POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: Squad goals
View in browser BY LISA KASHINSKY Presented by UPS TO THE LEFT — Rep. Ayanna Pressley believes progressives are “winning” their policy battles at the federal level even as they’re struggling to make electoral gains here at home. “We are more powerful than we realize, and we are winning,” Pressley declared Saturday morning in a Roxbury park, flanked by her fellow Squad members, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). “If that was not true, fare-free transit would not be part of the national conversation, climate justice would not be part of the national conversation. … We would not have made progress on student debt cancellation.” From left: Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) in Boston, Massachusetts, on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. | Lisa Kashinsky/POLITICO Even as their ideas gain mainstream salience from the Beltway to Beacon...