Socialist firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is calling on Democrats to organize in GOP-heavy districts to push back against the Trump agenda and what she claims will be drastic cuts to Medicaid. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images, left, Win McNamee/Getty Images, right. )
"These Republicans, I'm telling you all, they are getting scared," Ocasio-Cortez said to her 8.7 million followers on the platform in the 54-minute video.
"Trump not mentioning Medicaid at the State of the Union is the game. He doesn't talk about it. [It's] what he fears and he knows it's dynamite. The House Republicans know that it's dynamite for them and that's why they're talking about not hosting town halls."
"We need to be creatively organizing in Republican districts. And I don't want to hear, okay, Republicans don't listen. They are afraid of this. I'm telling you."
Ocasio-Cortez called on Democrats to host town halls in Rep. Nicole Malliotakis' districts of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York, Rep. Mike Lawler’s district of Westchester County in New York and Rep. Jeff Van Drew’s district in New Jersey.
Vice President JD Vance, from left, President Donald Trump, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, during a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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She likened them to defense contractors like Boeing and Lockheed Martin and said she believes that healthcare is a human right.
"They are robbing us of the tiny slivers of what we have left in our collective public social safety net in order to get $1 billion defense contracts… They fund propaganda for it and they buy platforms like Twitter and, yeah, Meta, and all these other things."
She said the stakes are high, and it will take people going out and speaking to Republicans and convincing them of the Democrat message.
"We cannot give up on winning the hearts and minds of our fellow Americans."
Fox News' Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
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