Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democrat · NY-14 · U.S. House
Bio
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, is an American politician and activist who has served since 2019 as the U.S. representative for New York's 14th congressional district. She is a member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.6 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 218 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 36
- Bronx, NY
- Queens, NY
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $17k – $81k
- Liabilities
- $15k – $50k
- Net worth
- −$33k – $66k
- Since 2019
- +$41k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 4 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Ocasio-Cortezsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
- Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Ocasio-Cortez's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Why are ‘Woke 1’ and ‘Woke 2’ suddenly going viral? AOC ‘crazy’ comment sparks internet debateWhen Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that “Woke 1.0 was crazy” on ABC News, she introduced a long-used internet term to a much wider audience. Ocasio-Cortez was joking about how democratic socialist Francesca Hong, then still in the running to be…
Biztoc.com · August 21, 2026
Young socialist admits “Woke 1.0 was crazy” but their energy war on American families continues unabatedThe confession slipped out almost casually, a rare moment of candor from a politician who has spent years defending utopian socialist agendas. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Socialist from New York, told the New Left that the pandemic era’…
Naturalnews.com · August 21, 2026
The Reign of Corporate Democrats Is Coming to an EndMost discussions about the Democratic Party in this election cycle focus on the remarkable rise of progressive Democrats (such as Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist who yesterday scored an upset win in the Democratic contest for the Florid…
Common Dreams · August 19, 2026
Bill de Blasio backs Democrats' socialist wing, says Americans are 'hungry' for far-left visionFormer New York City mayor says Americans are hungry for the socialist vision offered by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.
Fox News · August 19, 2026
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