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Candidates › Massachusetts U.S. Senate race › 2025–2026
Edward J. Markey
D Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Massachusetts
Senator since 2013
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- On the ballot
- On the general election ballotNov 3, 2026 · Massachusetts US Senate
- Where to vote
- Find your polling place (opens in a new tab) · More ways to vote
- Top priorities
- Pathways to Opportunity
- Affordable Care for All
- Building a Resilient Future
- Freedom, Equality & Opportunity
- Justice & Safety for Every Community
- In Congress
- Senator since 2013 · votes with their party 95% of the time. See the record · Office phone 202-224-2742
- Money
- $6M raised, $7M spent, $799.9K cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 33% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 52% from Massachusetts · largest committee giver NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (NABPAC), $10.6K
- Outside groups
- $42.9K supporting Markey
- Backed by
- Bernie Sanders · Elizabeth Warren · Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 318 more. As the campaign lists them
- Polling
- 60% in the latest poll (Suffolk University) · leads John Deaton by 24.6 points on average. The polls
- Sponsored most in
- Health, Transportation and Public Works, International Affairs
5 priorities from edmarkey.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.
Massachusetts families are working hard, but rising costs, stagnant wages, and shrinking opportunities are making it harder to get ahead. While Trump’s agenda drives prices higher and favors the wealthy, Ed is fighting to lower costs, protect workers, expand opportunity, and ensure every family can build a stable, successful future.
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In Massachusetts, people are working hard, playing by the rules, and doing everything right, but for too many residents and families, it’s getting harder to get ahead.
The cost of living keeps climbing, but paychecks aren’t keeping up. Housing is increasingly unattainable, and everyday expenses—from groceries to childcare—are stretching families thin.
At the same time, opportunity itself is becoming harder to access. Good jobs, quality education, and the ability to build a business are slipping out of reach. Wages have stalled, worker protections are under threat, and families are struggling to keep up. Small businesses, the backbone of our economy, are feeling the squeeze.
Instead of making life more affordable, Donald Trump’s agenda is making things worse. His reckless tariffs raise prices on everything from groceries to construction materials. His attacks on clean energy and efficiency programs are driving up utility costs. And his broader economic approach is tilted toward corporations and the wealthy, leaving working families paying more while getting less.
That’s why Ed is fighting for a comprehensive approach that lowers costs, strengthens workers’ rights, expands access to education and childcare, and creates real pathways to economic opportunity so that Massachusetts remains a state built on innovation, hard work, and opportunity.
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Ed is focused on lowering costs and making life more affordable for Massachusetts families.
He’s working to reduce energy bills, expand affordable housing, and help families afford everyday essentials—from groceries to utilities—while taking on the policies and corporate practices that drive up costs. He’s also strengthening the safety net and investing in solutions that put money back in people’s pockets.
- Lowering energy and utility costs for families by expanding heating and cooling assistance, protecting against shut-offs and excessive fees, preventing service disruptions during government shutdowns, and taking action to stabilize energy prices so households and small businesses can afford reliable, year-round access to power.
- Making housing more affordable and secure by investing in the construction and preservation of affordable homes, expanding rental assistance, supporting first-generation homebuyers, and strengthening programs that prevent evictions and reduce homelessness so more families can stay safely housed.
- Helping families afford groceries and put food on the table by protecting and expanding nutrition programs, ensuring uninterrupted access to benefits like SNAP and WIC even during government funding lapses, and strengthening local food systems and farmers to keep food accessible and affordable across Massachusetts.
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Ed believes the economy should work for everyone—not just those at the top.
As a member of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, he’s fighting to raise wages, strengthen worker protections, and ensure safe working conditions. He’s taking on corporate abuses, defending workers’ right to organize, and pushing for a fairer tax system that puts working families first.
- Raising wages, advancing pay equity, and protecting workers’ benefits by supporting a higher minimum wage, eliminating subminimum wages, cracking down on pay discrimination, and ensuring workers don’t lose health coverage during labor disputes, while also strengthening Social Security benefits for when they retire.
- Protecting workers on the job and strengthening labor rights by enforcing stronger safety standards; defending the right to organize and bargain without retaliation; and ensuring all workers, including public employees and part-time workers, get the fair pay, safe conditions, and basic protections that they deserve.
