
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 campaign, her strategy, and even her federal indictment are all unfolding against the backdrop she’s spent years documenting.
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