A progressive influencer launched a bid to unseat longtime Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). Kat Abughazaleh, 26, announced Monday that she would challenge Schakowsky in the 2026 midterm elections.

The 26-year-old candidate will challenge Rep. Schakowsky's seat which the congresswoman has held for over 25 years.

Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old whose progressive ... setting up a potential showdown with longtime Rep. Jan Schakowsky for the 9th Congressional District. In a video announcing her run ...

Kat Abughazaleh, a progressive political commentator and social media influencer, announced a primary campaign against Rep.

She’s a 26-year-old social media star challenging a progressive stalwart in a congressional district she doesn’t live in yet. We asked her why.

Exactly one year after becoming constitutionally eligible to be sworn in, Kat Abughazaleh celebrated her 26th birthday last ...

Kat Abughazaleh, a progressive influencer who is running for Congress in Illinois, launched her campaign on Monday with a message for her party: "What if we didn't suck?" Frustration is bubbling over ...

In what may be the first campaign announcement in U.S. history ever to use the F-word, the progressive social media sensation Kat Abughazaleh released a video Monday that kicked off her bid to unseat ...

Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), a decades-long veteran of Congress ... dynamic to the one that fueled the rise of the Tea Party in 2010. Driving the news: Kat Abughazaleh, a former staffer for progressive ...

Illinois 9th District has only been represented by two people since 1965, and there hasn’t been a competitive primary since the race Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, the district’s ...

When Kat Abughazaleh got laid off from her job as an extremism researcher and video producer at Media Matters last year, Elon Musk personally chimed in on ...

Kat Abughazaleh, 26, who rose to prominence by making lively TikTok videos critiquing Fox News and Republicans, told WTTW ...