Joseph Tache
Joseph Tache (Party for Socialism and Liberation) is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Massachusetts. Tache declared candidacy for the 2026 election.[source]
Tache completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2026
See also: United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2026
General election
The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.
General election for U.S. Senate Massachusetts
The following candidates are running in the general election for U.S. Senate Massachusetts on November 3, 2026.
Candidate | ||
 | Edward J. Markey (D) | |
 | Seth Moulton (D) | |
 | Alexander Rikleen (D) | |
| Nathan Bech (R) | ||
 | John Deaton (R) | |
| Philip Devincentis (American Independent Party) | ||
 | Joseph Tache (Party for Socialism and Liberation)  | |
 | Morgan Dawicki (Independent) | |
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Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Joseph Tache completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Tache's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Capitalism is a national emergency; the solution is socialism!
In the world’s richest country, millions of people are struggling to afford their basic necessities. Here in Massachusetts, rents and prices are through the roof.
In our capitalist society, resources are hoarded by greedy billionaires. The richest 900 people in the U.S. own as much wealth as the poorest 170,000,000 of us. This system of inequality is administered by Republican and Democratic politicians who serve the billionaires.
We have the means to improve our society for everyone, we just need the power. As a socialist, I will propose legislation to redistribute that wealth and reorganize the economy to meet our needs: funding quality housing, healthcare, and education. - Climate change and war are existential threats to humanity. They are caused by capitalism. The billionaires in charge care more about profit and domination than they do about the well-being of the people and our planet. Only under socialism, with working people in power, can we implement real solutions. The U.S. military budget is bigger than the next nine countries’ combined. I will propose legislation to cut that bloated budget by 90% and usher in a new era of foreign policy based on solidarity and diplomacy, not domination. The money saved will fund millions of new well-paying union jobs to address society’s needs. A top priority will be to decommission the billionaires’ fossil fuel infrastructure and build a renewable energy grid.
- We must overcome the Trump administration’s divide-and-conquer strategy to defeat its attacks on our rights. Trump’s program is simple: steal from the poor and give to the rich. He and his allies know that this program is unpopular. This is why they attack our basic democratic rights and try to divide us. They blame DEI (i.e. Black people), immigrants, transgender people, and other vulnerable groups for society’s problems so that we as working class people will point the finger at each other rather than at the billionaires and politicians who are truly responsible. We combat their division with solidarity. This socialist campaign is for everyone, of every background and identity, who is sick of living under the billionaires’ thumbs.
I am passionate about all areas of policy that allow us to unleash our society’s vast resources and people power to guarantee a dignified life for us all. We will need to build a powerful movement to make that possibility a reality. I am committed to helping build that movement, independently of the Democratic and Republican parties: a socialist movement.
Already, tens of millions of Americans experience long-term unemployment, and as artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly develops, it threatens to completely change our economy and eliminate many of the meaningful jobs we still have left. In many sectors — such as retail, customer service, and warehousing — this technology has already had quite negative impacts on working people.
The problem isn’t with the technology itself, but rather, who controls it. If AI remains in the hands of billionaires, it will cause an unemployment catastrophe and accelerate climate change (the AI “gold rush” is consuming massive amounts of electricity and water).
I will propose legislation to ensure that AI and other advanced technologies are properly regulated and deployed to benefit society. Insofar as dangerous or menial jobs can be replaced by automation, we should use federal funding to invest in training people for and creating millions of essential jobs in healthcare, education, and infrastructure construction — industries that are currently understaffed across the country.
If an elected official is doing a good job representing working people, there is no need to force them out of office. Too many Congresspeople, new and tenured, claim to represent us but really serve the billionaires. What we need more than term limits is to end the control that billionaires have over our country’s politics.
The U.S. Senate plays a central role in setting the federal budget, determining foreign policy priorities, passing federal legislation, and overseeing the activities of federal agencies — all responsibilities that have big impacts on the lives of everyday people.
Moral fortitude and integrity, on the other hand, are more difficult to recover once they have been abandoned. The majority of Congresspeople receive donations from billionaire interests that donate to their campaign. Their decisions are then driven by billionaire interests, rather than their principles. In that sense, long-term experience in government can actually become a drawback, as politicians become steeped in the corruption and legalized bribery of our political system.
During Joe Biden’s administration, Democrats had a majority in the House and Senate. They did very little with that majority. They blamed the filibuster, which requires at least 60% of Senators to agree to bring legislation to a vote.
After the 2020 elections, the Democratic Party promised us paid family and medical leave, universal childcare, free community college, Medicare expansion, the PRO Act (expanding labor rights), and the Women’s Health Protection Act (enshrining access to abortion and other reproductive healthcare). They did not deliver on any of those promises because they allowed Republicans (and even some Democrats like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema) to use the filibuster to block that legislation.
Sumner entered Congress the year after Congress had passed the detestable Fugitive Slave Act. At the time, the abolitionist movement was not yet very powerful, and most people believed that slavery was a permanent institution in U.S. society.
Sumner did not acquiesce to slavery in the name of “pragmatism”. During his 10 years in Congress before the Civil War, Sumner fought tooth and nail against slavery, helping to build the abolitionist movement. During the war, he was an advocate for the Emancipation Proclamation, the admission of Black soldiers into the Union army, and the passage of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, he fought for the expansion of rights for “freedmen”, including voting rights, access to education, and land ownership. The policies he fought for, like universal education, were to benefit not only freed Black people, but people of all backgrounds.
The majority of politicians in Congress take money from billionaires, and they compromise the interests of working people in order to serve those billionaires. Those are compromises I will never make.
The Trump administration is also rampantly violating democratic rights and civil liberties via ICE terror campaigns, military occupations of U.S. cities, attacks against activists for exercising their rights to speech and protest, and more. As a Senator, I would fight to investigate those responsible for these grave violations of First and Fifth Amendment rights and hold them accountable.
- Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- Environment and Public Works
- Foreign Relations
- Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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See also
2026 Elections
External links
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