Checking Back In With Kat Abughazaleh

“What I would really like to see is more Democrats using their resources to help people right now to fill in the material gaps that Trump has created. I think it's the right thing to do and I also think it is the most persuasive thing to do if you want to flip either chamber in 2026 and make a serious cultural impact."

Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress in Illinois’ 9th District.

I personally think she’s running one of the most innovative campaigns of the cycle, both from a digital and from a field perspective.

Listeners might remember Kat joined us back in April to talk about what it means to run a Bluesky-first campaign.

She joined us again to talk about how her campaign is navigating the internet, fascism and so much more.

She talked about the social platform helping her campaign raise the most money (Bluesky!), how her campaign is serving as a mutual aid hub for her community, what it means to fight back against the Trump regime in these dark times and so much more.

Find links to her site, an episode transcript and more at HelloMergeTag.com.