- Lowering costs and strengthening financial support for working families by allowing deductions for union dues and job-related expenses so people aren’t taxed on the costs of doing their jobs, and expanding the Child Tax Credit to provide consistent support for parents and reduce child poverty.
- Promoting fair taxation and holding corporations accountable by cracking down on extreme CEO-to-worker pay disparities, ensuring the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share through closing tax loopholes, and ending taxpayer support for union-busting.
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Massachusetts isn’t just the Bay State – it’s the Brain State. Ed believes that education is one of the most powerful investments we can make in our future.
That's why he is fighting to lower costs for families, strengthen public schools, support educators, and expand access to opportunity at every stage of life. Including making high-quality childcare more affordable and accessible, ensuring public schools have the resources they need, and helping students graduate without crushing debt.
- Making childcare more affordable and accessible for every family by supporting universal early learning programs that cap costs and expand access, while investing in educators and providers with better pay and support to ensure high-quality, reliable care.
- Protecting and strengthening public education by ensuring stable federal funding for schools and investing in modern, safe facilities so every student can learn in a healthy, supportive environment, regardless of background or income.
- Expanding access to affordable higher education and reducing student debt by supporting tuition-free community college, lowering costs at public universities, increasing financial aid, expanding early college and dual-enrollment opportunities, and ensuring students can graduate without financial hardship.
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Ed knows that when small businesses succeed, communities succeed.
As Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Ed is leading the fight to level the playing field—making sure entrepreneurs have access to the capital, tools, and opportunities they need to grow and create jobs. He is working to maximize opportunity, expand access to federal contracts, and strengthen the programs that help startups turn ideas into thriving businesses.
- Investing in opportunities for entrepreneurs and driving job creation by increasing access to capital through local incubators, accelerators, and lending programs in underserved and rural communities, and investing in small business innovation to help startups grow and turn ideas into jobs.
- Lowering costs and cutting red tape by exempting small businesses from reckless tariffs, securing refunds for illegal duties, and improving coordination and outreach so owners can navigate federal requirements without unnecessary confusion or risk.
- Expanding opportunities and support by strengthening access to federal contracts so entrepreneurs can compete and grow, and protecting critical SBA services that provide loans, guidance, and disaster assistance.
- Supporting veteran entrepreneurs and returning citizens by making it easier for veterans and citizens returning from incarceration to start and grow businesses by providing resources, lowering costs, and expanding access to financing.
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Lower Costs, Stronger Care & Patient Protection ↗ (opens edmarkey.com/issues-priorities at this heading)
Health care in America is too expensive and too complicated, leaving too many families behind. Rising costs, coverage gaps, and unequal access force people to delay care. Ed is fighting to lower costs, expand access, strengthen public health, and hold corporations accountable—so everyone can get the care they need when they need it.
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Health care in this country is too expensive, too complicated, and too often out of reach. Families are grappling with rising costs, coverage gaps, and a system that consistently puts profits ahead of patients.
Whether it’s high premiums, unaffordable prescription drugs, or limited access to preventive and mental health services, too many people are forced to delay or go without care altogether. At the same time, caregivers are under increasing strain, health care workers face burnout and shortages, and public health systems remain underfunded and stretched thin.
Even in Massachusetts—a national leader in health care and medical research—these challenges persist, with stark disparities in access and outcomes driven by income and ZIP code.
Ed is focused on a comprehensive approach. Fighting to build a health care system that truly works for everyone: bringing down costs, expanding access, investing in public health and research, holding corporations accountable, and defending the right to make your own health care decisions.
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Health care should be a fundamental right, yet for far too many, it remains out of reach.
Ed is fighting to expand coverage, lower costs, strengthen public health, and remove barriers—moving toward a system that guarantees affordable, high-quality care for everyone.
- Expanding pathways to universal healthcare by allowing states to build systems with federal support and advancing a national Medicare for All program so that everyone can access comprehensive, affordable care regardless of income, employment, or zipcode.
- Lowering health care costs and protecting coverage so that families can maintain stable, affordable insurance without sudden premium hikes or loss of coverage.
- Expanding Medicare to cover essential services by adding dental, vision, and hearing benefits and strengthening access through community health providers so that seniors and people with disabilities can get the full spectrum of care they need.
- Protecting workers’ health and economic security by guaranteeing paid sick leave so that no one has to choose between their health, their safety, and their paycheck.
