politician, and then they let you down, it feels like rejection,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said. &#8220;It feels like heart break. It feels like betrayal. It feels like I never want to love again. That&#8217;s what that feels like.&#8221;
&#8220;And so, I understand how that feels because I felt that way,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;But you know what happens when you say, &#8216;I never want to love again&#8217;? Your heart gets black and you turn angry and get very anxious.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Socialist Ocasio-Cortez on politicians falling short: “Feels like rejection. Feels like heartbreak. Feels like betrayal. Feels like I never want to love again. You know what happens when you say, ‘I never want to love again’? Your heart gets black&#8230;angry”
Complete insanity <a href="https://t.co/gSz667PB7D">pic.twitter.com/gSz667PB7D</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1193427045092487168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
During the event, Ocasio-Cortez also appeared to suggest that President Donald Trump was a virus or a disease that people needed to vaccinate themselves against.
“Trump is a symptom, he is a symptom of much deeper problems,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“Here’s the thing, is that we can beat him but we have to vaccinate ourselves against something like this ever happening again,” Ocasio-Cortez said in reference to Trump’s 2016 election victory, adding, “and the way we inoculate ourselves from late-stage hyper capitalistic concentration of wealth among the very, very few is with a labor movement.”
Ocasio-Cortez suggested that the only way that Americans could “get through this moment” was to “guarantee” health care to everyone.
“The way we inoculate ourselves from continuing to burn up our planet at unsustainable level triggering feedback loops that we have not even begun to comprehend is by honoring indigenous wisdom and allowing it to guide our climate policy,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “The way that we preserve our systems is by transitioning to principles of universality, that means I want you clothed, I want you educated, I want you paid a living wage – no ifs, ands, or buts. And what that also means [and] what Naomi talked about as well is directly, consciously, combating white supremacy in the United States of America.”
“When people try to accuse us of going too far left – we’re not pushing the party left,” she said, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/10/us/politics/bernie-sanders-aoc-iowa.html">The New York Times</a>. “We are bringing the party home.”
&#8220;Yet what remains unclear, even after her positive reception this weekend, is whether Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and the political ideology that she and Mr. Sanders embrace resonates beyond Iowa’s more liberal pockets,&#8221; The Times added. &#8220;Mr. Sanders is still running third in most polls, faces formidable competition from Ms. Warren for progressive voters and is likely to endure nagging doubts about his fitness right up until the first Iowans caucus on Feb. 3.&#8221;

Ocasio-Cortez: Politicians Letting Me Down ‘Feels Like I Never Want To Love Again’

Climate Change

Environmentalism

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appeared to suggest, over the weekend, that President Donald Trump was a virus or a disease that Americans needed to &#8220;vaccinate&#8221; themselves against. She added that fighting climate change means guaranteeing that everyone will be &#8220;clothed,&#8221; &#8220;educated,&#8221; and &#8220;paid a living wage,&#8221; and that the environmental battle involves fighting against &#8220;white supremacy.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks on Saturday while speaking with Democrat presidential candidate and fellow socialist Bernie Sanders at a &#8220;Climate Crisis&#8221; summit in Iowa.
&#8220;The reason we are in this crisis is because oil and gas has been one of the most profitable industries of the modern era and when we talk about fighting money in politics what we&#8217;re talking about is fighting big oil,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking about fighting Wall Street. We&#8217;re talking about fighting big pharma.&#8221;
&#8220;Trump is a symptom, he is a symptom of much deeper problems,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued.
Ocasio-Cortez suggested that the only way to get “get through this moment” was to “guarantee” health care to every American.
&#8220;Here’s the thing, is that we can beat him but we have to vaccinate ourselves against something like this ever happening again,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said in reference to Trump&#8217;s 2016 election victory, adding, &#8220;and the way we inoculate ourselves the way we inoculate ourselves from late-stage hyper capitalistic concentration of wealth among the very, very few is with a labor movement.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez then stated that &#8220;indigenous wisdom,&#8221; not science or anything else, should be what guides America&#8217;s &#8220;climate policy.&#8221;
&#8220;The way we inoculate ourselves from continuing to burn up our planet at unsustainable level triggering feedback loops that we have not even begun to comprehend is by honoring indigenous wisdom and allowing it to guide our climate policy,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez  continued. &#8220;The way, the way, that we preserve our systems is by transitioning to principles of universality, that means I want you clothed, I want you educated, I want you paid a living wage — no ifs, ands, or buts. And what that also means at what Naomi talked about as well is directly, consciously, combating white supremacy in the United States of America.&#8221;
WATCH:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>: Fixing global warming means providing universal access to clothes, education, and a living wage; also, “combatting white supremacy in America” <a href="https://t.co/MknhJ2o1h9">pic.twitter.com/MknhJ2o1h9</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1193307988473393152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
Earlier this year, &#8220;after widespread criticism and watching her poll numbers sink, Ocasio-Cortez tried to play off her claim, suggesting that it was a joke and that anyone who believed her has &#8216;the social intelligence of a sea sponge,'&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-appears-change-mind-again-climate-ryan-saavedra">reported</a>.
“This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and ‘fact check’ it,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on May 12. “Like the ‘world ending in 12 years’ thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows.”
Yet, Ocasio-Cortez almost immediately re-embraced her apocalyptic climate alarmism, tweeting just a couple of weeks later in response to a meteorologist who sounded the alarm on climate change: “This guy reminds me of every climate scientist warning people we have 12 years left to cut emissions in half before our future is irreversibly damaged &amp; all the GOP wants to do is yell about communist cow farts.”
However, Ocasio-Cortez ignoring the fact that she has been one of those <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45359/watch-ocasio-cortez-doubles-down-cow-farts-makes-ryan-saavedra">yelling about “cow farts.”</a>

