Turning progressive values into action
When Christine fights, bills get filed and coalitions get built. When she wins, our community gets results, not rhetoric. Eleven years in the State House, laws written and passed, dollars secured. Christine Barber fights for Medford, Somerville, Winchester, and Cambridge.
Medford · Somerville · Winchester · Cambridge — the 2nd Middlesex District
This week on the doors
Every shift comes with turf, training, and a team. No experience needed.
Receipts, not adjectives
Endorsed by Senator Pat Jehlen
I don't usually endorse in legislative races, but in this case I think the person who is best prepared and has proven that she is best prepared to carry the fight for affordable housing, affordable health care, and affordable living in general is Christine Barber.
Endorsed by the Governor
These past few years, it has been a privilege to work alongside Christine Barber to deliver for 34th Middlesex and Massachusetts residents statewide. Christine is focused on what matters for Bay Staters. When it comes to making healthcare more affordable, protecting reproductive freedom, and standing up for working families, we need partners like Christine to get the work done.
Values into action
This is the difference between sharing your values and delivering on them. See exactly how Christine puts her values into action.
Health care is a right. No one should be forced to make health decisions based on cost.
Eliminated copays for insulin and inhalers so the medicines people depend on stay affordable.
Authored and signed into law, 2025Immigrants are our neighbors, and they deserve to drive their kids to school without fear.
Wrote the Work and Family Mobility Act, letting residents get driver's licenses regardless of immigration status. Authored the bill banning 287(g) agreements that deputize local police as ICE agents.
WFMA enacted · 287(g) ban passed both chambersA paycheck should be fair, and you should know what a job pays before you apply.
Passed Salary Range Transparency, requiring employers to post pay ranges so workers can negotiate from a position of knowledge.
Signed into law, 2024Safe, reliable, and convenient public transit is the backbone of our economy and our climate future.
Championed the Green Line Extension and secured $5M toward Phase II, plus the East Somerville T-stop pedestrian path. Leading on fare-free buses and electrification.
$5M GLX Phase II · $5M East Somerville pathReproductive freedom is not negotiable, and must be accessible.
Defended reproductive rights, expanded access to contraception, and stopped dangerous MassHealth cuts before they impacted families.
Environment & Natural Resources Committee ChairFamilies should be able to stay in the towns they love.
Passed the law enabling Accessory Dwelling Units and the MBTA Communities Act, opening the door to reasonably priced homes near transit.
ADU law · MBTA Communities Act
One law, one family, four years
In 2016, Laura Levis walked to the emergency room at CHA Somerville Hospital during an asthma attack. She could not find the entrance. She collapsed and died just steps from care.
Her husband, journalist Peter DeMarco, spent the next four years turning that loss into policy. Christine authored the bill with Senator Pat Jehlen and carried it through the State House until Governor Baker signed it into law. Laura's Law now requires the Department of Public Health to set statewide standards for hospital lighting, signage, wayfinding, and monitoring, so no one in crisis has to search for the door.
No one in a medical crisis should also have to worry, "I hope I can find the emergency room." With standards for all hospitals, that worry will be gone.
Senator Pat Jehlen leaves a historic legacy for us to build on. At a time when families are struggling with rising costs and harmful federal policies, progressive leadership must be about delivering progressive results.
Christine Barber
Priorities and vision
Universal pre-K, debt-free higher education, and vocational-technical pipelines to good-paying jobs, plus real support for small businesses.
Rent control as a tool, a tenant opportunity to purchase, condo protections, and homes seniors can downsize into without being displaced.
Reliable, fare-free public transit, and a $3 billion MassReady bond for flood control, parks, clean water, and fixing the combined sewer overflows that dump untreated sewage into our rivers.
Protect reproductive rights, expand mental health and substance use services, and shield immigrant neighbors from ICE cooperation.
A coalition that spans the district
This breadth of support is proof: people who have worked alongside Christine, and the organizations that hold legislators accountable, trust her to deliver.
Meet Christine
Christine is the daughter of a public school teacher and a manufacturing-plant worker, raised in a union household. After UMass Amherst and the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, she went to work at Health Care for All, where she helped write the 2006 Massachusetts health law that became the model for the Affordable Care Act.
She ran for office to turn her social justice values into law. She lives in Somerville with her partner Ryan and their two cats, on the same streets she fights for every day at the State House.
On the trail and in the work
Doors knocked, bills passed, neighbors met. The campaign and the work, side by side.
