We stopped… We stopped here.

And it was a really beautiful day,

and he leaned down next to me, and he—

he pointed at the Washington Monument,

and he pointed at the Reflecting Pool,

and he pointed at everything, and he said,

he said “You know, this all belongs to us”.

He said, “This is our government. It belongs to us.”

“So all of this stuff, is yours.”



The last thing my dad ever told me was to make him proud.

And I finally think I did that.

—U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez