We can out-organize the oligarchy. | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Po2WZo7z4 

 

May 3, 2025

Too many of us know what it feels like to be one bad day away from everything in life falling apart. But we don't have to live like this anymore. We can out-organize the oligarchy. We can stop accepting the crumbs they leave the rest of us while they walk away with billions.

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so many of us know what it feels like

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for life to be one bad day one piece of

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bad news one major setback from

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everything falling apart and I'm here to

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tell you today Idaho we don't have to

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live like this anymore we can make a new

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world a better country where we can

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fight for the dignity of all people and

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that dignity looks like living wages

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Idaho it looks like stable housing it

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looks like guaranteed health care and

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respect for all of our differences no

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matter who we are or where we come from

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oligarchy or

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democracy boisey we are here today

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because we choose

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democracy we choose freedom we choose

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justice and that means we must choose to

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out organize the oligarchy we must do

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away with the power of big money and

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that is why even as a waitress with a

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longshot campaign for Congress I decided

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right then and there that I would never

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take money from lobbyists and

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corporations and I never will