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Candidates › MA-06 race › 2025–2026
Tram T. Nguyen
DemocraticU.S. House, MA-06Massachusetts
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- Lost the Democratic primarySep 1, 2026 · 33,991 votes (29.5%) · 2 of 6 · count stopped at 99% reporting · Dan Koh is on the November ballot
- Where to vote
- Find your polling place (opens in a new tab) · More ways to vote
- Top priorities
- Lowering costs
- Defending democracy
- Economic Justice
- Healthcare for All
- Education Equality
- Money
- $1.1M raised, $1.1M spent, $25.3K cash on hand (through Sep 30, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 21% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 85% from Massachusetts · largest committee giver UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ACTIVE BALLOT CLUB, $5K
- Outside groups
- $500K supporting Nguyen
- Backed by
- Congresswoman Lori Trahan · Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley · Ron Mariano and 109 more. As the campaign lists them
13 priorities from tramforcongress.com, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
I’ll take on corporate greed and fight to bring down the rising costs of food, childcare, healthcare, and energy.
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I’ve lived under authoritarianism once, and I’ll never let it take root here. I’ll stand up to MAGA extremists and protect our fundamental freedoms.
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When families succeed, our economy grows stronger. Tram will stand up to corporate greed that drives up costs, and make it easier to pay for every day necessities.
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When families succeed, our economy grows stronger. Tram will stand up to corporate greed that drives up costs while working with local employers and innovative businesses to build an economy that’s fair, affordable, and full of opportunity.
In Congress, Tram will fight for economic justice by working to:
- Increase the federal minimum wage to $20 an hour,
- Defend and expand workers’ rights by passing the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act to ban union-busting, protect striking workers, and eliminate right-to-work laws, and
- Ensure the ultra-wealthy and corporations pay their fair share in taxes
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Getting in a car accident or getting sick shouldn’t bankrupt anyone. Tram will fight to lower costs, ensure high-quality care, and deliver a future with Medicare for All.
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Getting in a car accident or getting sick shouldn’t bankrupt anyone. Tram knows there is an entire for-profit industry built around people’s bad luck or illness, which should never have been built in the first place. Moreover, the decision of when and how to have a family should be between individuals and their doctors. When we are all healthy, with bodily autonomy, and care we can count on, our communities can thrive. That’s why in Congress, Tram will work tirelessly to:
- Transition to Medicare for All,
- Codify Paid Family Medical Leave at the federal level, so parents and children can afford to bond, and provide care to one another when they need or wish to do so,
- Lower prescription drug costs,
- Return subsidies to low- and mid-income families,
- Address food insecurity by protecting funding for SNAP,
- Pass federal legislation to guarantee free, nutritious breakfast and lunch for every child in public school,
- Expand USDA grants to connect local farms directly to community food pantries,
- Establish a permanent, nationwide right to abortion care by passing the Women’s Health Protection Act,
- Establish a federal right to access IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies, shielding families from judicial overreach, and
- Shield patients and providers from out-of-state prosecution by passing federal protections for those who travel across state lines to seek or deliver legal abortion services.
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Tram will center universal access and affordability, so that every child, student, and learner, regardless of income, has access to high-quality education from cradle to career.
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Tram is a proud product of the public school system here in Massachusetts. She learned English in our public schools, and got to where she is today because of the investment that was made in her education. Every child deserves access to a fair, equitable and high-quality K-12 education and beyond, so that they too can thrive.
In Congress, Tram will work to:
- Invest in universal Pre-K and early education, centering universal access and affordability, so that every family, regardless of income, has access to high-quality care.
- Subsidize early education costs for low-income families and cap expenses for middle-income households,
- Push for livable, professional wages and workforce development for our educators by raising teacher and education professional pay,
- Increase federal investments in Title I which gives additional money to schools that serve lower income students,
- Bring home federal funding to expand community schools that wrap academics, healthcare, mental health services, food assistance and more into hubs of well-being and support for children, families and communities,
- Fight to limit burdensome federal student loan debt and protect Pell Grants,
- Pass legislation making all community colleges and public four-year universities tuition-free, and
- Partner vocational-technical schools directly with local trade unions to guarantee graduates immediate, debt-free pathways into high-paying, unionized careers.
