Kat Abughazaleh, the 26-year-old Palestinian-American running for Congress in Illinois’s Ninth District, has been federally indicted after being arrested at an ICE protest. We talk about that and about her vision for a revitalized Democratic Party.
Topics include:
Growing up in a half-Palestinian, half-white Republican family in post-9/11 Texas
How her advocacy for Palestinians fits into her congressional campaign in a district with a large Jewish population, and how it’s used against her
Her vision of what immigration policy should be
Whether she would support Hakeem Jeffries to remain speaker
Concerns for the legitimacy of the next election
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