{"id":18915,"date":"2026-02-12T14:31:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-dems-endorse-kat-abughazaleh-in-illinois-primary\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:31:54","slug":"justice-dems-endorse-kat-abughazaleh-in-illinois-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-dems-endorse-kat-abughazaleh-in-illinois-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Dems endorse Kat Abughazaleh in Illinois primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Justice Democrats and the Peace, Accountability, and Leadership PAC, PAL PAC, have jointly endorsed progressive influencer Kat Abughazaleh in the hotly contested Democratic primary to replace Rep. Jan Schakowsky in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Justice Democrats executive director Alexandra Rojas described Abughazaleh as \u201cthe type of progressive leadership we need in Congress \u2014 leadership that isn&#8217;t too afraid to take on AIPAC or corporate PACs to defeat right-wing fascism or corporate corruption in the Democratic Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abughazaleh faces more than a dozen primary opponents in a March primary that\u2019s turned into a national proxy fight. Last week, a newly formed super PAC, Elect Chicago Women, started airing ads backing state Sen. Laura Fine, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/06\/centrist-democrats-are-livid-with-aipac-after-primary-meddling-00769461?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=substack\" target=\"_blank\"><u>some of Fine\u2019s opponents have accused<\/u><\/a> the PAC of being funded by AIPAC.<\/p>\n<p>Abughazaleh, who is Palestinian-American, has frequently criticized AIPAC and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KatAbughazaleh\/status\/1967945971914117481\" target=\"_blank\"><u>called Israel\u2019s military operations in Gaza a genocide<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Democrats and the Peace, Accountability, and Leadership PAC, PAL PAC, have jointly endorsed progressive influencer Kat Abughazaleh in the hotly contested Democratic primary to replace Rep. Jan Schakowsky in Illinois. In a statement, Justice Democrats executive director Alexandra Rojas described Abughazaleh as \u201cthe type of progressive leadership we need in Congress \u2014 leadership that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}