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Knock Down The House (2019)

When I was a little girl, my Dad wanted to go on a road trip with his buddies. I wanted to go so badly, and I begged and I begged, and he relented. And so it was like four grown men and a five-year-old girl went on this road trip from New York. We stopped… we stopped here. And it was a really beautiful day.

So I’m watching Knock Down The House on Netflix

And not only is it amazing and informational and inspiring 

But you get to see Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez making the same face we all make when we hear some politician saying any fake bullshit and I’m HERE FOR IT

I laughed, I cried, and you should all absolutely watch it

Knock Down The House, 2019 (dir. Rachel Lears)

We stopped… We stopped here. And it was a really beautiful day, and he leaned down next to me, and he— he pointed at the Washington Monument, and he pointed at the Reflecting Pool, and he pointed at everything, and he said, he said “You know, this all belongs to us”. He said, “This is our government. It belongs to us.” “So all of this stuff, is yours.”

The last thing my dad ever told me was to make him proud. And I finally think I did that.

                                     —U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez before her democratic primary debate with Rep. Joe Crowley. Knock Down the House (dir. Rachel Lears, 2019)

We have to have the courage to say, “We can do better.”

Knock Down the House (2019), dir. Rachel Lears