Talk:Kat Abughazaleh

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Pronunciation

After looking at the edits to the IPA English pronunciation, I don't think that Abughazaleh's last name is pronounced with an initial /æ/. Rather, I believe that Abughazaleh pronounces that first syllable of her surname with an open central unrounded vowel /ä/ (or just /a/), based on her campaign announcement video at 0:11 and 2:11. Can we reach a consensus on that? skoosh (háblame) 03:42, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hearing no objection, I'm going to go ahead and change this. skoosh (háblame) 16:30, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request for help improving policy section

I'd love help adding more of her policy stances. In particular, she's talked about her Palestine & Israel stances in several interviews and articles, as well as her campaign website, and I would appreciate help synthesizing those into a good concise paragraph. Sumana Harihareswara 16:35, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey journalists, please confirm these facts

A few questions I'd love journalists to interview Abughazaleh about or research so we can have a better article!

Per her LinkedIn, during a summer while in college, July-Sept. 2018, she was Northeast Region Organizing Administrator for Everytown For Gun Safety. What sort of work did she do in that role? I presume this was an internship, and that it wouldn't have included any work in Illinois, as that would have been under the purview of the Midwest region administrator. This is relevant per the sorts of criticisms or doubts levied by, for example, local strategist Kurth in the recent Tribune piece, suggesting that Abughazaleh doesn't know "how to recruit volunteers and what to do with volunteers once you get them, and how to run a field operation" or whether she "has worked in a political organization, volunteered on a campaign, or knows what it’s like to run a petition drive."
The USA Today piece and her campaign website say that she's been a union representative. In her Reddit AMA she said, "I was the Media Matters union representative along with my coworker when I worked there. Our union was SEIU Local 500." What was the duration of her service as union rep? Her Reddit history shows that she managed a fund to aid the other laid-off workers in 2024; what did that entail? Again, this would speak to questions of candidate experience & skill that have come up in news coverage.
Her LinkedIn and her campaign website say she graduated from GWU's Elliott School of International Affairs with a BA in International Affairs and a concentration in Security Policy. I've found corroboration for almost every part of that and just need specifically sourcing for the Security Policy concentration.
It would be helpful to have more detail on how her personal Patreon intersects with the campaign's finances. Abughazaleh has a Patreon. On Bluesky, Abughazaleh says Patreon contributions are completely separate from campaign donations, and that Patreon is currently her main source of income. In her Reddit AMA yesterday she said that she currently makes USD$684 per month from the Patreon (she posted screenshots of her Patreon income dashboard), and that "I need to ask our compliance people about the ins and outs of reporting but I have no issue doing so. None of this income goes to the campaign — I keep it in an account for Heater’s [her cat's] vet bills." How groundbreaking is it for a US political candidate to have a Patreon? Will she need to report that income to the Federal Election Commission, and will there be some kind of limitation or regulation on income from Patreon supporters who are ineligible to donate to US federal election campaigns?
More generally, Abughazaleh has faced criticism for coming from a wealthy background and being supported financially by her partner. The Tribune article mentioned support from Collins; he posted to social media that "my material support is Trader Joe’s pasta and feeding Heater" so more specificity on that may be illuminating. Also, she says her family has not financially supported her since 2020 and that she has not had health insurance since the MMFA layoff in 2024; it seems reasonable to ask why she has chosen to continue to forgo parental support given the health insurance situation.
Does she practice a religion?
Just after the Nov. 2024 election, she wrote in The New Republic that "Ideally, a new party (or several!) would emerge" from the Democratic Party's failure in 2024. Does she intend to also seek any other party's nomination for this Congressional seat, in addition to the Democratic Party's? Might she follow the example of some other US progressives in seeking endorsements from the DSA?

(Moving these questions here that were previously in another talk section that was getting messy and hard to read.)

Sumana Harihareswara 18:15, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Article needs copy editing

I added the copy editing tag to the article because I noticed (and tried to fix) three copy editing-relaxed issues within the first ten paragraphs of the article that I read. I did not know how to fix this one, which seems important to fix. YarrowFlower (talk) 07:19, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]