- See Edward Markey's sponsored bills →Edward MarkeyDemocraticIncumbent✓ Verified$5.8M raised
- John DeatonRepublican✓ Verified$1.6M raised
- Shiva AyyaduraiIndependent✓ Verified$245K raised
- Morgan DawickiIndependent✓ Verified$16K raised
- Joseph TacheOTHER✓ Verified$280K raised
Where they stand
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| Issue | Edward MarkeyDemocratic | John DeatonRepublican | Shiva AyyaduraiIndependent | Morgan DawickiIndependent | Joseph TacheOTHER |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economy & Jobs | Markey supports fighting to lower costs, protect workers, and expand opportunity to build a stable, successful future for working families. Markey votes nay on resolutions disapproving financial regulations by the Treasury and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, opposing rollbacks of oversight rules. | Deaton focuses on making Massachusetts more affordable by addressing high electricity rates, housing costs, and cost of living, proposing real solutions to help working families. | Ayyadurai supports economic freedom for working people by cutting taxes for families and small businesses and ending the Fed’s inflation robbery. | Dawicki supports bold investments in affordable education and workforce development to create economic opportunity and promote innovation for all Americans. Dawicki says the economy does well when small businesses thrive and wants government policy to support them. | Tache supports seizing the top 100 corporations and reorganizing the economy to meet people's needs, including housing, healthcare, and living wages for all. Tache says the U.S. has the means to meet every person's basic needs, including housing and food, but that the economic system is controlled by a small wealthy class. |
| Healthcare | Markey supports lowering healthcare costs, expanding access, strengthening public health, and holding corporations accountable to ensure everyone gets needed care. | Deaton supports affordable, accessible healthcare as a human right and aims to break up insurance and pharmacy monopolies to lower costs without increasing bureaucracy or taxes. Deaton says fixing U.S. healthcare would be his top priority, using antitrust law to break up big insurers and pharmacy benefit managers. | Ayyadurai supports ending censorship, protecting medical freedom, and shifting from sick-care to preventive and integrative medicine using systems biology. | Dawicki supports building a pathway to universal healthcare by encouraging innovation, competition, and transparency to lower costs and improve outcomes. | Tache supports guaranteeing free healthcare as part of a socialist vision to meet people's needs. Tache opposes private health insurance, calling it a wealth transfer to billionaires, and supports a universal single-payer healthcare system. |
| Immigration | Markey fights to protect civil rights, defend vulnerable communities, and ensure every person can live with dignity, safety, and equal opportunity. Markey votes nay on the Laken Riley Act, opposing the bill's passage. | Deaton supports securing borders, ending catch-and-release, reforming asylum, expanding legal immigration, opposing blanket amnesty and mass deportation, and providing a fair earned path to citizenship for Dreamers. Deaton opposes abolishing ICE, calling it a slogan not a policy, and calls for a comprehensive plan that expands legal immigration. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | Dawicki supports immigration as a necessary and enduring part of America’s identity. | Tache opposes scapegoating immigrants and other marginalized groups, blaming billionaires instead for societal problems. |
| Public Safety & Crime | Markey supports strengthening gun laws, investing in prevention, protecting constitutional rights, and ensuring a fair, just system for all. Markey votes nay on the HALT Fentanyl Act, opposing the bill's passage. | Deaton condemns antisemitic hate crimes and criticizes Senator Markey for failing to clearly identify Iran as a greater threat to U.S. security than Israel. | Ayyadurai supports ending corruption to redirect resources to working people’s health and vitality instead of corporate cronies. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | Tache opposes police brutality and the right-wing assault on rights, advocating for a movement against these issues. |
| Where they differ on Public Safety & Crime: Edward Markey supports strengthening gun laws, investing in prevention, protecting constitutional rights, and ensuring a fair, just system for all 1. He voted nay on the HALT Fentanyl Act, opposing the bill's passage 2. Joseph Tache opposes police brutality and the right-wing assault on rights, advocating for a movement against these issues 3. Shiva Ayyadurai supports ending corruption to redirect resources to working people’s health and vitality instead of corporate cronies 4. | |||||
| Abortion | Markey is a steadfast defender of abortion rights and contraception access, fighting to protect reproductive freedom and restore Roe nationwide. | Deaton says he is pro-choice and would oppose a federal ban on abortion. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | No public position found. Check their site ↗ |
| Where they differ on Abortion: Edward Markey is a steadfast defender of abortion rights and contraception access, fighting to protect reproductive freedom and restore Roe nationwide 1. John Deaton says he is pro-choice and would oppose a federal ban on abortion 2. | |||||
| Taxes & Government Spending | Markey championed the Fair Share Amendment to secure billions in investments for Massachusetts including free community college. Markey votes nay on multiple appropriations and budget resolutions, including the AGOA Extension Act and National Security appropriations, but yea on one continuing appropriations act. | Deaton proposes the Clean Hands Act to ban stock and crypto trading by members of Congress and impose a lifetime lobbying ban to increase government accountability. | Ayyadurai supports cutting taxes for families and small businesses and reallocating government spending away from welfare and endless wars toward infrastructure and working people. | Dawicki supports reinining wasteful spending, closing unfair tax loopholes for the ultra-wealthy, and ensuring government spending delivers real value. Dawicki says employee year-end bonuses are taxed at an unacceptably high rate and wants that examined. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ |
| Energy & Environment | Markey supports bold action on climate change, investing in clean energy, modernizing infrastructure, expanding transit, and protecting natural resources. Markey votes nay on several joint resolutions disapproving Bureau of Land Management rules related to land and resource management plans. | Deaton supports a balanced, all-of-the-above energy policy opposing extreme mandates, promoting solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear including SMRs, fusion research, and fixing shipping restrictions to lower energy costs. Deaton says he believes in climate change and has personally adopted solar power and an electric vehicle. | Ayyadurai supports banning poisons in food and agriculture, enforcing honest labeling, and promoting clean food, air, and water for all. | Dawicki will uphold and strengthen America’s commitment to public lands, environmental resilience, and climate-conscious policy. | Tache supports saving the planet from capitalism and implementing real climate solutions with working people in power. |
| Foreign Policy & Defense | Markey votes yea on resolutions directing removal of US forces from Iran and terminating national emergencies imposing tariffs, but nay on the SEED Act of 2025. | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | Ayyadurai supports ending foreign lobbies owning Congress, stopping taxpayer subsidies to Israel and others, and prioritizing American health and longevity in foreign policy. | Dawicki supports doubling down on investment in research and development to maintain U.S. leadership in science and technology globally. | Tache supports funding needs rather than the war machine and calls to free Palestine and end the billionaires’ war drive. |
| Where they differ on Foreign Policy & Defense: Morgan Dawicki supports increasing investment in research and development to maintain U.S. leadership in science and technology globally 1. Edward Markey voted in favor of resolutions to remove U.S. forces from Iran and to end national emergencies imposing tariffs, but voted against the SEED Act of 2025 2. Joseph Tache advocates for funding domestic needs instead of military spending and calls to free Palestine and end what he terms the billionaires’ war drive 3. Shiva Ayyadurai supports ending foreign lobby influence in Congress, stopping taxpayer subsidies to Israel and others, and prioritizing American health and longevity in foreign policy 4. | |||||