Almost every month for the last 4 years, Alexandria has held official town halls for NY-14 constituents to give updates on federal programs, her work in Congress, and to keep hearing about their needs.
And after New York finished its redistricting process this year, she also started holding a listening tour to meet people in new parts of the district.
These gatherings have always been productive, civil conversations about the important issues facing our community. But in the last two weeks, these civic spaces have been interrupted by far-right actors, spewing hate.
QAnon individuals have been showing up and aggressively disrupting many events across the country from queer poetry events to vaccine clinics. And on Wednesday, they came to our listening forum in Queens. They shouted anti-LGBTQ+ slurs and other profanities — attempting to drown out the constituents for whom the event was organized, and who had urgent questions around housing, inflation and more.
The far-right’s goal is to destroy the community spaces that are so essential to our democracy — and to intimidate people who disagree with them into silence. But we will keep listening to and meeting with our constituents. We’ll keep fostering democracy.
We won’t let them win.
Thank you so much for your support. Together, I know we will help Alexandria keep fighting against the MAGA movement.
– Team AOC
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