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
Receipts, not adjectives
Values into action
This is the difference between sharing your values and acting on them. Each line is a value Christine ran on, next to the proof she made it real.
Health care is a right, and no one should ration it by 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, 2024Public transit that works 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 care has to be reachable.
Defended reproductive rights, expanded access to contraception, and stopped damaging MassHealth cuts before they could take coverage from 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
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 CSO remediation.
Protect reproductive rights, expand mental health and substance use services, and shield immigrant neighbors from ICE cooperation.
A coalition that spans the district
The breadth of support is itself a kind of proof: people who have worked alongside Christine, and the organizations that hold legislators accountable, trust her to deliver.
Meet Christine
Daughter of a public school teacher and a manufacturing-plant worker, raised on union rights and social justice. 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 those values into law. She lives in Somerville with her partner Ryan and their two cats, and she names her own streets, because she fights for them.
On the trail and in the work
Doors knocked, bills passed, neighbors met. The campaign and the work, side by side.
