MA-09 Democratic nominee?
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SEP 16, 2026Primary Election
Party selects its nominee.
Overview
Current roleCommunity organizer
PartyDemocratic
Political ideologyProgressive Democrat
GenderMale
LocationMassachusetts
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BackgroundCommunity organizer
Notable personal detailsCraig M. Swallow is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Massachusetts’s 9th Congressional District (2026 cycle). He is a community organizer based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and has served as a co-leader of Indivisible “Do Something” SouthCoast New England. His background includes work in education, restaurant management, and community leadership.
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Positions
Economy & Taxes
Supports substantially higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations, closing capital gains loopholes, a financial transaction tax, stronger IRS enforcement, and repeal of corporate tax breaks; advocates using revenue for expanded public investments and social programs. Also backs taxing extreme wealth and measures to tax excessive CEO pay.
Healthcare
Supports Medicare for All and universal, comprehensive healthcare coverage including hospital care, mental health, dental, vision, prescriptions, and long-term care; prioritizes expanding mental health access, lowering prescription drug costs, and investing in community health centers.
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Immigration & Border
Supports expansive immigrant protections and humanitarian reforms, including pathways to citizenship, ending family detention and ICE bed quotas, abolishing or sunsetting ICE in favor of a more humane enforcement system, and restricting programs that deputize local police for immigration enforcement. Advocates oversight and accountability for DHS/ICE and reforms to immigration courts.
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
Supports federal measures to expand reproductive health access, including repeal of the Hyde Amendment and protections for gender-affirming care; endorses reproductive-health provisions as part of a broader healthcare agenda. Public campaign materials and a Progressive Massachusetts questionnaire show support for federal funding access and related reproductive-health protections.
Climate & Energy
Supports ambitious climate policies including a Green New Deal framework, a goal of 100% clean energy by 2035, banning new federal fossil fuel leases and opposing new fossil fuel pipelines, while proposing a “Climate Superfund” to make fossil fuel companies pay for climate damages and investments in resilient infrastructure and green jobs. Also supports measures such as phasing out sales of new gasoline/diesel vehicles by 2035, expanded clean energy investments, utility reform, and environmental justice protections.
Public Safety & Guns
Supports reinstating a federal assault weapons ban and banning high-capacity magazines; supports licensing requirements and limits on gun purchases; supports repealing legal protections for the gun industry and restoring federal research into gun violence. Endorses community-based, non-carceral public-safety investments and restrictions on transfers of military-grade weapons to local law enforcement.
Fundraising
Latest report: Cycle 20262026
LatestCycle 2026
Source: FEC
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