2026-08-11
During a Sunday interview on ABC News' This Week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) used the phrase 'Woke 1' (or 'Woke 1.0') while responding to questions about progressive rhetoric and positions associated with the Democratic Party's left flank.
The left-leaning outlet frames the remark as AOC dismissing earlier progressive rhetoric rather than engaging with it in a current context, questioning what the term even means. The center outlet frames the comment as a signal that Democrats intend to move past the 'woke' era, presenting it as a strategic distancing from more inflammatory positions.
AOC invoked 'Woke 1.0' to reference progressive rhetoric from the late 2010s but dismissed those ideas rather than engaging with them in a 2026 context.
AOC’s remarks about past excesses have been ripped out of context. Progressives shouldn’t get roped into this sideshow There is probably no word that has been more used and abused in the last decade than “woke”. It has been rendered completely meaningless, but it refuses to die. Indeed, it has now…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez invoked the term “Woke 1.0” during her Sunday interview on ABC News’ This Week to refer to rhetoric many progressive circles used during some of the social movements of the late 2010s—but instead of engaging with them in a 2026 context, she dismissed them as ideas of t…
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