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This Progressive is Taking On the AIPAC and AI Owned Dems as They Spend Millions to Win

IHIP News

Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan

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4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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We are joined by current congressional candidate Nida Allam to hear about her mission to beat big money in politics and represent the people of North Carolina.


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0:00.0

All right, listener, the same corporate interests that are funding MAGA, that are funding

0:09.5

the dismantling of American democracy, are funneling money into Democratic candidates and

0:16.4

lying about it.

0:18.3

And do not turn away from this episode.

0:20.4

It is so important that we get the special

0:22.6

interest money out of the Democratic Party immediately. And here today, I have Nita Alam. She is

0:30.1

a candidate for Congress in North Carolina. She has endorsements from Bernie Sanders, Justice

0:36.1

Democrats, Working Families Party, leaders we deserve,

0:39.9

and so much more. Nita, thank you so much for joining me. Let's dive right into it. Tell us about

0:46.1

your opponent. Tell us who is paying her off and all of the double playing that's going on

0:52.3

the Democratic Party because we must root it out.

0:55.3

Yes. Thank you so much for having me. So my opponent is Representative Valerie Fushi, who is

1:00.7

only in this congressional seat because in 2022, APEC and a crypto billionaire who's now in jail

1:06.3

spent over $4 million to elect her. And now we have a rematch where I'm running for this seat because we see Trump's authoritarianism

1:15.6

and our representative doing absolutely nothing to stand up for our communities in the safest

1:20.6

blue seat.

1:21.6

And we've gotten real close and they're scared and terrified of change and young leadership that's going to push the status quo,

1:29.3

that all of a sudden in the last week of this election, the AI lobby has now dumped yesterday

1:34.8

over $1.3 million into this race, as well as another super PAC that was also, it's like a shadow

1:43.4

pack essentially that was created and used

1:47.4

against Annalia Mejia in New Jersey. It's called like Article I super pack that's dropped

1:54.9

$600,000 into this race as well. That's crazy because listener, here's what you have to understand what

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