Ready for AOC

AP: "packed rooms in Michigan's deeply Republican Upper Peninsula, where chants of "AOC" broke out." Red-country crowds are part of the 2028 case. https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/10/24/aoc-can-draw-a-crowd-the-midterms-will-test-whether-her-politics-can-win-before-2028/

Why her, why now: when she campaigned in Michigan last week, the New York Daily News described "sprawling crowds in a rural, Republican-leaning part of the state." That's who a 2028 candidate has to reach. If you want her to run, add your name: readyforaoc.com

What's the one issue that would get you knocking doors for her in 2028? Tell us below. Then add your name at readyforaoc.com, so it counts.

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Receipts: last week in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, 500 people packed a fairgrounds pavilion in Escanaba at lunchtime. A few hundred came out in Iron Mountain. More than 1,200 showed up at Northern Michigan University's arena. She was there for someone else's Senate race.

AOC FOR PRESIDENT!

Receipts: At an Oct. 5 event for Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, AOC said: "If Abdul can win in Michigan, anybody can win anywhere." ABC News reports she is weighing "potential bids for higher office in 2028."

Who in your town wants AOC on the 2028 ballot? Ask them this week, then send them to readyforaoc.com. No campaign. No money. Just names.

Why her, why now: AOC's Michigan bus tour with Abdul El-Sayed this week stops in Escanaba, Iron Mountain and Marquette in the Upper Peninsula, then campus rallies downstate. That's a long way from the Bronx.

Receipts: House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to USA TODAY on Oct 2: "I think the sky's the limit for her in terms of how she decides to move forward." He isn't making a 2028 pick yet. We already have.

At her Ithaca town hall on Sept 27, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said: "the way we win people over is in person; it is very, very hard to hate up close." (Cornell Daily Sun) That's how this list grows too: one person telling another.

Asked on ABC's "This Week" in August about running for president in 2028, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said: "I haven't ruled out the possibility." Her focus is the midterms. Ours is collecting names until she decides. Add yours: https://readyforaoc.com

Bloomberg counted more than 1,000 people at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Sunday evening town hall in Ithaca. The Cornell Daily Sun reported roughly 2,000, counting overflow rooms. How many of them want her on the 2028 ballot? Add your name: https://readyforaoc.com

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent September 24 to 27 upstate: Buffalo, Ithaca and Syracuse. A strategist told NY1 the relationships she's building there could matter if she runs for Senate or for president in 2028. We know which one we'd pick. https://readyforaoc.com/updates

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told The New York Times she'll weigh a 2028 run after the midterms. Some people argue, she said, that "oftentimes in politics, you do only get one shot." We think she should take it. Add your name: https://readyforaoc.com