Ayanna S. PressleyAyanna S. Pressley

Believing deeply in housing justice, Ayanna fights for federal policy that expands affordable housing, protects tenants’ rights, and treats stable housing as a fundamental human right rather than a privilege.

She believes the people closest to the pain should be closest to the power — and she has built her career around bringing the voices, experiences, and demands of people too often ignored in Washington directly into the halls of power. That’s the kind of bold, movement-driven leadership we need more of in Congress.

Knowing that places like Massachusetts have lower rates of violence due to their strong state gun safety laws, Representative Pressley helped introduce legislation like the Making America Safe and Secure Act to incentivize states to implement gun licensing standards similar to those in her state.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley is an activist, a legislator, a survivor, and the first woman of color to be elected to Congress from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Throughout her career, Congresswoman Pressley has fought to ensure that those closest to the pain are closest to the power - driving and informing policymaking. In Congress, she has been a champion for justice and healing: reproductive justice, economic justice, justice for immigrants, seniors, workers, justice survivors of sexual violence, LGBTQ+ people, formerly and currently incarcerated individuals, and healing for those who have experienced trauma. She has also turned her experience living with alopecia into action, becoming a leading voice fighting to raise awareness and support for the alopecia community across the nation.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley shows true, pro-peace leadership. “My first priority is always to reduce violence and trauma, and to affirm the dignity and humanity of survivors — that means ending endless war and pursuing peace by all possible means. It also means fundamentally altering our approach to foreign policy — investing more in foreign assistance, specifically to improve conditions for women and girls around the world, and decreasing our military budget to provide more funding for critical domestic priorities like education, healthcare, and housing. We need a foreign policy that represents the best our nation has to offer.”

JP Progressives endorses Ayanna Pressley for re-election to the House of Representatives in MA-07. We are grateful for Rep. Pressley’s consistently progressive, principled, and powerful work in Congress and strongly recommend that our membership vote to re-endorse Rep. Pressley in continued support and appreciation of her work to build a more equitable and just society. Ayanna is the leader our community demanded when we made history and unseated a 10-term incumbent. Voters sent Ayanna to Congress with a decisive mandate — to be a bold leader and to fight for our workers, families, and communities. Rep. Pressley has introduced/co-led more than 150 pieces of legislation since beginning her time in Congress — from addressing homelessness and protecting tenants in public housing, canceling student debt and reducing the racial wealth gap, to combatting the Black maternal morbidity crisis and transforming our criminal legal system — she proposes bold policy solutions that meet the moment and center those most impacted. In possibly one of her biggest wins this session, four of her bills were enacted into law in the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act— the most robust housing package in decades. These bills confront racial bias in home appraisals, protect renters from abusive corporations, expand access to affordable housing, and help families build long-term financial stability, treating housing as the human right that it is. Recently, Rep. Pressley was part of a Congressional oversight visit checking on people at the Dilley ICE detention center — where teenagers, babies, and families are imprisoned and which is run by CoreCivic, a for-profit, private prison company worth an actual BILLION dollars. She has advocated fiercely for ending these abuses and returning these detained children and adults to our communities. She’s also visited data center building sites to see first-hand the massive environmental effects they have on the communities where they’re placed, and she supports a federal and local moratorium on new AI data center construction until proper oversight and protections are in place. JPP is proud to be part of Ayanna Pressley’s original Squad. We, like her, believe that policy is our love language and that change can’t wait. We know she will continue to represent the MA 7th Congressional District by creating policies, enacting legislation, and being a vocal advocate and national leader on the issues that impact all of us, including health, housing, immigration, racial injustice, and economic justice.

MUPAC Incumbent endorsed. Scores: Primary: 84 General: 88