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Climate change is one of the most urgent fights of our lifetime. Protecting our environment is about protecting people and future generations.
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Climate change is one of the most urgent fights of our lifetime. Tram is proud to be the House Chair of Climate Action and Sustainability in the State House, because protecting our environment is about protecting people and future generations.
Massachusetts has led the way on climate resiliency, but we can’t do this without federal money behind us. In Congress, Tram will keep doing what she has done for years– bringing money home for us.
Tram will work to:
- Secure increased funding for coastal resilience, grid modernization, and clean energy to help protect homes, small businesses, critical infrastructure, and the planet.
- Focus on forward-looking policies that reduce carbon emissions, strengthen resilience and grow our economy.
- Invest in green jobs that bring our unions and our workers along with our pivot toward renewable energy.
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As an immigrant herself, Tram knows what families are facing. She will fight to ensure our policies are a reflection of our values, so that everyone gets a fair shot at a better life.
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As the only immigrant in this race, Tram knows what it is like to be an immigrant in the United States. But the fear facing our communities today is much different from the challenges she faced as a child, with the hurdles all immigrants face compounded by the looming threat of the rogue agency ICE.
Immigration impacts every aspect of our communities. What we are seeing is not only an incredible humanitarian crisis, but a huge plunder on our economy, our schools, our capacity for growth and progress. Our immigrants make our towns and cities what they are, and Tram will work every day to reimagine our immigration process. In Congress, Tram will work to:
- Abolish ICE and overhaul the immigration system by creating an accessible, transparent pathway to citizenship that incentivizes legal entry, keeps families together, and treats immigrants with basic human dignity.
- Protect and Expand DACA and TPS to provide immediate safety, work authorization, and stability for our Dreamers and the local Haitian, Latino, and other immigrant communities that keep our communities strong,
- Expand employer-based visas to match real labor market needs, so there are actually enough legal opportunities to come to the US for gainful employment and fill our demand,
- Increase funding for processing centers and enact statute-enforced timelines for asylum claims to ensure cases are resolved safely and expediently, ending the humanitarian crises caused by administrative backlogs, and
- Ensure that all individuals, including undocumented immigrants, can access the legal system, report crimes, and utilize public services without fear.
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Tram believes that freedom of mobility is freedom of opportunity. She will work to ensure everyone has the ability to get to work, school, or a doctor's appointment, regardless of if they own a vehicle.
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Freedom of mobility is a core tenant of economic potential, quality of life, and a pillar of environmental justice. But across the 6th District, our communities are being held back by decades of federal underinvestment in public transportation. Transit justice means ensuring that everyone has the ability to get to work, school, or a doctor's appointment, regardless of if they own a vehicle.
In Congress, Tram will work to:
- Fast-track the full electrification of the Commuter Rail system to eliminate toxic diesel emissions in environmental justice communities and increase the frequency of regional service,
- Extend the Blue Line to Lynn and work with the delegation to secure funding for the long-awaited North-South Rail Link,
- Increase federal funding for the expansion and maintenance of dedicated bus lanes, protected bike lanes, and pedestrian-safe infrastructure to safely connect our neighborhoods, and
- Deliver much-needed support to small, rural, and low-resourced communities to access federal transportation funding.
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Tram is fighting to build secure, thriving communities where every family has the stability they need to succeed. As a State Representative, Tram has been out front on numerous areas of safety and community care.
She was proud to help shape and pass our state's landmark 2024 gun safety modernization package, which dramatically expanded our Red Flag law to allow medical and school professionals to intervene before a crisis turns deadly. She also was the author of the Commonwealth’s first piece of legislation to specifically protect undocumented immigrants, giving them a standardized pathway to seek visas when reporting abuse or trafficking. In Congress, Tram will be a voice for survivors, for safety, and for proactive reforms to gun laws in our country.
