In 2018, a campaign video from a bartender in the Bronx became an overnight sensation, pulling in 300,000 views in the first 24 hours alone. Small-dollar donors felt seen by the working-class, anti-establishment millennial, powering Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, against all odds, to triumph over a 20-year incumbent. The Democratic Party would never be the same.

“This nation is never beyond remedy, it is never beyond hope, it is never too broken to fix.”

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’ star would only continue to rise as she recentered substantial policy debates in the national conversation alongside The Squad. With Senator Ed Markey, she co-sponsored the iconic Green New Deal, a legislative framework that has since become a cornerstone in creating local, state, and international climate policy. She also provides her audience with a never-before-seen look into life on Capitol Hill, revealing ‘how the sausage gets made’ in her interactive social media stories, posts, and live broadcasts.

Her candid vulnerability following one of our nation’s darkest days on January 6th solidified her status as the face of the future of the Democratic Party, blending pragmatic assessments of America’s faults with an unrelenting optimism that our future can be as bright as the effort we invest in shaping it.