Ocasio-Cortez: Fight Climate Change By ‘Combating White Supremacy,’ Clothing Everyone, Educating Everyone, Paying Everyone Living Wage

White Supremacy

On Saturday, the #WalkAway movement is hosting a “Hispanic American” town hall. The event, which will be held in Congressional District 14, will feature speakers and panelists including Anna Paulina, Drew Hernandez, Gabriel E. Montalvo, among others.
For the uninitiated, the #WalkAway movement was created by former progressive Brandon Straka. On May 26, 2018, Straka released a video titled, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-speaks-walkaway-founder-brandon-straka-frank-camp">Why I Left The Democratic Party</a>.” It has since been viewed more than 2.7 million times on Facebook.
In the video, Straka explains his exodus from the Democratic Party. Many more former progressives have followed suit. A cursory YouTube search for “Walk Away” brings up video after video of individuals telling their own stories about leaving the Democratic Party or progressivism more generally.
Straka has hosted numerous town halls over the last seven months focusing on minority communities. I was able to attend and cover the very first #WalkAway town halls (one in Harlem, and another for the LGBT community) in March of this year in New York City. 
While the Harlem town hall proceeded smoothly, leftist activists protested the LGBT town hall. You can check out my coverage <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walkaway-campaigns-first-ever-town-hall-harlem-frank-camp">here</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/despite-protesters-and-attempted-censorship-frank-camp">here</a>.
I spoke with Anna Paulina, Gabriel E. Montalvo, and Brandon Straka about Saturday’s town hall.
Paulina, who is the Chairwoman of Hispanic Initiatives for Prager U, as well as a congressional candidate in Florida’s 13th district, told me that while Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been “branded by the mainstream media as the voice of Americans of Hispanic descent,” that’s simply untrue.
She stated that the Hispanic community at large holds conservative values, and that the only reason the Democratic Party focused on them in 2016 was “not because they care about immigration or us as a people, but because we are the largest voting minority in the country – which to them translates to power.”
According to Paulina, the Hispanic town hall is important because it will “showcase some of the largest conservative Hispanics voices in the country who will fight for our constitution and against socialism.”
“This event smashes any identity politics the DNC and MSM try to play,” she added.
As for the reason she decided to join the event, Paulina said:
<blockquote>I realized that if I did not speak up against the manipulation of Hispanic Americans, I was part of the problem. We can no longer expect others to fight this ideological war for us. We have to take a stand for our culture, for our people, and most importantly, for our country. The United States is America is the greatest country in the world. We are here to make sure we remain a constitutional republic and a free nation.</blockquote>
Gabriel E. Montalvo, a Specialist in the NY Army National Guard and New York State Vice-Chairman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, told me that this event is vital because “the RNC and New York GOP, in my opinion, are not doing enough in regards to Hispanic outreach. Hopefully, this event sends a message to them.”
<blockquote>We are here from all over the country to show that Hispanics are ready to walk away from the Democratic Plantation. We are in Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s district to show that we are against socialism as many of our countries of origin suffered from those policies.
I think that what drives #WalkAway are the testimonials. A movement that gives people a platform to share their stories is vital. It shows that there are like-minded individuals who will not judge you for thinking differently. Everyone has a unique story, and the civil exchange of ideas is what moves the country forward.</blockquote>
Straka, who has lead the movement to where it is today, spoke about why the event will be held in the 14th district:
<blockquote>This being our first of what will be many Hispanic American town halls, we felt it was important to kick off this outreach in District 14 of NYC, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s district. The reason being, not only are minorities in America being told that they have no option but to follow the Democrats, the messaging now is subtly changing to one that says, “If you belong to a minority class, you must embrace socialism, globalism, and the increasingly extreme policies being embraced by the political Left.”</blockquote>
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On Fri. I went to <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>’s office, was surprised to find her there &amp; hand delivered this invitation to our event this coming Sat. I told her &amp; her team HISPANIC AMERICANS DON’T HAVE TO BE SOCIALISTS &amp; DON’T HAVE TO BE DEMOCRATS. Hope 2 see u there, AOC. 
TIX: <a href="https://t.co/w6qAmuwrmi">https://t.co/w6qAmuwrmi</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ctkah6h2vi">pic.twitter.com/Ctkah6h2vi</a>
— Brandon Straka (@BrandonStraka) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrandonStraka/status/1191430202229813255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
Straka noted that “Hispanic Americans, who are traditionally known for a culture that celebrates family and faith, are being told that conservative values are racist and contradictory to their best interest, while ironically also being told to embrace extremist abortion stances and policies that directly oppose their faith and the integrity of the family.”
<blockquote>We are launching our outreach for Hispanic Americans in the constituency of the most celebrated socialist and extremist Democrat in America today to give this community a powerful message that isn&#8217;t being delivered effectively by anybody else. No, Hispanic Americans do not have to follow the Democrats off a cliff. There is a better choice.</blockquote>
The location of the event has yet to be announced due to a previous incident in which activist protesters convinced a certain venue to pull out of hosting just days before the LGBT town hall was slated to begin. For more information on the Hispanic town hall, click <a href="https://give.walkawayfoundation.org/event/walkaway-hispanic-americans-town-hall-new-york/e254481">here</a>.

