Massachusetts State House: Jack Richardson, Evan MacKay, and Mike Connolly
Our Revolution is proud to endorse three progressive fighters for the Massachusetts State House: Jack Richardson in the 3rd Barnstable District, Evan MacKay in the 25th Middlesex District, and Mike Connolly in the 26th Middlesex District.
These candidates show why building progressive power in our statehouses matters. They’re organizers and public servants willing to challenge entrenched power — and fight to make government actually deliver for working people.
Jack Richardson: Taking Local Victories to Beacon Hill
Jack Richardson is running on a record of getting things done.
On the Falmouth Select Board, Jack helped deliver tangible wins for year-round residents while taking bold action on climate and civil rights.
He led the board to pass a 10% residential tax exemption, saving year-round residents an average of $400 annually. He helped halt a planned development and put the Long Pond Watershed into permanent conservation. And he led the effort to ban ICE from town property without a judicial warrant, while securing funding for a Portuguese-speaking social worker.
Now Jack is running to bring that record to Beacon Hill and deliver for Bourne, Falmouth, and Mashpee.
At a moment when families are struggling with the cost of living and communities need leaders willing to stand up for their values, Jack has already demonstrated what effective progressive leadership can accomplish.
Evan MacKay: A Union Organizer Who Knows How to Take On Entrenched Power
Evan MacKay has taken on powerful institutions before — and won.
A union leader and organizer, Evan helped create the Harvard Graduate Students Union with the UAW when workers were being paid minimum wage and facing sexual harassment. After being elected president of the union, Evan helped secure mid-contract raises that skeptics said couldn’t be won.
Evan also took on entrenched corruption within the broader UAW, fighting for stronger internal democracy, transparency, and a union accountable to its members.
Now they want to bring that same fighting spirit to Beacon Hill.
Evan is running to make the State House more transparent, accountable, and responsive to working people — with public votes, stronger public records laws, and reforms that prevent popular legislation from being buried behind closed doors.
Their vision also includes stronger worker protections, affordable housing and care, an end to state collaboration with ICE, and ambitious action on climate and transportation.
Evan knows that changing government requires more than having the right values. It requires being willing to challenge the people and institutions standing in the way.
Mike Connolly: A Progressive Fighter Who Delivers
Mike Connolly has spent his time in the State House proving that you can challenge Beacon Hill leadership and still deliver real results.
Mike is a community organizer and proud progressive whose commitment to economic and social justice comes from personal experience. He was raised in public housing by a single mother, spent time in foster care, and benefited from Head Start and other public programs before going on to college and law school.
That experience has shaped his belief that everyone deserves the same support and opportunity that helped him succeed.
In the State House, Mike helped win a $15 minimum wage and Paid Family and Medical Leave, helped pass comprehensive criminal justice reform, and worked to protect and expand reproductive freedom.
He also helped keep the Green Line Extension and Community Path Extension moving when key elements of the project were at risk — infrastructure that now connects communities across Somerville and the region.
Today, Mike is focused on the affordability emergency facing working people, protecting immigrant communities and constitutional rights from the Trump agenda, and making state government actually work for the people it serves.
And Mike isn’t afraid to challenge his own party when he believes Beacon Hill isn’t doing enough.
That combination — progressive conviction and the ability to turn it into results — is exactly what we need more of in our state legislatures.
Building Progressive Power from the Ground Up
Our Revolution believes lasting political power isn’t built only in Washington.
It starts in our communities and statehouses, where decisions about housing, workers’ rights, transportation, civil liberties, climate, and public services can directly change people’s lives.
Jack Richardson has shown what progressive leadership can deliver locally. Evan MacKay has organized workers and taken on entrenched power. Mike Connolly has demonstrated how a progressive legislator can challenge the status quo and win real change.
Now we have an opportunity to send all three to Beacon Hill.
Let’s build progressive power in the Massachusetts State House.
When we organize, we win.
Our Revolution