Just Say NO to Trump’s Regressive Corporate Tax Giveaways

Trump’s corporate tax cuts are going to cost Massachusetts nearly half a billion dollars this year alone — on top of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other federal programs we rely on.

Here’s why: States use the federal tax code as a starting point to calculate how much people and corporations owe in taxes. Trump’s changes to the federal tax code cut taxes for the rich and large corporations. So, unless we act now, these cuts will be baked into our state’s tax code, meaning big tax cuts for the rich and large corporations.

We don’t have to let this happen. Tell your lawmakers now: reject Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires and protect Massachusetts.

Gov. Healey recently introduced a bill that starts to address the problem. But there’s a catch: although her bill would defer these regressive corporate tax handouts for this budget cycle, it leaves them in place for future ones. Regressive corporate tax cuts are bad this year, and they will still be bad next year.

As we already face a budget crisis due to Trump’s Big Ugly Bill, we can’t afford even more cuts to health care, food assistance, education, and other essential public services.

States like California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, as well as the District of Columbia, have already taken action to address this problem. Massachusetts should join them.

Can you write to your state legislators today?

EMAIL YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS

Already emailed your state legislators about this? Then call their offices to follow up.

2026 US Congress

2026 Congressional Elections

 

Progressive Massachusetts will be collecting questionnaires from candidates running for US Congress. Over the course of the first half of the year, we will be inviting our members to vote on whom and whether to endorse. Stay tuned for updates! 

US Senate

Candidates seeking Democratic Party nomination: Ed Markey (incumbent), Seth Moulton, Alex Rikleen (Dropped out on 5/27) 

Candidates seeking the Republican Party nomination: John Deaton

Other candidates running in the general election: Joe Tache (Party for Socialism and Liberation), Shiva Ayyadurai, Morgan Dawicki 

Seth Moulton declined to submit a questionnaire, noting an aversion to “yes/no answers,” and has thereby withdrawn himself from our endorsement process.

Watch interviews from our 2026 annual meeting here. 

Dates to Know

  • Thursday, February 19, 2026 – Sunday, March 22, 2026: Democratic ward and town committees around the state hold caucuses to elect delegates to send to the Massachusetts Democratic Party convention.
  • Saturday, May 30, 2026: The Massachusetts Democratic Party holds its annual convention in Worcester, at which each candidate must receive at least 15% of delegates present to make the primary ballot.
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2026: Primary for Congressional, legislative, and county elections
  • Tuesday, November 3, 2026: General election for Congressional, legislative, and county elections

Read the questionnaires:

Ed Markey
Alex Rikleen
Joe Tache

MA-01

Incumbent: Richard Neal (D) 

Challengers: Jeromie Whalen (D), Nadia Milleron (U)

Communities in the District:

  • Berkshire County (all)
  • Franklin County: Charlemont, Hawley, Monroe, Rowe
  • Hampshire County: Belchertown, Cummington, Easthampton, Granby, Huntington, Middlefield, Plainfield, South Hadley, Southampton, Ware, Worthington
  • Hampden County (all) 
  • Worcester County: Brookfield, Charlton, Dudley, East Brookfield, New Braintree, North Brookfield, Oxford, Southbridge, Spencer, Sturbridge, Warren, Webster (Precincts 1A, 2, 5), West Brookfield

Watch Congressional candidate interviews here. 

Read the questionnaires:

Jeromie Whalen

MA-04

Incumbent: Jake Auchincloss (D) 

Challengers: Jason Poulos (D) 

4/7/2026: Ihssane Leckey dropped out of the race. 

Christopher Boyd also dropped out of the race.

Attleboro,  Bellingham, Berkley, Blackstone, Brookline, Dighton, Dover, Fall River, Foxborough, Franklin, Freetown, Hopedale, Lakeville, Mansfield, Medfield, Mendon, Milford, MIllis, Millville, Needham, Newton, Norfolk, North Attleborough, Norton, Plainville, Raynham (Pcts 2A, 3, 4), Rehoboth, Seekonk, Sharon, Sherborn, Somerset, Swansea, Taunton, Wellesley (Pcts E&F), Wrentha

Read the questionnaires:

Christopher Boyd
Ihssane Leckey
Jason Poulos

MA-05

Incumbent: Katherine Clark (D) 

Challengers: Jonathan Paz (D), Tarik Samman (D) 

Communities in the District: Arlington, Bedford (Precinct 2A), Belmont, Cambridge (W3P3A; W4P2; W6 P1A, 2, 3; W7; W8; W9; W10P1A, 2; W11P3), Framingham, Lexington, Lincoln, Malden, Maynard, Medford, Melrose, Natick, Revere, Stoneham, Sudbury, Waltham, Watertown, Wayland,  Wellesley (Pcts A-D, G, H), Weston, Winchester, Winthrop, Woburn

Watch Congressional candidate interviews here. 