AOC.

#WalkAway Founder And Panelists Discuss Hispanic Town Hall Taking Place Right In Ocasio-Cortez’s Congressional District

#WalkAway

Hispanics

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) issued a formal apology to former Brooklyn Democratic State Assemblyman Dov Hikind on Monday as part of a settlement over a lawsuit regarding her decision to block him on Twitter.
&#8220;I have reconsidered my decision to block Dov Hikind from my Twitter account,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement obtained by <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/04/aoc-says-shes-sorry-for-trying-to-block-dov-hikind-on-twitter/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow">The New York Post</a>. &#8220;Mr. Hikind has a First Amendment right to express his views and should not be blocked for them.&#8221;
&#8220;In retrospect, it was wrong and improper and does not reflect the values I cherish. I sincerely apologize for blocking Mr. Hikind,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;Now and in the future, however, I reserve the right to block users who engage in actual harassment or exploit my personal/campaign account, @AOC, for commercial or other improper purposes.&#8221;
The apology comes only a day before the self-proclaimed &#8220;radical&#8221; congresswoman was set to testify in federal court. Hikind filed a lawsuit against Ocasio-Cortez for blocking him over the summer after a federal appeals court ruled that President Donald Trump had violated the First Amendment by blocking people on Twitter. The three-judge panel determined that the president&#8217;s action was in violation of the Constitution because he used his account to conduct official government business.
The lawsuit put forth that Ocasio-Cortez blocked Hikind after he criticized the freshman lawmaker for repeatedly comparing Nazi concentration camps to illegal immigrant detention facilities. The former Brooklyn assemblyman, who founded a nonprofit organization seeking to combat anti-Semitism, referred to her analogy as an &#8220;incredibly egregious, insensitive, uneducated, disrespectful comment.&#8221;
While Ocasio-Cortez has claimed in the past to have Sephardic Jewish ancestry, she has also made eyebrow-raising statements about the Jewish people — leading repeated allegations of anti-Semitism to swirl around the congresswoman. In addition to comparing detainment facilities to concentration camps, she has compared a migrant caravan trying to enter the United States illegally to Jews fleeing the Holocaust.
She has also vehemently defended her fellow Democratic colleagues, Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), amid widespread backlash for promoting age-old anti-Semitic canards.
In addition, she has also come out in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to punish the Jewish state of Israel by politically and economically depriving the country for its alleged mistreatment of Palestinian-Arabs. The movement initially metastasized on American college campuses and is described by the Anti-Defamation League as &#8220;the most prominent effort to undermine Israel&#8217;s existence.&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez co-sponsored Omar&#8217;s bill defending BDS and was only one of 17 members of Congress to vote against a resolution condemning BDS.
While Hikind expressed disappointment that he would not be able face Ocasio-Cortez in court, he extended an invitation to the New York lawmaker to meet Holocaust survivors in his community and learn what a concentration camp means to them.
&#8220;I also want to address to Ocasio-Cortez, to ask her, we have had an outbreak of anti-Semitism in New York that we have never had before — the numbers are unprecedented,&#8221; Hikind said during a press conference on Monday &#8220;[A]ttacks upon Jews, Jewish blood in the streets, Swastikas being painted on synagogues, hate speech all over the place in New York.&#8221;
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&mdash; Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) <a href="https://twitter.com/HikindDov/status/1191395529676050434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I want to challenge Ocasio-Cortez, who speaks out on everything that&#8217;s important for America, has not spoken out about anti-Semitism,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I challenge Ocasio-Cortez to speak up, to stand up, with me, with others, and speak out against the anti-Semitism that has invaded the streets of our city and our community.&#8221;

