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The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people.

We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

If you signed up to volunteer for the campaign, expect an email today with information to sign up for our Discord server!

This is where we will coordinate a lot of our volunteer opportunities and campaign events.

Hope to see you there!! :)

We need more candidates using Discord and/or BlueSky!

We used to have Bob Eggs, Steve Nintendo, Johnny No Plane Crash. No we have no eggs, no Nintendo, many plane crash.

Chip in to support Kat Abughazaleh! Show your support with a contribution.

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Our volunteer discord server is up and running! Check out our volunteer-opportunities channel when you join!

Seriously, she's on to something here. We should make our candidates donate to their constituents instead of holding big events for the Richie Riches of the world. At least then if they lose, they would still have done some good for the community.

So we’re 75 days into trumps second term, people are protesting everywhere. Markets have had two days of absolutely apocalyptic losses. There are grad students being disappeared and a man with an autism awareness tattoo was sent to a super scary prison in El Salvador. They’ve cut cancer research..

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/n...

26-year-old Kat Abughazaleh seeks to disrupt ‘Democratic inaction,’ announces congressional candidacy Content creator seeks to disrupt ‘Democratic inaction,’ announces congressional candidacy Exactly one year after becoming constitutionally eligible to be sworn in, Kat Abughazaleh celebrated her 26th birthday last month in a way most people wouldn’t: by launching a campaign for U.S. Congre...

Had so much fun talking with the Daily Northwestern :) dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/03/l...

like, i’m just a rando but do you see the difference?

“the big machine that helped kamala harris blow the election is here with a bigot’s endorsement & a request for cash on Tariff Day”

vs

“in an effort to serve my community, we collected 5600 period products for people who can’t afford them”

JIM SCIUTTO, CNN HOST: How about on the culture war issues — for lack of a better term - which did drive some voters, perhaps not all of them. Even Democrats acknowledged that, particularly, there was that clip of Kamala Harris talking about transgender surgery for prisoners, which they acknowledged in some states really hurt them. That's one sign of a social issue that drove some voters. Do you believe that Democrats went too far left on some social issues? And to win in the next cycle, do you and others have to bring it back to the middle - in effect, soften a progressive or "woke" as it's called by Donald Trump, stance and move toward the center?

KAT ABUGHAZALEH, CANDIDATE: Yeah, absolutely not. Democrats deciding that trans people are the reason they lost the election in 2024 — it's ridiculous. It's offensive. And frankly, they are contributing to Trump's authoritarianism. The transgender community, the queer community as a whole — but particularly the trans community - have often been the first targets in authoritarian and fascist regimes. And that's happening right now. People like myself - people in my line of work, studying, researching, and attacking fascism - have been warning about this for years. And Democrats didn't listen. A lot of people stayed home in 2024. And far fewer people voted against Democrats because of "woke" than I think a lot of people assume. A far bigger issue is that we aren't giving people something to vote for. So many more people stayed home in 2020 - across almost all demographics - because they didn't feel represented by either candidate. They didn't feel listened to by either party. And it isn't because of vulnerable communities. It's because these are parties being led by people who are out of touch and don't listen to their constituents.

A good answer to a bad question @katmabu.bsky.social www.readtpa.com/p/absolutely...

26-year-old Kat Abughazaleh seeks to disrupt ‘Democratic inaction,’ announces congressional candidacy Content creator seeks to disrupt ‘Democratic inaction,’ announces congressional candidacy Exactly one year after becoming constitutionally eligible to be sworn in, Kat Abughazaleh celebrated her 26th birthday last month in a way most people wouldn’t: by launching a campaign for U.S. Congre...

“There's a better way we can do this, right?,” 26-year-old Kat Abughazaleh asked upon launching a campaign to represent Illinois’s Ninth District in Congress.

Current Rep. Jan Schakowsky has not announced whether she will seek a 15th term in 2026.
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No fun in Trumpland: Video games, toys, and more take hit by tariffs President Donald Trump’s tariffs are roiling global markets and triggering layoffs , but now the widely derided economic policy is coming after several areas ...

TRUMP TAKE VIDEO GAME

No fun in Trumpland: Video games, toys, and more take hit by tariffs www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Jesse Watters chyron: "Trump insider: He doesn't give a f***"

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theonion.com/conservative...

🚨 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: @katmabu.bsky.social will join the Show LIVE Today at 7PM ET

come hang!

Ep. 363: A New Approach To Campaigning ft. Kat Abughazaleh The IL-09 candidate joins us to talk about her campaign.

Had a great time talking to @katmabu.bsky.social about her congressional campaign and how she's focusing on lifting up her community with her campaign infrastructure, an approach more progressives should adopt!

www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-363-a-n...

Federal workers have already put up with so much from this admin. What's happening right now is just a massive assault on organized labor

adults dressed as Pokémon, you say?

And if you want to hear from the speakers at the rally, you can find my stream here: www.instagram.com/reel/DICJkqu...

Government Workers Work for America! American Federation of Government Employees

Heading back from the AFGE rally at Lovell Federal Health Care Center rn and I’m just so proud of our federal workers for standing up to Trump and Musk.

If you want to learn more about their fight and this administration’s illegal targeting of unions, click here: www.afge.org/article/afge...

If you’re not local, you can still help our cause!

We have LOTS of remote volunteers signed up but could always use more. And, of course, monetary donations help too. You can find info on both of those at katforillinois.com.

This is the sort of grassroots support & action we need on the left. Throw out the old playbook. It's antiquated and has no place in the modern political landscape. The left desperately needs to show authenticity, community action & most importantly, support for one another.

Nintendo Halts Switch 2 Pre-Orders Over Trump's Tariffs New tariffs threaten massive price hikes on gaming hardware and other consumer goods

no nintendo bc trump :( kotaku.com/switch-2-pre...

I remember the times when I was incredibly poor. I have an outrageously heavy flow. Some women really need this. Don't think this is something that's optional or frivolous. Period blood stinks if you can't change a pad or you can get toxic shock from wearing a tampon too long.

Kat for Congress | Kat Abughazaleh for Illinois' Ninth District Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress in Illinois' Ninth District because Democrats need to do more to stop Trump and fight for working people.

Despite being labeled an “influencer”, this campaign is built around in-person connection and mutual aid.

If you want to know more about what we stand for, how to donate / volunteer, or our future events + office hours, you can go to katforillinois.com.

Got permission to share this TikTok from someone who came to my office hours on Sunday!!

We’ll be doing this again next week, and I hope even more people come. Tell me what you care about and let’s try to feel some hope for the future together.

Oh btw, we totaled it all up and ended up donating more than 5,600 pads, tampons, and liners to people who can’t afford them

If you came to our event, you made this possible!