Chris Boyd
Democratic candidate for U.S. House in Massachusetts
MA-04 Democratic nominee?
$97.0K
SEP 8, 2026Primary Election
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$97.0KSEP 8, 2026Candidate Overview
Key details about the candidate’s background, party, office sought and current campaign.
Current rolePublic school teacher
PartyDemocratic
Political ideologyProgressive Democrat
LocationMassachusetts
BackgroundPublic school teacher
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Notable personal detailsChristopher Slater Boyd is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District in the 2026 cycle. He is running as a challenger and has an authorized principal campaign committee, Chris Boyd for Congress 2026. Boyd describes himself as a public school teacher and educator on his campaign website.
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Political Positions
Economy & Taxes
Supports building a worker-focused economy and stronger social safety net and favors raising income taxes on higher earners while closing tax code loopholes to ensure large corporations pay their share.
Healthcare
Supports universal healthcare and the creation of a single-payer/Medicare-for-All system; favors expanding Medicare/Medicaid, lowering prescription drug prices, decoupling health insurance from employment, and strengthening community health centers.
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Immigration & Border
Supports comprehensive immigration reform including a pathway to citizenship, protections for DREAMers, ending family detention and limits on ICE enforcement, and reforms to make immigration courts independent and humane. Advocates abolishing ICE and tying immigration overhaul to foreign aid and addressing root causes of displacement.
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
The candidate supports reproductive rights, including repealing the Hyde Amendment to allow federal funding for abortion and measures to protect access to abortion services and related health care. The campaign materials frame health care broadly as a right and endorse protections for reproductive and gender‑affirming care.
Climate & Energy
Supports an ambitious, rapid decarbonization agenda including a Green New Deal–style national mobilization, a goal of 100% clean energy by 2035, banning new fossil fuel leases on federal lands and waters, opposing new fossil-fuel pipelines, and strong investments in offshore wind, grid modernization, storage, EV infrastructure, and just-transition job programs.
Public Safety & Guns
The candidate supports reinstating a federal assault weapons ban, banning high-capacity magazines, requiring a license to purchase firearms, limiting purchases to one gun per month, repealing legal protections for the gun industry, and expanding federal research and public-health approaches to gun violence. The candidate also supports restricting military-style equipment transfers to local law enforcement and pursuing police accountability and non-carceral community safety investments.
Campaign Fundraising
Latest report: Cycle 2026Campaign finance totals from the latest available reporting period.
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