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Boston D.A. candidate Rachael Rollins wants to reduce the prison population by cutting down on criminal prosecutions. She joined 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' to defend her plan. #Tucker FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering…

The Story: On Tuesday, September 4, the Democratic Party's primary voters nominated Ayanna Pressley to represent Massachusetts' 7th Congressional District in the US House of...

A friend captured the moment Boston city councilor Ayanna Pressley won the Massachusetts primary for the US House, unseating 10-term Democratic Rep. Mike Capuano.

Steve Kornacki, MSNBC political correspondent, discusses Ayanna Pressley's upset Democratic primary victory that leaves her poised to take a historic seat whose lineage includes J.F.K. and Tip O'Neill, and add to that history the first African-American to serve in the…

David Greene talks to Frank Phillips, Boston Globe State House bureau chief, and NPR congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, about what to expect. You have an outsider female congressional candidate challenging an establishment Democrat and a moderate Republican governor facing an onslaught from the right. He knows a lot about Massachusetts politics. GREENE: So one of the major storylines we're seeing is this Democratic primary race. PHILLIPS: Well, it's a real challenge to it. GREENE: That he has a serious - a challenge as serious as this. GREENE: All right, Frank Phillips of The Boston Globe talking to us about the primary today in his state. GREENE: Let me turn now to NPR congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, who's been listening with us. DETROW: Yeah, he criticized Sessions for two indictments that went out over the summer against Republican congressmen - the first two Republicans on the Hill who endorsed President Trump, actually. OK. NPR's Scott Detrow.

Asian-Americans in Massachusetts have run for mayor (Sam Yoon, Boston), and some have even won (Lisa Wong, Fitchburg). But Congress? Just take a look at the Democratic field in the Third District: Three out of the 10 candidates are Asian-Americans — Beej Das, Dan Koh, and Bopha Malone. The Third is a sprawling district northwest of Boston, encompassing 37 cities and towns, including Lowell, home to the nation’s second-largest Cambodian-American community. In 2010, a trio of Asian-Americans won state representative races: Democrats Tackey Chan of Quincy and Paul Schmid of Westport and Republican Donald Wong of Saugus. More have since joined their ranks on Beacon Hill: Republican Keiko Orrall of Lakeville and Democrat Rady Mom of Lowell. Then there’s Republican state Senator Dean Tran of Fitchburg, who won a special election last year. And if you need proof we may have reached a critical mass, how about this: In one Lowell race, there are two Cambodian-American candidates — Sam Meas and Rithy Uong — who are running against Cambodian-American incumbent state representative Mom. “Growing up, I never imagined that I would one day meet an elected official, much less see someone like me be in politics and involved in politics,” said Wu, who is supporting Koh in his congressional bid. “It’s a watershed moment for our community to have three very qualified candidates running for Congress,” said Wing, a Boston political organizer and fund-raiser who is backing Koh.

Caccaviello is now facing two rivals who are both progressive women — Andrea Harrington, a self-styled reformer and defense attorney from Richmond, and Judith Knight, who has experience as a defense attorney and prosecutor and ran against Capeless in 2006. “I’m looking for a progressive district attorney,” Farley-Bouvier told the Berkshire Eagle. Instead of using power brokers to winnow a field of candidates, ranked-choice voting lets voters do it. (Boston Herald) If the Senate votes to remove the justices, mostly elected Democrats, the Republican governor will appoint the replacements until the next election that could be late next year. (Boston Herald) Police in Bismarck, North Dakota, request funding to buy AR-15 rifles for officers stationed in the city’s schools. MBTA officials kept the public and members of the Fiscal and Management Control Board in the dark about safety issues at the Alewife parking garage. (Boston Herald) A Superior Court judge has turned down prosecutors’ request for the names of witnesses who cooperated — under the assurance of anonymity — with a state Senate investigation of former president Stan Rosenberg. Charlie Baker, meanwhile, defends police officers. (MetroWest Daily News)

The Congressional candidate challenging Rep. Mike Capuano in Massachusetts says ICE is not keeping Americans any safer. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth analysis of daily headlines, insightful political commentary and informed perspectives.…

That question looms in races for office from the federal to the local, from the high-stakes Seventh Congressional race pitting longtime incumbent Michael Capuano against City Councilor Ayanna Pressley of Boston to the race for the next Suffolk County district attorney. But the wave, if there is one, feels far offshore at this point. One case in point is the Capuano-Pressley race, in which Capuano continues to hold a double-digit lead in polls. Capuano and Pressley held the second of three debates last week at the University of Massachusetts Boston. But votes are only one measure of two candidates. Running for an office that doesn’t naturally captivate voters, Zakim is arguing that he represents the “values” of the electorate more closely than Galvin. In what may be a first for a secretary of state campaign, Zakim has touted his support of the right to choose, using Galvin’s votes to restrict abortion rights as a state representative in the 1980s as evidence that his older opponent is out of touch. He also argues — rightly — that his position on the issue is irrelevant to this office. There are persistent rumblings that progressive voters should figure out a way to unite around a single candidate in that race — and that some of the candidates should consider dropping out to make room for one of the progressives to win. The chances that any candidate would quit now — after months of fund-raising, door-knocking, and debates — are remote.

Your issues, your opinions, your beliefs. Thank you for standing with them and us. But what gives me hope are those 18,000 young people who have stepped up and engaged in the political process. pic.twitter.com/FyUaBodmcx — Kaniela Ing (@KanielaIng) August 8, 2018 My reaction wasn’t to focus on the fact that Ing is one of the Democratic Socialist candidates running this year. Instead, it was Ing’s Native-Hawaiian perspective that brought me hope. In doing so, he challenged the notion that we “live to work” and that we have no choice but to “grind, grind, grind.” I’ve often thought that one of the ways we’ve short-changed young people is that we haven’t talked enough about the spiritual and moral values that undergird both our lives and politics. But discussions about religious differences don’t tend to focus on questions like: What elevates human dignity? What is it that makes life valuable and worthwhile? As the Run for Something video suggests, Ing is just one of many young people who have the potential to change the way we not only think about politicians, but the way we talk about politics. That gives this old lady a lot of hope.