Katie talks to Rep. Chris Rabb about running for congress, Sami Hamdi about being detained by ICE and humiliating a bigot on Piers Morgan, and Butch Ware about the sneaky attempts to keep him off the ballot for Governor.

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Chris Rabb is an American politician, professor, and author. A Democratic Socialist, he has represented the 200th District in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since 2017. He is running in the 2026 Democratic primary for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district. Chris Rabb is the author of Invisible Capital: How Unseen Forces Shape Entrepreneurial Opportunity. In his fourth year of teaching at Temple, Rep. Rabb helped to successfully unionize 1,500 fellow adjunct professors in a landslide victory for worker rights. He is currently a board member of Friends of the Wissahickon and Race Forward and has been on the faculty of the Institute for Strategic Leadership at Drexel University's Bennett S. LeBow College of Business. Rep. Rabb previously served on the boards of the Bread and Roses Community Fund, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, and The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, which was founded by his great-great grandfather in 1892. https://www.chrisrabb.com/

Sami Hamdi is a British journalist, political commentator, and risk‑intelligence advisor, who was detained by the Trump administration in the United States for statements he made about the Gaza war in 2025. Hamdi serves as the Managing Director and Editor‑in‑Chief of The International Interest, a global risk and intelligence consultancy/analysis firm focused on geopolitical dynamics, especially in Europe and the MENA region. He is a frequent media commentator, featuring on media outlets including Al Jazeera (both English and Arabic), BBC, Sky News, LBC and TRT World, offering geopolitical analysis of the Middle East. He is the host of MOVE - with Sami Hamdi https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqJgh5RcURLdP9wBnWbDoqA

Butch Ware is an an activist, educator, and organizer running for Governor of California for the Green Party. He is currently an associate professor in the department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the founder and director of the Initiative for the Study of Race, Religion, and Revolution an academic historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, his work offers a people’s history—focused on abolition, social transformation, and the role of knowledge in collective uplift.

https://www.butchware4gov.com/

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