Kat Abughazaleh Makes A Run For Congress!

Kat Abu makes a play for Congress.

I will not back any Democrat who supports Israel.

There may be hope in social media influencer Kat Abu. 

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress. pic.twitter.com/tEtaNcc5xL

— Kat Abughazaleh (@abughazalehkat) March 24, 2025

Progressive agitator announces her bid for Congress to take on Zionist Democrat in the Illinois 9th Congressional District.

She is taking on Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL).

Meet Kat Abughazaleh, the social media influncer who tracks the far right and calls oit the Democrats for just being the party that sucks

Kat has done numerous videos taking aim at President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Rupert Murdoch, Piers Morgan, Tucker Carlson, Jesse Watters, Laura Ingraham, Steve Bannon and Sean "Softball" Hannity. 

She is very good at her job.

Kat previously worked at Media Matters for America, Mother Jones and Zeteo. She is a part of the Meidas Touch network.

She is going to take on the 80-year old progressive lawmaker who continues to back the apartheid ethnostate of Israel. She is very vocal about the Democratic Party's leaders being out of touch with the progressive base. She is demanding lawmakers get touch and start listening to the voices that opposed them in 2024.

Progressives were turned off by former president Joe Biden’s stance on Israel.

It did damage to former vice president Kamala Harris and her bid for president.

Now as the Democrats watch Republicans spiral out of control, they see the wind in their sails. But hold up. The Democrats are extremely unpopular. They have no real policies other than allowing Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) make complete asses of themselves.

“Donald Trump and Elon Musk are dismantling our country piece by piece, and so many Democrats seem content to just sit back and let them,” Abughazaleh says in the video. “So I say it’s time to drop the excuses and grow a fucking spine.”

After graduating from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., with a degree in international security, Abughazaleh, 26, took a job with the left-leaning watchdog group Media Matters before being hired by Mother Jones in 2024. She is best known for videos in which she derides Fox News and conservative personalities. On TikTok, she has over 217,000 followers, and nearly 200,000 more on X, and some of her videos have received more than 1 million views.

“I’ve spent my entire career reporting on the far right and being attacked by them as a result,” Abughazaleh said in her campaign video, in which a kaffiyeh, the traditional headdress worn by Middle Eastern men that has become a symbol of Palestinian identity, is seen hanging on a wall.

Background

The daughter of a Palestinian immigrant father and a seventh-generation Texan mother, Abughazaleh grew up in an upper-middle-class section of Dallas, HuffPost reported. Both her parents were politically conservative Fox News viewers.

When she moved to Tucson, Ariz., as a teenager, however, her perspective on the world began to shift.

“At least half my high school was low-income or undocumented,” she told HuffPost. “The bootstrap myth just shattered before my eyes.”

Israeli support has made Democrats unpopular with the base. Jan Schakowsky and Joe Biden let the party down.

‘A representation problem’

On her newly minted website, Abughazaleh declares that Democrats “have a representation problem. As in, about half of Congress are millionaires and people born before the moon landing.”

“I'm a renter. I don't have health insurance,” she adds. “My net worth is pretty much just the laptop I bought with my entire severance when I got laid off... and my adorable cat Heater.”

While Schakowsky, 80, was born before the moon landing, and as of 2018, she didn’t qualify as a millionaire, according to Open Secrets. Her net worth was then estimated at $749,017.

Schakowsky has been an outspoken critic of Trump. She boycotted his address to Congress earlier this month, then slammed his remarks as “insulting and disrespectful.”

Last week, Schakowsky joined Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York in denouncing Trump’s firing of two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, calling it “yet another direct assault on our democracy.”

A challenge but Kat Abughazaleh is up for it.

Staunchly liberal platform

Abughazaleh is attempting to tap into rising Democratic anger at old-guard politicians like Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, whom progressives accuse of failing to effectively counter Trump’s moves to dismantle government agencies and fire federal workers.

On her website, Abughazaleh also takes a not-so-subtle shot at Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, whose new podcast has featured guests like the arch-conservatives Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk.

“Some Democrats might be happy to throw trans people under the bus for an interview with Steve Bannon, but I’m not,” she states.

Her policy proposals range from enacting more protections for LGBTQ+ Americans, passing the Green New Deal to address climate change, increasing pay for public school teachers, offering universal pre-K, expanding Social Security and abolishing limitations on abortion.

While Illinois’ Ninth District is considered strongly Democratic, the first question Abughazaleh must answer is whether she can debate and beat Schakowsky, who was first elected to Congress in 1999, in the primary.

Schakowsky, after all, can lean on her own liberal record. According to Progressive Punch, a database ranking how members vote, she was rated as the 27th most progressive Democrat in Congress. A former elementary school teacher, she also has received an A grade from the National Educational Association.

Abughazaleh will have to convince Illinois voters that Schakowsky is part of the larger problem progressives see with the Democratic Party. In her kickoff video, the woman known on social media as Kat Abu puts it this way: “We’re focused on meeting constituent needs with one simple rule: What if we didn’t suck?”