"Kat Abughazaleh has spent much of her early adulthood warning that the far right's fringe was becoming the center of American political power. Now, at 26, the Palestinian American LGBTQ+ creator, who built her own national platform through trenchant video explainers and through her work with a media watchdog, has stepped directly into the arena, running for Congress in Illinois's Ninth District."
"Her frustration was cumulative. After years of tracking the rise of online extremists, many of whom later migrated into the Trump administration, she grew alarmed watching her own party treat them as serious nominees rather than existential warnings. "People in the disinformation and anti-extremism space had been telling Democrats about this for years," she says. "January 6, COVID misinformation, where anti-trans panic would lead. They didn't listen.""
Kat Abughazaleh is a 26-year-old Palestinian American bisexual creator who built a national platform through video explainers and media-watchdog work and is running for Congress in Illinois's Ninth District. Years of tracking online extremists and seeing their migration into government galvanized her decision to run. She identifies as part of the LGBTQ+ community and frames current attacks on queer and trans people as a common authoritarian tactic that targets visible minorities and Jews. She expresses disgust with Democrats who play into fears instead of defending values and points to concessions on transgender youth as an example.
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