Rachel Lears’ documentary “Knock Down the House” was an election cycle snapshot of uncommon excitement, its four scrappy female primary challengers for U.S. Congress — including a then-unknown Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — bringing infectious change-the-world energy to not only American politics in 2018, but the usually cut-and-dried genre of the follow-along campaign portrait. We first see AOC in “To the End” …
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rallies hundreds of young climate activists in Lafayette Square on the north side of the White House to demand that U.S. President Joe Biden work to make the Green New Deal law on June 28, 2021. “ not a coincidence that these four leaders and many young leaders in the climate justice movement are women of color.” …