House Financial Services Committee Hearing On Administration&#8217;s Plans To Change Housing Finance

Ocasio-Cortez Issues Last-Minute Formal Apology For Blocking Twitter User

Anti-Semitism

First Amendment

Israel

Lawsuit

Twitter

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) backed criminal activity in New York City on Saturday as she supported those who stormed a subway station and refused to pay the required fare to use the service.
&#8220;Close to a thousand anti-police protesters descended on Downtown Brooklyn Friday night, blocking traffic, vandalizing a city bus and shouting obscene insults at NYPD cops,&#8221; The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/01/anti-cop-protesters-in-brooklyn-blast-fare-evasion-crackdown/">reported</a>. &#8220;The demonstration formed soon after 7 p.m. on the streets near the Barclays Center, with protesters unfurling large banners that read &#8216;F—k the police&#8217; and &#8216;Don’t let these pigs touch us.'&#8221;
In a tweet, Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed that the United States&#8217; criminal justice system was a &#8220;mass incarceration&#8221; system &#8220;that jails the poor to free the rich&#8221; – a claim that has no factual basis.
&#8220;Ending mass incarceration means challenging a system that jails the poor to free the rich,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. &#8220;Arresting people who can’t afford a $2.75 fare makes no one safer and destabilizes our community. New Yorkers know that, they’re not having it, and they’re standing up for each other.&#8221;
According to the <a href="http://web.mta.info/nyct/rules/rules.htm">Metropolitan Transportation Authority</a> (MTA), entering its facilities without payment is prohibited:
<blockquote>No person shall use or enter upon the facilities or conveyances of the Authority, for any purpose, without the payment of the fare or tender of other valid fare media used in accordance with any conditions and restrictions imposed by the Authority. For the purposes of this section, it shall be considered an entrance into a facility or conveyance whenever a person passes through a point at which a fare is required or collected. No person shall, for purposes of gaining entry into a facility, proceed over or under any turnstile or otherwise proceed in any other unauthorized manner through an exit gate or through or past any other point at which a fare is required or collected and it shall be no defense to a charge of a violation of this subdivision that fare media, a fare media sales device or a fare collection device was malfunctioning.</blockquote>
The MTA also outlines the penalties for not paying, which essentially amounts to theft. The penalties include criminal prosecution:
<blockquote>Pursuant to section 1204(5-a) of the Public Authorities Law, any person committing one or more violations of these rules shall be subject to either:
(a) criminal prosecution in the criminal court of the City of New York, which court may impose a fine not to exceed twenty-five dollars or a term of imprisonment for not longer than ten days, or both; or 
(b) civil penalties imposed by the transit adjudication bureau in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars per violation (exclusive of interest or costs assessed thereon).</blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez was in the news late this week after she came to the defense of former Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA), who resigned this week over a sex scandal that included lewd photographs or herself being leaked to the media and allegations that she had a relationship with a congressional staffer – something that is explicitly prohibited by House rules.
Ocasio-Cortez dishonestly suggested that Hill was forced to resign only over the photographs that were leaked because Hill was a woman, which is not true.
The House Ethics Committee announced an investigation into Hill over the allegations that she had a sexual relationship with a congressional staffer.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-misleads-on-hill-scandal-suggests-it-doesnt-happen-to-men-here-are-times-it-did">READ: AOC Misleads On Hill Scandal, Suggests It Doesn’t Happen To Men. Here Are Times It Did.</a>

