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Ayanna Soyini Pressley is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district since January 3, 2019. She made history as the first African American woman elected to the Boston City Council and the first African American woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Pressley is known for her progressive stances on issues such as criminal justice reform, healthcare, and immigration policy.
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October 23, 2026
In September, the US representative Ayanna Pressley, a Democrat from Massachusetts, reintroduced a congressional resolution calling for the creation of a federal job guarantee.
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With the rise of facial recognition technology across our communities, we must pass comprehensive policies that prevent government agencies like DOJ or ICE from using this faulty, flawed technology to spy, track, and kidnap its citizens.
Our Fossil Free Finance Act would help confront the climate crisis by stopping financial institutions, including our nation’s largest banks, from providing trillions in fossil fuel financing and deepening the health inequities and harms…
We should be using every tool available to protect our planet, our people, and our economy, and one way we can do that is by stopping giant banks from financing fossil fuel projects.
That’s all MAGA is. White supremacy is still alive and well. Anti-Blackness will still be alive and well.
It is bigger than Trump. Because whenever we do the work of ousting the occupant of the Oval Office, the Confederacy is still alive and well.
Trump just voted by mail AGAIN while trying to take away the right for millions of people to do the same. The hypocrisy is the point. We won't let Republicans attack the sacred right to vote, including by mail.
ICE is a rogue agency that moves with disregard for public safety, constitutional rights, and basic human dignity.
The data doesn’t lie and this report makes plain what we’ve long known: fare-free transit is essential to building connected communities, improving mobility, and making life more affordable for our families.
We should not have any company or contractor operating without a full accounting of their safety record.
This young girl, who we didn't know, 18 years old. I’m sure had her own plans and dreams that have all been cut short.
I'm just really centering the victim right now. And that's what we all should be doing.
It is incumbent upon us all to treat mothers with the dignity, respect, and care that they deserve—and that means tackling the maternal morbidity crisis head on.
Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. And now he’s trying to rig this year’s election with the SAVE America Act to make it harder to vote for millions of women, veterans, rural folks, & voters of color.
What the American people want to see right now and going forward is that we know how to be the fighters in the room and that when we have the power, we're not afraid to use it,
The death penalty is a racist, discriminatory, and deeply flawed punishment and must be abolished once and for all.
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