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Progressives for Massachusetts House & Senate

Massachusetts voters sent a powerful message in the primaries: they’re ready for a new generation of progressive leadership on Beacon Hill.

Our Revolution is proud to endorse three candidates who took on the establishment and won: Erika Uyterhoeven for State Senate in the 2nd Middlesex District, Jack Richardson for State House in the 3rd Barnstable District, and Mike Connolly for re-election to the State House in the 26th Middlesex District.

Now, it’s time to finish the job in the midterm general election.

Early voting runs October 17–30.

Erika Uyterhoeven: Taking on Entrenched Power

A three-term State Representative, antitrust economist, organizer, and daughter of immigrants, Erika Uyterhoeven knows something about challenging powerful interests.

She co-founded Act on Mass to bring greater transparency to Beacon Hill, helping win reforms that brought previously hidden committee votes into public view.

Now, after defeating the establishment in the primary, Erika is running for State Senate on a progressive agenda to tackle affordability, expand housing and public transit, lower energy costs, protect workers, and make state government more accountable to the people.

Jack Richardson: Fighting for the Cape

Jack Richardson is a third-generation, lifelong Falmouth resident who is already delivering for his community.

As a member of the Falmouth Select Board, Jack helped deliver a residential tax exemption that saves the average year-round household about $400 annually, protect the Long Pond watershed, and enact a policy barring ICE agents from entering town property without a judicial warrant.

After beating the establishment in the primary, he’s ready to bring that fight to Beacon Hill — for affordable year-round housing, reproductive freedom, environmental protection, and working families.

And he’s doing it without corporate PAC money.

Mike Connolly: A Progressive Fighter Who Delivers

Growing up in low-income public housing and spending time in foster care shaped Mike Connolly’s belief that government should be there for people when they need it most.

As an organizer and State Representative, Mike has helped fight for the $15 minimum wage, Paid Family and Medical Leave, the Fair Share Amendment, affordable housing, rent stabilization, immigrant rights, reproductive freedom, and stronger public transit.

And Mike has shown he’s willing to challenge Beacon Hill’s power structure when it stands in the way of progressive change. Voters backed that record by sending him through another hard-fought primary against the establishment.

Erika, Jack, and Mike didn’t wait for permission from the political establishment. They organized, they ran, and they won.

Now, let’s carry that people-powered momentum into the general election and send all three to Beacon Hill.

🗳️ Early voting: October 17–30

When we organize, we win.

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Tara Jacobs for Massachusetts Governor’s Council District 8

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Tara Jacobs for re-election to the Massachusetts Governor’s Council in District 8.

Some of the most consequential decisions in government happen far from the spotlight. Tara Jacobs is making sure working people and communities across Western Massachusetts have a voice in those decisions.

Since joining the Governor’s Council in 2023, Tara has brought a clear progressive mission to the job: make the justice system more equitable, accountable, transparent, and responsive to the people it serves.

The Governor’s Council has enormous influence over Massachusetts’ justice system, including confirming judges, clerk magistrates, Parole Board members, and considering pardons and commutations. Tara believes those decisions should be informed not only by what happens inside a courtroom, but by what people experience in their communities.

And she has put that philosophy into action.

Tara has actively recruited candidates to fill judicial vacancies across Western Massachusetts, helping bring forward judges who understand the real-world issues that can bring people into the justice system — including trauma, substance misuse, mental health challenges, cognitive development, and other societal struggles.

She has also worked to expand access to justice and confront bias from the bench, while opening up a process that too often feels inaccessible to ordinary people.

Tara has hosted public forums explaining how executive clemency works and encouraged people who could benefit from a pardon or commutation to apply. She has brought confirmation hearings into local communities and worked to help Western Massachusetts residents better understand how judicial nominations work.

That commitment to accessibility reflects Tara’s larger vision for the office: justice belongs to all of us.

Tara isn’t a lawyer. She’s a social psychologist and community organizer who believes the people affected by our justice system deserve a meaningful voice in shaping it. She listens, brings communities into the process, and approaches the work with an understanding that a fair justice system must be compassionate, unbiased, and respectful.

And she has never forgotten where she comes from.