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Our health care system must go beyond treating illness to sustaining healthy communities. Yet gaps in support leave too many behind, while caregivers and frontline workers face rising strain.
Ed is fighting to strengthen community-based care, support health care workers, rebuild public health infrastructure, and make it easier for families to get the care they need.
- Strengthening community mental health and resilience by investing in programs and expanding the public health workforce so communities have the tools, support, and capacity to prevent trauma and improve overall well-being.
- Supporting family caregivers by reducing bureaucratic barriers and investing in community-based care programs, peer support, research, and respite care to provide caregivers the resources, support, and recognition they need while improving outcomes for patients.
- Supporting nurses and healthcare workers by establishing safe staffing standards, increasing transparency and accountability, and investing in training, recruitment, and retention.
- Rebuilding and strengthening community public health systems by fully funding prevention programs and investing in immunizations and evidence-based initiatives to better protect communities, improve health outcomes, and reduce long-term health care costs.
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As health care evolves, patients face new risks, from corporate greed to attacks on reproductive freedom. Too often, decisions are driven by profit or politics instead of patient care—something we saw firsthand here in Massachusetts with the collapse of Steward Health Care, where corporate mismanagement put patients, workers, and entire communities at risk.
Ed is fighting to put patients over profits, strengthen accountability, defend reproductive freedom, and uphold science-based public health because everyone deserves access to safe, reliable care.
- Cracking down on corporate greed in health care by restricting predatory deals, increasing transparency, and imposing penalties for profit-driven practices that harm patients.
- Protecting reproductive freedom and access to care by guaranteeing the right to contraception and safeguarding abortion rights nationwide so people can make their own health care decisions.
- Protecting patient-centered care in the age of AI by ensuring health care professionals can override automated medical decisions and are protected from retaliation because clinical judgment should always remain in the hands of providers and patients – not algorithms.
- Strengthening public health and vaccine confidence by reinforcing science-based decision-making, transparency, and oversight in federal vaccine policy.
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We’re living through the effects of human-caused climate change right now. Storms, wildfires, droughts, heat waves, and floods are more common and more intense than ever before. Rising tides threaten our waterside communities, and warming waters are changing our coastal economies.
This hurts our health, our homes, and our wallets.
Even in Massachusetts, where we are national leaders on climate action, these challenges are close to home. Coastal areas are confronting erosion and flooding, public transit systems need urgent investment, and too many communities are still forced to breathe polluted air, drink polluted water, and deal with environmental health crises.
Ed is fighting for bold action to confront the climate crisis and build a more sustainable future by investing in clean energy and resilient infrastructure, expanding public transit and passenger rail, and protecting our shared natural resources. He’s fighting to ensure we build a cleaner economy, deliver real benefits, real jobs, and real solutions for communities across Massachusetts and the country.
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Climate change isn’t a distant threat—it’s already harming our communities, health, and economy. Those most impacted have contributed the least and have the fewest resources, while polluters avoid accountability.
Ed is fighting for a comprehensive approach that holds polluters accountable, cleans up air and water, protects our lands, and invests in climate resilience. He’s working to lower energy costs with renewable power and ensure good-paying union jobs and environmental justice are central to Massachusetts’ clean energy future.
- Holding polluters accountable and ending fossil fuel subsidies by closing tax loopholes and making fossil fuel companies pay their fair share, so that corporations, not taxpayers, pay for climate damage while federal policy supports a transition to clean energy.
- Protecting public health from climate threats by fighting extreme heat on a national, interagency level and investing in our federal climate-health response, so that the healthcare system is prepared, and vulnerable communities are better protected.
- Working to lower energy bills while cleaning up the grid by supporting low-cost renewable energy projects, investing in the grid and household efficiency, and preventing fossil fuel companies from exporting energy abroad rather than lowering costs at home.
- Fighting international climate and environmental harm by authorizing sanctions on foreign individuals and entities that worsen climate change, drive deforestation, or target environmental defenders—ensuring major bad actors face real consequences for environmental harm and threats to public safety.
- Protecting America’s most vital natural landscapes by fighting offshore oil drilling and working to safeguard our public lands and waters, including the more than 1.5 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, from oil and gas development.
- Preventing conflicts of interest in climate leadership by barring former fossil fuel executives and lobbyists from serving in key federal roles for 10 years, so that national energy and environmental policy is shaped in the public interest, not by industry insiders.