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Democratic House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) slammed the field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates on Friday over their far-left policy ideas, warning that the country is not &#8220;San Francisco.&#8221;
“What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan,” Pelosi told Bloomberg News. “As a left-wing San Francisco liberal I can say to these people: What are you thinking?”
Pelosi specifically raised the alarm over socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s (D-NY) proposed $93 trillion &#8220;Green New Deal,&#8221; which Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s former Cheif-of-Staff Saikat Chakrabarti <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aocs-chief-staff-admits-green-new-deal-about-ryan-saavedra">admitted</a> was about <a href="https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/the-green-new-deal-trojan-horse-socialism">implementing socialism</a>.
“There’s very strong opposition on the labor side to the Green New Deal because it’s like 10 years, no more fossil fuel. Really?” Pelosi said.
Pelosi has long opposed Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s extremist policies and “threw some serious shade on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – denying her a coveted spot on a special panel on climate change and brushing off her Green New Deal,” The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/02/07/nancy-pelosi-leaves-ocasio-cortez-off-climate-change-panel/">wrote</a> back in February.
Pelosi has repeatedly dismissed the Green New Deal in interviews and comments to reporters.
“It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive,” Pelosi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-excludes-ocasio-cortez-new-climate-change-ryan-saavedra">said</a>. “The green dream, or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it, right?”
Later in February, Pelosi took another shot at Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s proposals, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-pelosi-smacks-down-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-emily-zanotti">saying</a>: “Now, in terms of the Green New Deal [as conceived], that goes beyond what our charge is. Our charge is about saving the planet. They have in there things like single-payer and … what is it? Guaranteed income?”
“And then they have, I don’t know if it’s single-payer or Medicare for All,” Pelosi continued. “It’s kind of, like, a broader agenda &#8230; not what we hope to achieve with this focused, determined, decision-making.”
Pelosi even mocked Ocasio-Cortez in a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview when asked about the support Ocasio-Cortez has in Congress.
“That’s like five people,” Pelosi fired back.
“While there are people who have a large number of Twitter followers, what’s important is that we have large numbers of votes on the floor of the House,” Pelosi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-nancy-pelosi-mocks-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ryan-saavedra">said</a> in a separate interview.
Pelosi, who is a proponent of big government programs, even expressed concern over the cost of the extreme policies that were being proposed, saying: “We cannot just keep increasing the debt.”
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) &#8212; who is a long shot Democratic presidential candidate &#8212; even expressed anxiety over how far-left the other presidential candidates have become.
“Donald Trump, you can see it in his face. He thinks the game is coming to him. You can see it in his face every day,” Bennet <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-debate-how-far-left-is-too-far-left/2019/07/14/deb8ce90-9f38-11e9-9ed4-c9089972ad5a_story.html">said</a> in regards to Democrats eliminating private insurance and forcing everyone into government-run healthcare. “If we nominate someone that is for that plan, we will not win the presidency, and we will have no hope of winning a majority in the Senate.”
“If we’re going to go into this election talking about taking away [employer-based] health insurance for 180 million people, I guarantee we will be on defense,” Bennet added.
A poll from late July <a href="https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/455574-nearly-half-of-independents-say-democratic-party-is-too-far-left">found</a> that far more independent voters believe that Democrats have gone too far to the left than believe that Republicans have gone too far to the right.
On the issue of health care, 7 out of 10 Americans <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/03/sorry-bernie-most-americans-like-their-health-insurance-way-it-is/">like</a> their private health insurance and <a href="https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/428958-poll-voters-want-the-government-to-provide-healthcare-for">only</a> 1 out of 10 Americans said that they want the Democrats&#8217; government-run “Medicare for All” if it means abolishing private health insurance.
Many of the Democratic presidential candidates support decriminalizing illegal border crossings despite the fact that <a href="http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/NPR_PBS-NewsHour_Marist-Poll_USA-NOS-and-Tables_1907190926.pdf#page=3">two-thirds</a> of Americans believe that it is a bad idea.

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Pelosi Blasts 2020 Democrats: ‘There’s Very Strong Opposition’ To Your Ideas

