Saikat Chakrabarti, who aims to unseat 20-term incumbent Rep. Nancy Pelosi in 2026, kicked off his campaign Wednesday night in San Francisco’s Mission District before a hundreds-strong crowd.

The theme for the night? The Democratic Party has failed to confront Trump, and “transformational change” is needed to right fundamental wrongs in the U.S. economy.

“It is clear as daylight: We are living in the middle of a fascist coup,” Chakrabarti told a crowd of many hundreds packed into the Chapel at 777 Valencia St. But, he said, it would not be enough to “return to a pre-Trump status quo.” Democrats, Chakrabarti said, should reshape the economy that “made Donald Trump possible” in a radical way.

Chakrabarti, a 39-year-old former tech executive, is best known as the former chief of staff to

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