My home life was another story. That day on the train to New York was also five months to the day from when I moved out of my house and told my husband, who I had been with since I was 16 years old, that I wanted a divorce. It wasn’t the first time I had tried to leave; the last time was less than a month before the election, and when I tried, he made it clear to me that if I left, he would ruin me. I knew he could, so I went back to him and finished the campaign. But, after five months on the job and with the toxicity of our relationship growing worse, I knew I had to finally leave once and for all........ the nudes and private text messages that had been published on a right-wing website called Red State, everything came crashing down. I believe my husband is the source of the images. ....... one of the most difficult moments during my resignation process was my phone call to the Speaker, a woman I admire more than anyone and whom I had come to love. She told me I didn’t have to do this, that the country needed me and that she wished I hadn’t made this decision ........ The future I thought was in store for me that was instantly and irrevocably gone. ........ Alex — “A.O.C.,” as people like to call her — said I was a warrior and always would be. ....... So the next day I put on my battle uniform: a red dress suit that my mom had bought me. I put on my war paint: bright red lipstick. I stepped up to that lectern and told the world that although my time in Congress was over, I wasn’t done — I was just moving to another battlefield.
@KatieHill4CA What I don't understand is why you resigned. https://t.co/yu9APlr7Vp
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) December 8, 2019
“It wasn’t the first time I had tried to leave [my husband]; the last time... he made it clear to me that if I left, he would ruin me. So I went back.”
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 7, 2019
Read Katie’s story and understand the toll of abusive partners & cyber exploitation.
No one should live in this kind of fear. https://t.co/FT7OG4nJQY
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