RSVP today! Progressive Mass 2023 Virtual Gala

Progressive Mass turns 10! Celebrate 10 years of progressive political change at the 2023 Progressive Mass Gala, Sunday, March 5th, 7-8:30pm (online)!

Join us as we reflect on past victories, honor progressive champions, and gain inspiration for the work ahead.

This year we are excited to feature State Senator Jamie Eldridge and NAACP Boston Branch President and former candidate for Secretary of State Tanisha Sullivan.

We are thrilled to present our Progressive Leadership Award to these dedicated leaders:

  • Jordan Berg Powers, Executive Director of Mass Alliance
  • Mallory Hanora and Sashi James, Co-Directors of Families for Justice as Healing
  • Dálida Rocha, Field Director for the Yes on 4 for Safer Roads Campaign

Join progressive activists from around the Commonwealth to celebrate 10 years of Progressive Mass and come together for vision and inspiration that will help lay the foundation for the next ten!

Get your ticket ($35) here: bit.ly/pmgala23.

Please consider joining the host committee by donating $250 or more. If you have questions about joining the host committee, please email development@progressivemass.com.

Please help spread the word about the Gala to your friends and neighbors! You can also share the event via Facebook.

PM in the News: MassLive on the Senate’s Vote Repealing Term Limits

Alison Kuznitz, “Eight-year term limit eliminated for Mass. Senate President Karen Spilka,” MassLive, February 9, 2023.

Jonathan Cohn, policy director at the grassroots activist organization Progressive Mass, said the lack of floor debate Thursday likely stems from senators’ fear of retaliation from Spilka, particularly as committee assignments have yet to be released.

Yet should senators eventually elect a “very conservative” president, Cohn warned “you’re stuck with them for a long because there’s no fail-safe.”

“When you give one person that level of power- and agenda-setting for the body, it also just slows things down because you’re the one person and you’re in charge indefinitely for the future,” Cohn told MassLive. “It makes it clear that everything needs to run through you, and there are only 24 hours in the day. That centralization that exists in both House and Senate is something that causes a lot of the inertia that exists in the building.”