Massachusetts Sierra Club
Our Revolution Massachusetts
Boston Teachers Union
Mass Alliance
Massachusetts Teachers Association
UNITE HERE Local 26
IBEW Local 2222
IfNotNow Boston
Massachusetts Peace Action
Medford for Palestine
350 Mass Action
Somerville Municipal Employees Union
Somerville for Palestine
Our Revolution Cambridge
Fighting for What Matters
Lower Our Energy Bills and Invest in Clean Energy
More than half of your energy bill is a black box of delivery fees. Utility giants lobby Beacon Hill to keep price gouging your monthly bills. Erika was one of only a few State Reps fighting to hold them accountable and won by blocking them from increasing your energy bills this year. Erika will fight to lower your bills, and invest in 100 percent renewable energy built with union jobs, no-cost efficiency upgrades for renters and homeowners, and clean air and water solutions for impacted neighborhoods.
Read Erika's Climate and Utility Bills Platform →
Standing Up to ICE & Protecting Our Neighbors
As the daughter of immigrants, Erika carries the lived experience and generational trauma of what happens when government and racist rhetoric turn against people. For years the legislature took no action to protect immigrants. With transparency, we built the political pressure together to push two bills forward this past spring. She will fight to end any cooperation between Massachusetts and ICE, guarantee every immigrant facing detention or deportation has legal representation, and get ICE out of Massachusetts.
Read Erika's Platform to Protect Immigrants and Stop ICE →
Decisive Action on the Housing Crisis
Displacement and skyrocketing costs are hollowing out our communities, treating housing as a commodity, not a necessity. That's not inevitable, it's a political choice Beacon Hill makes to side with investors, mega-landlords, and speculators instead of working people. Erika passed the law ending forced broker fees and doubled local affordable housing funding. Erika will fight to build 100,000 permanently affordable homes, take on a housing system designed to reward speculation and scarcity, and fight for a Massachusetts where working people can afford to stay.
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Transparency and a Government That Answers to You
For decades most votes lawmakers took were behind closed doors where corporate interests win. Erika led the fight and won making all votes publicly available, putting power back in our hands. There is still more work to do, some bills are voted on with only an hour to review, there still hasn't been an audit, and we are the only state where all three branches of government exempt themselves from public records law. In the Senate, she will keep fighting for a government that works for all of us and where negotiations happen in the open.
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Medicare for All in Massachusetts
As a former EMT, Erika understands what our broken profit-driven healthcare system does to patients and the workers who hold it together. Trump's policies are putting over 300,000 people at risk of losing MassHealth. She will fight to pass Medicare for All in Massachusetts, which will lower our healthcare costs by 23 percent, and kick private equity out of our hospitals, nursing homes, and hospice. We need universal quality healthcare because not only will it save all of us money, but because healthcare is a human right.
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Education at Every Stage of Life
Every student, educator, and parent deserves thriving public schools. Budget cuts disproportionately harm students with disabilities, English language learners, low income and immigrant students. That's why Erika fought and helped win $1.5 billion in new public school funding. We must bolster public education at every stage: universal child care and pre-K for every family, a living wage for every educator from teachers to paraprofessionals, fully funded public schools in every zip code, and debt-free public college for every student in Massachusetts.
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Fast, Reliable, and Free MBTA
Decades of neglect, underfunding, and disinvestment have not only led to slow and unreliable commutes, it has kept the region overdependent on cars. Our district has paid a steep price with highways breaking up our communities and some of the highest rates of asthma, cancer, and heart disease in the state. Our district's future runs on public transit. Erika will fight to make the T fare-free starting with buses, fund repairs for fast and frequent service, and electrify our buses and trains, because robust transit is vital for a livable climate and our quality of life.
Read Erika's Public Transportation Platform →
Safe and Ethical AI for the Future
AI will shape whether you get a job, a loan, an apartment, and healthcare, and Big Tech is lobbying Washington to stop states from regulating it. Erika will fight for your right to know when AI makes decisions about your life, for independent safety testing, and to stop data brokers from selling your data to ICE. She will also fight to stop data center expansion, protecting the health and safety of working class people and communities of color from the environmental impact of new data centers.
Read Erika's AI Platform →A decade of Erika delivering results.
Forced Beacon Hill Into the Open
Erika fought to end the voting behind closed doors and put every vote on the public record. That is how we built the political pressure to move our priorities forward and stop corporations from raising your utility bills.
Stopped utility giants from hiking up your bills
Erika led the fight to stop utilities from profiting off of our monthly bills and pulling back our climate commitments. She successfully advanced the climate justice movement's priorities into the latest version of the bill: stopping rate hikes, holding for-profit utilities accountable, and investing in a clean transition.
Ended the Predatory Practice of Forced Broker Fees
Erika wrote and passed the bill to save renters money by ending the practice of charging renters for a broker they did not hire.
Helped pass immigrant protections and advance privacy protections against ICE
During Trump's first term, all bills to protect immigrants from ICE quietly died in committee. By building up grassroots political pressure through more transparency, and laying out concretely what the State House can do to get ICE out of Massachusetts, two bills to protect immigrants moved forward this year.
Doubled funding for local affordable housing investments
Erika led the campaign and won, doubling funding for affordable housing and green space by $3M to $6M a year in Somerville.
Worked to usher in $1.5 billion in new school funding
Erika led the inside outside organizing alongside educators and labor unions to win $1.5 billion in new public school funding for special education, English language learners, and low-income students.
Blocked tax breaks benefiting corporations and the ultra wealthy
When tax breaks for large corporations and the wealthy were slipped into bills, Erika mobilized a coalition of legislators on the inside and unions and community organizations on the outside to block them, helping invest over $100 million back into our communities.
Advanced the blueprint for fare-free buses and secured funding for repairs
Erika filed legislation and successfully pushed the MBTA to lay out a plan and estimate the cost for fare-free buses across the entire network. She fought for and won $850 million to fix the MBTA's backlog of repairs and deferred maintenance, helping eliminate slow zones across the system.