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stated on April 3, 2025 in a Facebook post:

Says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s family “must have just overlooked” “cashing her dead grandmother’s Social Security checks for a decade and a half.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 4, 2025

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stated on January 24, 2025 in a Threads post:

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamie Raskin “have filed articles of impeachment against President Trump for pardoning the J6 prisoners.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 29, 2025

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stated on April 23, 2024 in a Facebook post:

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, “The moon is more important than the sun as the moon gives us light at night when it is dark out. The sun only gives us light during the day when it is already light out.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 1, 2024

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stated on October 1, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Video shows Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez crying on CNN.

By Ciara O'Rourke • October 2, 2023

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stated on October 23, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Video shows U.S. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Pelosi discussing Jan. 6 with President Joe Biden.

By Ciara O'Rourke • October 2, 2023

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stated on March 6, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Elon Musk banned U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from Twitter.

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 9, 2023

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stated on January 30, 2023 in an Instagram post:

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that Instagram needs to “TERMINATE…a right-wing media page posting CONSERVATIVE content.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 31, 2023

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stated on January 23, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Video shows Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez crying after “Ted Cruz gets up and humiliates her to her face.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 26, 2023

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stated on July 17, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Jim Jordan told Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, “You’re just dumb.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 19, 2022

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stated on February 5, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, “I don’t need truckers. I get my food from the grocery store.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 7, 2022

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stated on September 13, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent $30,000 to attend the Met Gala and “God knows how much on that dress.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • September 16, 2021

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stated on July 6, 2021 in an Instagram post:

Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared smoking marijuana and transgender women in the Olympics.

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 9, 2021

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stated on March 8, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's net worth is “over $1 million.”

By Tom Kertscher • March 10, 2021

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stated on January 9, 2021 in a tweet:

Said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies “blocked a resolution condemning anti-Semitism — which I passed unanimously in the Senate.”

By Landon Allison, Julia Schneider • February 18, 2021

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stated on January 12, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “Let’s begin ‘The Purge’ to roundup all Conservative traitors.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 13, 2021

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stated on June 23, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “It’s vital that Governors maintain restrictions on businesses until after the November Elections because economic recovery will help Trump be re-elected. A few business closures or job losses is a small price to pay to be free from his presidency. #KeepUsClosed.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • June 23, 2020

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stated on December 23, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar vowed "to remove senior’s ‘entitlements,’ Social Security/Medicare."

By Daniel Funke • January 2, 2020

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stated on December 27, 2019 in social media posts:

Says that four Democrats — Sheila Jackson Lee, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — made specific, suspect remarks about such topics as the Constitution, abortion and guns.

By Louis Jacobson • January 2, 2020

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stated on September 4, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, "I see people are rushing out to fill up their cars for this hurricane at the gas station. This wouldn’t be an issue if they had electric cars. If the power is out for a week how are they going to get gas? We need to start planning ahead and moving forward."

By Ciara O'Rourke • September 6, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on July 23, 2019 in a speech to conservative high school students:

Says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "called our country and our people garbage."

By Jon Greenberg • July 23, 2019

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