Read the questionnaires:

Jonathan Paz

MA-06: OPEN

Incumbent: Seth Moulton (D) 

Candidates seeking the Democratic nomination: Beth Andres-Beck, John Beccia, Jamie Belsito, Rick Jakious, Dan Koh, Mariah Lancaster, Tram Nguyen

Candidates seeking the Republican nomination: John Field, Micah Jones 

Communities in the District: Amesbury, Andover, Bedford (Pcts 1-4), Beverly, Billerica (Pcts 3-5, 9, 10), Boxford, Burlington, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Gloucester, Groveland, Hamilton, Ipswich, Lynn, Lynnfield, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Marblehead, Merrimac, Middleton, Nahant, Newbury, Newburyport, North Andover, North Reading, Peabody, Reading, Rockport, Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Saugus, Swampscott, Tewksbury, Topsfield, Wakefield, Wenham, West Newbury, Wilmington

Watch Congressional candidate interviews here. 

Read the questionnaires:

Beth Andres-Beck
Jamie Belsito
Mariah Lancaster
Tram Nguyen

MA-08

Incumbent: Stephen Lynch (D)

Challengers: Patrick Roath (D)

Communities in the District:

  • Abington, Avon, Braintree, Brockton, Canton, Dedham, East Bridgewater, Easton, Hingham, Holbrook, Hull, Milton (Pcts 3, 4, 6-9), Norwood, Quincy, Stoughton, Walpole, West Bridgewater, Westwood, Weymouth, Whitman
  • Part of Boston
    • Harbor Islands (W1 P15)
    • North End (W 3P1-4, W3 P10&11)
    • West End (W3 P5 & P9)
    •  Downtown (W3 P6, P12, P13) 
    • Chinatown (W3 P8) 
    • Beacon Hill (W3 P17; W5 P3-5, P11)
    • Back Bay (W5 P6 – 8) 
    • South Boston (W6 P1 – 10, W7 P1-7) 
    • Seaport (W6 P11&12) 
    • Dorchester (W7 P8 – 10; W13 P3, 7-10; W16 P2, 5, 7-12)
    • Jamaica Plain (W11 P9&10, W19 P1-6, 8, 9)
    • Roslindale (W20 P1, P2, P4, P8, P9) 
    • West Roxbury (W20 P5-7, 10-21)

Watch Congressional candidate interviews here. 

Read the questionnaires:

Patrick Roath

MA-09

Incumbent: Bill Keating (D)

Challengers: Craig Swallow (D)

Communities in the District:

  • Barnstable County (all)
  • Bristol County: Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, New Bedford, Raynham (Pcts 1, 2, 4A), Westport
  • Dukes County (all) 
  • Nantucket County 
  • Norfolk County: Cohasset 
  • Plymouth County: Bridgewater, Carver, Duxbury, Halifax, Hanover, Hanson, Kingston, Marion, Marshfield, Mattapoisett, Middleborough, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Rochester, Rockland, Scituate, Wareham

Watch Congressional candidate interviews here. 

Read the questionnaires:

Craig Swallow
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The MA House Held “Listening Sessions” This Week. Did Your Rep Speak Up?

This week, MA House Democratic Leadership held a series of listening sessions to learn about what rank-and-file members want to do about ICE and about protecting our immigrant communities in Massachusetts.

The fact that these listening sessions are happening is an indicator that your calls and emails are breaking through: they know they need to do something.

But here’s a question: if they were listening, who was talking?

Was your state rep speaking up and advocating for policy that meets the moment? The only way to know is to ask.

Feel free to use our writing tool or find your state rep’s phone number and email and reach out with a simple script:

“I was glad to hear that the MA House held listening sessions this week about action to take to rein in ICE and protect our communities. It is important in Massachusetts that we prevent state and local law enforcement from collaborating with ICE or being deputized as ICE agents. What priorities did you bring up in the listening sessions this week, and how are you working with colleagues to turn them into law?”