Tara represents communities across Western Massachusetts — from the Berkshires and Hill Towns to the Pioneer Valley, Greater Springfield, and North Quabbin — and has made regional equity central to her work. She is fighting to ensure Western Massachusetts has a seat at the table when decisions are made about the courts and boards that shape people’s lives.

Before joining the Governor’s Council, Tara served her community on the North Adams School Committee and as chair of the Trustees of the North Adams Public Library. She also served on the Berkshire County Commission on the Status of Women and the Northern Berkshire Local Cultural Council.

Throughout it all, her values have remained clear: social, racial, gender, geographic, economic, and environmental equity should matter in the decisions government makes.

This is what progressive governing looks like at the state and local level.

It means bringing democracy into institutions too many people don’t even know they have a voice in. It means challenging systemic injustice, demanding transparency, and making sure government hears from the communities most affected by its decisions.

And it means electing leaders like Tara Jacobs who understand that public office isn’t simply about holding a seat — it’s about using that seat to change the system.

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Tara Jacobs for Massachusetts Governor’s Council District 8.

Let’s keep a progressive voice for justice, accountability, and Western Massachusetts on the Governor’s Council.

When we organize, we win.

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Jim McGovern for Congress in Massachusetts’ 2nd District

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Jim McGovern for re-election to Congress in Massachusetts’ 2nd District.

Jim McGovern is the kind of progressive fighter we need in Washington: unafraid to take on corporate power, relentless in the fight against hunger and poverty, and willing to stand up for human rights and peace — even when it means challenging the powerful.

And at a moment when Donald Trump and his allies are attacking working families and our democracy, Jim isn’t backing down.

Born and raised in Worcester, Jim has spent his career fighting for the people of Central and Western Massachusetts. In Congress, he has become a national leader on food security, human rights, campaign finance reform, social justice, and peace.

Jim believes nobody in the richest country on Earth should go hungry.

As co-chair of the House Hunger Caucus, he has made ending hunger a defining cause of his career. He has fought to strengthen nutrition programs at home and abroad and, every year, walks 43 miles through the Pioneer Valley to raise awareness and money to combat hunger in his own community.

He’s also taking on the Big Money corrupting our democracy.

Jim is one of Congress’ leading voices for overturning Citizens United and challenging corporate personhood. And he’s putting those values into practice: his campaign has pledged not to accept corporate PAC money.

Jim knows that democracy should belong to people — not whoever can write the biggest check.

He’s fighting for the economic security working families deserve, including Medicare for All, affordable housing, food assistance, and a government that invests in people rather than stripping away the programs families depend on.

And Jim has never been afraid to confront abuses of power.

Long before serving in Congress, he helped lead an investigation into the murders of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter in El Salvador. The investigation found the Salvadoran military was implicated and helped change U.S. policy by tying future military aid to improvements in human rights.

That commitment to human dignity continues to guide him today.

Jim voted against the authorization for the Iraq War and became a leading congressional voice challenging the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And when the Trump administration escalated its immigration crackdown, Jim conducted an unannounced oversight visit to an ICE facility in Massachusetts to see the conditions firsthand. He has called for ICE to be abolished.

That’s what it means to use political power to fight for people.

Jim understands that defeating the far right isn’t enough. We need a progressive vision that gives people something to fight for — healthcare, affordable housing, economic security, human rights, democracy, and a government that works for everyone.

And this November, Jim is clear about the stakes: taking back Congress so it can once again serve as a check on Trump and his administration.

Our Revolution has spent a decade building progressive power at every level of government. We need proven progressive champions in Congress who will stand with working people, challenge corporate power, defend our democracy, and keep pushing our movement forward.

Jim McGovern is one of those champions.

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Jim McGovern for Congress in Massachusetts’ 2nd District.

Let’s keep a progressive fighter for working people, peace, and democracy in Congress.

When we organize, we win.

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Ayanna Pressley for Congress in Massachusetts’ 7th District

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Ayanna Pressley for re-election to Congress in Massachusetts’ 7th District.

Ayanna has never been interested in politics as usual. She believes the people closest to the pain should be closest to the power — and she has built her career around bringing the voices, experiences, and demands of people too often ignored in Washington directly into the halls of power.

That’s the kind of bold, movement-driven leadership we need more of in Congress.

Ayanna is an advocate, policymaker, activist, and survivor who has spent her career breaking barriers. In 2009, she became the first woman of color elected to the Boston City Council in its 100-year history. In 2018, voters sent her to Washington, making her the first woman of color elected to Congress from Massachusetts.

