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I heard this again and again as I was passing our ballot question endorsement palm cards at a recent community festival.

With 9 statewide ballot questions (as well as some additional local or district-specific ballot questions in some communities), the ballot this year is long. Ballot questions can be confusingly worded and have implications that aren’t fully clear at first reading.

That’s why trusted sources of information are so important. Our endorsement palm cards provide that resource.

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In solidarity,
Jonathan Cohn
Policy Director
Progressive Massachusetts

✅VOTE YES ON 1 to expand the public records law to cover the Governor and the Legislature. We’re the only state in the country that doesn’t do that already. Let the sunlight in. ✅VOTE YES ON 2 to enable public defenders to collectively bargain. Every worker deserves to have a union, and public defenders, who are often overworked and underpaid, should be no exception. ❌VOTE NO ON 3 to prevent private equity billionaires from rigging our election system in their favor. Top-two primaries empower corporate PACs and self-funders, disadvantage grassroots candidates, and turn MAGA voters into election kingmakers. ✅VOTE YES ON 4 to enable voters to register to vote or update their registration on Election Day. No eligible voter should be turned away due to a clerical error, and this reform is one of the most proven ways to increase voter turnout. ❌VOTE NO ON 5 to protect our state’s ability to invest in health care, transportation, and public education. The rich would get millions in tax rebates, while the rest of us suffer from underfunded public services. ⚪VOTE how you want on 6. Question 6 fell shy of our endorsement threshold: our members valued land and water conservation, but were worried about the dedication of existing funds as opposed to new ones. ✅VOTE YES on 7 to enable more starter homes across the Commonwealth. We have a housing crisis, and large lot size requirements mean fewer homes are able to be built. ❌VOTE NO on 8 to protect our state’s cannabis laws. We said NO to the war on drugs back in 2016, and we shouldn’t turn back time and destroy local economies. ✅VOTE YES ON 9 to protect our state’s landmark gun safety law, which cracked down on ghost guns, banned machine gun conversion devices, and strengthened gun violence data collection.

PM in the News: “Three Ballot Questions that Could Affect the Arts This November”

Kim Córdova, “Three Ballot Questions that Could Affect the Arts This November,” Boston Art Review, October 19, 2026.

“No [on 3]: Jonathan Cohn, the policy director of Progressive Massachusetts, says private equity executives provided 71 percent of the funding for the pro–Question 3 campaign. He argues that running twice raises costs and favors well-funded candidates. He also says the system pressures candidates in crowded fields to drop out early, and lets any group of fifty people get its endorsements printed on the ballot.”

“No [on 5]: Cohn of Progressive Massachusetts cites an estimate from the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center of about $2 billion in lost revenue per year, just as federal cuts are set to hit next year. He argues this would drain rainy-day reserves and lead to cuts in arts and culture spending, as well as the programs creative workers depend on.”