This Thursday at the State House: Our Annual Lobby Day

This Thursday is a big day. The MA Senate will be voting on their draft of the PROTECT Act, and it’s our annual lobby day.

We have just three months left in the formal legislative session, and we need to keep the momentum going.

Join us at the State House as we advocate for priorities from our Legislative Agenda.

We need the MA House to take action where the MA Senate has already: by strengthening data privacy protections and reining in politically motivated book bans.

We need the MA Senate to take action to strengthen the PROTECT Act and protect our immigrant communities, and to rein in utility profiteering and pass an energy bill that doesn’t scapegoat Mass Save.

We need both chambers to say NO to corporate extortionists trying to get themselves ANOTHER massive tax cut.

We need both chambers to commit to investing in people not prisons and not let the prison moratorium that advanced out of committee in both chambers stall.

And rather than wait until the November ballot, we have the opportunity to get the Legislature to pass rent control and Same Day Registration.

Progressive Mass 2026 Lobby Day

Thursday, May 7, 10 am (Doors open at 9:30 am)

Massachusetts State House

RSVP here

All are welcome, whether it’s your first time or your fiftieth time at the State House.

Just Say NO to Corporate Extortionists

Corporate CEOs are backing two ballot questions to cut the income tax. Combined with Trump’s cuts to the state, these questions will blow an $8 Billion hole in the budget, a radical, reckless attack on our state’s finances and working families. This cut of more than 10% of the state’s budget means defunding our schools, our cities and towns, and our health care.

With the threat of such severe cuts, these CEOs are trying to scare the legislature into a backroom deal to cut taxes for millionaires and corporations.

These CEOs are still mad about the passage of the Fair Share Amendment. They chipped in a few more cents per dollar on their income over a million, and we were able to fund universal school meals, free community college, and more. They want to get rid of all of this and more.

The big donors and backers of these questions won’t go to the ballot— they know that such deep cuts will undermine the transportation and services their businesses depend upon. If a few fanatics do go forward, faith, labor, and community groups are ready to defeat them.

If the Legislature concedes and lets these corporate extortionists get their way, they will keep coming back year after year with more threats and more demands. They will keep enriching themselves, and the investments we all depend on will suffer.

Tell your legislators to say NO to negotiating with corporate extortionists and NO to any deal with them.

But there’s more that you can do: