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Tarik Samman
Democratic · Massachusetts · 2026Tarik Samman is a researcher at Harvard Law School and a union organizer who lives in Cambridge, per WBUR and the Lexington Observer. He was born in Lowell to a Syrian immigrant family, spent part of his childhood in Syria, and returned to the United States in 2014, per the Lexington Observer.
Priorities
- Ending overseas military commitments and redirecting that spending domestically, per WBUR
- Affordability, including housing, Medicare for All, and child care funded by higher taxes on billionaires, per his campaign site
- Reducing the role of money in politics, per his campaign site
On the ballot
U.S. House, MA-5 · Massachusetts · 2026
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