Powerup Massachusetts

09/03/2026

Thank you Jamie 🩷 I don’t have all my words yet - it’s too raw. All has already been said but worth repeating: your campaign, message, integrity and vision for our district transcended the typical party ideology. You showed us what it looks like when the People take back their power and gave us a leader in which to believe 💕 If you haven’t already considered joining many of us in the “unenrolled” category of voter, this race should show you unless you have $2-4MILLION to spend, are willing to accept blood-corporate- super PAC money, and actively sell your soul… s do not want you as a candidate. And they sure AF don’t care about the People

Sending gratitude, love, and pride to our supporters. We earned every single vote, and we kept our campaign rooted in truth, transparency, and integrity. Thank you to all who trusted me to fight for you in Congress. We left it all out on the field and our story does not end here. I will continue to do the work, and there is a debt of gratitude from my heart to yours. Love, Jamie

09/02/2026

Jamie Belsito was a threat to the political system which empowers the establishment/status quo - whether democrat or republican it matters not

Tara Isis Gerris

09/02/2026

Indeed it does. Read that a whopping 10-14% of voters showed up to elect the unqualified, inexperienced, genocide denying, Super PAC funded, pro- surveillance, Salwell/Epstein Client adjacent candidate to represent us in Congress

I’m gonna need a minute 🩷

09/01/2026

🩷 We don’t like bullies 🩷 Let’s vote them OUT of politics, out of office, out of decision making 🩷

We can be a about many inconsequential matters ie inept drivers… but not about each others worth, safety, liberation

08/31/2026

Imagine something BETTER than what the Dems and Repubs regurgitate each election!!!!

08/31/2026

And we are NEVER part of the MA State House “housing crisis” convos…

For many women, homelessness isn’t the beginning of the crisis. It’s what happens after they escape one. If we want to reduce homelessness we have to address the violence driving it.

08/31/2026

Almost sixty years after THAT, MA elected its first Afro-Latina and first Black women to Lynn City Council. Finally upending the establishment in a city where white people are the minority!! Read that AGAIN. The minority …and yet it took 2020s to shake it up.

Let’s keep it up and elect the first Arab American, first woman to Congress to represent Ess*x 6th

Sixty years ago, Constance Baker Motley was confirmed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York — becoming the first Black woman to sit as a federal judge in the United States.

That was one achievement on a long list of “firsts” for her: She was among the first Black women — technically the second — to graduate from Columbia Law School in 1946. She was the first woman attorney hired by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, working alongside future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She was the first woman of color to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1961, and the first Black woman elected to the New York state Senate in 1964.

Growing up in 1920s Connecticut, Motley had no shortage of potential barriers. She was a Black girl during a time of widespread social and legal discrimination, and the ninth of 12 children in a working-class family hit by the financial upheaval of the Great Depression. But at the age of 15, she decided she wanted to be a lawyer.

“No one thought this was a good idea, and I received no encouragement,” Motley wrote in “Equal Justice Under Law,” her 1999 autobiography. “I was the kind of person who would not be put down," she continued. “I rejected any notion that my race or s*x would bar my success in life.”

After President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Motley to the federal bench, she brought her background as an accomplished civil rights attorney to the judiciary. In her time as a federal judge, she heard several cases related to gender equality.

The 1975 gender discrimination lawsuit, Blank v. Sullivan & Cromwell, ended in a settlement, but Motley issued a procedural ruling requiring the New York law firm to answer questions from women plaintiffs about their hiring and promotion practices. She ruled in Ludtke v. Kuhn in 1978that the New York Yankees violated Melissa Ludtke’s constitutional rights when the team refused to allow women reporters into the locker room.

✍️: Candice Norwood, justice reporter
📸: Bettman/Getty Images

08/31/2026

Campaigns reveal priorities of elected officials. Results unveil voters values. A vote for Jamie Belsito, is a commitment to humanity. Others? Is a commitment to corporations