Overview
- Abughazaleh missed an Indivisible Edgewater candidate forum Tuesday night and issued a statement apologizing to attendees.
- She said a narcolepsy-related 'sleep attack' led her to sleep through alarms, calls, and her campaign manager knocking on her door.
- A local reporter noted she appeared on a Los Angeles livestream with Hasan Piker the day before the scheduled forum.
- The 26-year-old former Media Matters staffer is running on the left in the Democratic primary to succeed retiring Rep. Jan Schakowsky, with backing from Rep. Ro Khanna and competition from Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss.
- A federal grand jury indicted her in October 2025 for hindering and impeding ICE officers after a September incident in which she was recorded attempting to block an ICE vehicle.