Dan is a managing editor at Raw Story based in Colorado, producing and editing breaking political news.
Dan previously worked as a news associate at The Associated Press in Philadelphia, and later as local editor, breaking news editor and eventually manager at Patch, overseeing the company’s breaking news and Long Island/Hudson Valley teams.
Dan has covered major breaking stories such as mass shootings and wildfires in California, and overseen teams that covered George Santos and the Gilgo Beach serial killings.
A native of Colorado and the Philadelphia area, Dan graduated with a degree in journalism from Temple University.
She urged Democrats to talk to people directly and said they need to "walk the walk and talk the talk."
"There is an insane amount of hypocrisy," she said. "And the hypocrisy is what gets exploited to use the cynicism. Wherever there's a hypocritical window — for example, I think one of the biggest examples of this is insider trading in Congress."
Stewart cheered as he exclaimed, "Yes! It is so crazy!"
"It's so crazy!" Ocasio-Cortez replied with a wide grin. "People think that everyday people are stupid. I'm like, 'Do you all really think that people don't see this s---?"
Stewart suggested lawmakers sit on committees and receive information about new drugs, contracts, and more, prompting them to call a stockbroker who changes their investments, and their portfolio "swells."
"It explodes!" Ocasio-Cortez said. "And you're doing this on public trust, on like taxpayer-financed public, you know, facilities."
"You're regulating the market that you're trading on," Stewart railed. "You run the casino."
"And then we're supposed to act like money doesn't — only affects Republicans? Give me a f---ing break."
Ocasio-Cortez slammed her colleagues and said they "don't understand that the insider trading that happens in Congress explodes the cynicism that fuels the right."
"It doesn't benefit us, it benefits the Republicans," she railed. "They make no bones about what class they're here to serve. In fact, Republicans are far more honest in this respect sometimes, which is that they're here to serve the billionaire class and they make decisions very publicly to serve that billionaire class."
