Heng, a onetime staffer to former California GOP Rep. Ed Royce, lost a race for the state’s 16th District to Democratic Rep. Jim Costa by 15 points last fall. She recently founded the group to help diversify the Republican Party.

“This is the face of socialism. And, ignorance,” Heng says in the ad over an image of Ocasio-Cortez, which then starts burning to reveal images from the Cambodian genocide.

“Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know the horror of socialism? My father was minutes from death in Cambodia, before a forced marriage saved his life,” Heng says in the ad. “That’s socialism. Forced obedience, starvation. Mine is a face of freedom. My skin is not white, I’m not outrageous, racist, nor socialist. I’m a Republican.”