DID YOU KNOW: if you run for state or local office in Massachusetts, you can pay for a tuxedo rental with campaign funds, BUT you can't pay for childcare during campaign activities (like a fundraiser event or door-to-door canvassing) with … [Read more...]

This Monday, August 10, at noon, The Boston Globe is hosting a virtual event, "After Endorsement, Questions For Jake Auchincloss." Check it out! The event is a conversation between Globe editorial page editor Bina Venkataraman and MA-04 … [Read more...]

There has been one nagging reality about the upcoming primary for U.S. Senate between Ed Markey and Joe Kennedy III that has not been discussed nearly enough. Only one of those two candidates actually wants to be a U.S. … [Read more...]

March is a huge month for Congressional Democratic primaries between progressive women challengers and conservative men incumbents in Safe Blue districts where we should see strongly progressive representation but currently do not. Support … [Read more...]

Some of you may be aware that, in ten days (on Tuesday, September 10), a competitive Congressional special election will take place. (Technically, it's already taking place with early voting underway.) In North Carolina's 9th Congressional … [Read more...]

Back in November, after Election Day, I shared on BMG a list of seven Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives that I hoped would get primary challengers in this 2019-2020 election cycle due to not being reflective of the … [Read more...]

A quick review of headlines from the last week: Thursday, June 6 Baker quietly puts political team together as he considers 3rd term Saturday, June 8 At least 10 people injured in Green Line derailment near Kenmore Tuesday, June … [Read more...]

If I wanted to be glib and a bit rude, I could joke that, while the Registry of Deeds was very important in 1825, much of the Registry's role of "keeping the residents of Suffolk County’s real estate records safe and accessible" could today … [Read more...]

Massachusetts' 7th Congressional district saw a titanic primary in 2018 between incumbent Mike Capuano and then-Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley. Though now-Congresswoman Pressley won that primary by a very comfortable 17-point margin, … [Read more...]

Back when I was a more active blogger around a decade ago, there was an expression: "More and Better Democrats." We wanted to elect more Democrats, sure, but specifically the best Democrats we could in each district, acknowledging that some … [Read more...]