Greg Ryan, “Massachusetts Has Few Laws to Show for Democratic Supermajority,” Bloomberg News, March 10, 2026.

“They’re flattening everything to the point they can get every member of the caucus before they’re willing to vote for something,” said Jonathan Cohn, policy director at Progressive Massachusetts. “That really narrows what an agenda will be.”

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Passing bills with such full-throated support limits the extent to which those votes can be used against candidates when election season rolls around, Cohn said, criticizing the practice as an “incumbent protection racket.”