A Democrat nominee for Congress just called the Declaration of Independence a fraud — and he's walking into the House unopposed. Pennsylvania state Rep. Chris Rabb, running unchallenged in the heavily Democrat 3rd Congressional District, denounced the founding document as a performative screed that "purposely erased indigenous and black peoples" and declared America "a nation born on stolen land & stolen labor." Come November, he'll have a vote in Congress.
This isn't a fringe activist with a megaphone. This is a five-term state lawmaker, endorsed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Justice Democrats, the Working Families Party, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and the Sunrise Movement, who will almost certainly win a federal seat. And the institutional press has nothing to say about it.
Rabb made the remarks June 26 at a Philadelphia panel titled "America at 250 — Trump Fascism, Historical Erasure, and the Battle Over Truth," held at People's Plaza on Independence Mall. According to Breitbart, Rabb argued the Declaration did not deliver freedom but instead helped "very privileged people continue that privilege and ultimately institutionalize that through the U.S. Constitution many years later."
He didn't stop at the founding. Rabb called American exceptionalism, the American dream, and the Protestant work ethic "myths" that "do us a disservice." He labeled the country's very fabric as built on "systems of harm." He pledged to make reparations a congressional priority — not to compensate black Americans alone, but to reshape society entirely. "Reparations is not something that repairs black people," Rabb said. "It repairs society itself. And that benefits everyone. Everyone."
Breitbart covered Rabb's comments in full. The Daily Caller, by contrast, spent the same news cycle on Tucker Carlson's vow to build a third party — a story about the same systemic rot from a different angle. Carlson told the Columbia Journalism Review that both parties are "in lockstep solidarity" on "war and finance," calling the current arrangement "a one-party state posing as a democracy." He pointed to Trump and Schumer's alignment on foreign policy as proof: "If you vote for Trump and you still wind up in a regime-change war — if Chuck Schumer is strongly behind Trump's foreign policy, which he is — then we need options."
Both stories point to the same fracture. When a man who calls the Declaration a lie can coast into Congress without opposition, and when both parties agree on everything that actually matters to the people in power, the question isn't whether the system is broken. It's who it's broken for.
Rabb will take his seat in January. Nobody's standing in the way.