Medicare for All

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) partially misled the public on Thursday about the sex scandal involving fellow freshman Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) — who resigned this week — suggesting that the scandal was only over the intimate photos that were leaked of her, which is not true.
“This doesn&#8217;t happen to male members in the same way — revenge porn in this respect. It’s horrific,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I don&#8217;t think we’re really talking about how targeted and serious this is. We&#8217;re talking about a major crime&#8230; being committed against her.”
While it is true that Hill may indeed be the victim of revenge porn, Ocasio-Cortez glossed right over the allegations that Hill had a relationship with a female campaign staffer — who has <a href="https://www.redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2019/10/22/metoo-concerns-arise-katie-hills-throuple-partner-describes-toxic-relationship-boss/">appeared</a> to suggest that Hill mistreated her — and that Hill <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/10/27/katie-hills-alleged-male-lover-says-their-lives-are-ruined-following-resignation/">allegedly</a> had a sexual relationship with a male congressional staffer.
Hill appears to have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/politics/house-opens-investigation-into-katie-hill/">admitted</a> to having the relationship with the female campaign staffer but has adamantly denied being involved with the congressional staffer.
The problem for Hill relates to the allegation surrounding the congressional staffer because members of Congress are prohibited from having relationships with those who work for them.
The allegation triggered an investigation from the House Ethics Committee, which said in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-democrat-katie-hill-under-investigation-over-sex-scandal">statement</a>:
<blockquote>The Committee is aware of public allegations that Representative Katie Hill may have engaged in a sexual relationship with an individual on her congressional staff, in violation of House Rule XXIII, clause 18(a).  The Committee, pursuant to Committee Rule 18(a), has begun an investigation and will gather additional information regarding the allegations.</blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez, and many of Hill&#8217;s other allies, have focused on casting Hill only as a victim over the whole incident, ignoring the actual misconduct allegations that were made against her.
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s assertion that these types of scandals don&#8217;t &#8220;happen to male members in the same way — revenge porn in this respect&#8221; is not an accurate reflection of the scandal because it ignores the allegations of sexual misconduct that have been made against Hill that have nothing to do with the images that were leaked of her.
Numerous men in Congress have resigned over alleged sexual misconduct scandals or have not sought re-election to whichever chamber of Congress that they served over the last decade and scores more in state-level offices have been forced to do the same thing.
Here are 14 examples of men that have been accused of misconduct over the last decade who either resigned or did not seek re-election:
1. Rep. Pat Meehan (R-PA); resigned 2018.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/us/politics/patrick-meehan-sexual-harassment.html">reported</a>:
<blockquote>
A married father of three, Mr. Meehan, 62, had long expressed interest in the personal life of the aide, who was decades younger and had regarded the congressman as a father figure, according to three people who worked with the office and four others with whom she discussed her tenure there.
But after the woman became involved in a serious relationship with someone outside the office last year, Mr. Meehan professed his romantic desires for her — first in person, and then in a handwritten letter — and he grew hostile when she did not reciprocate, the people familiar with her time in the office said.
</blockquote>
2. Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ); resigned 2017.
Roll Call reported:
<blockquote>Soon after Franks&#8217; announcement, the <a href="https://apnews.com/ca905b7b6e264683832a038521f5353f?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=AP">Associated Press</a> reported that a former Franks staffer said the congressman offered her $5 million to carry his child. The staffer told the AP Franks asked her at least four times to be a surrogate in exchange for money.
House GOP sources told <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/08/trent-franks-sex-surrogacy-impregnate-287808">Politico</a> Franks had asked two female staffers to act as surrogates for him and his wife, but it wasn&#8217;t clear if the congressman was expecting them to have sexual relations with him. Franks also tried to convince a female aide she was in love with him, according to a former staffer who spoke to Politico. A female staffer said she felt retaliated against after turning Franks down.</blockquote>
3. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI); resigned 2017.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/conyers-wont-seek-reelection-following-harassment-allegations-report-says/2017/12/05/17057ea0-d9bb-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Facing multiple allegations of sexual harassment, Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) resigned as Congress&#8217;s longest-serving member Tuesday, becoming the first lawmaker to step down as Capitol Hill grapples with allegations of inappropriate behavior by lawmakers.
Conyers, who represented the Detroit area for 52 years, yielded to mounting pressure from Democratic leaders to step aside as a growing number of female former aides accused him of unwanted advances and mistreatment. He has denied wrongdoing.</blockquote>
4. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX); announced retirement in 2017.
The Dallas Morning News <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2017/11/30/rep-joe-barton-i-will-not-seek-re-election/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Rep. Joe Barton, whose private life came under national scrutiny after sexual images he shared in an extramarital relationship were made public, won’t seek re-election&#8230;
&#8230;He’s faced crushing pressure in recent days after lewd images and suggestive messages he swapped during extramarital relationships surfaced online, an event that prompted a number of women with whom he was involved to speak publicly about their exchanges with Barton.
But unlike other high-profile men who’ve seen their careers crumble recently in politics, Hollywood and the news media, none of Barton’s accusers have said he engaged in sexual harassment or abuse of power.
</blockquote>
5. Sen. Al Franken (D-MN); resigned 2018. 
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/us/politics/al-franken-senate-sexual-harassment.html">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, in an emotional speech on the Senate floor, announced on Thursday that he would resign from Congress, the most prominent figure in a growing list of lawmakers felled by charges of sexual harassment or indiscretions.
