{"id":99343,"date":"2026-08-09T17:42:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/aoc-insurgent-progressive-candidates-dont-answer-to-any-master-are-not-beholden-to-any-corporate-interest-or-party-boss\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T17:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:42:01","slug":"aoc-insurgent-progressive-candidates-dont-answer-to-any-master-are-not-beholden-to-any-corporate-interest-or-party-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/aoc-insurgent-progressive-candidates-dont-answer-to-any-master-are-not-beholden-to-any-corporate-interest-or-party-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC: Insurgent Progressive Candidates &#8220;Don&#8217;t Answer To Any Master, Are Not Beholden To Any Corporate Interest Or Party Boss&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez discussed why she has not endorsed any candidates running against Democratic incumbents in primaries this year, during a Sunday appearance on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week.&#8221;  ABC&#8217;s Jon Karl asks about this opinion piece in The Hill: <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/5957387-ocasio-cortez-endorsement-hesitancy\/\">&#8220;Today&#8217;s Cautious AOC Would Not Have Endorsed the AOC of 2018&#8221;<\/a>  &#8220;You know, I wasn&#8217;t endorsed by anybody when I was running,&#8221; she said.   &#8220;When I see so many of these incredible insurgent candidates that are running today \u2013\u2013 that&#8217;s part of what makes me so proud of them \u2013\u2013 is that they do not answer to any master; they are not beholden to any corporate interest or any party boss, and they are completely independent, which allows them to be responsive to their communities and the people that elected them, she said.  And I think that in many ways that makes our movement stronger when you have to rely on your own organizing skills, and I think that it has proven to be quite successful, she continued.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/08\/09\/aoc_insurgent_democratic_socialists_dont_answer_to_any_master_are_not_beholden_to_any_corporate_interest_or_party_boss.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez discussed why she has not endorsed any candidates running against Democratic incumbents in primaries this year, during a Sunday appearance on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week.&#8221; ABC&#8217;s Jon Karl asks about this opinion piece in The Hill: &#8220;Today&#8217;s Cautious AOC Would Not Have Endorsed the AOC of 2018&#8221; &#8220;You know, I wasn&#8217;t endorsed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5996,30167,965,7392,286,322,29847,8379,11416,625,7423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}