- Strengthening weather forecasting and climate preparedness by investing in advanced modeling, data, and workforce development at NOAA, so that communities receive more accurate warnings and can better prepare for extreme weather events.
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Our transportation system should connect people and open doors to opportunity—but too often, it falls short. Pollution continues to harm public health, too many communities still lack reliable options, safety remains a serious concern, and rising costs put access out of reach for far too many.
Ed is fighting to hold polluters accountable, invest in clean, modern transit and passenger rail, improve safety, and expand affordable, accessible transportation options so every community benefits from a safer, more equitable system.
- Building a cleaner, healthier transportation system by requiring climate-focused planning, setting national emissions performance standards, and investing in transit, walking, biking, passenger rail, and other low-emission options.
- Making public transit more affordable and accessible by supporting fare-free programs and expanding service in communities that need it most—so that everyone has reliable, low-cost transportation options.
- Holding luxury polluters accountable by increasing taxes on private jet fuel and investing the revenue in clean air monitoring, public transit, and transportation in underserved communities
- Expanding and modernizing passenger rail by investing in electrification, infrastructure upgrades, and workforce development, so that rail becomes faster, cleaner, and a more accessible alternative to driving and flying.
- Designing safer streets for everyone by supporting “complete streets” programs and improving infrastructure for pedestrians, cyclists, transit riders, and people with disabilities, so that roads are safer, more accessible, and built for all users.
- Protecting public safety and emergency communication by requiring free, broadcast AM radio in all new vehicles, so that drivers can reliably receive critical alerts and information during emergencies.
- Strengthening aviation safety and security by ensuring passenger security fees are fully invested in screening operations, prioritizing safety expertise in aircraft manufacturing, and requiring aircraft to have critical safety technology, so that safety systems are properly funded, and decisions are guided by accountability and expertise.
- Helping students get to school safely by strengthening Safe Routes to School programs, so more children can walk and bike to school reliably.
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Clean water, healthy ecosystems, and safe infrastructure are essential—but too often threatened by pollution, aging systems, and lack of accountability. The impacts fall hardest on vulnerable communities, while the natural resources that define our Commonwealth's heritage and economy face growing pressure.
Ed is fighting to protect water and ecosystems, advance environmental justice, invest in resilient infrastructure, and hold polluters accountable—so every community can count on a safe, healthy environment.
- Advancing environmental justice by creating a dedicated Office of Environmental Justice at the Department of Justice and investing in enforcement and community-led solutions.
- Protecting communities from pollution by requiring full climate and environmental justice reviews for major energy projects and expanding air quality monitoring and transparency, so that harmful impacts are identified, reduced, and no community is left behind.
- Ensuring safe, affordable, and reliable water access by investing in water infrastructure, replacing lead pipes, and expanding affordability programs.
- Preserving natural and historic resources by working to designate the Deerfield River as a National Wild and Scenic River and expanding and redesignating Salem Maritime as a National Historical Park, so that Massachusetts’ environmental treasures and historic legacy are protected and elevated for future generations.
- Protecting critical water infrastructure and public health by strengthening cybersecurity, monitoring, and emergency preparedness for drinking water and wastewater systems.
- Improving the safety and transparency of our natural gas pipeline operators' system by strengthening environmental protections and expanding engagement with the public and with first responders.
- Protecting endangered wildlife and coastal ecosystems by establishing a federal grant program to support the rescue, rehabilitation, and recovery of injured and stranded sea turtles.
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America is strongest when everyone can live freely and safely—but those values are under attack. Extremist policies are targeting immigrants and LGBTQ+ Americans, threatening rights and stability. Ed is fighting to protect civil rights, defend vulnerable communities, and ensure every person can live with dignity, safety, and equal opportunity.
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America is strongest when everyone can live safely, freely, and with dignity, but right now, those fundamental values are under attack.
Across the country, Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are pushing an extreme agenda rooted in fear, division, and exclusion. They are targeting immigrant communities with mass arrests, expanded detention, and invasive surveillance, while attacking LGBTQ+ Americans by restricting health care, censoring identities, and rolling back fundamental civil rights.
These coordinated attacks are not happening in isolation. They are part of a broader effort to decide who belongs, who is protected, and who is allowed to live openly in this country.