Advocate for full, permanent funding for the Violence Against Women Act to expand transitional housing, mental health resources, and legal assistance for survivors,
Expand funding to provide for culturally competent counseling and legal aid so domestic violence and sexual assault survivors can escape dangerous situations,
Fight to pass federal common-sense gun reform legislation modeled on our success here in Massachusetts, including universal background checks, a federal ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and a real crackdown on the proliferation of untraceable firearms,
Champion legislation to incentivize and implement robust Red Flag laws nationwide, ensuring the people closest to a person in crisis have the tools to keep our communities safe,
Ban federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks or tactical military gear during routine law enforcement activities,
Protect immigrant survivors of human trafficking and violent crime by working to lift the federal caps on U-visas (violent crime victims) and T-visas (human trafficking victims), ensuring victims can safely report abuse and cooperate with law enforcement without fear of deportation, and
Strengthen federal civil rights protections and combat the rise of hate crimes by expanding funding for federal civil rights enforcement, improving tracking metrics, and supporting localized, community-led prevention and victim-support frameworks.
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Tram believes every person has the right to live authentically, love freely, and thrive without fear of discrimination, harassment, or violence.
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True equality means that every person has the right to live authentically, love freely, and thrive without fear of discrimination, harassment, or violence. We are witnessing an unprecedented and terrifying wave of state-sponsored bigotry targeting the LGBTQ+ community, particularly transgender youth. Tram is committed to standing as an ally and a fierce defender of the LGBTQ+ community, ensuring that federal law provides absolute, unshakeable protections for all Americans.
In Congress, Tram will work to:
- Pass the federal Equality Act to explicitly add sexual orientation and gender identity to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, banning discrimination in housing, employment, public accommodations, and education nationwide,
- Protect access to gender-affirming care and ensure trans individuals have accurate, accessible identification documents,
- Enact a total federal ban on conversion therapy, outlawing the fraudulent and deeply harmful practice,
- Increase federal funding for LGBTQ+ youth homelessness prevention, mental health resources, and crisis intervention services, and
- Fully fund federal hate crime investigations and support community-led safety initiatives.
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Tram knows what it’s like to live under authoritarian rule and understands the trauma of war. She will work to center diplomacy in the pursuit of international human rights.
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Tram and her family fled a war-torn country, and have first-hand experience living under authoritarian rule. Tram believes that we must stop spending U.S. tax dollars to fund illegal, immoral, and rash wars, and that military intervention must be a last resort, done with Congressional approval. We must re-center diplomacy as our first line of action to protect and defend human rights and pursue the transition to democracy for those who seek it.
In Congress, Tram will work to:
- Prioritize humanitarian aid and international diplomacy as our primary tools for conflict resolution, strengthening global alliances and fully funding international human rights organizations,
- Reclaim Congress’ constitutional authority over war powers,
- Will stop all military funding to the Israeli government as it commits a genocide in Gaza, and sign on to the Block the Bombs Act,
- Condition all foreign military assistance on strict adherence to international law and human rights standards, ensuring American dollars never fund war crimes,
- Rein in military spending, redirecting billions toward urgent domestic needs like housing, healthcare, and climate resiliency, and
- Affirm the rights and freedoms of people under attack or facing oppression, including Ukrainians, Taiwanese, Tibetans, and Palestinians, defend the rights of all people to self-determination, and protect international human rights and dignity for all.
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Our government is in crisis, and Tram will work to restore faith in our democracy, limit money in politics, and protect our government for future generations.
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Tram knows what it’s like to live under authoritarian rule, and will never let it take root here. She stood up to MAGA extremism when she first ran and won in 2018, and will keep leading the fight to protect our fundamental freedoms, our right to vote, and the future of our democracy.
In Congress, Tram will work to:
- Keep free and fair elections,
- Investigate Trump and his lackeys for corruption,
- Ban individual stock trading and insider trading for members of Congress,
- Limit money in politics by overturning Citizens United,
- Fight against voter ID laws,
- Making sure corporations pay their fair share in taxes and close tax loopholes, and
- Restore faith in the rule of law and the belief that government can be a force for good.
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