Is AOC Pulling a Bait-and-Switch Over Where Donations Meant to Provide Thanksgiving Turkeys Are Going? – RedState
It could be just the latest example of a socialist overhaul in the Big Apple.
Readers may remember when New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani told people who supported him and his “all for free” agenda, just a day after his election victory, that he needed “support” in the form of donations to achieve what he had promised to achieve. Well, now there’s another socialist scam afoot, and sickeningly, it involves free turkeys for people who might otherwise go hungry on Thanksgiving, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14).
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As the NYPost exclusively reports, AOC recently sent out an email to her supporters, for what appears to be her annual appeal to help charities provide dinner to families in need.
AOC’s email asks for donations for a turkey giveaway – but the money goes straight to her campaign coffers https://t.co/GzpoYWEqch pic.twitter.com/UfhmscC8HI
– New York Post (@nypost) November 22, 2025
The report shares an excerpt from the letter, which reads:
“Thanksgiving is in two weeks…Would you like to contribute $5 or whatever you can today to help us bring holiday cheer to New York homes this year?”
As recently as 2021, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez sent emails to New Yorkers, urging them to give generously to community organizations to help them purchase turkey dinners; that year, it was reported that she “raised $33,589.64 for three local charities.” Since 2019, in fact, she has helped provide hundreds of turkeys, wrote the NYPost.
Here’s the thing: According to the NY Post, generous people hoping to help someone this Thanksgiving in 2025 got something more akin to a Halloween trick, because… “clicking on the contribution link sends people directly to a campaign fundraising page run by ActBlue.”
And an on-screen indication where you enter a donation amount tells people it’s “paid for by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress.”
As mentioned above, in previous years the Empire State congresswoman has sent people to charity websites to directly support those less fortunate. Naturally, most people will probably think the same thing is happening this year in Ocasio-Cortez’s world.
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Any moral human being can see what I see; this bait and switch of Sandy is morally wrong. Since I don’t play a lawyer in real life, I can’t say whether this is a power-up or an attempt at illegal campaign financing. Instead of clicking on any email appeal from AOC, people can go to the Salvation Army’s Operation Thanksgiving page to support people. Regardless, I sincerely hope that someone at the Federal Election Commission (FEC) examines what’s going on with these “turkey” emails with a fine-tooth comb ASAP.
[Editor’s Note: this article was edited for clarity post-publication.]
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