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" People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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" What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are. "

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" The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion. "

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" It's time we acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same. That a Democrat who takes corporate money, profits off foreclosure, doesn't live here, doesn't send his kids to our schools, doesn't drink our water or breathe our air cannot possibly represent us. "

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" In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States. "

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