Once a target of Musk's ire, Gen Z creator Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress

How this TikToker running for Congress is designing her campaign for Gen Z

Social media creator Kat Abughazaleh, 26, is running to represent the 9th District of Illinois in Congress against an incumbent who’s held the seat since 1998. She announced the news on TikTok. “Donald Trump and Elon Musk are dismantling our country piece by piece, and so many Democrats seem content to just sit back and let them. So I say it’s time to drop the excuses and grow a f*cking spine,” Abughazaleh says in the opening to her TikTok annou…

Once a target of Musk's ire, Gen Z creator Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress

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

Gizmodo: A Populist Influencer Is Running for Congress, and She Actually Understands YouTube | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Gizmodo: A Populist Influencer Is Running for Congress, and She Actually Understands YouTube. “Journalist and influencer Kat Abughazaleh announced she’s running for Congress in a YouTube video. In a video that looked more like a livestream than an announcement of a bid for office, Abughazaleh promised to run a transparent campaign, fight for affordable groceries, and stand up to authoritarians.”The post Gizmodo: A Populist Influencer Is Running …

Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old progressive Tiktok star, talks to VF about the connection for an 80-year-old Democratic Congresswoman's seat, his experience demystifying right-wing narratives and why Donald Trump's capitulation will not work. Representative Jan Schakowsky is "one of the most progressive members [...]

Left-Wing Populist Creator Kat Abughazaleh Is Running for Congress

'I felt I didn’t want to wait around for someone to do something when I could do something right now.' The post Left-Wing Populist Creator Kat Abughazaleh Is Running for Congress appeared first on Passionfruit.