The consequences are real and immediate. Families are being separated and forced to live in fear. Access to health care and accurate identity documents for LGBTQ+ people is being threatened. Workers, families, and small businesses are being disrupted as entire communities are destabilized. And even in Massachusetts, where we’ve long led on inclusion and equality, these national efforts create uncertainty and put hard-won rights at risk.
That’s why Ed is fighting every day to protect the promise of this country—freedom, equality, and opportunity for all. He’s working to expand civil rights, defend LGBTQ+ Americans, protect immigrant families with fair and humane policies, and ensure everyone can live with dignity, safety, and equal treatment under the law.
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Ed has spent his career standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, and he is not backing down now.
At a time when extremists are trying to divide communities and roll back progress, Ed is fighting to expand protections, defend access to care, and ensure that every LGBTQ+ person is treated with dignity and respect. He believes that no one should be discriminated against because of who they are or who they love—and that the federal government has a responsibility to make that promise real.
- Fighting to guarantee equal rights under federal law by working to protect LGBTQ+ people from discrimination in employment, housing, health care, and education.
- Standing up for transgender rights and protecting access to lifesaving care by leading efforts to codify a “Transgender Bill of Rights” to ensure legal recognition, safety, and equal treatment nationwide, while expanding access to gender-affirming health care and investing in providers so people can get the care they need, no matter where they live.
- Taking on hate and violence directly by banning the use of so-called “panic” defenses that attempt to justify violence against LGBTQ+ people.
- Ensuring equal opportunity to serve by protecting the rights of transgender Americans to serve openly in the military without discrimination.
- Defending LGBTQ+ rights globally by establishing permanent U.S. leadership to combat discrimination, violence, and criminalization of LGBTQ+ people around the world.
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Ed believes immigration policy should reflect our values—fairness, dignity, and respect for human rights.
He has been a leading voice for reform, becoming the first U.S. Senator to call for the abolition of ICE, advocating to protect humanitarian relief programs, and working to replace a broken system that harms families and undermines civil liberties.
Ed is standing up to policies that target immigrants unfairly, ensuring individuals receive due process and fair treatment throughout the immigration process, and recognizing the real-world impact on families, children, Dreamers, and the communities and local economies that depend on them.
- Defending privacy and civil liberties while ensuring accountability by banning the use of facial recognition and other invasive surveillance technologies by immigration enforcement agencies, and eliminating the legal shield that protects federal law enforcement officials from consequences when they violate constitutional rights.
- Ensuring a fair and transparent path to citizenship by protecting the naturalization process so that eligible individuals can become citizens without arbitrary delays or barriers, expanding refugee admissions to ensure the U.S. remains a safe haven for those fleeing persecution, and protecting humanitarian programs such as Temporary Protected Status for immigrants who cannot safely return home.
- Protecting immigrant families and communities from harmful enforcement actions by conducting robust oversight, bringing together a coalition of immigration and community groups, and creating support for small businesses affected by sudden immigration crackdowns, so that workers, families, and local economies aren’t left behind.
- Improving conditions and accountability in ICE detention by establishing strong national standards, conducting in-person inspections and oversight, calling for a ban on the use of solitary confinement, and working to end inhumane conditions in immigration detention facilities.
- Protecting vulnerable children and standing with Dreamers by strengthening safeguards for unaccompanied children to ensure fair treatment and legal protections, while also advocating for a pathway to legal residency for Dreamers so they can live, work, and contribute without fear of deportation.
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Accountability, Support & Reform ↗ (opens edmarkey.com/issues-priorities at this heading)
Every person deserves to feel safe, but gun violence and gaps in our justice system put that at risk. Lives are lost, communities harmed, and accountability too often falls short. Ed is fighting to strengthen gun laws, invest in prevention, protect constitutional rights, and ensure a fair, just system for all.
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Every person deserves to feel safe in their home, their school, and their community. But across the country, that basic promise is under strain, as gun violence and gaps in our justice system continue to put lives at risk.
From mass shootings to everyday community violence, too many lives are lost, and too many families are left grieving. Loopholes in our laws still allow firearms to fall into the wrong hands through unregulated sales, illegal trafficking, and the growing threat of untraceable “ghost guns.”
Even in Massachusetts, which has some of the strongest gun laws in the nation, gun violence remains a public health crisis.
