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“What If We Didn’t Suck?”

Kat Abughazaleh on standing up to authoritarianism

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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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