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Building and strengthening the progressive grassroots across MA https://t.co/6hCfZZ24sY also--we have a scorecard: https://t.co/21Zz7w4R31
Massachusetts
Joined September 2011
Hey awards night fans & progressives looking for a reason to celebrate--join us on April 27th, 7pm for Progressive Mass Virtual Awards Night 2025! https://t.co/hQ8CIN7ORq🏆🎊🍿#mapoli
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"Now there’s something MA can do: By making tax-dodging multinational corporations pay their fair share in Massachusetts, the state can help protect low-income and middle-income families from the harm new federal policies will cause." #mapoli
https://t.co/1nFTz8hM8B
bostonglobe.com
To protect low-income and middle-class families from the ravages of federal policies, the Commonwealth needs to increase its revenue.
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“Library workers in these states are gaining protections, but even more importantly, their readers and communities are gaining protections for us to focus our resources on literacy and learning." #mapoli
https://t.co/lNvoOd8TDa
bostonglobe.com
The Massachusetts Senate will vote Thursday on legislation that would create a set of rules and restrictions for school districts to follow when adding or removing school library materials.
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Hard NO. We need to redouble our commitments to climate action, not water them down. This cowardice is dangerous. #mapoli
https://t.co/VtVkJDYNiK
commonwealthbeacon.org
Rep. Mark Cusack, co-chair of the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities, and Energy, said he is pushing for his redraft of Gov. Maura Healey's energy affordability bill to receive a floor...
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Memo to Beacon Hill: Yesterday's elections showed that voters across the country want their elected officials to actually stand up to the chaos, cruelty, and corruption of the Trump administration. #mapoli
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Six hours. That’s all it took for a small business to get slammed with a 50% tariff. Elana Woldenberg Ruffman, VP of Marketing and Product Development at @hand2mind, shares how “emergency” tariffs forced her team to sprint across continents to make a children’s toy—only to be
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“It's striking that in our state, in Massachusetts, where we have, as I often like to point out, the third largest Democratic super majority in the country after Hawaii and Rhode Island, our Legislature isn't doing very much,” Cohn said in an interview. https://t.co/jW7T2qfX72
wbur.org
Legislative leaders in Massachusetts kicked off this session with pledges to get more business done. But a WBUR analysis found that most of the major bills that cleared the House or Senate have sat...
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Tomorrow is Election Day. You should be able to register to vote then. Maine has allowed it since the 1970s. New Hampshire since the 1990s. Why not MA? #mapoli
https://t.co/uN2xnnQdvj
actionnetwork.org
Tuesday, September 16, is National Voter Registration Day, the country’s largest single-day voter registration drive. It also happens to be the date for a State House hearing on various voting rights...
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Here's a Halloween fright: the thought of you not voting this year. Make a plan to vote, and be an informed voter by checking out our questionnaires! #mapoli
https://t.co/rv38vCgviw
progressivemass.com
Check out our latest endorsements and our questionnaire archive.
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Let's change the outcome of this scary movie. Email your senator: https://t.co/xBtkdZm93y Email your state rep:
actionnetwork.org
Witches, vampires, ghosts--they are all scary in movies. But the threats faced in real life are much scarier. Threats to Health Care and Food Assistance: Massachusetts faces deep cuts in health care...
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Of those 49, 21 were home rule petitions for one city or town, 13 were personnel matters about individual people, and 8 were budgets and supplemental budgets.
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We have seen far too much inaction from Beacon Hill this year. On the last day of the 10th month, only 49 bills have been signed into law.
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When you watch a horror film, you know that one of the scariest things can be inaction. That sense that the outcomes were not inevitable at all, that opportunities were missed, that voices were unheeded, all of them empowering whatever villains lurk.
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🎃As Big Tech behemoths like Facebook and Google become accomplices to Trumpist authoritarianism, we need to rein in their ability to buy and sell our personal data in an unregulated market place. The State Senate took action last month, but the House needs to as well.
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🎃Massachusetts has a higher GDP than Sweden: we are a rich state with ample resources, and we should be raising new revenue and tapping into our flush rainy day fund. (When it's raining, you take out the umbrella.) #mapoli (3/x) ☔️
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🎃MA faces deep cuts in health care access, food assistance, and more due to the Big Ugly Bill passed this summer, and we face looming cuts to SNAP given President Trump's illegal decision not to spend emergency resources. #mapoli (2/x)
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Witches, vampires, ghosts--they are all scary in movies. But the threats faced in real life are much scarier. 🎃🎃 A 🎃 thread (1/x) #mapoli
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Shameful. When it's raining, you use the rainy day fund. This is exactly what it's for. #mapoli
https://t.co/RSxrV5IzAs
wbur.org
Top Massachusetts House Democrats made clear Wednesday that they do not plan to turn to Massachusetts’ massive rainy day fund to bail out federal food assistance benefits that are set to run out of...
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We have let this child down so badly https://t.co/jmQMDgHwRb
wcvb.com
The voluntary departure, the family's attorney says, is the best-case scenario for the 13-year-old.
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Free calls are a win-win, and sheriffs would be wise to devote their time spent complaining to negotiating better contracts. #mapoli
https://t.co/QdRiYai2z2
bostonglobe.com
Ever since free phone calls for people in prison and jail went into effect, various sheriffs have been blaming the calls for their budget grievances.
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"Massachusetts is a world leader in technology development, and the state can be a beacon of light on privacy, too." #mapoli
https://t.co/1inAHzYQoD
commonwealthbeacon.org
PERSONAL DATA HAS become the de facto currency of the digital age, and we’ve surrendered more control over our lives than we may have realized. Our every
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