At turns defiant and mournful but hardly contrite, Mr. Franken called it “the worst day of my political life,” as he denied allegations of groping and improper advances from at least six women.</blockquote>
6. Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA); resigned 2017. 
Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/05/tim-murphy-resigns-from-congress-243510">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.), the embattled anti-abortion lawmaker who allegedly encouraged his lover to terminate a pregnancy, on Thursday announced his plan to resign from office later this month — just a day after announcing his plan to retire following the 2018 election.
The Pennsylvania Republican’s about-face came after House GOP leaders and senior Republicans upped the pressure on Murphy to step down. Republican sources familiar with Murphy’s thinking said the married father of one child initially believed he could weather a story in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, revealing he had sent a series of text messages to his girlfriend — a psychologist half his age — encouraging her to have an abortion. Murphy has been a strongly anti-abortion lawmaker during his 15 years in Congress.</blockquote>
7. Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX); resigned 2018.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/blake-farenthold-resigns-congress/index.html">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Rep. Blake Farenthold announced he&#8217;s resigning from the House of Representatives effective Friday, a few months after news broke he used taxpayer money to pay a settlement to a former aide who accused the Texas Republican of sexual harassment and other improper conduct.
After his announcement, the National Republican Congressional Committee, which works to elect GOP candidates to the House, requested he pay back the money that was used for the settlement.</blockquote>
8. Rep. Vance McAllister (R-LA); announced in 2014 that he would not seek re-election.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/us/politics/congressman-shown-on-video-kissing-aide-wont-seek-re-election.html">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Representative Vance McAllister, Republican of Louisiana, who was caught on camera kissing a female staff member who was not his wife, will not seek re-election to the seat he has held for only five months, his office said on Monday.
Mr. McAllister, 40, who won a special election in November after pledging to “defend our Christian way of life,” had resisted bowing to demands that he step down after a video of him kissing the aide late last year appeared this month on the website of The Ouachita Citizen, a weekly newspaper.</blockquote>
9. Rep. David Wu (D-OR); resigned 2011.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rep-david-wu-d-ore-says-he-will-resign-after-report-of-sexual-encounter/2011/07/26/gIQALrQGbI_story.html">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) announced Tuesday that he will resign from Congress, four days after a report that a young woman called his office complaining of an “unwanted sexual encounter” with the congressman&#8230;
&#8230;The congressman, who said he will formally resign at the conclusion of the debt-limit debate, had said Monday that he would not seek reelection next year. But congressional leaders had called for an ethics investigation, and both of his home state’s Democratic senators on Tuesday morning called for his resignation.</blockquote>
10. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY); resigned 2011. 
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/nyregion/anthony-d-weiner-tells-friends-he-will-resign.html">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Representative Anthony D. Weiner, a once-promising politician whose Brooklyn roots and scrappy style made him a leading candidate to be the next mayor of New York, resigned his seat on Thursday, ending a three-week scandal over his lewd online behavior that startled his constituents and alienated many of his colleagues.
Mr. Weiner made the decision after long and emotional discussions with his political advisers and his wife, Huma Abedin, whom friends described as devastated by the behavior of her husband of 11 months, and worried about the couple’s financial future.</blockquote>
11. Rep. Chris Lee (R-NY); resigned 2011.
ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/congressman-chris-lee-resigns-shirtless-photo-posted-internet/story?id=12878937">reported</a>:
<blockquote>&#8230;the gossip website Gawker posted a story that included the e-mails allegedly exchanged between Lee and the unnamed woman. According to the story, a single 34-year-old woman from Maryland posted an ad on Craigslist&#8217;s &#8220;Women for Men&#8221; section on Jan. 14. Soon afterwards a man named Christopher Lee replied, identifying himself as a 39-year-old divorced lobbyist.
In the exchange that followed, Lee reportedly sent the woman an e-mail including a photo of Lee with his shirt off, flexing his arms and chest. The woman later broke off her correspondence with Lee after she did an online search for him and determined that he had lied about his age and his job, the Gawker story reported.</blockquote>
12. Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY); resigned 2010.
Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2010/03/rep-eric-massa-to-resign-034001">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Democratic Rep. Eric Massa will resign from Congress on Monday, only days after reports first surfaced that the freshman New York lawmaker was under investigation by the House ethics committee for allegedly sexually harassing a male staffer.</blockquote>
13. Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN); resigned 2010.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/indiana-rep-mark-souder-resigns-after-affair-with-staffer">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Eight-term Indiana Rep. Mark Souder announced his resignation Tuesday after admitting to an affair with a female aide who worked in his district office.
Souder, a Republican, will will step down on Friday. He said in remarks obtained by Fox News that he &#8220;sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual relationship with a part-time member of my staff.&#8221;</blockquote>
14. Rep. Ruben Kihuen (D-NV); announced in 2017 that he would not seek re-election.
NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/12/16/571368835/democrat-ruben-kihuen-won-t-seek-re-election-following-sexual-harassment-allegat">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Rep. Ruben Kihuen, D-Nev., who has been haunted for two weeks by allegations of sexual harassment, said Saturday that he will not seek re-election in 2018.
Kihuen&#8217;s announcement comes a day after the House Ethics Committee said it has opened an investigation looking into the allegations leveled at the 37-year-old freshman congressman by a former campaign aide.</blockquote>

