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.

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

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

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 ...

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“I wouldn’t be born for another four months,” deadpans Kat Abughazaleh, the TikTok-famous political commentator now running to represent the district. Abughazaleh is transparent about the ...

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

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 ...

Democratic outrage came to a head this month after a handful of Senate Democrats, including Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, voted for a GOP-backed funding bill and avert a government shutdown with ...

On March 24, 2025, a liberal influencer named Kat Abughazaleh announced her candidacy for Congress, challenging Representative Jan Schakowsky (Democrat-Illinois) in the northern Chicago suburbs.