When I got to Washington, I was not popular.
I had just unseated a very powerful guy in Washington — and at my first big meeting during orientation, he was presiding over the room.
Everyone knew him. I was new. I did not know anyone.
Then a congressman leaned over to me and said: "Man, it's such a shame that girl beat him." I looked back at him. I said: "You mean me?"
The blood drained from his face as he realized I was "that girl." Not just because I won my race — but because I represented a threat to the typical D.C. power structure that existed back then and still exists now.
You see, I am proud of that moment. I did not get involved in politics because I wanted to be part of that system. I ran on the issues that matter to the working class and are too often ignored in Washington: Medicare for All, a living wage, stable housing, affordable childcare, and getting corporate money out of politics.
That is why I have never taken a dime from lobbyists or corporate PACs, and I never will.
And that is the power behind what this win meant in that room all those years ago: I did not do it alone.
Thousands of people like you knocked on doors, talked to their neighbors, and chipped in what they could. We out-organized them once. We will do it again, in my district and across the country.
If you can chip in $5 today, that is what it funds.
If you cannot donate, sign up to volunteer in the future and give your time instead. Either way, it is good to have you here.
Pa’lante,
Alexandria
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