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Ana Maria Archila, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy Action, said she was “moved” by the invitation to attend from the freshman lawmaker.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s guest, Ana Maria Archila, is a resident of Queens who helps direct the Center for Popular Democracy, a progressive advocacy group. She confronted Jeff Flake, then a Republican senator from Arizona, in an elevator during the Kavanaugh hearings. The encounter prompted Mr.

Ana Maria Archila, the Queens woman who confronted Senator Jeff Flake in an elevator on Capitol Hill during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, will join Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the State of the Union tomorrow.

Archila, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy Action, made headlines in September when she explained her own sexual assault to Flake in an effort to persuade him to vote against Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation.

Ana Maria Archila, the Queens woman who famously confronted Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake in a Capitol Hill elevator, will be Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s State of the Union guest on Tuesday.

Portsmouth Commonwealth's Attorney Stephanie Morales was named Thursday to the board of directors for Local Progress, a national network of progressive municipal officials...“Each elected official that we have appointed to our board is a rising star in their region who has demonstrated a bold, pr

In January, the RWDSU and four community organizations—Alliance for a Greater New York, Make the Road New York, New York Communities for Change and Local Progress—conducted a briefing in the RWDSU’s New York City office to discuss our recently released report “What’s Wrong With Amazon.

Thankfully, Janet Yellen, who was then Fed chair, agreed with this position. (It helped that our friends with the Fed Up Coalition were also pushing hard in this direction.) Her replacement, Jerome Powell, seems to be following the same path, more or less.

“Lisa Wesel of Bowdoinham, a mother of an adult daughter with disabilities, said she’s been lobbying for her daughter’s healthcare for 22 years.

“Nima: Yeah.

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