At the same time, public safety depends on more than prevention and requires a justice system that works for all Americans, including Black and Brown communities. Violations of constitutional rights, abuses of power, and unequal treatment under the law can leave true justice and accountability out of reach.
True safety means building a system rooted in transparency and dignity. It means ensuring victims and survivors can seek justice and access the resources they need to heal, while also protecting the rights of those impacted by the criminal legal system, including people awaiting trial.
That’s why Ed is fighting for a comprehensive approach to public safety that strengthens gun laws, invests in community-based prevention, while also ensuring accountability, protecting constitutional rights, and expanding support for victims and survivors.
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Gun violence is a man-made public-health crisis, and every day it continues to take lives and devastate families across our country.
Ed is fighting for commonsense gun safety laws that save lives, protect kids, and keep communities safe by treating gun violence like the public-health emergency it is, and putting people’s lives ahead of the gun lobby’s profits.
- Banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines by prohibiting their sale, manufacture, and transfer, strengthening background checks and safe storage requirements, and cracking down on high-capacity magazines so that the most dangerous weapons are kept out of our communities, and fewer families have to experience preventable loss.
- Stopping untraceable “ghost guns” before they hit our streets by banning the online distribution of gun blueprints and closing a dangerous loophole that allows weapons to be 3D printed, sold, and carried without serial numbers or detection.
- Strengthening enforcement against gun dealers by investing more resources to inspect, penalize, and shut down those who repeatedly break the law and fuel gun violence.
- Pushing to use financial crime detection tools to identify suspicious purchasing patterns linked to mass shootings, helping law enforcement intervene earlier and stop tragedies before lives are lost.
- Keeping guns out of the hands of children by banning firearm marketing that targets minors and holding companies accountable for irresponsible practices.
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Violence and injustice don’t end when the immediate crisis passes. They leave lasting harm for survivors, families, and communities who are too often denied the support, protection, and accountability they deserve.
Ed is fighting for a comprehensive approach that centers victims and survivors by expanding access to care and resources, strengthening protections for those at risk, and investing in community-based solutions that prevent violence before it happens so every family has a path to justice, healing, and lasting safety.
- Holding the gun industry accountable by repealing liability protections that shield manufacturers and sellers from lawsuits so victims and their families can pursue justice and ensure reckless actors are no longer above the law.
- Expanding support for victims by establishing a federal advisory council to coordinate services, close gaps in care, and increase access to medical treatment, mental health support, financial assistance, and legal resources, so families can recover, rebuild, and move forward with dignity.
- Investing in community-based violence prevention by funding proven intervention programs, supporting local organizations, and expanding job training and workforce opportunities for young people, so we can reduce shootings, break cycles of violence, and build safer communities without relying on mass incarceration.
- Closing dangerous loopholes for domestic violence survivors by strengthening safeguards to prevent abusers from accessing firearms, so survivors are better protected from escalating harm.
- Recognizing and supporting survivors of homicide victims by establishing a national awareness month, elevating their experiences, and promoting access to research, services, and community-based support, so families are not left to navigate grief and trauma alone.
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Our justice system should be fair, transparent, and rooted in dignity—but too often, it falls short for the people it’s meant to serve, especially for communities of color.
Ed is fighting to strengthen accountability, expand transparency, improve conditions for those in custody, and open real pathways to opportunity, so our justice system works for everyone and truly lives up to its promise.
- Ending qualified immunity to ensure accountability by allowing individuals to hold law enforcement responsible in court when their constitutional rights are violated to ensure that civil rights are meaningfully protected and that victims obtain real accountability.
- Advancing fair and effective sentencing by reducing mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug offenses and focusing resources on serious and violent crimes to address racial disparities and build a more equitable system.
- Protecting the dignity and rights of people in custody—both in immigration detention and the broader justice system—by establishing enforceable national standards, strengthening oversight and transparency, phasing out private detention facilities, and ending the use of solitary confinement through humane limits on isolation and greater access to programming.
- Expanding second chances and economic opportunity by investing in entrepreneurship training, mentorship, and access to capital for currently and formerly incarcerated individuals to help people successfully reenter the workforce, build stability, and break cycles of recidivism.
- Bringing transparency to the justice system by allowing cameras and media coverage in federal courtrooms with strong safeguards for due process to help the public better understand and trust how justice is carried out.
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