MA-01 Democratic nominee?
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SEP 16, 2026Primary Election
Party selects its nominee.
Overview
Current rolePublic school teacher
PartyDemocratic
Political ideologyProgressive Democrat
GenderMale
LocationMassachusetts
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BackgroundPublic school teacher
Notable personal detailsJeromie Patrick Whalen is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Massachusetts' 1st Congressional District. He has worked as a public school teacher at Northampton High School, teaching journalism/media arts and related technology and communications subjects, and has taken a leave from teaching to run for Congress. He has also been publicly identified as a Belchertown native and a South Hadley resident.
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Positions
Economy & Taxes
Supports raising taxes on the ultra-wealthy and implementing targeted tax relief for working- and middle-class households, while expanding federal spending on programs such as Medicare for All, infrastructure (rail and transit), and higher wages. Proposes specific tax measures including a Cost of Living Exemption, surtaxes on income over $1M and $15M, and closing the stepped-up basis loophole. Advocates additional economic policies tied to progressive priorities (higher minimum wage, stronger unions, targeted tax credits for small businesses).
Healthcare
Supports Medicare for All and universal health care, advocates capping prescription drug prices and removing profit motives from the health-care system. Prioritizes expanded access to mental-health services and other public health expansions.
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Immigration & Border
Supports dismantling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, creating a humane comprehensive immigration reform with a clear pathway to citizenship, ending family separation, fixing visa and asylum systems, and protecting DACA recipients. Emphasizes protecting immigrant communities from aggressive enforcement actions and prioritizing due process and family unity.
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
Supports codifying the federal right to choose and protecting access to reproductive healthcare, including contraception and maternal care. Backs repealing the Hyde Amendment and federal measures to protect digital privacy for people seeking medication abortion. Opposes leaving bodily autonomy solely to states and calls for national actions against deceptive crisis pregnancy center advertising and to safeguard contraceptive access.
Climate & Energy
Supports a Green New Deal approach including aggressive decarbonization measures; backs 100% clean energy by 2035, prohibiting new coal/oil/gas leases on federal lands and waters, opposing new fossil-fuel pipelines, and policies to make large polluters pay. Also supports environmental justice and renewable development with responsible siting and battery-storage consideration.
Public Safety & Guns
Supports reinstating a federal assault weapons ban, banning high-capacity magazines, requiring a license to purchase firearms, limiting gun purchases (one per month), repealing legal protections for the gun industry, and expanding federal research and community-based, non-carceral responses to gun violence; also supports policing reforms such as prohibiting transfers of military weapons to local law enforcement and banning no-knock warrants.
Fundraising
Latest report: Cycle 20262026
LatestCycle 2026
Source: FEC
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