Katie Hill Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

AOC Misleads On Hill Scandal, Suggests It Doesn’t Happen To Men. Here Are Times It Did.

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On Thursday, for Halloween, Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren dressed up as what she called “the thing that scares me the most”: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Wearing a brown wig, large glasses, and carrying a binder titled “Green New Deal” as well as a copy of &#8220;The Communist Manifesto,&#8221; Lahren wrote on Instagram, &#8220;This Halloween I decided to dress up as the thing that scares me most, the Democrat Dimwit Darling herself. I’m not afraid of ghouls, ghosts, zombies or political incorrectness. I am far more terrified AOC was actually elected to the United States Congress. Talk about a haunted House…” She added the hashtags #Socialism Kills and #TeamTomi.
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Lahren released a short video saying, “The Left is getting really triggered with my AOC costume and they’re saying I’m disparaging her for being a bartender. Let me make this very clear: her being a former bartender is the most admirable quality AOC has. Period.”
After AOC&#8217;s Green New Deal was announced, Lahren said on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheFOXNation/videos/589989784758472/?v=589989784758472">Fox Nation:</a>
<blockquote>Yes, it&#8217;s called the Green New Deal and shock, they don&#8217;t how or who is going to pay for it.  The only thing green about it is the money they are taking out of our pockets to fund their socialist utopia.  But here are some of the genius tenants of the non-binding resolution from hell: a full phase-out of fossil fuels; health care for all Americans; net zero emissions in ten years because it takes a while to get rid of all the farting livestock, y&#8217;know: an upgrade or replacement of every building for the state of the art energy efficiency; a high speed rail to replace air travel; economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.
Yeah, when I say the Democratic party is absolutely, undoubtedly and unarguably out of its collective freaking mind, this is what I&#8217;m talking about.  So, how much would this Green New Deal cost?  Well Alexandria doesn&#8217;t know and she doesn&#8217;t care who&#8217;s gonna pay for it.  Alexandria doesn&#8217;t know and doesn&#8217;t care, but obviously we are, those of us who work to support those who aren&#8217;t willing.</blockquote>
As <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7637451/Conservative-commentator-Tomi-Lahren-dresses-AOC-Halloween.html">The Daily Mail</a> noted, last January on Fox &amp; Friends Lahren said, “There’s a difference between being successful on Twitter and social media like Ocasio-Cortez and being relatable on social media platforms and actually being successful in real life.”
In July, Ocasio-Cortez visited U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detention centers in Texas, then tweeted, “Just left the 1st CBP facility. I see why CBP officers were being so physically &amp;sexually threatening towards me. Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water &amp; had told them to drink out of the toilets. This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.”
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Just left the 1st CBP facility.
I see why CBP officers were being so physically &amp;sexually threatening towards me.
Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water &amp; had told them to drink out of the toilets.
This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1145762201619357696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Lahren fired back on Twitter, “You have zero awareness of what our @CBP officers do on a daily basis. Are you surprised they don’t want to be around you? No law enforcement official would. You’re completely out of line and a disgrace to this nation. I feel sorry for our @CBP officers who had to be near you.”
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You have zero awareness of what our <a href="https://twitter.com/CBP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBP</a> officers do on a daily basis. Are you surprised they don’t want to be around you? No law enforcement official would. You’re completely out of line and a disgrace to this nation. I feel sorry for our <a href="https://twitter.com/CBP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBP</a> officers who had to be near you. <a href="https://t.co/Q19DbtH0hX">https://t.co/Q19DbtH0hX</a>
&mdash; Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1145783161420484609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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