I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family

Mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx

I was born in a place where your zip code determines your destiny

My name is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I'm an educator, an organizer, a working class New Yorker

I've worked with expectant mothers, I've waited tables, and led classrooms

and going into politics wasn't in the plan

But after 20 years of the same representation, we have to ask:

who has New York been changing for?

Every day gets harder for working families like mine to get by

The rent gets higher, health care covers less, and our income stays the same

It's clear that these changes haven't been for us

and we deserve a champion

It's time to fight for a New York that working families can afford

That's why I'm running for Congress

This race is about people vs. money

We've got people, they've got money

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

What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare-for-all, tuition-free public college

a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal justice reform

We can do it now

It doesn't take a hundred years to do this

It takes political courage

A New York for the many is possible

It's time for one of us

Vote for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on June 26