The Fearless Rise of Alexandria OcasioCortez and What It Means for America. From the moment Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat a ten-term incumbent in the primary election for New Yorks 14th on June 26, 2018, her journey to the national, if not world, stage, was fast-tracked. Six months later, as the youngest Congresswoman ever elected, AOC became one of a handful of Latina politicians in Washington, D.C. Just thirty, she represents her generation, the millennials, in many groundbreaking ways proudly working class, Democratic Socialist, of Puerto Rican descent, master of social media, not to mention of the Bronx, feminist - and a