But Ayanna has always understood that making history matters most when you use that power to make change.

And she has.

Ayanna has fought for Medicare for All and against the deep disparities embedded in our healthcare system. She has championed housing as a human right, fought for greater federal investment in affordable housing, and helped successfully extend the federal eviction moratorium three times during the pandemic.

She spent years pushing for student debt cancellation, working alongside borrowers, advocates, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and congressional allies to press for action that ultimately delivered billions of dollars in debt relief.

Ayanna is fighting for reproductive freedom and abortion access, a Green New Deal, strong public schools and better pay for teachers, a humane immigration system, and safe, reliable public transportation.

And she has brought a transformative vision of justice to Congress.

Ayanna introduced the People’s Justice Guarantee, a framework for fundamentally reimagining a criminal legal system that has disproportionately harmed Black and brown communities. As a survivor of sexual violence herself, she has also made addressing violence and trauma a central part of her work, fighting for policies that create pathways to justice and healing.

Her progressive values are delivering tangible results back home, too. Ayanna’s campaign says she has helped deliver more than $35 million in funding to Massachusetts’ 7th District for community health centers, transit projects, workforce training, climate justice, and other community priorities.

That combination matters: bold progressive vision paired with the ability to deliver for the people you represent.

At a moment when powerful forces are trying to roll back reproductive freedom, divide our communities, undermine our democracy, and make working people pay the price, we need leaders who aren’t afraid to fight for transformational change.

Ayanna Pressley is one of those leaders.

She understands that our movements are strongest when the people most impacted aren’t simply invited into the conversation — they have real power to shape the outcome.

And she understands something fundamental to Our Revolution: lasting change doesn’t come from waiting for those in power to give it to us. It comes when people organize, mobilize their collective power, and demand something better.

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Ayanna Pressley for Congress in Massachusetts’ 7th District.

Let’s keep a bold progressive champion fighting for justice, dignity, and working people in Congress.

When we organize, we win.

Our Revolution

Ed Markey for Re-Election to the US Senate

Ed Markey is a national leader on energy, environmental protection and telecommunications policy, demonstrating his deep commitment to improving the lives of the people of Massachusetts and our country.

That’s why Our Revolution wants to send Ed back to the US Senate to continue serving alongside Bernie Sanders to defend our democracy and fight for working families.

Whether the issue is climate change, clean energy, safeguarding privacy, nuclear non-proliferation, investor protection, or preserving an open Internet that spurs competition and consumer choice, Ed defends our progressive values and holds the powerful elites accountable.

Experience Matters

Elected to the Senate after a lengthy and distinguished career in the US House, Ed brings his energy and experience to fight for the people of Massachusetts.

In the House and Senate, Ed has: 

• Co-sponsored the Medicare for All Act in the Senate
• Co-authored the landmark Waxman-Markey bill
• Lead the call to investigate the disastrous BP oil spill
• Been instrumental in breaking up telecommunications monopolies
• Introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act
• Authored of some of the most important Wall Street reform laws since the Great Depression

At a time when many corporate Democrats are openly declaring war on progressives, Ed is committed to a Democratic Party that addresses climate change and preserves our environment, defends the rights of consumers while expanding opportunity, and advocating for a national single-payer healthcare system that guarantees comprehensive, affordable care to every American.

The Stakes in This Race

Massachusetts is facing critical challenges that demand bold and trusted leadership.

Throughout his tenure in Congress, Ed has focused on confronting the climate crisis, lowering the cost of housing and utilities, expanding access to healthcare, and protecting our communities. 

Ed has secured hundreds of millions in direct federal investments to protect and support communities across Massachusetts— from Boston to Worcester to Springfield to the Cape and Islands. Through congressionally directed spending and key infrastructure legislation, he delivers vital resources directly to the Commonwealth’s municipalities.

Ed has delivered for his community, but this race is about so much more than that.

It’s about whether the Democratic Party will continue moving toward a bold, unapologetically progressive vision that takes on concentrated wealth and corporate power — or will the elites and corporate apologists drag our party back toward the policies that have failed working people for decades.

Ed Markey has taken a stand.

And Our Revolution is proud to stand with him.

When we organize, we win.