Jacobin: Philly Wants to Send a Socialist to Congress
Jacobin · May 14, 2026 · By Akin Olla
Jacobin profiles Rabb five days before the primary, in his own words about his politics and his record: nearly a decade of anti-ICE bills in Harrisburg, work to end the death penalty and abolish mandatory life without parole, and the top ranking on the ACLU's 2020 scorecard for Pennsylvania legislators. It traces his lineage, from a great-great-grandfather born enslaved who founded one of the country's longest-running Black newspapers to a mother who raised early money for Harold Washington in Chicago. The piece counts Reclaim Philadelphia among the "local powerhouses" behind his campaign, alongside Philadelphia's Working Families Party, the Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats.