Jeromie Whalen for Congress in Massachusetts’ 1st District
Our Revolution is proud to endorse Jeromie Whalen for Congress in Massachusetts’ 1st District.
Jeromie is a public school teacher, union member, and lifelong resident of Western Massachusetts who believes it’s time for working people — not corporations and wealthy donors — to have the loudest voice in Washington.
For more than a decade, Jeromie has been a high school teacher, helping young people develop the tools they need to succeed and make a difference in the world. He’s also a proud member of the Northampton Association of School Employees, where he has served as Communications Director and as a union delegate.
Now, he’s ready to take that fight for working people to Congress.
Jeromie is running on a bold progressive agenda built around a simple principle: people over profit.
He supports Medicare for All because he believes healthcare should be guaranteed to every American. He wants to cap prescription drug prices, dramatically expand mental health and preventative care, and improve pay and working conditions for nurses and frontline healthcare workers.
For Jeromie, that fight is deeply personal. His campaign speaks openly about losing his brother Christopher during a battle with mental illness after watching him struggle to get the care he needed. It’s an experience that strengthened Jeromie’s conviction that no family should be denied healthcare because they can’t afford it.
As a teacher, Jeromie also knows that investing in public education means investing in our future. He’s fighting to fully fund public schools, raise teacher pay, provide universal Pre-K, and make public community college and vocational education tuition-free.
And he understands that working people need more power on the job.
Jeromie supports the PRO Act, card-check recognition, stronger protections against union busting, collective bargaining rights for public employees, and expanded labor rights for gig and misclassified workers.
He’s just as clear about who should pay for the investments our communities need.
Jeromie wants to lower the tax burden on working- and middle-class people while making millionaires and billionaires pay more. His campaign proposes a new cost-of-living exemption from federal income taxes, higher taxes on ultra-high incomes, and closing loopholes wealthy Americans use to avoid paying their fair share.
And Jeromie isn’t interested in asking corporate America for permission.
He has pledged to reject corporate and corporate PAC contributions. He supports overturning Citizens United and banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks. Long before running for Congress, Jeromie says he was already organizing against the influence of PAC money because he understood how destructive unlimited corporate spending could be to our democracy.
That independence matters because Jeromie is willing to take on the powerful interests making life more expensive.
He wants to crack down on corporate landlords, expand affordable housing, strengthen rental assistance, and restore the ability of communities to pursue rent stabilization. He supports raising the federal minimum wage and tying it to the real cost of living.
His vision is also rooted specifically in the needs of Western Massachusetts.
Jeromie wants to fully fund PVTA bus service and move it toward a cleaner fleet, make West-East Rail a reality, expand rural broadband, support local farmers and rural businesses, and strengthen the small businesses that keep communities across the district alive.
And he’s ready to fight the climate crisis with the urgency it demands. Jeromie supports the Green New Deal, ending fossil fuel subsidies, making corporate polluters pay for the damage they cause, and investing in clean energy and climate-resilient infrastructure while creating union jobs.
This is the kind of progressive leadership we need in Congress: rooted in community, strengthened by organized labor, independent of corporate money, and willing to fight for transformational change.
Jeromie puts it simply: community over chaos, people over profit, and hope over fear.
Our Revolution is proud to endorse Jeromie Whalen for Congress in Massachusetts’ 1st District.
It’s time to send a teacher, union member, and working-people’s champion from Western Massachusetts to Washington.
When we organize, we win.
Our Revolution