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27 Nov, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Today many are buying gifts or donations for the holiday season.

Right now, small businesses & food aids across the country REALLY need our help.

Let’s help & commit to shopping small this year wherever we can.

Comment w/ links for your favorite 🎁 from small biz & orgs below:
Here are a bunch of small businesses from #ShopSmallAstoria in my community, and they ship nationwide. They range from bookshops to zero-waste gifts for friends and family 🎁
On the Bronx side, I ♥️ @thelitbar - an Afro-Latina run bookstore founded as the ONLY bookshop in the Bronx.

If you are planning on gifting new books this year, please order them from an independent bookstore!

Thelitbar.Com
Please consider making contributions (or doing so in a loved ones’ name as a gift) to mutual aid funds, legal aid orgs, and grassroots community groups this season.

It will help with food need, eviction defense, etc.

Put an org you love on your wish list to encourage support!
Another great gift as well is to support local journalism.

Gift a subscription (digital or physical) to a local newspaper or magazine for a reader in your life.

It’s a great way to support our democracy and independent/local journalism while gifting to others 🎁
And lastly, if you’ve combed through all these other options - our Team AOC shop is in the process of restocking for the holiday season.

shop.ocasiocortez.com

All items are made in the USA and create living wage, dignified union jobs for people across the country 🇺🇸

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7 Nov
It’s not too late for them to do the right thing. Lincoln Project should take the L and publicly pledge to give a lot of their fundraising to the people who actually made a big difference.
And if they spent it all (yikes) then they should consider using their fundraising juggernaut to get resources to those orgs.
If they need ideas there are plenty of recommendations here ⬇️
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6 Nov
There are folks running around on TV blaming progressivism for Dem underperformance.

I was curious, so I decided to open the hood on struggling campaigns of candidates who are blaming progressives for their problems.

Almost all had awful execution on digital. DURING A PANDEMIC.
Underinvestment across the board. Some campaigns spent $0 on digital the week before the election. Others who spent did so in very poor ways.

If I spent only $12k on TV the week before an election & then blamed others after, you’d ask questions. That’s how it looks seeing this.
Ideology + messaging are the spicy convos a lot of people jump to but sometimes it’s about execution and technical capacity.

Digital execution was not good, polls were off, ironically DCCC banned the firms who are the best in the country at Facebook bc they work w progressives!
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19 Sep
We have lost a giant in the history of our nation with the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

It is heartbreaking that in her final moments she was, as are many others, preoccupied with what would happen after her passing.

I want to make one thing clear: we can, and must, fight.
Now is not the time for cynicism or hopelessness. There is and continues to be political possibility to preserve our democracy & move forward.

It will require each & every one of us, from the streets to the Senate, to grow in courage, strength, and strategy. But it is possible.
Our first, no 1 priority is to do everything possible to secure electoral college victory in Nov.

This is the fight of and for our lives. That has always been true, & it becomes more true each day.

Opponents of democracy need your resignation to succeed. Don’t give it to them.
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30 Jul
Imagine trying to explain to your colleagues who are members of Congress what Twitch is 😭
Some context for a few folks getting upset at this: Congress is voting on legislation regarding Twitch today.

It’s totally fine if you don’t know what Twitch is. But tech literacy is becoming an growing need in Congress so we can legislate to protect people’s privacy, etc.
When our legislative bodies aren’t sufficiently responsive to tech, then that means we don’t have the tools required to protect people.

This is partially why companies know way more about you than you may even be aware of - bc it’s legal, and Congress is struggling to keep up.
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13 Jul
Republicans are all upset that I’m connecting the dots between poverty and crime.

I know most of them haven’t experienced or seen these issues first hand, but I have.

This may be hard for them to admit, but poverty and crime are highly linked, both violent & nonviolent alike.
Let me give you a real life example that I’ve encountered often (wording vaguely to protect people).

Growing up I was friends w/ a boy who was the son of a single mom. They struggled to pay rent.

As we know, hourly work doesn’t pay a living wage - especially then. /2
It’s virtually impossible to pay rent on $8/hr.

And when you are teenage boy in a fatherless home (his dad passed away), there is a drive to be “the man of the house.” To help your mom.

And what makes money fast when a full time job doesn’t pay enough to live? Selling weed. /3
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10 Jul
People who are actually “cancelled” don’t get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets.

This has been a public service announcement.
The term “cancel culture” comes from entitlement - as though the person complaining has the right to a large, captive audience,& one is a victim if people choose to tune them out.

Odds are you’re not actually cancelled, you’re just being challenged, held accountable, or unliked.
I have an entire TV network dedicated to stoking hatred of me. A white supremacist w/ a popular network show regularly distorts me in dangerous ways, & it’s a normal part of my existence to get death threats from their audience.

You don’t see me complaining abt “cancel culture”
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