Email Your State Rep

Other states are taking action. Just yesterday, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill to prohibit state and local governments from entering into agreements to detain individuals for civil immigration violations, stop the use of public land for immigration detention, and ban 287(g) agreements that turn local law enforcement into immigration agents. MA should be leading, not playing catch-up.

PM in the News: “After months of escalation, Healey took action to counter ICE. Fellow Democrats ask: Is it enough?”

Samantha Gross and Matt Stout, “After months of escalation, Healey took action to counter ICE. Fellow Democrats ask: Is it enough?,” Boston Globe, February 3, 2026.

Jonathan Cohn, policy director at the advocacy group Progressive Mass., said Healey admittedly can’t stop ICE operations here, but questioned whether the state is using its “full power” to push back.

“Putting garlic on your door to ward off a vampire is good,” he said, “but what happens if it doesn’t work?”

Tell Gov. Healey: De-ICE Massachusetts

Last week, Gov. Healey held a press conference focused on a new executive order and new proposed legislation aimed at ICE. But here’s a problem: she reaffirmed her commitment to continued collaboration with ICE.

MA is the only state in New England with a collaboration agreement, known as 287(g), between the state’s Department of Correction and ICE and the only New England Democratic governor to have any collaboration agreement at all.

Massachusetts should not be making ICE’s job easier. End stop.

Email Gov. Healey and tell her it’s time to end the contract with ICE.

NYT: “ICE Is Watching You”

In an excellent op-ed this morning, NYT opinion writer Tressie McMillan Cottom explains how ICE is building a massive surveillance apparatus through buying up our data (“ICE Is Watching You“):

“The federal government may have abdicated its responsibility to protect our civil liberties by regulating who can use our data and to what ends. Some states are stepping in, creating their own data privacy laws. But there is still much more to be done, in state legislatures and in Congress. And it all starts with the American people understanding that our freedoms are now bound up in who controls our data.

End the spectacle of vicarious violence. Abolish ICE.

But to end the structure of violence that has ensnared our civil liberties, we will also have to finally, finally turn our attention to who is controlling the damn phones.“

That’s why we are so committed to passing strong data privacy legislation this session.

The MA Senate passed a bill in September, and the House is likely to vote on its own bill soon.

Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google have been lobbying to water it down so that they can keep profiting off our data. Your state rep needs to hear from you that you want a bill with robust protection and robust enforcement.

Email Your State Rep

What if you have already emailed your state rep? Here’s what you can do next:

  • Call your state rep. You can find their number here. Here’s a quick message: “Can I count on the Rep to talk to House Leadership about passing a strong data privacy bill that bans the sale of sensitive data and has clear, robust enforcement mechanisms?” If you want a specific bill number, you can mention the Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Act (H.4746).
  • Email five friends. Do you know other friends in your own state rep district or on the other side of the Commonwealth? Ask them to take action too.

PM in the News: “Mass. Sierra Club takes unprecedented step to call for removal of House energy chair”

Jordan Wollman, “Mass. Sierra Club takes unprecedented step to call for removal of House energy chair,” CommonWealth Beacon, January 27, 2026.

Not everyone agrees that Sierra Club’s move has drawbacks. Jonathan Cohn, policy director at the advocacy group Progressive Mass, said it’s clear from Cusack’s November version of the energy affordability bill that he isn’t taking his cues from groups like Sierra Club anyway.

“From the universe of not wanting to deny yourself access, if you never had access to begin with, there’s at least not as much in the way of real loss,” Cohn said. “And evaluating how back in November environmental groups across the state were able to rally members and make enough representatives scared to vote yes on his bill, it showed that power lies in that ability to have an organized and mobilized grassroots base. Trying to defeat that bill on the basis of only talking to the highest people in the building was not going to be a viable strategy.”

THURSDAY at the State House: Declaration of Independence from ICE

As ICE agents shoot, kill, and execute people in Minnesota, the people in Massachusetts stand in solidarity with the people in Minnesota:ICE out of Minnesota, ICE out of MA, and ICE out from all of our communities.

Join Indivisible Mass Coalition, Progressive Mass, ACLU-MA, MIRA, Brazilian Center, and Field First this Thursday, January 29 from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm at the MA State House to talk with your legislators and demand action now.

RSVP here.

You can also join a prep webinar tomorrow, Wednesday January 28 at 7:00 pm to get talking points to help facilitate a productive conversation with your legislator.

Register for the webinar here.

Can’t join in person? You can still take action.