Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a freshman congresswoman from New York, has become a boogeyman of sorts for Republicans and pretty much anyone who appears on Fox News. And now anyone with a Netflix subscription will get to relive her historic election through a documentary coming soon.
Ocasio-Cortez was last seen not clapping for Donald Trump’s State of the Union address and dragging Republican lawmakers on Twitter, but her election to the US House of Representatives was a huge moment for progressive politics in America and women lawmakers in general. And now a documentary chronicling her historic run to office is in the works.
Netflix’s See What’s Next Twitter account announced on Thursday that it had acquired the rights to a documentary about a slew of groundbreaking women getting elected to Congress in last November’s midterm elections.
Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to “Knock Down the House,” an award-winning documentary that chronicles the campaigns of four progressive candidates — @AOC @CoriBush @amy4thepeople and @paulajean2020 — in the 2018 midterm election. pic.twitter.com/s8YGoDKHsf
— Netflix Queue (@netflixqueue) February 7, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez has quickly become a social media darling and a rising star in the Democratic party, in part because she’s come out strongly in favor of the New Green Deal and a high tax rate on multi-millionaires. That’s made her a frequent target for conservatives online and on TV, but she’s fought back on Twitter and made a name for herself with her rhetoric. And now she’ll get even more exposure on Netflix in the coming months.
